I'm aware that stepping on the literary throat of C.S. Lewis is sure to provoke a rabid response, but understand that my beef is not with the source material, but with the director of the two "Narnia" films...
I was the photographer when Ron Kovic was interviewed at his apartment last spring in Redondo Beach, Calif., for a series of articles in Japanese newspapers. Getting something visual that carried...
Marty Baum of Jensen Beach has turned himself into a living, breathing history lesson on Florida's early settlers. He spins a story that in its short version is 40 minutes long and in its fuller version runs about an hour...
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As China started its national mourning for three days, most websites and major portals have been presented as grey out mode.We Chinese expressing our moods in colors, for example, to express sorrow in Black and White; to express fortunate and
From BBC News:Gordon Brown has discussed relations between China and the people of Tibet in talks with the Dalai Lama.The 30-minute private meeting was "warm and constructive", a Downing Street spokesman said.The prime minister and Tibet's exiled spiritual leader also
From AFP:Taiwan and China will next month resume direct talks after more than a decade, the island's top China policy-maker Lai Shin-yuan said Friday."You will see very soon in June the beginning of institutional negotiations between the two sides," Lai,
From AP:China's biggest mobile phone company will take over a smaller fixed-line carrier, a state news agency said Friday, in what was expected to be the start of a sweeping industry restructuring.China Mobile Communications Corp. will acquire China Railway Communication,
From Guardian:Chinese police have detained a political dissident because of remarks he made about the government's handling of the Sichuan earthquake, according to his family and supporters.Guo Quan, the founder of the China Democracy party, was seized outside his home
China will severely publish people who spread rumors or cause social unrest in the aftermath of the May 12 quake, the country's top committee in charge of political and legal affairs said in a statement on Friday. According to a
The powerful earthquake on May 12 had severely damaged the trunk highways and rural roads in the southwestern Sichuan Province, a local government official said Friday. As of 6:00 p.m. Friday, the quake had caused 47.8 billion yuan ...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon started his meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Yingxiu town of quake-hit Sichuan Province Saturday morning.Source: Xinhua ...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon promised Saturday to mobilize efforts from the United Nations to support China's quake relief and post-quake reconstruction. Source: Xinhua ...
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Saturday morning visited the Zipingpu dam, over the Yangtze River's main tributary of Minjiang River in quake-hit Sichuan Province. The dam, near the quake epicenter of Wenchuan County, is structurally st ...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived at Yingxiu town in China's southwestern Wenchuan County at 11:25 a.m. Saturday by helicopter to express his sympathy for those who suffered from the devastating earthquake on May 12. ...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Chengdu, capital city of quake-stricken Sichuan Province, Saturday morning for a visit to express his care for those who suffered from the massive 8.0-magnitude earthquake on May 12. ...
A quake-hit Chinese county said it had planned to relocate 10,000 residents to two other provinces as its tough natural environment could not allow the resettlement of all its affected people. Ma Jian, a senior official of Qingchua ...
Three people were injured as a helicopter of Sunrise Airlines of Taiwan crashed at 00:19 Saturdayat Shang-yi Airport in Kinmen, Taiwan local media reported. The injured have been sent to hospital. Source: Xinhua ...
A plane carrying five tons of aid materials took off here Friday for China's earthquake-hit Sichuan province, the Spanish Foreign Ministry said in a press release. This was the second batch of emergency aid from Spain to China and ...
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday morning headed for Wenchuan County, epicenter of the May 12 8.0-magnitude quake in southwest China's Sichuan Province, by helicopter. Wen made his second trip to the quake-battered zone Thursda ...
