Around the world: United States
Mail prices rise
From today it will cost a bit more to mail letters and parcels from the US. A first-class letter will go up 2 cents to 41 cents.
But there is also some good news Americans can now buy "forever" stamps that remain valid regardless of any future increase.
Postmaster General John Potter said that even with the higher prices the agency expects a deficit this year as it struggles to compete in a swiftly changing communications market.
'Government of the few'
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton criticized President George W. Bush as running a "government of the few, for the few and by the few."
"For six long years the hardworking families of our middle class have been invisible to this president," she said on Saturday, promising to be a president who again sets goals for the country if she is elected in 2008.
Democrats attending the Ohio state party's annual dinner gave a rousing cheer when the senator from New York asked, "Are you ready to end the war in Iraq and restore America's reputation around the world?"
(China Daily 05/14/2007 page6)
