Sources at the Supreme People's Court and the NPC Standing Committee, on separate occasions, have confirmed that both Huang and Zhu were under investigation on corruption-related charges.

Huang, 51, was appointed as vice president of the Supreme People's Court in December 2002. He is the highest-ranking judicial official to be deposed in China in 59 years.

Zhu, 58, served as vice minister of finance between July 2000 and March 2008.

"Confidence and cooperation are more precious than gold or any currencies in the face of the current [financial] crisis, as confidence is the source of strength while cooperation is the effective approach to overcoming the crisis."

Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, in an address at the opening ceremony of the Third China-Russia Economic and Trade Summit Forum in Moscow on October 28

"I don't think it's just the fact that we are meeting in the Great Hall of the People and we listened to the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party talking about the need to prop up global capital markets that brings home to one that there is this big shift in economic power."

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, in an interview with BBC radio when he was attending the Asia-Europe Meeting in Beijing on October 24-25

"It is not correct to force Iraqis into making a choice and it is not appropriate to talk with the Iraqis in this way."

Ali al-Dabbagh, spokesman of the Iraqi Government, lashing out at remarks by U.S. military chief Michael Mullen who had said Iraq risked significant security losses if it failed to reach a security agreement with the United States

"Killing civilians in international law means a terrorist aggression."

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, protesting U.S. forces' October 27 raid in Syrian territory, which Washington said targeted foreign fighters, at a press conference in London

"The tsunami has only just reached their shores."

Neil Dougall, chief economist for emerging markets at Dresdner Kleinwort in London, warning that the global financial turmoil is raising the specter of market panic and even social unrest in developing countries

"We are acting ecologically in the same way as financial institutions have been behaving economically-seeking immediate gratification without due regard for the consequences."

Jonathan Loh, a biologist at the Zoological Society of London