Ethiopian Airlines Flies to Seychelles
The Ethiopian Airlines, one of the leading Airliners in Africa, on Sunday made a special flight to Seychelles, its newest destination with a group of about 152 Chinese tourists on the eve of the Chinese Spring Festival. The Ethiopian which made test flight on Sunday promoting its new destination, will be starting regular flights to [...]
Reported Bird Flu Casualty in China
China reported Monday the second bird flu-related death within one month, raising concerns that the highly contagious disease could be spreading in the southern part of the country. A 39-year-old man died on Sunday of the virulent H5N1 avian influenza virus, the Health Department of the southwestern province of Guizhou said in a statement. He [...]
Chinese-Canadian soldiers who fought for Canada
By Al Campbell Chinese-Canadian soldiers who fought for Canada in the Second World War, despite being second-class citizens without the right to vote at the time, are the subject of a new exhibition opened in Vancouver Tuesday. The Chinese Canadian Veterans: Loyal to Country exhibition is the latest project of the Chinese-Canadian Military Museum Society. [...]
Amount of Money in China’s Local Banks
China is likely to lower within the next few weeks the amount of money local banks must keep in reserve to increase liquidity in the market, a report said Wednesday. The report by HSBC said that the central People’s Bank of China (PBOC) will keep moving toward easing its monetary policies by cutting reserve ratios [...]
FBI accuses Megaupload of pirating films
German millionaire and alleged Internet pirate Kim Dotcom has been remanded in custody in New Zealand while U. S. officials press ahead with extradition proceedings. A judge in Auckland’s North Shore District Court Wednesday turned down a bail application by Dotcom, 38, saying Dotcom posed a flight risk, Radio New Zealand reported. Dotcom was arrested [...]
Largest petrochemical plant in Uzbekistan
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Wednesday it will help a South Korean consortium build the largest petrochemical plant in Uzbekistan that could meet the country’s commercial and industrial need for gas. A consortium composed of three South Korean companies, Honam Petrochemical Corp., Korea Gas Corp. and STX Energy Co., established a joint venture company [...]
H5N1 positive in Hong Kong
The Hong Kong government said on Thursday a dead goose, found in the northwest part of the city, has been confirmed to be H5N1 positive after laboratory testing. The goose body was found and collected at Sham Tseng last Friday, said a spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD). “It was highly decomposed [...]
Bail for Dutchman Bram van der Kolk and German national Finn Batato
Two European men charged with the German millionaire at the center of a massive U.S.-led Internet piracy prosecution have been freed on bail after a hearing in a New Zealand court Thursday. Dutchman Bram van der Kolk and German national Finn Batato were granted bail at Auckland’s north Shore District Court, Radio New Zealand reported. [...]
South Korea’s stock market could reach a high of 2,200 in 2012
South Korea’s stock market could reach a high of 2,200 in 2012 amid better than expected market conditions in the United States and eased economic policies in China, a report said Thursday. Deutsche Bank said in its latest report that challenges confronting the global economy will affect the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) this [...]
Gold miner controlled by billionaire Viktor Vekselberg’s Renova
Kamchatka Gold, a gold miner controlled by billionaire Viktor Vekselberg’s Renova asset management group, will hold an initial public offering no early than the second half of 2013, Vekselberg said at the World Economic Forum. “This year the company is unprepared for the IPO, not from the viewpoint of reporting but from the viewpoint of [...]