In this March 31, 2014 file photo, the shadow of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P3 Orion is seen on low level cloud while the aircraft searches for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean, near the coast of Western Australia. A series of catastrophic electrical and other failures may have led to the crash of Flight 370 over the Indian Ocean, according to a lawsuit filed Friday, March 3, 2017, in the U.S. on behalf of the families of 44 people on board the still missing plane.
Category: Beijing, China
Lawyers sue Chinese authorities for not getting rid of smog
Lawyer Cheng Hai has an itemized list of compensation demands from Beijing authorities over the city’s smog: 65 yuan for having to buy face masks, 100 yuan for seeing a doctor for a sore throat and 9,999 yuan for emotional distress. Fed up with what they consider halfhearted efforts to fight air pollution, Cheng and like-minded lawyers are putting China’s legal system to the test by suing the governments of the capital and its surrounding regions.
Minister: China to cut 500,000 heavy industry jobs
In this Monday, Feb. 20, 2017 photo, a worker watches a bulldozer unload coal at a coal mine in Huaibei in central China’s Anhui province. China’s labor minister says Wednesday, March 1, 2017, Beijing will cut another 500,000 jobs this year from steel, coal and other heavy industries to reduce excess production capacity that is flooding markets and depressing global prices.
China’s coal consumption falls for 3rd year in a row
In this Nov. 3, 2015 file photo, smoke and steam rise from the smokestack of a coal-fired power plant near Ordos in northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. According to official data released Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, China’s consumption of coal fell in 2016 for a third year in a row as the world’s top polluter has emerged as a leader in efforts to tackle climate change.
58.com Inc. (WUBA) Lifted to Hold at Zacks Investment Research
According to Zacks, “58.com Inc. operates online marketplace serving local merchants and consumers in China. It offers housing rental, recruitment, second-hand product, travel, catering, entertainment, and group-buying information.
Would-be dog owners take shine to new breeds
Since 2012, when a Tibetan mastiff pup sold for 20mil yuan in Shandong province, the country has become obsessed with brown toy poodles. Guo Jishi, who runs a pet dog centre in Beijing, said the brown toy poodle has been popular in recent years because it is cute, small and smart.
SIM, IMEI Amount & SAM
Demand for Apple’s bigger, more expensive iPhone 7 Plus smartphones is great – but supply/demand balance may well not happen this quarter. Armed with several iPhones and a higher speed training video camera with the capacity of saving at up to 15,000 fps, we hoped to find out just what kind of impact causes broken glass with an iPhone.
Colic study stirs prickly debate on acupuncture
APRIL 02: A young Chinese cries as she waits for feeding at a foster care center on April 2, 2014 in Beijing, China. China’s orphanages and foster homes used to be filled with healthy girls, reflecting the country’s one-child policy and its preference for sons.
China pledges further cuts in excess steel, coal production
In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, an excavator past by smoke spewing from the sprawling complex that is a part of the Jiujiang steel and rolling mills in Qianan in northern China’s Hebei province. China’s top economic planner pledged Tuesday, Jan 10, 2017 to continue cutting steel and coal production that have been a source of trade friction with many countries.
China’s poorest, trying to stay warm, add greatly to smog
QIAN’AN, China – An overloaded coal truck rumbles down from the steel factory and hits a bump, sending chunks of its black cargo skittering and click-clicking along the asphalt. Waiting by the roadside, a farmer swaddled in thick, cotton-padded winter clothing scrambles into onrushing traffic to pick up the pieces.
Heavy Smog Chokes a Third of China’s Cities at Start of New Year
Heavy smog has blanketed a third of China’s cities, including its capital Beijing, with 62 issuing health alerts since Jan. 1, officials said. The hazardous air has forced hundreds of flight cancellations or delays and is forecast to linger into the weekend in some areas.
Heavy smog blankets part of China as locals still dance the Viennese Waltz in Fuyang
Nothing can stop them! Heavy smog blankets part of China but it doesn’t stop the locals from donning face masks and dancing the Viennese Waltz Heavy smog blanketing northern and central China could not deter the spirits of a number of locals who took to the streets to dance. Dozens of flights and highways were closed on Monday but people in Fuyang, in the Anhui province, braved the shocking pollution, donning masks to perform their best Viennese Waltz.
China says ‘Sky Net’ campaign recovers $331 million in corruption losses
China’s President Xi Jinping looks on before meeting with former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the Great Halll of the People in Beijing, China December 2, 2016. China has recovered 2.3 billion yuan in losses from graft in the first 11 months of this year from across more than 70 different regions and countries, the country’s corruption watchdog said on its official website on Saturday.
What it means if Trump names China a currency manipulator
In this Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016, file photo, residents walk past a board highlighting the security markers on the latest Yuan note outside a bank in Beijing, China. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to label China a currency manipulator on his first day in the White House.
What it means if Trump names China a currency manipulator
In this Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016, file photo, residents walk past a board highlighting the security markers on the latest Yuan note outside a bank in Beijing, China. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to label China a currency manipulator on his first day in the White House.
In China, calls for end to aggressive child custody tactics
Dai Xiaolei last saw her son in 2014 when he was 17 months old and living with her Chinese in-laws outside the capital Beijing. Dai Xiaolei poses with a picture of her son in the bedroom she designed for him in her former marital apartment in Beijing, China, September 19, 2016.
Malaysia Airlines flight from London returns to Heathrow after technical issue
A Malaysia Airlines flight from London to Kuala Lumpur returned to Heathrow just hours after departure after it experienced a technical defect on one of its doors. In a travel advisory on its website, the airline said the MH1 flight that took off from Heathrow on Wednesday night “experienced a technical defect on one of its Airbus A380 doors while inflight over Germany.”
Winds may finally clear ‘scary’ pollution from China’s skies
Beijing and much of industrial northern China are in the midst of a “red alert,” the highest level in China’s… . A man wearing a mask for protection against air pollution pushes his luggage at the Beijing Capital International Airport as the capital of China is shrouded by heavy smog on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016.
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Japan PM eyes Russia visit early next year to drive peace treaty talks
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe review the guard of honour during a meeting in Tokyo, Japan, December 16, 2016. Sputnik/Sergey Guneev/Kremlin/via Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday he aimed to visit Russia early next year to accelerate talks for resolving a territorial row and concluding a peace treaty officially ending World War Two hostilities.
China fines firms for using BMW-like trademark: media
The BMW logo is seen on the wheel of a vehicle presented at the Auto China 2016 auto show in Beijing, China, April 29, 2016. ) 3 million yuan for registering trademarks similar to that of the German firm, the Shanghai Daily reported on Tuesday.
Ap Photos: Editor selections from the past week in Asia
In this Friday, Dec. 16, 2016, photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, share a light moment during their visit to the Kodokan judo hall in Tokyo. Russia and Japan agreed Friday to hold talks on joint economic development on four islands at the center of a territorial dispute between the countries.
China says it will give drone back, but Trump says ‘keep it’
In this undated photo released by the U.S. Navy Visual News Service, the USNS Bowditch, a T-AGS 60 Class Oceanographic Survey Ship, sails in open water. The USNS Bowditch, a civilian U.S. Navy oceanographic survey ship, was recovering two drones on Thursday when a Chinese navy ship approached and sent out a small boat that took one of the drones, said Navy Capt.
China says it will give drone back, but Trump says ‘keep it’
In this undated photo released by the U.S. Navy Visual News Service, the USNS Bowditch, a T-AGS 60 Class Oceanographic Survey Ship, sails in open water. The USNS Bowditch, a civilian U.S. Navy oceanographic survey ship, was recovering two drones on Thursday when a Chinese navy ship approached and sent out a small boat that took one of the drones, said Navy Capt.
Chinese city cancels flights in 2nd day of smog alert
Electric bike riders wearing mask to protect themselves from exhaust gas wait at a traffic lights junction during a heavily polluted day in Beijing, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016. China’s capital and other northern cities have banned half of all vehicles from city streets and ordered factories, schools and construction sites closed in response to a five-day smog red alert.