News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| about 1 year ago
A television presenter is to carry the Olympic torch when it comes to London despite protesting over China's crackdown in Tibet, she said Friday. Konnie Huq, a long-standing presenter of flagship BBC children's show Blue Peter, said she had wrestled..
News Source: The independent
| about 1 year ago
O'Sullivan, 32, world champion in 2001 and 2004, looked bored and mischievously relaxed in turn at Wednesday's conference, after a first-round defeat to Marcu Fu. In footage now available on YouTube (link below), he audibly asks at one point: "F***...
News Source: CCTV
| about 1 year ago
The Airbus A330 passenger airliner, which has 200-plus seats, including 30 for VIPs, has been chartered to carry the torch on its global tour. "The aircraft has a specially designed stand to hold the flame while it is in transit," Tan said. "We...
News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
Two researchers of China's 24th scientific expedition on oceanic research enjoy their leisure time on board of China's Antarctic ice breaker the Snow Dragon (Xuelong) in Frementle anchorage ground near Australia, March 27, 2008. The Snow Dragon, or...
News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
March 29 (Xinhua) -- Lobbyist and activists who serve anti-China plots might gloatingly, but mistakenly, think they have found a soft rib in China when Tibetan riots coincidentally occurred dramatically with the approaching of the Beijing Olympic...
News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
March 29 (Xinhua) -- China announced on Friday it had shut down 23 websites for illegal drug sales and false advertising of drug products, the country's pharmaceutical authority said...The sites either sold counterfeit drugs or publicized illicit...