China is in talks with Uganda to help the East African country develop its sports sector, China’s envoy said here. Zhao Yali, China’s ambassador to Uganda, told Xinhua Saturday that China is ready to have more partnerships with the Ugandan government in the area of sports. “We are ready to help Uganda, especially in the field of coaching exchange. We shall do what we can to promote cooperation …
US icebreaker Polar Star to help vessels trapped in Antarctica
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has requested the US Coast Guard’s icebreaker Polar Star to assist the Russian vessel MV Akademik Shokalskiy and the Chinese vessel Xue Long (Snow Dragon) which are stuck by ice in Antarctica, Xinhua reported. AMSA has identified the Polar Star as a vessel capable of assisting the trapped vessels. The US Coast Guard accepted this request Saturday …
Skilled laborers go overseas
Before he emigrated to Australia in 2005, Yin Fagang was a migrant worker in Shenzhen, a coastal city in the south of China. The quality of his work was so high that some foreign colleagues urged him to emigrate to Australia, where there were opportunities aplenty. As a result of their prompting, Yin, who now lives in Perth in Western Australia, was one of the first of many hundreds from …
Box office totals 21.8b yuan in 2013
The total film box-office revenue in China for 2013 reached 21.77 billion yuan ($3.60 billion), up 27.51 percent from the previous year, Zhang Hongsen, head of the film bureau under the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, said on Friday. According to Zhang, domestically produced films accounted for 58.65 percent of the market with an income of 12.77 billion …
China Railway Group chairman dies
The chairman of China Railway Group Ltd Bai Zhongren died at his home Saturday, Securities Times reported Sunday. The company’s spokesperson has confirmed the information, but said the company’s operations were normal, the report said. The report also said that Bai had been suffering depression for years, without disclosing the reason why he died. Bai served as the chairman of the …
Africa will remain important pillar of Chinas diplomacy
/enpproperty–> China’s top diplomat has chosen four African countries to visit on his first trip abroad in the new year, a move that highlights the continent’s importance in Beijing’s diplomatic blueprint. Foreign Minister Wang Yi begins his six-day tour of Ethiopia, Djibouti, Ghana and Senegal on Monday. Wang will arrive in Ethiopia at a time when bilateral trade between …
Legalizing Marijuana Does Not Mean the U.S. Would Lose Ground to China
The legalization of marijuana, effective New Year’s Day in Colorado and Washington, has divided American journalists, who seemed to spend much of the last three days re-litigating the subject. On …
Zhejiang Shanghai report two human avian flu cases
A human case of H7N9 was reported in East China’s Zhejiang Province on Sunday and Shanghai reported a human case of H7N9 on Saturday.The patient is a 34-year-old woman surnamed Cai, who is from the city of Zhuji, the provincial health and family planning commission said. She was confirmed to be infected with the bird flu virus on Saturday. By 1 pm on Sunday, she was still in critical …
Scientific researches undisturbed on stranded Chinese icebreaker in Antarctic
Scientists aboard Chinese icebreaker Xuelong, or Snow Dragon, continued their researches in Antarctic on Sunday with even greater passion after the vessel was trapped by heavy floes a day earlier.The icebreaker found it unable to move in an area of thick ice on Saturday, some 21 km away from the nearest ice-free waters, two days after ferrying all passengers aboard a stranded Russian ship to an …
3 killed 24 injured in China bus blast
Shaanxi Province on Sunday, officials said. The blast hit the bus occurred on a street near the bus station in Pucheng County in Weinan city. The bus was bound from the provincial capital of Xi’an to the county, according to the local fire department. According to latest reports, three people have been confirmed dead. The injured are being treated in a local hospital, the state-run Xinhua …
Deadly bus blast in SW China
A bus exploded Sunday in Pucheng county in Weinan city in Southwest China’s Shaanxi province, leaving three people dead and seven injured, according to the news website hsw.cn . The blast took place at 6pm local time, and police took control of the situation after arriving on the scene. More details about the accident are under police …
4 killed in SW China coal mine explosion
/enpproperty–> CHENGDU – Four people have been confirmed dead and four others were injured after a coal-mine gas burning in Southwest China’s Sichuan province on Sunday. The accident happened around 11 am at a coal mine in Xiaohe Township of Weiyuan County, when eight miners were carrying out a routine safety check, according to the county’s information office. Five miners were …
‘Mr. Selden’s Map of China’ charts a fascinating course circa 1600
In “Mr. Selden’s Map of China,” Timothy Brook uses a recently discovered artifact, a Chinese map created in the 1600s, to tell the stories of the people whose lives intersected with …
China to build new icebreaker
WAM SHANGHAI, 5th Jan. 2014 (WAM) — China plans to build a new icebreaker for polar expeditions as its veteran Xuelong, or Snow Dragon, remains stuck in Antarctica after rescuing passengers from a Russian vessel. Qu Tanzhou, director of the State Oceanic Administration’s Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration, told Xinhua on Sunday that designs for the vessel were in the process …
Case for Guangdong FTZ hangs in the balance
Illustration: Lu Ting/GTA proposal to build a free trade zone (FTZ) incorporating Guangdong Province, Hong Kong and Macao was reportedly submitted to the State Council for approval in mid-December. If approved, the zone would become the second project of its kind after the pilot FTZ that was established in Shanghai in September.The tentative Guangdong FTZ will include Nansha in Guangzhou, …
Hong Kongs best prepaid SIM cards for your smartphone or tablet
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50-bln-yuan in lock-up shares eligible for trade
Lock-up shares worth 50 billion yuan ($8.2 billion ) will become eligible for trade this week on the Chinese mainland.The volume is slightly less than the 50.8 billion yuan seen from December 30, 2013 to January 3, 2014, according to information from the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges.Altogether, 24 listed companies on the two stock exchanges will see their lock-up shares released to …
China reports new human H7N9 case
/enpproperty–> HANGZHOU – A human case of H7N9 was reported in East China’s Zhejiang province on Sunday, the provincial health and family planning commission said in a statement. The patient is a 34-year-old woman surnamed Cai, who is from the city of Zhuji. She was confirmed to be infected with the bird flu virus on Saturday. By 1 pm on Sunday, she was still in critical condition at …
Chinas GDP growth in 2013 to be weakest since 1999
BEIJING: China’s economy, the world’s second largest, may have grown around 7.6 per cent in 2013, its weakest growth since 1999, with latest economic figures indicating sluggish economic activities in the last quarter. China’s latest economic figures, especially the purchasing managers’ index (PMI) in both factory activity and the services sector, indicated sagging momentum …
China reports fewer traffic accidents in 2013
/enpproperty–> BEIJING – Fewer traffic accidents were reported in China in 2013 compared with the previous year, with no reports of extremely fatal traffic accidents, vice minister of public security Huang Ming said on Sunday. The number of fatal traffic accidents dropped to 16 last year from 25 in 2012, representing the fewest since 1990, Huang said. Accidents that resulted in five or …
How Three Chinese Communist Party Leaders Rejected the Party
A mourner stands before a large portrait of former Chinese Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park on Jan. 19, 2005. After the Tiananmen Square massacre, Zhao twice asked to withdraw from the CCP, but was refused. (Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty …
5.3m cars recalled in China in 2013
(MENAFN) China’s quality inspection authority said that a record number of cars were recalled last year, Xinhua reported.The authority said that 5.3 million defected vehicles were recalled in 2013, a figure that represents one third of the total recalled vehicles in ten years.The most recalled brands were Mitsubishi, BMW, Hyundai, Jeep and Shaolin, and the most recalled brands by numbers …
