Xinhua summary of Asia-Pacific stocks news at 1100 GMT, Nov. 5
Investors Business Daily
Nov 05, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- MANILA -- Philippine stocks closed 1.27 percent higher on Thursday. The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index rose by 36. 88 points to 2,944.51 while the all-share index went up by 19.93 points or 1.0...
Turkey, EU agree to cooperate in fight against irregular migration
Focus Infomation
Ankara. Turkey and the European Union (EU) agreed to intensify cooperation to overcome the common problem on migration flow and to fight irregular migration, said a joint statement on Thursday, Xinhua reported. The statement was released af...
China's small-company stock market starts trading
NPR News
In this photo released by the official Xinhua news agency, delegates of the 28 selected firms for China's ChiNext pose for photos during the listing ceremony in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, on Friday Oct. 30, 2009. Twenty-eig...
China to Launch CNN-Style News Channel
Digital Chosunilbo
CNN is about to get a new competitor -- from China. China's state-run Xinhua News Agency has been putting together its own 24-hour satellite news channel for the past year and will begin broadcasting reports from a Chinese perspective next ...
SAIC Sets Its Sights on Green Cars
New York Times
SHANGHAI — The parent of SAIC Motor, the biggest automaker in China, plans to invest 6 billion yuan to develop and manufacture clean-energy vehicles over the next couple of years, Xinhua, the official news agency, has reported. Of the inves...
Bus plunges into valley in China killing 13
Denver Post
BEIJING—China's state news agency says 13 people have been killed and 41 injured after a bus plunged into a valley along a mountainous road in northern Shanxi province. The official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday that the bus fell into th...
China sends anti-piracy navy convoy: state media
YAHOO!
The flotilla included two missile frigates that would relieve two Chinese frigates currently patrolling pirate-ridden shipping lanes in the gulf, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy flotilla was...
Sales of China's supply and marketing cooperatives up 11% in 9 months
People's Daily Online
The combined sales volume of China's supply and marketing cooperatives rose 11 percent year on year to 826.04 billion yuan (121 billion U.S. dollars) nationwide in the first nine months this year, a senior official told Xinhua Thursday. Li ...
2 Dutch killed in China sea
Straits Times
The accident took place at about 8pm (1200 GMT, 8pm Singapore time) on Thursday, the official Xinhua news agency said in a brief report, citing local maritime authorities. Hong Kong's RTHK radio reported that the high-speed ferry had been t...
China Claims Supercomputer Among World's Fastest
PC World
The supercomputer, named Milky Way, can theoretically perform more than one million billion calculations per second, Xinhua news agency said. That figure, measured in "flops," or floating operation points per second, would make it China's f...
Urgent: Obama laments "horrific" shooting in Texas military base
English_Xinhua
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Thursday lamented the "horrific" shooting case in a military base in Texas, killing at least 11 and injuring 31 others. 7 killed, 12 wounded in shooting at U.S. army base HOUSTON, N...
China Says Space Plans Peaceful
ABC News
... China, but have raised alarms in Washington after Chinese air force commander Xu Qiliang spoke of a "Great Wall of steel in the blue sky" in an interview with state news agency Xinhua this week. A space race between Asia's major and eme...
