"The mainlanders care a lot about the situation of their compatriots [in Taiwan]."

Wang Yi, Director of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, when seeing off the mainland's second batch of relief materials to typhoon battered Taiwan on August 18

"It is a message to Iraqi officials that they should stop their exaggerations about the stability of this country."

Saeed Jabar, a 35-year-old Iraqi Government employee, after at least 97 Baghdad residents were killed in truck bombings on August 19

"It saddens me to say this but I don't think the United States will ever be cured of Islamophobia."

Indian director Kabir Khan, responding to the detention of Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan at a New York airport allegedly over suspicion of the actor's Muslim surname "Khan"

"Everyone, the day has come to rewrite history."

Japanese opposition Democratic Party leader Yukio Hatoyama, speaking at a campaign rally in Osaka on August 18. Hatoyama will become the next prime minister if his party translates its poll lead over ruling Liberal Democratic Party into a victory in the August 30 national elections

"His accomplishments and aspirations to achieve democratization and inter-Korean reconciliation will long be remembered by the people."

South Korean President Lee Myung Bak, mourning late President Kim Dae Jung who died on August 18 at age 85

"We may have to give up building some infrastructure."

Fan Zhiyong, Beijing-based species program director for the World Wildlife Fund. Scientists have warned that highways are posing increasing restrictions on the panda's free movement and inbreeding may extinguish the species in two to three generations