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> News of the day < BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese passenger jet broke apart as it approached a fog-shrouded runway in the country’s northeast and burst into flames as it hit the ground Tuesday, killing 43 people and injuring 53 others, state media said. The Henan Airlines plane with 91 passengers and five crew crashed in a grassy area near [...] |
The China Railway Group, a construction company, said Tuesday it was in talks with South Africa’s government for a $30 billion high-speed rail project between Johannesburg and the eastern port city of Durban. Discussions are at an early stage and no financing is in place, China Railway’s chairman, Li Changjin, said in an interview in [...]
SHANGHAI — More than 250,000 people were evacuated in northeastern China over the weekend after torrential rains battered the area and led to severe flooding along the border with North Korea, Chinese state media reported on Monday. The government said that four people were killed and one was missing near the port city of Dandong [...]
Scrutiny for Chinese Telecom Bid SHANGHAI — Warning about a potential threat to national security, eight Republican lawmakers have asked the Obama administration to scrutinize a bid by one of the biggest corporations in China to supply telecommunications equipment to Sprint Nextel in the United States. In a letter sent last week to top administration [...]
We’ve all heard the story by now. Fed up with his job as a JetBlue flight attendant, Steven Slater yelled obscenities over the p.a. system, grabbed two beers from the beverge cart, activated the emergency inflatable chute and slid out of his job and into his 15 minutes of fame. But the only people who [...]
BEIJING – Two carriages of a passenger train fell into a river Thursday after floods knocked out a bridge in southwestern China, but all passengers were able to escape safely, state media reported. The accident happened at 3 p.m. in Guanghan, a city about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the Sichuan provincial capital of [...]
BEIJING – Rescue crews searched Friday for scores of people left missing and feared dead in southwestern China after torrential rains triggered massive mudslides during a summer plagued by deadly rains and flooding. Rainfall hampered efforts to find 80 people missing in Puladi township, a remote mountain community in Yunnan province. Hillsides loosened by rain [...]
SHANGHAI — Not long ago, China and the British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto seemed to be in a raging battle. First, Rio rebuffed a proposed $19.5 billion investment deal with the Aluminum Corp. of China, or Chinalco, one of the biggest state-run companies. Then, China arrested and convicted four Rio employees, including an Australian citizen, [...]
XIANGTAN, China — If the residents of this city seem a bit lively on even the hottest days or most frigid nights, check their mouths. That minty scent and cracking sound come from a fragrant pick-me-up that men, women and even children chew from breakfast until bedtime. The source of their euphoria is “binglang,” the [...]
SHANGHAI — The Chinese government, determined to become a world leader in green technology, says it plans to invest billions of dollars over the next few years to develop electric and hybrid vehicles. The government said a group of 16 big state-owned companies had already agreed to form an alliance to do research and development, [...]
SAN JUAN DE MARCONA, Peru — In its worldwide quest for commodities, China has scoured South America for everything from Brazilian soybeans to Guyanese timber and Venezuelan oil. But long before it made any of those forays, China put down stakes in this desolate mining town in Peru’s southern desert. The year was 1992. Chinese [...]
SHANGHAI — In an apparent bid to extend its control over the Internet and cash in on the rapid growth of mobile devices, China plans to create a government-controlled search engine. The new venture would compete with Baidu.com, a private company that runs China’s dominant search engine. Baidu’s market has grown since Google retreated from [...]
Rain-triggered mudslides across China have pushed up the death toll from China’s worst flooding in a decade and left thousands trapped, state media reported on Friday. In southwestern Sichuan Province, a mudslide killed at least five people and trapped more than 500 others, the Xinhua state news agency reported. Farther north in Gansu Province, the [...]