SAN FRANCISCO – Ed Lee’s anticipated win in Tuesday’s mayoral race is a major milestone for Chinese voters, but not all members of the community are celebrating the victory as their own. For Daniel Li, a San Francisco resident who came to the United States from China nearly 30 years ago, Lee is among a [...]
US president fails to win support from Hu and Medvedev at APEC summit as he seeks to rein back Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Barack Obama’s push for consensus over renewed concerns about Iran’s nuclear programme have had a lukewarm response from the Russian and Chinese leaders attending the APEC summit in Hawaii. The US president had sought support from [...]
Leaders gathered at summit seek regional free trade agreement, with China expressing serious reservations. Leaders from the Pacific Rim gathered for an annual summit in Hawaii have pledged to work together to ensure that world economic growth remains on track, as the US president announced the broad outlines of a plan that he says could [...]
President Obama speaks from the USS Carl Vinson in San Diego during Veterans Day and calls on all Americans to rededicate themselves to serving our brave men and women in uniform as well as they have served us. Print PDF This post was submitted by The White House / IM.
Indonesia accuses organisation responsible for drawing up new list of using underhand tactics. A campaign to name the ‘New Seven Wonders of Nature’ will announce its results on Friday. The list, which includes Indonesia’s Komodo National Park, has been narrowed to 28 sites, but the process has attracted controversy and criticism as well. Indonesia’s vice-minister for tourism said the company organising [...]
This week, the President attended the G-20 Summit in France, announced new efforts to help put veterans back to work, ordered reforms of Head Start Programs, signed an executive order to cut waste in government, and welcomed the President of Portugal. Print PDF This post was submitted by The White House / IM.
Undercover police are on the frontlines of the fight against human trafficking and the Freedom Project has accompanied several agencies that have given CNN unprecedented access to ongoing investigations. A few months ago, CNN showed how the Mossos d’Esquadra – the human trafficking unit in the Catalonia region of Spain - solved one of Europe’s largest [...]
The Statement of NIPC regarding the situation in Indonesia toward Christianity The Statement of National Indonesian Presbyterian Council (NIPC) on the Violence and Religious Intolerance in Indonesia Violence and intolerance have been the dominant pictures of Indonesian religious life lately. The last riot in Temanggung, Central Java, is a picture how the Indonesian government failed [...]
The Federal Government is the largest property owner in the United States. But some 14,000 of its properties sit unused and unneeded, costing taxpayers millions of dollars a year in operating and maintenance expenses. To cut down on this wasteful and inefficient spending, the Obama Administration has taken unprecedented steps to reduce this stock of unused [...]
Strike for higher wages in world’s most profitable mine set to become longest stoppage in Indonesian history. Union workers at Freeport Indonesia’s Grasberg copper mine said they could extend their strike by another month, which would make it the longest mining stoppage in the country’s history. The controversial Grasberg mine is the most profitable mine [...]
At least three people were killed and scores more trapped under the rubble of two hotels and a dozen other buildings when an earthquake hit eastern Turkey on Wednesday, less than three weeks after another quake killed 600 in the same area. The magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck 16 km (9 miles) south of the city of Van [...]
During its more than 100 years as one of China’s premier academic institutions, Shanghai’s Jiao Tong University has produced some notable alumni, ranging from former Chinese President Jiang Zemin to Qian Xuesen, an architect of China’s missile and space programs. Now, an even more famous student has joined the college’s ranks: Yao Ming, the retired [...]
When the Empire State Building was constructed in 1931, it stood 1,250 feet tall. The famous skyscraper was the world’s tallest building — and held that title for more than 40 years. Today the world’s tallest building is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. It stretches more than 1,000 feet above the Empire State Building — [...]
Deep beneath the Capitol is a red-carpeted room that recently reverberated to the sound of Democrats and Republicans singing together, and then to their angry exchanges over how to fix the U.S. budget. Welcome to Congress’s “super committee” room. This is where a dozen lawmakers lock themselves away to try to strike a deal that, [...]
Move to boost defence budget by 35 per cent seen as bid to balance China’s growing military in Southeast Asia. The Indonesian government has said it will increase its defence budget by 35 per cent next year, in a step which is seen as helping to balance China’s growing military strength in the region. Indonesia [...]
Officials take action after hospital allegedly fails to treat a girl because her parents could not make advance payment. Indonesia’s health ministry has urged all hospitals to treat poor patients in an emergency, even if they cannot afford the treatment. The government action comes two weeks after a 10-month-old girl died in a hospital, and her [...]
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