Pilots of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 tried to abort the landing less than two seconds before the plane crashed on the runway at San Francisco International Airport Saturday, according to officials. Three Indian nationals were among the 305 survivors of the crash that killed two Chinese girls and left 49 seriously hurt. The Boeing 777's voice and flight data recorders show that the flight ...
Pakistan to boost cooperation with China
Visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Sunday that his government would promote Pakistan-China partnership by implementing cooperation projects. The cooperation achievements made by Pakistan and China's Guangdong province reflect the profound friendship between people of the two nations, reported Xinhua citing Sharif while visiting the province. On this occasion, provincial ...
US China Open First Meeting to Ease Cyber Disputes
The United States and China have opened the first meeting of a committee aimed at easing cybersecurity disputes that have become a major irritant in relations between the two world powers. U.S. and Chinese officials of the cybersecurity working group met in Washington Monday. They hope to make progress before senior ministers of the two sides hold security and economic talks in the U.S. ...
Tour Guide in China Threatens to Knife Tourists for Not Shopping Enough
A Chinese tour guide waved a knife as tourists, threatening them to shop more on a July 3 one-day bus tour of Beijing that suddenly took detours to at least six shopping centers. The guide is circled in red while the man in the green shirt was part of his company, but it is unclear whether the man was the bus driver or another guide. (Screenshot via ...
Steve Wynn says federal officials ending inquiry into casino donation in Macau
LAS VEGAS -- Wynn Resorts Ltd. CEO Steve Wynn says the Securities and Exchange Commission has ended its inquiry into allegations by a Japanese billionaire that the casino operator made an improper donation to the University of Macau. Wynn informed The Associated Press from his boat on the Spanish island of Ibiza on Monday. Wynn says he'd never had any doubt federal investigators would ...
As China?s respect for elderly fades they can sue kids who don?t visit
Three generation households have been the tradition in China, assuring the elderly that they would have a place to live and a family to care for them. But today, as China's economy modernizes, grown children are pursuing their careers in cities around the world, leaving their parents feeling lonely and forgotten. | Dave Cole/Penn State ...
Tropical Storm Soulik formed may affect Taiwan
As of 8 a.m. Monday, Tropical Storm Soulik (??) was centered about 2,600 kilometers east of Taiwan's southernmost tip of Eluanbi, moving in a westerly direction at a speed of 23 km per hour. The storm is packing maximum sustained winds of 65 kph, with gusts reaching 90 kph, the bureau said. Soulik is most likely to affect Taiwan from July 12-15, but the level of impact needs further ...
General Motors biggest market China
A mechanic works on a Buick at a General Motors dealership in Shanghai in 2011. China is now General Motors' biggest market, selling more vehicles than in the U.S. Despite signs of a slowdown in the Chinese economy, General Motors posted record sales in China -- where GM sales now have surpassed the total number of vehicles the company is selling in its home market, the United States.GM ...
San Francisco plane crash Chinese teenagers Wang Linjia and Ye Minguan died at start of US college tour
The two Chinese teenagers killed in a plane that crashed in San Francisco this weekend were school-friends travelling to the US together to visit the country's ...
Chinese police seize meat 46 years past its ?best before? date
Oddly enough, living next to a dump can actually have its benefits. For Ernie Adams, growing up next to one in a small Nebraska town sparked a lifelong interest in building things out of odds and ...
Northern Chinas air pollution reduces life expectancy by 5.5 years ? study
a study released on Monday which claims to show in unprecedented detail the link between air pollution and life expectancy.High levels of air pollution in northern China - much of it caused by an over-reliance on burning coal for heat - will cause 500 million people to lose an aggregate 2.5 billion years from their lives, the authors predict in the study, published in the journal the Proceedings ...
Video Watch Panda gives birth at Taiwans Taipei Zoo
Raw Video: Sights and sounds from a train derailment in Quebec, involving 73 rail cars filled with crude oil. The accident sparked a massive fire that led to the evacuation of 1,000 people from their ...
Pollution Leads to Drop in Life Span in Northern China Study Finds
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China grants Sudan $700 mln loan to build new Khartoum airport
KHARTOUM, July 8 | Mon Jul 8, 2013 3:05pm EDT KHARTOUM, July 8 (Reuters) - China has granted Sudan a $700 million loan to build a new airport for the capital Khartoum, state media said on Monday, highlighting close ties between China and the sanctions-hit African country. Sudanese officials signed a five-year loan with China's Export Import Bank, a state bank which supports ...
Coal pollution cuts lifespans in north China by 5.5 years -study
By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, July 8 | Mon Jul 8, 2013 3:00pm EDT OSLO, July 8 (Reuters) - Air pollution is shortening the lives of people in northern China by about 5.5 years compared to the south, a disastrous legacy of a policy that provided free coal for heating in the north, an international study shows. Environmental problems are a source of rising social ...
Low-Water Lunch A Chinese Breakthrough on Irrigation
Growing more food with less water will be one of the biggest challenges in the coming era of surging populations and increasing climate disruption. In China, scientists say they?ve developed a new irrigation method that?s twice as efficient as today?s best technology, part of an increasingly urgent effort by researchers around the world to meet the water ...
Nigeria $1 billion infrastructure loan from China
ABUJA, Nigeria -; Nigeria's finance minister says President Goodluck Jonathan's visit to China will finalize $1.1 billion in low-interest loans for much-needed infrastructure in Africa's giant, from airports and roads to a hydropower ...
Asian stocks drop as China sinks on growth concerns
Asian stocks fell on Monday hammered down by a sharp sell-off in Chinese stocks amid worries China?s credit squeeze will curb growth in the world?s second largest economy, while the strong US jobs data increase believes stimulus will start being reduced this ...
China Cell in PM office to monitor projects
(MENAFN - Khaleej Times) Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will set up a dedicated "China Cell" in the Prime Minister's House to follow up on a host of projects signed during his recent China visit.Officials in the PM Secretariat here described the visit as extremely successful and hope high impact Chinese investment in energy and infrastructure.The state-run APP news agency reporting ...
Chinas Yuan Weakens to 6.181 against USD
(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) The Chinese currency Renminbi, or yuan, retreated 2 basis points to 6.181 against the U.S. dollar on Monday, the China Foreign Exchange Trading System reported. In China's foreign exchange spot market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by 1% from the central parity rate each trading day, according to (Xinhua) News Agency. The central parity rate of the yuan ...
Hit By Slow Growth Hong Kong and Singapore Rethink Strategies
Hong Kong and Singapore are former British colonies that rose to prominence as trading ports serving the region. Both are magnets for global talent and capital that developed into international financial centers. But they now have another similarity: Both have seen their growth rates fall in recent years. According to the World Bank, Hong Kong and Singapore grew by 1.5% and 1.3% in 2012. In the ...
They will come in and take us over Small tropical island of Ishigaki is latest flashpoint between China and Japan
Lush and sleepy, the subtropical island of Ishigaki shows little sign of preparing for war with Asia's rising superpower China. Dotted with sugar cane fields and surrounded by coral reefs, the 85-square-mile Pacific speck hovers on the far fringes of Japan's south-west territories, 1,000 miles from ...
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