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Comac signs 60-jet deal with Hong Kong leasing group, worth up to US$2.3 billion - largest single order yet for the Chinese-built airliner An Indonesian airline is to become the world's first to operate a fleet made up entirely of Chinese-built jets. Hong Kong-listed China Aircraft Leasing Group has confirmed that it and its substantial shareholder Friedmann Pacific Asset Management will buy 30 ARJ21-700 jets with an option to buy 30 more, from state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corp of China, or Comac.
It's "Furorida e yokoso!" - Welcome to Florida! - for sailors, officers and 200 newly commissioned ensigns on board three Japanese warships who dock Thursday at Mayport Naval Station as the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Training Squadron makes a three-day goodwill visit. As the training squadron's visiting sailors enjoy liberty at a new port of call, its military band will join Navy Band Southeast for a free public concert at 7 p.m. Saturday at the University of North Florida.
Luis Urias homered and singled, scoring two runs as the Lake Elsinore Storm topped the Stockton Ports 7-1 on Wednesday. In an Associated Press story published in The Free Lance-Star on June 28, former Virginia governor and current U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine is quoted a BEIJING - Water levels are starting to recede in central and eastern China after days of heavy downpours broke levees, flooded cities and villages, halted public transportation, and left at least 181 people dead or missing.
Republican Donald Trump talked trade at a shuttered New Hampshire factory on Thursday, putting a more personal spin on his vow to rip up the nation's trade deals and impose new tariffs in an effort to revive local manufacturing jobs. Speaking to a small, invitation-only crowd outside the closed Osram Sylvania plant, which used to manufacture lighting products, Trump again called for backing away from decades of U.S. policy that encouraged trade with other nations.
China's first locally built regional jet made its maiden commercial flight on Tuesday, carrying 70 passengers from the western city of Chengdu to Shanghai on the east coast in what state-owned planemaker Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd hailed as a milestone. Chengdu Airlines flight EU6679 took two hours and 12 minutes and was "an important milestone in the development of civil aviation in China", COMAC said in a statement.
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen made her first public appearance overseas at the opening ceremony of the expanded Panama Canal on Sunday as the island woos its Latin American ally amid Beijing's growing influence there. Tsai was shown on television posing for a picture with Panama's President Juan Carlos Varela and other foreign dignitaries including Jill Biden, wife of US Vice-President Joe Biden.
A case brought by U.S. ally the Philippines against China represents a diplomatic dilemma for far-flung nations as Washington and Beijing rally support for their respective positions on the use of international arbitration in South China Sea disputes. The United States has been building diplomatic pressure in the West and in Asia on China to abide by the Hague-based tribunal's decision, which is expected soon.
In cross-border operation, mainland police nab 31 at hideouts in Guangzhou and Shenzhen as local counterparts detain 12 after raids A human-smuggling syndicate that allegedly brought Vietnamese illegal immigrants into Hong Kong has been broken up after mainland and local law enforcers arrested 42 people, police said on Friday. But the gang was just the tip of the iceberg as investigations indicated several other rackets that smuggle non-Chinese illegal immigrants such as Pakistanis and Indians from their home countries into the city were still in operation, the Post has learned.
China features prominently in the rhetoric of presumed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who accuses the country of stealing American jobs and cheating at global trade. In China itself, though, he's only now emerging as a public figure, despite notoriety elsewhere for his voluble utterances, high-profile businesses and reality TV show.
In this May 27, 2016 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speak with the Atomic Bomb Dome seen at rear at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan. less FILE - In this May 27, 2016 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speak with the Atomic Bomb Dome seen at rear at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, ... more FILE - In this Thursday, May 26, 2016, file photo passers-by move past riot police near the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, southwestern Japan.
In this March 1, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at the Signature Flight Hangar at Port-Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio. China features prominently in the rhetoric of presumed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who accuses the country of stealing American jobs and cheating at global trade.
In this file photo taken Nov. 11, 2015, Jack Ma, executive chairman of the Alibaba Group, speaks in front of a giant screen showing real-time sales figures of e-commerce giant Alibaba, during a press conference for the "Singles' Day" online shopping festival held at National Aquatic Center, also known as the "Water Cube" in Beijing, China. Alibaba's relationship with an anti-counterfeiting lobby coalition known as the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition is a tale of how one of China's corporate giants won _ and ultimately lost_ a friend in Washington, using legal methods long deployed by corporate America: money and friendship.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will use the upcoming G-20 Summit in China as an opportunity to brief the world's most powerful leaders on the failed coup attempt on July 15 and the country's ongoing fight against the Fethullahist Terror Organization , his spokesman has said. "Our president will find the opportunity to inform his counterparts on the coup attempt and fight against FETO during the G-20 Summit and his bilateral talks," Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kal n told reporters at a press conference on Aug. 31. The G-20 Summit will be held in Guangzhou, China on Sept.