In the past few hours, Twitter has exploded with unsubstantiated rumors that the new North Korean dictator died in Beijing today and that a coup is underway in North Korea. So far there is no indication at all that these rumors are true. The rumors originated on China’s twitter-like platform Weibo (fyi: here’s the fascinating Google translated [...]
NEW DELHI — The Maldives remained gripped by political turmoil on Wednesday, with violent clashes between the police and protesters in the capital, as well as claims by the island nation’s former president that he was forced to resign this week at gunpoint. The Maldives, an archipelago of more than 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean, is [...]
Facebook’s initial public offering has focused yet another spotlight on the social networking site and on Mark Zuckerberg, its iconic leader. But beyond the hoopla surrounding the IPO, there’s another, quieter story to be found in the wunderkind CEO: The lessons about life, personal finance and career that can be gleaned from his choices. David [...]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suicide car bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a building used by paramilitary forces in northwestern Pakistan early on Saturday, killing at least six soldiers and wounding 11 others, police officials said. The attack took place near the town of Bannu, in the Bannu tribal region 25 miles east [...]
SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader who realized his family’s dream of turning his starving, isolated country into a nuclear-weapons power even as it sank further into despotism, died on Saturday of a heart attack while traveling on his train, according to an announcement Monday by the country’s state-run media. Word of [...]
On Thursday, I wrote about a Pew Research Center study showing that the median age at first marriage is about six years higher today than it was in 1960, for both sexes. 在周四，我写了一些关于皮尤研究中心对于两性的研究，这些研究显示现在中年第一次结婚的时间比60年代晚6年。 But Philip N. Cohen, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, reminds us that using 1960 as a reference point can [...]
OTTAWA — Canada said on Monday that it would withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Under that accord, major industrialized nations agreed to meet targets for reducing emissions, but mandates were not imposed on developing countries like Brazil, China, India and South Africa. The United States never ratified the treaty. Canada [...]
THE HAGUE — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other international leaders urged countries and private businesses on Thursday to fight increasing efforts to restrict access to the Internet by repressive governments and even some democratic ones。 在海牙-美国国务卿希拉里克林顿和其它国际领导人在周四呼吁各个国家和私人商业一起不断的努力去为那些限制接入互联网的镇压政府和某些民主国家而斗争。 Opening a two-day conference on digital freedom here sponsored by Google and the Dutch government, Mrs. Clinton warned that restrictions [...]
Chinese telecommunications- equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. said it will scale back its business in Iran, where the company provides services to government-controlled telecom operators, following reports that Iranian police were using mobile-network technology to track down and arrest dissidents. Shenzhen-based Huawei will “voluntarily restrict its business development there by no longer seeking new customers [...]
FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank moved aggressively to head off a recession and credit crunch in the euro area Thursday, cutting its benchmark interest rate for the second month in a row and taking unprecedented steps to expand emergency funding to cash-starved banks. 法兰克福-周四，欧洲中央银行有侵略性的采取行动去避免在欧元区的经济衰和信贷短缺，连续第二个月减少基准率利，同时做出空前的一步去扩大紧急基金以帮助那些现金紧张的银行。 But stocks fell after Mario Draghi, the E.C.B. president, quashed hopes that the bank might [...]
Editor’s note: “Jaime’s China” is a weekly column about Chinese society and politics. Jaime FlorCruz has lived and worked in China since 1971. He studied Chinese history at Peking University (1977-81) and served as TIME Magazine’s Beijing correspondent and bureau chief (1982-2000). (CNN) — Wang Yue, the two-year-old girl who was left for dead on [...]
BARROW, Alaska — The ancient whale hunt here is not so ancient anymore. 阿拉斯加，巴罗-这里的这项古代的狩鲸活动已经不是太古老了。 “Ah, the traditional loader,” one man mumbled irreverently. “Ah, the traditional forklift.” 一个人不客气的说：“啊哈，这是传统的装卸机，啊哈，这是传统的铲车。” That morning, the first of the annual fall hunt, a crew of Inupiat Eskimos cruising the Arctic Ocean in a small powerboat spotted the whale’s spout, speeded to [...]
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been named the most powerful person in the art world, according to a poll compiled by ArtReview magazine. But Mr Ai, who was released in June after being detained for more than 80 days by Chinese authorities, told the BBC he does “not feel powerful at all”. The 54-year-old is [...]
A man has been charged with hacking into the emails of dozens of people, including Christina Aguilera, Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis, in a computer invasion scheme that targeted Hollywood stars, according to documents released Wednesday. 根据周三发布的文件称，一名男子被指控在一个针对好莱坞明星的电脑入侵计划中，私自侵入了很多人的邮件，包括克里斯蒂娜·阿奎莱拉、斯嘉丽-约翰森以及米娜·古妮丝等人。 Christopher Chaney of Jacksonville, Fla., hacked Google, Apple and Yahoo email accounts beginning last November and December, then [...]
President Hu Jintao greets former leader Jiang Zemin during a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sunday, Oct 9, 2011, to mark the centennial of the 1911 Revolution. [China Daily] 2011年10月9号纪念辛亥革命100周年大会在人民大会堂隆重举行，国家主席胡锦涛和前任领导人江泽民出席。【中国日报】 BEIJING – President Hu Jintao called on people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits to work together for [...]
BEIJING: Eleven Chinese were killed and two missing after their cargo boats were attacked in the golden triangle area of the Mekong River, state media said on Sunday. 北京：11个中国人遇难，他们的船只在湄公河的金三角地区袭击后2个人失踪，周日国家媒体报道说。 The two ships, the Hua Ping and Yu Xing 8, were attacked on October 5, according to the Xinhua news agency, which said China’s leaders were [...]
It’s a beautiful Friday, and Zuccotti Park looks… different. Sure, there are the protesters we’ve come to know and expect, and the media is still there, full force. But something seems off. 这是一个美丽的星期五，祖科蒂公园显得有些不同。显然,在那里有我们所认识并期待的示威者,还有动力十足的媒体也在那里。但是有些事看起来好像不太对劲。 “A lot of people are unhappy that the Libertarians are joining up,” one General Assembly member told us on the condition of anonymity, [...]
Her full name is Maria del Rosario Cayetana Alfonsa Victoria Eugenia Francisca Fitz-James Stuart y de Silva and goes by simply Cayetana. 她的全名玛利亚·德尔·罗萨里奥·卡耶塔娜·阿尔冯萨·维多利亚·尤金妮亚·弗朗西斯卡·菲茨-詹姆斯·斯图尔特·德·席尔瓦，简称卡耶娜塔。 Known now for her frizzy white hair, squeaky voice and wildly colorful clothes, the duchess is among Spain’s most famous faces. 她以卷曲的白发，短促尖利的声音以及狂野华美的衣服著名，这位女公爵在西班牙中是最有名望的人。 “I am not a person who allows herself be managed,” [...]
Launch declared a success as space station era beckons 标志着空间站成功发射新纪元的到来。 JIUQUAN, Gansu – China’s space dream took a step closer to reality as the Tiangong-1 module blasted off into the night sky on Thursday from the Gobi Desert. 星期四晚上，中国甘肃酒泉卫星发射基地的茫茫戈壁滩上，天宫一号点火升空。 The Long March II-F T1 rocket, under the unmanned module, Tiangong-1, lifted off from the Jiuquan [...]
BEIJING — Twelve government employees have been fired and stripped of their Communist Party membership after an investigation into allegations that family planning officials kidnapped children in an impoverished rural area in the southern Chinese province of Hunan, People’s Daily, the party’s official newspaper, reported Thursday. 北京- – -一份调查指控称计划生育官员在中国南部省份湖南省的一个贫困农村绑架儿童，十二名公务员被开除公职和党籍，共产党的官方报纸人民日报周四报道。 While investigators concluded that the government [...]
