Bracco Announces Initiative to Save Children in China at 2007 Annual Meeting of CGI (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Today, at the Clinton Global Initiative, the Bracco/Children's HeartLink Initiative was announced. The commitment's estimated total value is $1,000,000. Fulvio Renoldi Bracco, Bracco AMT's Chairman and CEO, was recognized on behalf of the company and said that the partnership would provide life-saving training, equipment and direct patient funding to Jilin Heart Hospital, in Changchun City, ......more...Emerson to Automate China's Largest Integrated Refining/Petrochemical Facility (ThomasNet)
Company to install its PlantWeb architecture at $3.5 billion project in Fujian Province AUSTIN, TEXAS (August 1, 2007) - Emerson Process Management, an Emerson business (NYSE:EMR), today announced that the company has been selected to digitally automate the Fujian Refining and Ethylene Joint Venture Project in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China. It is the largest integrated refining and ......more... Taiwan's Kinmen Veers Toward China 29 Years After Cease-Fire (Bloomberg.com)
Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Artillery shells from China have defined Wu Tseng-dong's life. He ducked them for 20 years and earned a living making knives from their casings. Now he looks forward to meeting the enemy who launched them....more... Get a (Second) Life! (The Weekly Standard via Yahoo! News)
ChicagoThe online computer game Second Life has garnered more attention in the last 24 months than any other bit of technology....more... China, a home away from homes for Indians (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News)
They are aliens for the natives, they are not comfortable with the local language or with the culture and food. Yet, the country has become their adopted home and they love it. For Priya, Rajini and Praveena engineering graduates from Karnataka's Manipal University China has become their "home away from home" ever since they landed in this city eight months back while for Deng Lan a former ......more... State curbs export of turtles to China (News 8 Austin)
AUSTIN Texas Parks and Wildlife will prohibit collecting turtles on public waterways and shipping them to China, where they're considered a delicacy. FULL STORY >> 9/28/2007 10:20 AM...more... Journey exhibit brings painter Grace French's history to life (Rapid City Journal)
A slice of long-buried Rapid City history will be revealed when four museums collaborate to present ?Pursuit of Art: Grace French, Pioneer Artist and Teacher? at The Journey Museum this fall....more... Non-stops to China expanding (San Jose Mercury News)
Flying to China from some American cities is going to get a lot easier in the next couple of years - but not from San Jose....more... Impoverished Myanmar girls turn to prostitution in China (TODAYonline)
The Chinese customs house in the China-Myanmar border town of Jiegao, in China's southwestern province of Yunnan. Prostitution has followed on the back of flourishing trade in the town...more... |