24/Jun 2008 | China executes three drug dealers | China has executed three drug dealers and sentenced at least seven others to death, state media reported, on the eve of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. The death pena... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Interacts 64 | Anil, (India's farm productivity is the lowest among the above countries. ) Look at that as an opportunity, sir!!! Even with productivity being 1/3 to 1/4 of the developed powers, India still feeds it... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | First Leica M8 Fetches 24,000 Euros at Charity Auction | First Leica M8 Fetches 24,000 Euros at Charity Auction June 24, 2008 PRESS RELEASE Auction of the First Digital LEICA M8 Closed with Highest Bid of 24,000 Euro Proceeds to be presented to the press fr... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Tibet's Past and Present | Tibet to re-open to foreign tourists Wednesday Tibet will re-open to foreign tourists on Wednesday after a stoppage of more than three months due to the March 14 riot in the regional capital of Lhasa.... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Individual bank accounts in China up 9.6 | The number of individual bank accounts in China rose 9.2 billion during the first quarter of 2008, the People's Bank of China said in a report released Tuesday. The number of individual bank account p... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Sportswear maker ends TV deal ahead of Olympics | Olympics 25 June 2008 Chinese sportswear maker Li Ning suspended its deal to provide clothes and shoes worn by sportscasters on China's state-run sports channel, the Wall Street Journal reported. Li N... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | 'Quake Lake' to become tourist spot | Tourism & Leisure 25 June 2008 Authorities in Sichuan are looking into making the Tangjiashan "quake lake" a tourist destination, AP reported. Beichuan and its surrounding areas - with bamboo forests,... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Japanese war ship visits China amid warming ties | China welcomed the first Japanese war ship to visit since World War II, a sign of continually improving relations between the two Asian countries, AFP reported. The Sazanami, sailing from western Hiro... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | HSBC promotes investment | HSBC promotes investment 25-JUN-2008 Intellasia | Thoi Bao Kinh Te Vietnam Jun 25, 2008 - 7:00:00 AM . Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corp (HSBC) and officials from Hong Kong, Macau, China mainland and... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | DEVELOPMENT-CHINA: Temblor Throws Shadow on Big Dam Ambitions | DEVELOPMENT-CHINA: Temblor Throws Shadow on Big Dam Ambitions By Antoaneta Bezlova DUJIANGYAN, Jun 25 (IPS) - China s deadly earthquake last month appears to have shifted more than just tectonic plat... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Japan trade surplus shrinks for third straight month on high oil prices UPDATE 2 | 03:34 GMT.TOKYO (Thomson Financial) - Japan's merchandise trade surplus shrank for the third straight month in May as imports continued to outpace exports due to high crude oil prices and weaker deman... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Report: Iran Does Not Rule Out US Diplomatic Office in Tehran | US Considers Opening Interest Section in Tehran State Department officials are acknowledging an internal debate over whether the United States should open a diplomatic interests section in Tehran. Ira... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Japan's Navy Comes to China | Japan's navy has docked here in China. The Japanese navy destroyer "Sazanami" has made port in Zhanjiang in Guangdong where it will remain until Saturday. The 240 officers and soldiers on board are ex... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Anti-Drug Work Should Be A Long-Term Task in China | The State Anti-Drug Committee held a full-member conference on Tuesday to study recent instructions by state and Communist Party leaders, who have demanded that the current anti-drug campaign be consi... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Senior CPC Official Meets Cuban Leader | CPC), met Monday evening with Raul Castro, second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba. said China and Cuba are good friends, comrades and brothers as they have supported ... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Case supporting earthquake relief effort in central China | SHANGHAI, CHINA In response to the devastating earthquake that hit Sichuan Province in central China on May 12, Case Construction Equipment donated a Case 695 four-wheel drive loader/backhoe and hyd... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Fengshen lashes Shenzhen, no injuries reported | Fengshen lashes Shenzhen, no injuries reported .. FLOOD control authorities in Shenzhen said they haven't received any report of injuries or property damage caused by tropical storm Fengshen since it ... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | The development of the Chunxiao field must be conducted in accordance with the Chinese law, a move that itself has indicated that the sovereign rights | Chunxiao gas field project carried out according to Chinese laws. Q: What benefits does China get from the agreement with Japan on the East China Sea issue? A: Foreign Ministry has repeatedly clarifi... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Rising waters in lakes pose a threat | Download Continuous rain is driving up the water level in East China's lakes posing a threat to the economic powerhouse in the Yangtze River Delta region. The water level in Taihu Lake in Jiangsu prov... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Local business sells overseas | Submitted photo Fibrecrete, a local business that manufactures highway maintenance products, has started selling its products overseas. Pictured on a recent trip to China are, from left, Mr. Wu, Commu... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | PetroChina's Changqing field targets 15.2 bln cubic meters gas output this yr | BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - PetroChina Co Ltd's Changqing oil field plans to produce 15.2 bln cubic meters of natural gas this year, parent China National Petroleum Corp said. The field, located in the Ordos... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Taiwan sees talks with mainland China on direct shipping, oil exploration in H2 | Taiwan sees talks with mainland China on direct shipping, oil exploration in H2 11:24 Xinhua Newsfeed . TAIPEI (XFN-ASIA) - Taipei and Beijing are expected to begin talks in the second half this year ... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | NZ Dollar Hits New Multi-year Low Of 1.2639 Against Aussie | New Zealand Currency Drops To New Multi-year Low Against Aussie this minute The New Zealand dollar lost ground against the aussie in early Asian trading on Wednesday. At about 11:20 pm ET, the kiwi t... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Greenback hits near 2-week high of 30.4760 versus Taiwan dollar | New Zealand Currency Drops To New Multi-year Low Against Aussie 1 minute ago The New Zealand dollar lost ground against the aussie in early Asian trading on Wednesday. At about 11:20 pm ET, the kiwi ... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Arrivederci Mao! | By Peter Carantinos 'First we rode on the sheep's back, then we 'industrialised', then we diversified into services (which seemed smart at the time). But does the phrase 'The world's quarry' ring a be... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Does China Have the Ticker? | China does not see itself as an emerging Third World basket case playing catch-up with the rich kids on the block. Nor does it carry any political baggage of the class struggle and ideological correct... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Canadian BSE Case Feeds Into Beef Concerns? | The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday said it confirmed mad cow disease in a cow in British Columbia. It is the 13th time that a case of BSE was detected in Canada since May 2003. "At this poi... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | LG ELECTRONICS OPENS DESIGN CENTER IN LONDON | LG Electronics Inc. (LGE) (KSE: 066570) opened a design center in London on Tuesday to broaden the appeal of its products in Europe, an LGE official here said. The Europe Design Center, with designers... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | China and India to lead e-commerce | Online shopping in the Asia-Pacific region is accelerating at an annual rate of 23.7 billion by 2011, with the region's new markets such as China and India fueling this growth, a MasterCard study has ... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Landslides claim fourteen lives in Arunachal Pradesh | Itanagar, June 14 (ANI): At least 14 people were killed and 30 injured in landslides triggered by incessant rains at different places in Itanagar on Saturday. Four members of a family died when a huge... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | | HNAGroup Grand China Air Co. 23 Hainan Airlines Company Limited 22 China Airlines Ltd. Mandarin Airlines Ltd. Yangtze River Express Shin Kong Financial Holding Co. 250 Cathay Pacific Airways Limit... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Ethiopian official defects to U.S., decries Anuak genocide | An Anuak family arriving in the Pochalla Refugee Camp in Sudan, after fleeing a massacre in Ethiopia in 2003. An Ethiopian government official seeking to distance himself from what he says is a conti... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Stoiber speaks/Stoiber spricht | Skip to site navigation. The S ddeutsche Zeitung comments on Edmund Stoiber's report to the Bavarian Landtag on his work in Brussels. One senses from some references to the length of his speeches in t... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Asian markets mostly lower ahead of Fed decision | Tuesday's choppy session in the negative territory following a larger than expected drop in consumer sentiment. Investors were also cautious ahead of the outcome of the Fed's two-day meeting on moneta... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | S Korea to resume US beef imports on Thursday | SEOUL - South Korea will start the procedure of US beef imports on Thursday, the Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday. A protester holds up a tray which read,"I hate school meals provided with (US) b... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Two helicopters crash in China: state media | Two helicopters crashed in northern China's Inner Mongolia region Wednesday, state media reported, without saying if there were any casualties. The crash happened near the Inner Mongolian capital of H... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Song Hye Kyo edges into Chinese entertainment world | Photo: dfdaily.com]South Korean actress Song Hye Kyo landed in Shanghai on Tuesday for a brand promotion and updated the media on details of her latest work, a cooperation with famed Hong Kong directo... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | 'Dragon' chosen to soar over Shanghai | A "dragon" is set to rise from the Huangpu River in Shanghai over the next four years, following the announcement on Monday of the results of an international design contest. In the background is the ... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Iraqi nod to Chinese oil firms | China's four oil companies are now qualified to participate in Iraq's coming licensing round for oil and gas contracts, according to the Iraqi oil ministry. The four, China National Petroleum Corp, Ch... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Interacts 697 | Re: # 682 Laddu: Your observations ie; Post is correct. In Spain from 9th 15th century AD when there was agreat interaction between Jews, Muslims and also Christains, Jews were for instance forbidden ... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | S.Korea to allow restart of US beef imports Thursday | South Korea will allow the resumption of U. beef imports starting Thursday, the ruling party said on Wednesday, implementing an unpopular deal that sparked street protests and caused a crisis for the ... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | China looks for oil in Somalia/ La Chine cherche du p trole en Somalie | Les convoitises pour l uranium s ment la pagaille au Niger/ Longings for Niger s uranium bring disorder in the country.net , la Chine a r ussi signer une entente avec la Somalie pour faire de la pro... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Falun Gong, Other "Troublemake | BEIJING Shanghai has banned dissidents, Falun Gong members and other regime critics from leaving the city during the August Olympics, a human rights group. ... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Pagdating ng USS Ronald Reagan inaantabayanan na ng gobyerno | If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to younder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you. ANUMANG araw mula ngayon ay pa... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | US Korea beef deal finally locked in | South Korea will begin implementing a deal to resume U. beef imports Thursday after weeks of anti-government protests. Beef Deal Wednesday SEOUL, June 25 Asia Pulse - South Korea said Wednesday that ... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | World's largest cities | Largest city is hard to define, but I think metro area population is the best measure and according to Wikipedia these are the top ten: 1 Tokyo Japan 32,450,000 8,014 4,049 2 Seoul South Korea 20,550,... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | HK's commerce chief quits for health reasons | HONG KONG - HONG Kong's commerce secretary has resigned for health reasons, a surprise move that is unlikely to greatly affect the city's economic and business policies. Mr Frederick Ma, a familiar fi... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | North China freshwater lake gets smaller | HOHHOT -- The water level of the Dalai Lake, the largest fresh water lake in northern China, has fallen about 3 meters since 2002, while its area has contracted by more than 500 square kilometers, sai... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Japan urges link between US terror list and solving abductions by North Korea, 4th Ld-Writethru, AS | Fuel Price Hike. By JOSEPH COLEMAN TOKYO (AP) _ Japan will urge the United States to take North Korea's kidnappings of Japanese citizens into account when it considers removing the communist country ... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Quake relief paper-cut | Click for more photos Feng Lizhan, a handicraftsman from Suzhou of East China's Jiangsu Province displays his paper-cut with the theme of quake relief efforts June 24, 2008. Feng and his friend spent ... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Japanese Language Version of the Guangzhou Government Portal to Be Opened | According to the results of the 2nd Internationalization of Chinese Government Portals project, Guangzhou International, the English Version of the Guangzhou government portal (.ranked second among al... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | LPG Suppliers Ordered to Refund Customers | The Guangzhou price bureau yesterday told three liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) suppliers to refund excessive charges they levied for three days last week without authorization. They raised the price of... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Human Traffickers Held in Shenzhen | Suspects were detained by the police.cn) Guangzhou public security said yesterday it had arrested 11 people connected with human trafficking and seized money and valuables worth 40 million yuan ($5. T... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Ticketmaster s Ticket to Ride: $750M | 09:37 by Ken Schachter Ticketmaster, whose stock in trade is selling tickets to enter music and sporting events, will pay a roughly $750 million dividend to exit Barry Diller s IAC/InterActiveCorp con... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Chaffetz leading Cannon in early results | Highland Drive bridge headed back to the I-80 bridge farm The Utah Department of Transportation's big plan for replacing bridges along I-80 hit a bump in the road this past weekend. Chaffetz - Cannon... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Bush pledges US help in talks with Arroyo | Reuters WASHINGTON - President George W. help to Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the aftermath of a typhoon, saying he was sending an aircraft carrier to aid in the relief effort. Bush... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | He loves China, believes in peace | He has been in love with China for 37 years. And he has seen its rapid growth during the past three decades. Holden's double happiness yesterday, when he became one of the two foreigners to carry the ... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Special half-day tours for athletes | Travel agencies in Beijing are for the first time preparing half-day sightseeing tours of the capital for athletes, trainers and journalists during the Olympic Games. Usually, a one-day tour is the sh... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | State asset law under 2nd review | China's top lawmakers yesterday began discussing the key issues concerning the management of the country's 30-trillion-yuan ($4.3 trillion) worth of State assets, after being presented with a revised ... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Taipei mayor calls for direct flights | The mayor of Taipei hopes to soon see a direct flight open between Shanghai and Taipei. A direct link between Shanghai's Hongqiao International Airport and Taipei's Songshan Airport will benefit both ... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | When the General Secretary became a netizen | More than 200 million Chinese netizens, a majority of them young people, are in a festive mood in these days. Such feeling comes from Hu Jintao, the general secretary of the CPC central committee, who... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Chinese VP emphasizes friendship, co-op with Yemen | Chinese vice president starts visit to Yemen Chinese vice president concludes visit to Qatar Chinese vice president arrives in Qatar for official visit Chinese VP concludes visit to Saudi Arabia Chine... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Wen calls for sci-tech to serve social,economic development | Premier Wen Jiabao has called on the country's top scientists to make more contributions to the social and economic development with more science and technology achievements. Wen made the remark while... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | The Beijing Games | Beijing Games, Confucius and the Very Great US Depression By REG LITTLE S hould they prove to be the success towards which the Chinese have been working, the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games threaten to ... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | ITV falls in spite of success on screen | ITV falls despite on-screen success From Financial Times.00am ITV's paradoxical performance continued yesterday, with hopeful signs from its on-screen performance being transmogrified by the markets i... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Dev t of Mindanao s hot spots pushed | Dev t of Mindanao s hot spots pushed By Romeo R. Published : 2008-06-24 SPEAKER Prospero Nograles has proposed for the development of the so-called troubled spots in Mindanao. Nograles said local a... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Beijing Pollution Threatens Success of Summer Games | Visitors to this summer s Beijing Olympics will get an immediate lesson in the environmental cost of China's break-neck economic development: the worst air pollution in the world, which kills an estim... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Uniden introduces 19-inch Hello Kitty LCD TV, parents weep | We'd generally assume this was just some kind of sick joke, but given Uniden's history of cranking out kid-lovin', themed LCD TVs, we're being forced to accept the fact that this here unit is indeed r... Read » |
24/Jun 2008 | Kehoe: State Funding Lifeguards | In a deal being described as unusual by biotechnology industry insiders, Pfizer officials announced this week that the pharmaceutical company will fund the adult stem cell research of a small La Jolla... Read » |