President Hu Jintao is set to arrive in Seoul today for the start of a weeklong official visit to the Republic of Korea (ROK), Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
The Chinese leader’s trip comes amid expectations of closer cooperation and ties, including trade with the ROK and regional security with its Central Asian neighbors.
Lee Dong-kwan, spokesman for the [...]
More than 200 Chinese mainland tourists will leave today and tomorrow to join a celebration on Thursday in Washington DC, specially held for China’s inaugural leisure tour group to the United States.
The tourists will leave from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to join the event seen as marking a new era in Sino-US relations.
Vice-Premier Wang Qishan, [...]
Mr Iemma has arrived in Hong Kong where he will give the keynote address at a business lunch later today.
The Premier has been joined by representatives from 33 companies and nine universities, who will accompany him to a series of meetings in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing during his 10 day visit.
Mr Iemma says [...]
We departed from New York City aboard Air China, flying non-stop for 13 hours over the North Pole and Siberia. Huge cracks could be seen in the polar ice cap, breaking up due to global warming.
The plane arrived in Beijing’s large new ultra modern airport, which opened just three days prior for the upcoming Olympics. [...]
JG. Ballard famously characterised himself as a weatherman:
“I read the sky and see the coming storms.” But, like Walter
Benjamin’s tragic “angel of history”, he has been forced to look
backwards at the cataclysmic storm behind him. For Ballard, that
storm is the Pacific War, the source of the questions with which he
has grappled so creatively all his [...]
The Shanghai-based New Zealander travelled the world for more than 15 years, eventually returning home as a salesman for an electronics company.
A job offer five years ago to establish the Asian regional headquarters of a big European multinational lured the 45-year-old to the Chinese financial centre.
I have always been good at setting stuff up.
But after [...]
Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Saturday confirmed receipt of a key report on the future financing of British bank Northern Rock, after claims its loans will be converted into bonds and sold.
US investment bank Goldman Sachs has been looking into whether two private sector companies have enough funds to bail out the stricken mortgage lender, [...]
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday headed from China to India, hoping for movement from New Delhi on tackling climate change while also building on trade and investment links.
The prime minister’s first visit to New Delhi since taking office last June is expected to follow similar themes to those seen in Beijing and Shanghai, [...]
A politically connected association promoting links between
China and Australia - what could be wrong with that? Plenty.
William Birnbauer reports.
FOR retired police superintendent Peter Magerl, it all started
to unravel when he and two Australian women working in Beijing
confronted their employer, Michael Guo, over irregularities in
their visas and contracts.
Screaming profanities and abuse, Guo ordered them out of [...]
RUPERT Murdoch without a telephone was like an alcoholic without a drink. He would grow agitated, fidgety, desperately looking for a fix. Murdoch ran his empire by phone and at almost any time of his day ?every day, 6am in the gym or midnight in his hotel room ?there was an executive he could call [...]
