Travel Pod:
Jump to the full entry & travel map Beijing, ChinaOn our final day together we went to the Great Wall of China. After a 5.30AM start (ouch!) we were driven out to Simatai (Read More)
Travel Pod:
Jump to the full entry & travel map Beijing, ChinaWith the tour officially over, I still had a couple of days left in Beijing to explore before I had to be in Vietnam and (Read More)
Reuters:
ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - China on Saturday shrugged off international pressure to appreciate its currency, saying developed countries should focus on the quality of their own economic policy-making.
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Author : Tian LiHong Kong Special Administrative Region Chief Executive Donald Tsang on Wednesday pledged to take a series of measures to enhance Hong Kong's competitiveness as a global financial center "We should fully grasp (Read More)
Travel Pod:
Jump to the full entry & travel map Beijing, ChinaSurvived the final sleeper train journey to arrive into Beijing at 6am. Spent the last hour of the journey talking to a (Read More)
The Economist: News analysis and views:
London’s Asian art festival is full of surprisesASIAN Art in London—the city’s week-long late-autumn flowering of dealers’ shows and daily auctions, which ended on November 7th—was characterised by some beautiful exhibitions, (Read More)
washingtonpost.com -:
BEIJING -- Along with plans to put a man on the moon and develop its own aircraft carrier, China's sky-high ambition now includes building its own Made-in-China jumbo jet, to one day compete with Boeing and Airbus for a share (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Chinese children abducted at a young age finally reunite with their families; as the country continues to struggle with human trafficking. Video courtesy of Reuters.
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Reuters Video: Top News:
Nov. 7 - Chinese state television has broadcast emotional scenes of parents reunited with their children years after they were abducted and sold.
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The Guardian:
The president of Brazil stands for democracy, and for the poor. These are still valuable qualities in the 21st centuryPresident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, who has received the Chatham House prize for 2009 , is one o (Read More)
The Economist:
London’s Asian art festival is full of surprisesASIAN Art in London—the city’s week-long late-autumn flowering of dealers’ shows and daily auctions, which ended on November 7th—was characterised by some beautiful exhibitions, (Read More)
Travel Pod:
Jump to the full entry & travel map Beijing, ChinaThe wall was , well, a really, really, really, big wall, in fact some might say Great. We hiked a 10km section fr (Read More)
USATODAY.com Sports - Top Stories:
A round of 67 saw Phil Mickelson move up from a two-shot deficit against Tiger Woods to a two-shot lead after 54 holes of the ...
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Google News - Business:
Los Angeles TimesUCBH Holdings' Bank Is Seized, 120th US Lender Shut This YearBloombergNov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- UCBH Holdings Inc.'s United Commercial Bank, a San Francisco-based lender with $11.2 billion in assets, was seized b (Read More)
timesofindia.indiatimes.com:
Major Internet companies like Yahoo and Google have had their brush with Chinese censors and some websites like YouTube and Twitter are blocked in China. This time, however , Google ran into a different dilemma, being accused (Read More)
India Times:
China is not counting on a quick rebound in the world economy to fuel growth but will concentrate instead on boosting home-grown demand, Yao Jingyuan said on Saturday. (Read More)
Travel Pod:
Jump to the full entry & travel map Hong Kong, ChinaThe last day in Lindfield started with a lie in (well we did stay up talking with Ann till 2am), then a last stroll ar (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
AES will sell $1.58 billion in stock to China's sovereign-wealth fund in an effort to raise capital for further international growth. (Read More)
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Joe Raedle / Getty Images No other prosperous country not torn by civil conflict has anything like our volume of mass killings. Lee Siegel on America’s shameful epidemic.Nidal Malik Hasan may have sh (Read More)