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Passengers asked to push plane after breakdown on runway Passengers on a Chinese Shandong airlines flight were asked to get out and push after their plane broke down shortly after landing. The CRJ7 airplane with 69 passengers and 7 aircrew members flying from Guilin to Zhengzhou...

Copy cat ? ------------ Family threatens suicide in Beijing property row On Wednesday 26 January 2011, 13:15 Wang Shibo's stricken grandparents sit drenched in petrol next to a coffin in her Beijing shop, poised to light a match in a final, desperate protest against the forced...

Apple plans NFC payments via iPhone 5? Bloomberg, Jan 25, 2011, 09.30pm OREGON: Apple Inc plans to introduce services that would let customers use its iPhone and iPad computer to make purchases, said Richard Doherty, director of consulting firm Envisioneering Group. The services are...

The PC, notebook and net book maybe history. What could stop the tablet revolution? Bloomberg, Jan 25, 2011, 09.28pm With 2011 shaping up to be the Year of the Tablet, securing the display components for the looming army of tablets may be a key factor in determining success. Last year...

Pretty girl sings for a living on the street, auctions off her first love at RMB100,000 People’s Daily Online Xinhua Posted on 18 January 2011 by Jing Gao A post about a girl singing in Beijing’s underpass for a living has become extremely hot in China’s cyberspace. It dubs the girl...

2011 is the begining of the end for the credit card Monday 24th January, 2011 Experts have said that 2011 will be the beginning of the gradual decline of the credit card, as new technologies make the ubiquitous plastic card antiquated. In 2010, consumers spent US $16 billion on...

Costly mistake, costly fake China Daily Billionaire killed at home while making a fake antique Obviously creating fakes comes at a (heavy) cost. The chairman of a major pharmaceutical company and his employee died in an explosion caused by a “chemical experiment gone wrong” at the...

Men cut off fingertips Four workers cut off the tips of their little fingers at the west gate of Tsinghua University Sunday. By Yang Jie Four protesters who hacked the tops off their pinkies and swallowed the tips were forcibly expelled from Beijing Wednesday. At about 2:30 pm...

New expressway to affect several properties On Friday 21 January 2011, 8:00 SGT The government will acquire several properties along Admiralty Road West and Toa Payoh Rise to make way for the construction of the 15.9 km North-South Expressway (NSE). Some of the affected properties are...

Behind Every Successful Man in China, is a Business-Minded Wife. A boss, in order to keep a mistress, bought a house in Shengzhen for her to live in. Plus he gave her a monthly allowance of 5000 yuan. The house cost him about 500,000 (half a million) yuan He sold the house this...

All these matters are too complicated for you. why not just focus only on small simple matters...Phone card and hard disk subject matters ?

Gay Member of Parliament? OK, says MM Lee Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew makes his most comprehensive statements about homosexuality in an interview. (Photo: AFP) Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has revealed he has no problems with having homosexuals in Parliament, reported The Straits Times...

Children warned over Facebook modelling scam ANI, Jan 22, 2011, 01.29pm LONDON: Police in UK have warned parents and children of a Facebook scam involving fake modelling agencies that encourage kids to pose in underwear. Leicestershire Police said the scam, using a number of social...

'Facebook breaking marriages' ANI, Jan 22, 2011, 02.07pm LONDON: If you think that Facebook is a harmless way to keep in touch with friends and family, you are wrong. The social networking site is fuelling divorce epidemic. Flirtations on the social networking site are increasingly...

China Losing to U.S. Among Investments of Choice Bloomberg By Mike Dorning and Catherine Dodge - January 21, 2010 01:15 EST Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Investors have turned bullish on the U.S. while tempering their enthusiasm for China as they worry about a market bubble there, according to a...

Worthless Stocks from China By Dune Lawrence Oxstones Investment Club™ The New Silk Road When a retiree in Texas discovered that some Chinese companies listed in the U.S. are frauds, he unleashed an army of short-sellers. On an April afternoon, in his home office outside Austin, Tex...

Sea Level Rise May Sink Island Nations Island countries could soon drown underneath rising tides. THE GIST: * Sea level rise is already starting to flood island nations. * There are few legal precedents for how these nations can exist without dry land. * Island states need to act now if...

GDP figures are plain noise fodder for the so called media economists. Take for example - leverage trading in currency. With a mere 10,000 dollars, one can do 100,000 dollar worth of trades. Do it 5 times a day and you have 1 million worth of trades in a day. That adds 1 million to the GDP...

38-Year-Old Mother Crushed by a Digger as cops watch. (Video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COfV4pdhn5s In China's Henan province on Monday, January 3, a 38-year-old woman and mother, Li Li, was killed by a digger. It happened while she was protesting a construction project, local media...

Microsoft to invest around $2.5 billion in Indonesia Saturday, January 22, 2011 3:56:38 AM by BNO News JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) — Microsoft on Friday announced that it will invest around $2.5 billion in Indonesia to develop cloud-computing systems, the Jakarta Globe reported...