Schumacher: Ferrari Mark F1 Driver’s Birthday
Michael Schumacher’s family have thanked the public for their support as he remains in a coma following a skiing accident. The Formula One driver turns 45 today in his hospital bed in Grenoble after suffering critical head injuries in the French Alps on Sunday. The Ferrari team which he spent many years racing for announced it would hold a “silent…
Read More →Budget phone-maker Coolpad thinks it can sell more 4G smartphones than Samsung in China this year
Shenzhen-based budget smartphone maker Coolpad (HKG:2369) says it aims to sell more 4G handsets in China than Samsung (KRX:005935) in 2014, according to Tech 163. That’s a big claim for a company that …
Obesity Rates Balloon In Developing World
3 January 2014, 3:59 Obesity Rates Balloon In Developing World Tweet The number of overweight and obese people has reached almost one billion in the developing world – overtaking rates in industrialised countries, a report has found. The report by…
Read More →A tale of two leaders in China and Japan
China’s President Xi Jinping and Shinzo Abe of Japan are locked in a spiralling diplomatic standoff but their burgeoning rivalry contrasts with striking personal parallels between the two, analysts say. “These personality traits and similar historical background, I think they do matter because for both Xi Jinping and Abe, nationalism has been a potent force which they can exploit to consolidate their position,” said Willy Lam, a politics expert at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Abe and Xi both came to power in late 2012, Xi anointed as Communist Party general secretary and Abe elected Japan’s prime minister after an aborted first term five years earlier. Abe was voted in vowing to rejuvenate Japan’s long moribund economy after two so-called “lost decades”, amend its war-renouncing constitution and take a more positive view of Japan’s past with the slogan: “Take back Japan”.
Strong winter storm pushes into the Northeast
RODRIQUE NGOWI Associated Press= BOSTON (AP) — A storm expected to bring more than a foot of snow, stiff winds and punishing cold pushed into the Northeast on Thursday, extending Christmas break for some students while posing the first test for New York’s new mayor and perhaps the last challenge for Boston’s outgoing one. Some schools in New England and New York closed well ahead of the snow, while cities mobilized plows and salt spreaders, and state offices sent workers home early. Some major highways were ordered shut down overnight. U.S. airlines canceled more than 2,300 flights nationwide on Thursday in advance of the storm. The heavy weather began rolling in just a day after New York…
Read More →Tencent hits the road (and goes off the beaten path) to create China’s biggest ‘street view’
Started with just three areas in late 2011, Tencent’s (HKG:0700) street view imagery is now the most comprehensive in China. In a country where Google has not been permitted to roll out its iconic Street …
Former PM Ariel Sharon remains in critical condition, hospital says
Sharon is suffering multiple organ failure, Prof. Zeev Rotstein says. Ariel Sharon remains in critical condition, the director general of Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, said Thursday morning, after the former prime minister’s medical condition had significantly deteriorated. “He has not undergone dialysis,” Prof. Zeev Rotstein said, “He is still getting the same medical treatments he […]
Read More →Africa’s Most Successful Women: Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu
Every now and then, I profile outstanding African women who’re making giant strides in business, politics, technology, entrepreneurship and leadership on the continent and elsewhere around the world. This week, I profile the spectacular Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu, an Ethiopian entrepreneur and the founder of SoleRebels, a thriving eco-sensitive footwear brand that pundits hail as Africa’s answer […]
Read More →Two ‘pretty’ women from China caught for smuggling drugs at LCCT
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3 — The first visit to Malaysia for two “sweet young things” from China turned sour when they were detained by Customs officers at the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) in Sepang…
China denounces U.S. for sending Uighur “terrorists” to Slovakia
China’s Foreign Ministry criticised the United States on Thursday for sending the last three Uighur Chinese inmates at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre to Slovakia, saying they were “terrorists” who posed a real security danger. Yusef Abbas, Saidullah Khalik, and Hajiakbar Abdul Ghuper are the last of 22 Muslim minority Chinese nationals to be moved from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, according to the Pentagon. Slovakia’s Interior Ministry confirmed that it would take in the three. Uighurs are a Turkic-speaking Muslim people from China’s far western region of Xinjiang.
