A new report says illegal logging has resulted in a loss of millions of dollars of potential revenue in Mozambique, one of the world's least-developed countries. A ...
Shanghai Calling And The Answer Is Why Not
As Ugly Americans go, Manhattan corporate attorney Sam Chao (Daniel Henney) has a lot going for him. He's a handsome dude with perfectly symmetrical features, a toned bod we get to peek at all ...
Soybeans extend declines as Chinese demand wanes
NEW YORK ? Soybeans are falling after the U.S. government reported weaker demand for the crop from Chinese buyers. March soybeans fell 5 cents to $14.18 a bushel Thursday. The contract has ...
Chinese lanterns prompt emergency callouts
Chinese lanterns are prompting emergency callouts across Auckland after being mistaken for maritime flares. The lanterns are generally made of rice paper with a small burner at the base. When the ...
UH architecture school and China?s largest designconstruction firm will collaborate on projects
Seated, from left: University of Hawaii Manoa Chancellor Tom Apple; Fuchun Sun, general manager of China State Construction Engineering Corp.; and Clark Llewellyn dean of the UH School of ...
Asian markets rise Hong Kong ahead after holiday
In this Feb. 6, 2013, file photo, a man walks past an electronic stock indicator of a securities firm in Tokyo. Asian markets rose on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, with dealers looking ahead to an ...
Iran sought nuclear parts in China report
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iran tried to smuggle thousands of specialized magnets through China for its centrifuges, in an effort to speed its path to reaching nuclear weapons capability, according to a new ...
Chinese Regime?s Xi Prepares to Deal With New ?Gang of Four?
Xi Jinping speaks at a recent meeting of the Chinese regime's anti-corruption body. Xi shook the hand of the wife of former communist leader Hua Guofeng, leading to speculation on just what the ...
Chinese Russian FMs talk over phone on DPRK nuclear test
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi held telephone talks on Thursday with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov over the latest nuclear test conducted by the Democratic ...
Chinese appetite for shark fin soup devastating Mozambique coastline
Mozambique , Fernando Nhamussua carefully prepares shark meat for a family meal - and contemplates a basket with a profitable haul of four dried shark fins."I want to sell them to the ...
Horrified worker tells of photo request as burned Tibetan dies
A Tibetan exile who set himself alight at a Buddhist monument in Nepal has died of his injuries, as an account described the horror of the incident.The burning on Wednesday was the 100th known ...
IEA to improve Chinese oil demand stats
The International Energy Agency says it will change its method of calculating China's oil demand. Previously, IEA calculated apparent demand as the sum of Chinese refinery output and net ...
China technology and the U.S. middle class Chrystia Freeland
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech this week confirmed it: The pre-eminent political and economic challenge in the industrialized democracies is how to make ...
UPDATE 2-China fund buys into Moscow stock exchange sale
Thu Feb 14, 2013 2:20pm EST By Olga Popova and Katya Golubkova MOSCOW Feb 14 (Reuters) - Moscow's stock exchange has attracted foreign investors including China's sovereign wealth fund to ...
Tibetan Exiles Urge World to Press China Amid Self-Immolations
Tibet's government in exile has called on the international community to press China harder to address the grievances of Tibetans. The appeal came amid a stepped up pace of self-immolations ...
Another Smog Problem In China From Lunar New Year Fireworks
When the clock struck twelve on February 9, the eve of the Lunar New Year, city skylines across China lit up with fireworks in celebration of the start of the nation's biggest holiday, the ...
Kobe Bryant joins Chinas Twitter
A woman works online in her cubicle at an office in Beijing. China's homegrown social media sites like Sina Weibo are booming thanks to their better knowledge of the world's largest ...
Study uncovers clues to why most babies in China survived 2008 melamine-tainted milk scandal
In 2008, at least six babies died and 300,000 became sick after being fed infant formula that had been deliberately and illegally tainted with the industrial chemical ...
Chinese singer-songwriter Wanting Qu new Vancouver tourism ambassador
February marks the beginning of the Year of the Snake in the Chinese zodiac. So, what does the year promise? Here?s a retrospective of major news events ? for better or worse ? in ...
CORRECTED-India to lag China in coal imports Macquarie
Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:18pm EST (Corrects TWh to KWh in paragraph 5) By John McGarrity LONDON Feb 14 (Reuters) - India has the potential to be the saviour of the global thermal coal market amid ...
China still unable to surpass Indian gold demand ? but getting close
Particularly strong demand for gold jewellery, a big jump in Q4 consumption in India and a continuing high level of Central Bank purchases offset a decline in investment during Q4 ...
Rosneft plans $30bn loan deal with China
Rosneft is seeking to borrow up to $30 billion (R265bn) from China in exchange for possibly doubling oil supplies, making Beijing the largest consumer of Russian oil and further diverting supplies ...
Source: http://www.beijingnews.net/index.php/sid/212580782/scat/9366300fc9319e9b
ncaa tournament 2012 peyton manning 49ers andy pettitte tyler clementi kevin kolb sarah shahi george clooney
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.