The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2008 – 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activities.

* 1931 – Ivan Dixon, American actor and director ( d. 2008 )

* 1934 – Guy Peellaert, Belgian artist and photographer ( d. 2008 )

* 1948 – Jeremy Beadle, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.

* 1914 – Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter, actor, and painter ( d. 2008 )

* 1923 – Francis Tucker, South African race car driver ( d. 2008 )

* 1932 – Cor Brom, Dutch footballer and manager ( d. 2008 )

* 1970 – Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d ' état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

* 2008 – Competition in the 2008 Summer Olympics in China proceeded with the women's association football tournament.

* 1955 – Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer ( d. 2008 )

* 1965 – Mark Speight, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 1935 – Beverlee McKinsey, American actress ( d. 2008 )

* 1976 – Mark Priestley, Australian actor ( d. 2008 )

* 2005 – Caylee Anthony, American murder victim ( d. 2008 )

Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.

Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

* 2008 – South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.

* 1931 – Eddie Fuller, South African cricketer ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Jake Warren, Canadian diplomat ( b. 1921 )

* 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer ( d. 2008 )

* 1945 – Lydia Shum, Hong Kong comedian and actress ( d. 2008 )

* Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, Lydia T. Black ( 2008 ) " Anooshi Lingit Aani Ka / Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804.

* Over The River ... Life of Lydia Maria Child, Abolitionist for Freedom ( 2008 ) ( documentary ) ( narrator )

* From Poverty Bay to Broadway: The story of Tom Heeney by Lydia Monin ( 2008 )

* Longshot ( 2008 ), Lydia

Her husband's nephew Milo Keynes wrote a biography, Lydia Lopokova ( St. Martin's Press, 1983 ); more recently Judith Mackrell has published Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes ( Weidenfeld, 2008 ).

" BBC Radio 3 broadcast an audo production of the play under the title Shylock on 1 June 2008 directed / produced by David Hitchinson and featuring Henry Goodman, Ronald Pickup, Juliet Stevenson, Noma Dumezweni, Toby Stephens, Sheila Steafel, Lydia Leonard, Jonathan Tafler, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Nicholas Boulton, Jennie Stoller, Geoffrey Beevers, Anthony Glennon and Annette Ross.

* X-O Manowar: Birth ( HC ), collects issues # 0-6 and " The Rise of Lydia " one-shot, Valiant Entertainment, April 2008, ISBN 978-0-9796409-1-9

‘ Introduction ’ to The Gun Is Loaded, Lydia Lunch, Black Dog, London, 2008.

* Charlton Heston and Lydia Clarke, 64 years, from March 17, 1944 to his death on April 5, 2008.

The 4th season of the series was rebroadcast on Singapore's Channel 5 in 2008 as a tribute to Shum, after her death.

Annual celebrations also take place in Hong Kong, entitled Canada D ' eh and held on June 30 at Lan Kwai Fong, where an estimated attendance of 12, 000 was reported in 2008 ; in Afghanistan, where members of the Canadian Forces mark the holiday at their base ; and in Mexico, at the American Legion in Chapala, and the Canadian Club in Ajijic.

Hong Kong: Yuen Yuen Institute, 2008.

Hong Kong 41 %, Metropolitan France 20 %, Japan 14 %, United States 8 % ( 2008 )

It is popular with travellers – from 2001 to 2005 and 2007 – 2008 Hong Kong International Airport has been voted the World's Best Airport in an annual survey of several million passengers worldwide by Skytrax.

Hong Kong: Yuen Yuen Institute, 2008.

Hong Kong: Yuen Yuen Institute, 2008.

Hong Kong: Yuen Yuen Institute, 2008.

Hong Kong: Yuen Yuen Institute, 2008.

The city is home to Memphis International Airport, the world's second busiest cargo airport ( following Hong Kong ), which serves as the primary hub for FedEx Express shipping and was a secondary hub for Delta Air Lines after it merged with Northwest Airlines in 2008.

In May 2008, Japan named Hello Kitty the ambassador of Japanese tourism in both China and Hong Kong, which are two places where the character is exceptionally popular among children and young women.

The fire travelled by boat in 1948 and 2012 to cross the English Channel and was carried by rowers in Canberra as well as by dragon boat in Hong Kong in 2008, and it was first transported by airplane in 1952, when the fire travelled to Helsinki.

José can also be seen in the Hong Kong Disneyland version of It's a Small World, which opened on April 28, 2008, as well as the Disneyland ( in California ) version of It's a Small World, installed during major refurbishments between January and November 2008.

On 22 January 2008, RJ launched flights to Hong Kong via Bangkok, with three flights / week during winter, and five flights / week during summer, making it the airline's first route to China.

* Ivana Hong, Alternate Olympic Gymnast Beijing 2008

Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008.

* In 2008, the Ink and wash painting of Gundam drawn by Hisashi in 2005 was sold in the Christie's auction held in Hong Kong with a price of US $ 600, 000.

In late September 2008, the Hong Kong government found melamine in a Chinese-made Nestlé milk product.

Buffett performed in Hong Kong on January 18, 2008 for a concert that raised US $ 63, 000 for the Foreign Correspondents ' Club Charity Fund.

* Skye Chan, 2008 Miss Hong Kong First Runner-up and Miss World 2008 contestant

However, none of the 2008 – 09 events were folded into the 2009 World Cup, as that year's World Cup fell three weeks after the USA Sevens and three weeks before the Hong Kong Sevens.