In 2008, Michael Haneke made Funny Games U. S., his English-language remake of his original Funny Games ( this is also an example of a shot-for-shot remake ), while Martin Campbell, director of the miniseries Edge of Darkness, directed the 2010 film adaptation.

Journalists working for CCTV-NEWS, the network's English-language international channel, are under constant pressure to present a positive account of China, according to Anne-Marie Brady's study published in 2008.

Schererville is served by The Times of Northwest Indiana, the fastest-growing English-language newspaper in the United States, according to an April, 2008 report by the Audit Bureau of Circulations and The Post Tribune, which is owned by the Sun-Times.

On July 19, 2008, WGN-TV became the third Chicago station to broadcast its newscasts in high definition, and debuted new on-air graphics ( as of July 2010, WGN-TV is the first station in Chicago to broadcast all locally-originated portions of its newscasts, including live field reports, in high definition ; in contrast to the other major English-language news stations in Chicago who all broadcast in-studio segments in HD and live field footage in 16: 9 widescreen standard definition ).

The latest English-language PMBOK Guide — Fourth Edition was released on December 31, 2008.

In 2008, the newspaper reported that ( with a circulation of over 3. 14 million ) it was certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations ( India ) as the world's largest selling English-language daily, ranking it as the 8th largest selling newspaper in any language in the world.

The Al Arabiya internet news service ( alarabiya. net ) was launched in 2004 initially in Arabic, and was joined by an English-language service in 2007, and Persian and Urdu services in 2008.

* English-language Taiwan News daily gets new look-CNA, 1 January 2008

The English-language shortwave broadcasts to North America were discontinued on October 26, 2008, due to a survey that claimed that more listeners to the network were using the " podcasting " service instead of shortwave radios.

The university was renamed Universiteit Maastricht in 1996 and switched to its current English-language name in 2008.

In 2008 Taiwan's government invested in the production of the world's first-ever Taiwanese / English-language opera based on Mackay's life.

In July 2008, Josh Blaylock announced that Devils Due Publishing had acquired rights to publish an English-language Vampire Hunter D comic book mini-series titled Vampire Hunter D: American Wasteland.

The circulation in 2008 stood at 35, 000 copies and the newspaper is typically given out for free at places English-language " expats " attend, including hotels, cafés and restaurants, as well as by subscription, though it is being increasingly read by English-speaking Russians.

The National, was launched on 17 April 2008 ; it is the UAE's sixth daily English-language newspaper but the only one printed in Abu Dhabi.

Rising Stars of Manga ( RSoM ) was an English-language comic anthology published by TOKYOPOP from 2002 to 2008, and a contest held by the same company.

Amsterdam Weekly was a free, English-language weekly published in the Netherlands from May 2004 through December 2008.

In July 2008 Ian Fleming Publications announced the appointment of literary agent Simon Trewin, from UK-based literary agency United Agents, to manage worldwide English-language rights in the Ian Fleming titles and Young Bond.

Later in 2007 and 2008, Dupuis began working on several new film projects, including: as Charles in Truffe (" Truffle "), directed by Kim Nguyen, produced by Renée Gosselin and distributed by Christal Films, whose world première opens the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal on July 3, 2008 ; as Jean-Paul Mercier in " L ' Instinct de Mort " (" Mesrine: Killer Instinct "), part 1 of Public Enemy Number One, a two-part feature film about notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, played by Vincent Cassel, directed by Jean-François Richet ; as Mr. Turcotte in " Un été sans point ni coup sûr " (" A No-Hit No-Run Summer "), a baseball feature film set at the beginning of the 1960s adapted from the novel of that title by Marc Robitaille, directed by Francis Leclerc ; as Scully in " The Timekeeper ", an English-language feature film directed by Louis Bélanger ;, as Irishman Liam Hennessy in André Forcier's Je me souviens and as another character named Charles in " Les doigts croches " ( 2008 ), directed by Ken Scott.

Mehta also directed several English-language films set in Canada, including The Republic of Love ( 2003 ) and Heaven on Earth ( 2008 ) which deals with domestic violence and has Preity Zinta playing the female lead.

In 2008, Drawn and Quarterly opened an English-language bookshop in Montreal, selling mostly comics.

Saïd has also appeared in a number of English-language films, with roles such as the Iraqi interrogator Captain ' My Main Man ' Saïd in Three Kings, and as " Omar " in the 2008 thriller Traitor.

Viz Media licensed the series for an English-language version in North America, releasing the first volume in July 2008 ; the third and final volume was released in January 2009.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

The campaign by the name ' Tree Day-Plant Your Future ' was first organized on 12 March 2008, when an official non-working day was declared and more than 150, 000 Macedonians planted 2 million trees in one day ( symbolically, one for each citizen ).

Jerome Holtzman, Major League Baseball's official historian from 1999 until his death in 2008, believed Selig to be the best commissioner in baseball history.

On 1 January 2008, the country entered the eurozone and adopted the euro as its official currency, replacing the Cypriot pound at an irrevocable fixed exchange rate of CYP 0. 585274 per EUR 1. 00.

On 21 August 2008, the official A1GP site reported that the 2008 / 09 season's first race has moved from the Mugello Circuit, Italy to Zandvoort on the 4 – 5 October 2008 due to the delay in the building the new chassis for the new race cars.

On July 31, 2008, an unnamed former White House official alleged that the US had imprisoned and interrogated at least one suspect on Diego Garcia during 2002 and possibly 2003.

Following the 2008 revision of the EU Regulation that governs European political parties allowing the creation of European foundations affiliated to Europarties, the EFA established in September 2007 its official foundation / think tank, the Centre Maurits Coppieters ( CMC ).

On 4 July 2008, the official F1 site reported that more than 300, 000 people attended the four-day Melbourne Grand Prix, though actual ticket sales were later disputed by the local media.

On September 19, 2008, the 35th anniversary of Parsons ' death, it was first presented to the Country Music Association ( CMA ) and Hall as a " List of Supporters " together with the official Nomination Proposal.

The 1 and 2 forint coins were withdrawn in 2008, yet prices remained the same as stores follow the official rounding scheme for the final price.

* 2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes an historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.

" As of 2008, Downey's official website ( and others ) continue to make this claim.

At the time of the last official census in Burma, 31 March 1983, the population was 35, 442, 972., this was estimated by the CIA World Factbook to have increased to 54, 584, 650 ; however, many other estimates put this much higher, at around 60 million: China's People Daily reported that Burma had a census in 2007, and at the end of 2009 has 59. 2 million people, and growing at 2 % annually, with exception for Cyclone Nargis in 2008, and Britain-based human rights agencies place the population as high as 70 million.

It was in relation to the latter that, in November 2008, the United States Court of Appeals in Cincinnati decided that a case over sexual abuse by Catholic priests could proceed, provided the plaintiffs could prove that the bishops accused of negligent supervision were acting as employees or agents of the Holy See and were following official Holy See policy.

During a 2008 interview with the BBC, Major General Qian Lihua, a senior Chinese defense official, stated that the PLAN aspired to possess a small number of aircraft carriers to allow it to expand China's air defense perimeter.

As of 12 June 2008 San Marino maintains official relations with 108 states.

Both at official exchange rates and at purchasing power parity ( PPP ), Seychelles remains the richest territory in Africa in terms of GDP per capita ( US $ 9, 440. 095 at real exchange rates and US $ 17, 560. 062 at PPP 2008 estimate ),

official exchange rate-$ 0, 921 billion ( 2008 )

The government of the Seychelles withdrew diplomatic recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic on March 17, 2008, according to an official government source.

The Spanish government official GDP growth forecast for 2008 in April was 2. 3 %.

In 2008, savate was recognised by the International University Sports Federation ( FISU ) – this recognition allows savate to hold official University World Championships, the first was held in Nantes, France in 2010.

The official unemployment rate, as of September 2008, is 5. 4 %.