Chinese local fishery and agricultural departments should get prepared to cope with typhoon "Nuri" and try to ensure fishermen's safety, said the Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday.
In an urgent notice, the ministry told local fishery and agricultural departments in eastern localities including Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai and Anhui, central Jiangxi Province and southern Guangdong Province, to closely monitor Nuri, keep the public informed and help fishing vessels avoid risks.
The eye of Nuri, the twelfth tropical storm of this year, was monitored 620 kilometers southeast offshore from Taiwan's Hengchuncity at 5 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Central Meteorological Station.
It was moving towards the country's southeastern coastal areas with a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, said the station.
The MOA called on local government departments to prepare for disaster-relief services, strengthen dykes and mobilize farmers to harvest mature crops against time.
Source: Xinhua
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Official: All Uygur pilots working normally in Xinjiang
All Uygur pilots serving the country's airlines were working normally in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and none had ever been relocated to work for other airlines outside the northwest region.
Li Jian, the Civil Aviation Administration of China deputy director, on Tuesday dismissed foreign media stories that Uygur pilots had been suspended from their jobs as "sheer fake reports."
To date, Chinese airlines have employed three Uygur pilots. Twoof them, Aikebaier Maimaiti and Ailiyiming Niyazi, served as Boeing 757 captains for the Xinjiang branch of China Southern Airlines, while the third, Dulihong, worked with the Xinjiang General-use Airlines.
Aikebaier Maimaiti recently completed a two-way international flight between Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, and Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, on Tuesday morning. He told Xinhua in a phone interview, "Since August 1, I have flown 36.05 hours on routes between Urumqi and Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Xi'an."
On Wednesday morning, he will fly between Urumqi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
Ailiyiming Niyazi told Xinhua he had flown safely for a total of 17,542 hours. Since Aug. 1, he had worked on routes between Urumqi and Hotan, Xiamen, Shenzhen, Zhengzhou and Changsha.
All pilots, no matter whether they were Uygur or Han people, had to work according to schedule. It was normal that sometimes they worked on flights outside Xinjiang, said Zhang Zifang, China Southern Airlines deputy general manager.
Source: Xinhua
Li Jian, the Civil Aviation Administration of China deputy director, on Tuesday dismissed foreign media stories that Uygur pilots had been suspended from their jobs as "sheer fake reports."
To date, Chinese airlines have employed three Uygur pilots. Twoof them, Aikebaier Maimaiti and Ailiyiming Niyazi, served as Boeing 757 captains for the Xinjiang branch of China Southern Airlines, while the third, Dulihong, worked with the Xinjiang General-use Airlines.
Aikebaier Maimaiti recently completed a two-way international flight between Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, and Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, on Tuesday morning. He told Xinhua in a phone interview, "Since August 1, I have flown 36.05 hours on routes between Urumqi and Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Xi'an."
On Wednesday morning, he will fly between Urumqi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
Ailiyiming Niyazi told Xinhua he had flown safely for a total of 17,542 hours. Since Aug. 1, he had worked on routes between Urumqi and Hotan, Xiamen, Shenzhen, Zhengzhou and Changsha.
All pilots, no matter whether they were Uygur or Han people, had to work according to schedule. It was normal that sometimes they worked on flights outside Xinjiang, said Zhang Zifang, China Southern Airlines deputy general manager.
Source: Xinhua
Southeast China provinces brace for typhoon Nuri
Typhoon Nuri continued to intensify as it maintained its course towards south China on Wednesday, according to the meteorological station in southeast China's Fujian Province.
The eye of Nuri, the twelfth tropical storm this year, was 700 kilometers south of Xiamen City at 8 a.m., packing winds of up to force-13, or 144 kilometers per hour, in the center, said the station.
Nuri was moving towards southeastern coastal areas at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, and would enter the South China Sea on Thursday.
Fujian's seashores were hit by gusts of up to force 8 on Wednesday morning. The observatory forecast heavy rain in most areas in the province in the next two days.
Fujian and neighboring Guangdong Province in south China had been dominated by lingering heat with temperatures rising to 37 degree Celsius. The observatories expected the impending typhoon to cool the air.
The meteorological station in Guangdong forecast heavy rain in the eastern part of the province from Friday to Saturday.
The Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday night issued an urgent notice requiring fishery and agricultural departments in Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Anhui, Jiangxi and Guangdong, to keep the public informed and help fishing vessels avoid risks.
Source: Xinhua
The eye of Nuri, the twelfth tropical storm this year, was 700 kilometers south of Xiamen City at 8 a.m., packing winds of up to force-13, or 144 kilometers per hour, in the center, said the station.
Nuri was moving towards southeastern coastal areas at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, and would enter the South China Sea on Thursday.
Fujian's seashores were hit by gusts of up to force 8 on Wednesday morning. The observatory forecast heavy rain in most areas in the province in the next two days.
Fujian and neighboring Guangdong Province in south China had been dominated by lingering heat with temperatures rising to 37 degree Celsius. The observatories expected the impending typhoon to cool the air.
The meteorological station in Guangdong forecast heavy rain in the eastern part of the province from Friday to Saturday.
The Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday night issued an urgent notice requiring fishery and agricultural departments in Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Anhui, Jiangxi and Guangdong, to keep the public informed and help fishing vessels avoid risks.
Source: Xinhua
Tremor forces evacuation of 1,200 people in SW China
Around 1,200 people were forced to evacuate their homes after a tremor measuring five on the Richter scale jolted western Yunnan Province, in southwest China, early on Wednesday.
The tremor struck at 5:35 a.m. in Yingjiang County, of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, with the epicenter monitored at 25.1 degrees north and 97.9 degrees east, according to the Provincial Earthquake Bureau.
Many homes collapsed in Sudian Township, the epicenter, about 46 km from Yingjiang county seat, and several townships in the vicinity reported damage, but there were no reports of casualties, said Sha Zhengcheng, chief of publicity with Yingjiang County Committee of the Communist Party of China.
After the earthquake, a working group led by E Tun, head of the county government, went to Sudian Township to supervise rescue efforts.
The authorities are still assessing the losses.
Source: Xinhua
The tremor struck at 5:35 a.m. in Yingjiang County, of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, with the epicenter monitored at 25.1 degrees north and 97.9 degrees east, according to the Provincial Earthquake Bureau.
Many homes collapsed in Sudian Township, the epicenter, about 46 km from Yingjiang county seat, and several townships in the vicinity reported damage, but there were no reports of casualties, said Sha Zhengcheng, chief of publicity with Yingjiang County Committee of the Communist Party of China.
After the earthquake, a working group led by E Tun, head of the county government, went to Sudian Township to supervise rescue efforts.
The authorities are still assessing the losses.
Source: Xinhua
Inbound tourists to Beijing drop 30.2 percent in July
According to reports, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics and the Beijing Survey Team under the National Bureau of Statistics jointly released on the 19th that in July, Beijing received a total of 270,000 inbound tourists, down 30.2 percent from the same period last year.
From Beijing's three main source countries, inbound tourists in July showed a downward trend. Beijing received 42,000 United States tourists, down 29.6 percent from the same period last year; received 29,000 Korean tourists, down 30.3 percent from the same period last year; and received 26,000 Japanese tourists, down 47.1 percent from the same period of last year.
From intercontinental source markets, the number of tourists from Asia, Europe, America, Oceania and Africa all show different degrees of decline.
By People's Daily Online
From Beijing's three main source countries, inbound tourists in July showed a downward trend. Beijing received 42,000 United States tourists, down 29.6 percent from the same period last year; received 29,000 Korean tourists, down 30.3 percent from the same period last year; and received 26,000 Japanese tourists, down 47.1 percent from the same period of last year.
From intercontinental source markets, the number of tourists from Asia, Europe, America, Oceania and Africa all show different degrees of decline.
By People's Daily Online
Chinese artist Zheng Bo shortlisted for APB Foundation Signature Art Prize
On 31 July 2008, the Singapore Art Museum and APB Foundation announced the 10 artworks shortlisted for the prestigious regional Art Prize. The 10 finalists representing nine countries in Asia Pacific, including China, were picked by an international panel of jurors from an initial list of 34 nominated artworks from 12 countries. These artworks represent outstanding movements in the field of contemporary art in the Asia Pacific region in the last three years.
Zheng Bo, the Chinese artist whose artwork was one of those chosen in the final 10, joins nine other artists in running for five awards in mid-October - Three Jurors Choice Awards worth SGD10,000 each, a People's Choice Award worth SGD 10,000 and the Grand Prize SGD 45,000.
Out of the three categories of awards which each artist stands to win, the People's Choice Award is distinctive in that it is the only award that is not conferred by the jury. On 1 August 2008, an online voting website was launched so as to allow the public to vote for their favourite artwork.
Voting is still ongoing on the website http://www.nhb.gov.sg/sam/signatureartprize/vote.html and it will end at 7pm on 12 October 2008. On this website you can vote from their favourite artwork. Online voters will automatically be entered into a lucky draw where they will stand a chance to win a Canon Digital Camera.
By people's Daily Online
Zheng Bo, the Chinese artist whose artwork was one of those chosen in the final 10, joins nine other artists in running for five awards in mid-October - Three Jurors Choice Awards worth SGD10,000 each, a People's Choice Award worth SGD 10,000 and the Grand Prize SGD 45,000.
Out of the three categories of awards which each artist stands to win, the People's Choice Award is distinctive in that it is the only award that is not conferred by the jury. On 1 August 2008, an online voting website was launched so as to allow the public to vote for their favourite artwork.
Voting is still ongoing on the website http://www.nhb.gov.sg/sam/signatureartprize/vote.html and it will end at 7pm on 12 October 2008. On this website you can vote from their favourite artwork. Online voters will automatically be entered into a lucky draw where they will stand a chance to win a Canon Digital Camera.
By people's Daily Online
Many go mobile to get Olympics news by cellphone
A record 250,000 subscribers used their cellphones in or around the National Stadium to share the excitement of the Olympics opening ceremoney there on Aug. 8, a telecommunications company official said on Tuesday.
"That's a new record in Olympic history, nearly double the number of mobile users during the Athens Olympic opening ceremony in 2004," a spokesman with the China Mobile said here.
He said some 110,000 conversations were made through the China Mobile network per hour during the ceremony at the "Bird's Nest".
"We built 565 more mobile base stations around the 'Bird's Nest' before August 8," said China Mobile President Wang Jianzhou. "So we ensured a 100 percent connection rate for all users that evening. Even during the peak hours, only 70 percent of the network's full load was taken up."
According to mobile operators, international roaming fees have been substantially reduced. That for cellphones from Italy, for example, declined from 21 yuan per minute to 13 yuan, while that for Egyptian phones fell from 6 yuan to 4 yuan.
Since the Olympics started, 200,000 foreign mobile phones have been taken into Beijing, of which 70,000 are active every day. During the opening ceremony, more than 22,000 international roaming calls were recorded in and around the "Bird's Nest".
Meanwhile, mobile users are able to log onto the official website of the Olympics to watch live games being broadcast. Statistics show that 226,000 subscribers watched the opening ceremony via cellphones.
Another 12 million people also subscribed to the "Olympic Mobile News," which sent multimedia messages to individual cellphones.
Source：Xinhua
"That's a new record in Olympic history, nearly double the number of mobile users during the Athens Olympic opening ceremony in 2004," a spokesman with the China Mobile said here.
He said some 110,000 conversations were made through the China Mobile network per hour during the ceremony at the "Bird's Nest".
"We built 565 more mobile base stations around the 'Bird's Nest' before August 8," said China Mobile President Wang Jianzhou. "So we ensured a 100 percent connection rate for all users that evening. Even during the peak hours, only 70 percent of the network's full load was taken up."
According to mobile operators, international roaming fees have been substantially reduced. That for cellphones from Italy, for example, declined from 21 yuan per minute to 13 yuan, while that for Egyptian phones fell from 6 yuan to 4 yuan.
Since the Olympics started, 200,000 foreign mobile phones have been taken into Beijing, of which 70,000 are active every day. During the opening ceremony, more than 22,000 international roaming calls were recorded in and around the "Bird's Nest".
Meanwhile, mobile users are able to log onto the official website of the Olympics to watch live games being broadcast. Statistics show that 226,000 subscribers watched the opening ceremony via cellphones.
Another 12 million people also subscribed to the "Olympic Mobile News," which sent multimedia messages to individual cellphones.
Source：Xinhua
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