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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President-elect Donald Trump fired a Twitter broadside at China on Sunday, accusing the Asian giant of currency manipulation and military expansionism in the South China Sea. The taunt came two days after Trump risked offending Beijing by accepting a call from the Taiwanese president, and heralded the prospect of a trade battle between the world’s largest economies. China was a frequent target of Trump’s during his presidential campaign and, […]
CHINA (Reuters) –Eighteen people got killed early on Friday when a mini-bus carrying 20 veered off road into a lake in central China’s Hubei Province, according to local authorities. All the deceased were reportedly in their sixties and seventies. The two survivors including the mini-bus driver are receiving hospital treatment. Their injuries are not life-threatening. The driver surnamed Li is already put under police custody. Ma Yichun, a local work safety and supervision official from […]
DAVAO CITY (Eagle News) – Umabot sa 205 katao ang nahuli sa unang araw ng anti-jaywalking ordinance ng City Transport Management Office (CTTMO) nitong huwebes, December 1 sa Davao City. Ayon kay CTTMO Executive Service Officer Charlotte Parba, may parehong bilang ng lalake at babae ang kanilang nahuli. Karamihan aniya sa kanilang nahuli ay mga empleyado at estudyante. Mayroon din umanong foreign nationals na galing Pakistan, Japan, China, Denmark, at India ang dinala sa kanilang tanggapan. […]
HONG KONG, China (Reuters) — Dozens of colorful handmade aircraft attempted to fly off Hong Kong’s old airport runway before plummeting into the iconic Victoria Harbor on Sunday (November 27). The majority of the 41 funky and wonderful air crafts in shapes of cartoon characters, foods and animals plunged straight into the water without flying more than a meter. One of the contestants, Sylvia Tang, was inspired by a character from the famous ”Angry Birds” […]
JIANGXI PROVINCE, China (CCTV) – A rescue operation was underway after a platform under construction at a power plant’s cooling tower collapsed in eastern China’s Jiangxi province on Thursday (November 24), state media reported. Aerial shots carried on China’s state television CCTV showed the accident site where at least 40 workers have reportedly been killed. CCTV said there were over 60 workers at the site when the accident happened in Fengcheng at around 7:30 a.m. […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — At least 40 people were killed when part of a power station under construction in China collapsed Thursday, the official Xinhua news agency reported, the latest industrial accident in a country with a dismal safety record. A cooling tower platform plunged to the ground in the early hours, trapping an unknown number of people beneath it, Xinhua said. Pictures of the scene in Fengcheng, in the central province of Jiangxi, showed […]
Chile vows to strengthen trade with China in the face of protectionist threats from US President-elect Donald Trump, during an official visit of the Asian giant’s president Xi Jinping. https://youtu.be/E4AeLn8_ORo
XIANRENDAO, China (AFP) — With a crack of his whip, Qin Yusheng drives his mules through the ocean surf off the Chinese coast, labouring to bring in the day’s catch. For decades, equine-powered carts have trundled through the shallow waters off the peninsula near Xianrendao to meet shallow-keeled trawlers piled high with jellyfish, which teem in the waters of the Yellow Sea. Now Qin, 55, and his last two mules are ready to retire, as the area’s […]
SHANGHAI, China (AFP) — China, the world’s biggest cigarette producer and consumer, aims to impose national smoking-control regulations by the end of this year, authorities said Tuesday. The Asian giant has the world’s largest smoking population, with 28 percent of all adults and half of its adult men estimated to regularly use cigarettes. The World Health Organization (WHO) says a million people in China die of tobacco-related illnesses annually, with second-hand smoke contributing to some […]
(Eagle News)– Palace officials have announced that China would cooperate with President Rodrigo Duterte if he declares the disputed Panatag Shoal (Scarborough Shoal or Bajo de Masinloc) a marine sanctuary. Duterte had introduced the idea to China’s President Xi Jinping when the two met during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima, Peru. Once affirmed, all fishing activities inside the shoal would be banned. “Sabi niya (Xi), ‘We will mobilize government forces to promote […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — China’s President Xi Jinping signed new trade deals on Monday with Peru, one of its partners in its drive to boost world trade in the face of protectionist stirrings. A day after taking part in the APEC Asia-Pacific trade summit, Xi made a formal visit to the host nation, a major mineral and food exporter. He and Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in a public ceremony signed 18 agreements, including one […]
