"Even if international prices rise steeply, it will not pose a significant impact on domestic prices."

China's National Development and Reform Commission, saying ample domestic supplies would be able to meet the country's grain demands this year despite short supplies in the international market

"What is more important is ensuring foreign aid is effective. The aid will only prove successful if social responsibilities are met."

Zhang Zhaofeng, Director of Kenya Project under the PetroChina Great Wall Drilling Co. Ltd. The company has drilled 30 geothermal wells in Kenya since 2006, where the local government has adopted a new energy development plan aiming to provide 90 percent of its population with electricity by 2030

"There are plenty of stories of a Chinese-sponsored infrastructure project or a Chinese company cutting a deal to feed its 'insatiable thirst' for raw materials, while Western involvement of similar or greater magnitude is lucky to make a headline at all."

Ioannis Gatsiounis, a Malaysia-based journalist and author, on unbalanced coverage on China in his recent Newsweek story titled The China Dream

"The U.S. army must stay until the Iraqi army is fully ready in 2020."

Babaker Zebari, Iraq's army chief, telling a defense conference in Baghdad on August 12 that the Iraqi army won't be able to ensure security after the planned withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2011

"The German economy should remain the top attraction of the eurozone league for some time."

Carsten Brzeski, senior economist at the Internationale Nederlanden Groep (ING), on the news the German economy grew 2.2 percent from April to June, its fastest pace since the country was reunified

"While lying there, I thought about a lot of things. But what I felt most strongly was the pure excitement that came from knowing I was part of the creation of a world record."

Li Xiaodong, after joining another 10,266 people to make the Guinness-record world's longest human domino chain in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on August 12