In one of the biggest annual movements of humanity, about 200 million Chinese make roughly 2.2 billion trips over the Lunar New Year holiday. This year, Jack Frost made a guest appearance, causing massive travel delays, damaging...
From NPR.org: If you think the costs of war in Iraq and recovery from Hurricane Katrina will force President Bush to raise taxes, think again. No matter how high the price may go for rebuilding the Gulf Coast while staying the course in the Persian Gulf, this White House will not choose the revenue option… […]
From the Australian: For the Beijing bureaucrats who control China’s petrol pump prices, the cloud cast by Hurricane Katrina over global oil markets is lined with silver. At least for now, Katrina’s disruption of the US refineries – not China’s voracious demand – is copping the blame for the global oil supply squeeze that sent […]
From Xinhua: A total of 104 tons of emergency supplies from China, destined for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, arrived in a US airbase in Little Rocks, Arkansas Wednesday afternoon local time. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said the relief goods include power generators, tents, bed sheets and child clothing, with a value of 5 […]
From People’s Daily Online: The disaster brought by Hurricane Katrina is perhaps unprecedented in the American history. Some people associated it with the tsunami happened last yearend in the Indian Ocean and called it “a tsunami of America”; others were reminded of the terror attacks New York suffered four years ago, and called it a […]
From Reuters: The White House said on Saturday it canceled a planned visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao next week because of Hurricane Katrina. “Both presidents agreed that, in the present circumstances, it was best not to have a meeting in Washington next week,” White House press secretary Scott McClellan said in a statement.
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