DAP: The breaking news in Cambodia: “CNPA Commits to Resolve the Overlapping Claims Area” plus 9 more |
- CNPA Commits to Resolve the Overlapping Claims Area
- Gaddafi family flee to Algeria, Libyan rebels seek repatriation
- Federer, Venus roll on, Wimbledon champ Kvitova out in US Open
- Vietnam Int'l Trade Fair 2011 opens in southern Can Tho province
- Rural Cambodians face high risk from climate change: UNDP study
- Lingering droughts plague SW China
- Senior Chinese legislator meets U.S. congresswoman
- Chang'e-2 moon orbiter travels around L2 in outer space
- Bird flu appears returning: UN
- China Radio International launches broadcasting in Cambodia province
| CNPA Commits to Resolve the Overlapping Claims Area Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:33 AM PDT | ||
| Gaddafi family flee to Algeria, Libyan rebels seek repatriation Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:32 AM PDT
DOHA/ALGIERS, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- With the untraceable Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi still deemed a threat, the rebels said Monday they were mulling to bring back his family from Algeria for trial. In Doha, Qatar, rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) chief Mostafa Abdel Jalil said Gaddafi still poses a threat to Libya and the world as his whereabouts remains a mystery. Addressing a meeting of top generals from nations participating in the NATO-led campaign in Libya, Jalil asked the coalition for further help and support to the NTC, at a time when the Libyan leader is untraceable. Western countries assumed Gaddafi may still control a large stockpile of missiles and chemical weapons, including over 10 tons of mustard gas, which could be a peril. Also on Monday, Jalil's aide Ahmed Gabriel said the NTC would demand the Algerian government hand over Gaddafi's family so that they could be tried in Libyan courts, Algerian press reported. Algeria's Foreign Ministry confirmed that Gaddafi's wife and three of his children entered Algeria Monday morning, the nation's official Algeria Press Service (APS) reported. However, it did not mention the whereabouts of Gaddafi himself. "Muammar Gaddafi's wife Safia, his daughter Aisha, his sons Hannibal and Mohammed, accompanied by their children, entered Algeria at 8:45 a.m. (0745 GMT) through the Algerian-Libyan border," the APS said, citing a Foreign Ministry statement. The Algerian government has informed the UN and NTC about the Gaddafis' arrival, the statement said. Algeria's Arabian-language newspaper Echorouk disclosed some details of the Gaddafis' exile to Algeria. A total of 31 people including the Gaddafis, their servants and drivers were riding in seven SUVs when they entered Algeria from western Libya. Border guards initially refused to let them pass until they were permitted by their superiors and it took about 12 hours for the Gaddafis to get permission to enter the country. | ||
| Federer, Venus roll on, Wimbledon champ Kvitova out in US Open Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:31 AM PDT NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Five-time champion Roger Federer and Venus Williams advanced into second round at the U.S. Open, while newly-crowned Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova suffered first round exit on Monday. Roger Federer, seeded third, won his opening match on Monday night, defeating Colombia's Santiago Giraldo 6-4, 6-3, 6-2. It was the first Grand Slam match for the Swiss since he turned 30 earlier this month. Playing her first match in two months, 31-year-old Williams, two-time championp in 2000 and 2001, powered through her Russian opponent Vera Dolonts, whose arrival at the season's final Grand Slam tournament was delayed until a few hours before the first-round match by visa and weather problems, to a 6-4, 6-3 victory. Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova crashed out of the U.S. Open first round, bowing to Romania's Alexandra Dulgheru, ranked 48th on the WTA Tour, 7-6 (3), 6-3. Federer, who won five straight U.S. Open titles from 2004-08 and holds the men's record with 16 Grand Slam singles championships, has won at least one major event every year since 2003, though none so far in 2011. Dolonts said in a televised pre-match interview that she only received a visa three days ago and then had a flight into New York canceled by Hurricane Irene. Williams, ranked 36th on the WTA Tour, is unseeded at the tournament for the first time since 1997 and hadn't played since losing in the fourth round at Wimbledon. She was sidelined for several weeks by illness. "I just want to play tennis," Williams said in a news conference. "It doesn't matter what the tournament is. Obviously the Open is huge, but I just want to play." Former champion Maria Sharapova needed three sets to advance to the second round. Mardy Fish, No. 8 and the top-seeded American player, won in straight sets over Germany's Tobias Kamke in 6-2, 6-2, 6-1. Sharapova, the No. 3 seed who won in 2006, beat Heather Watson, a 19-year-old Briton, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 in a 2-hour, 34-minute match. "The goal sometimes on days like this is just to get through it," Sharapova, who is 12-0 in three-set matches this year, said. "I hung in there. She played great and all I can do is improve for the next one." | ||
| Vietnam Int'l Trade Fair 2011 opens in southern Can Tho province Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:28 AM PDT HANOI, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Representatives of the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT) and southern Can Tho province 's people committee cut the ribbons to inaugurate the Vietnam International Trade Fair 2011 on Tuesday. According to Vietnam News Agency, the fair, held under the theme "New products and technologies to promote consumption, integration and development", aimed at expanding exchange among domestic and foreign businesses and providing them with opportunities to catch up state-of-the-art technologies, which would enhance competitiveness of Vietnamese products in the region and the world as well. Participants to the fair include representatives from 400 local businesses and countries and territories such as Australia, China, China's Taiwan, India, Indonesia, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Laos, Peru, Singapore and Thailand. Products on display belong to such areas as information and communications, electricity and electronics, agricultural and industrial machines and equipment, handicraft articles, wood-based furniture, interior and exterior decoration items, food and foodstuff, beverages, cosmetics, textiles and garments, foot wear, consumer goods. During the expo, seminars to promote production and popularize trademarks, contract signing and customers' conference will be held, along with consultancy on health care, contests on food processing and cooking, and artistic performances. The expo will open through Sept. 9. | ||
| Rural Cambodians face high risk from climate change: UNDP study Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:28 AM PDT PHNOM PENH, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Climate change has been posing a severe threat to human development gains and is a source of increasing vulnerability for the poor and near poor in Cambodia, according to an United Nations Development Program-Cambodia (UNDP) report launched here on Tuesday. The report, titled "Building Resilience: The Future of Rural Livelihoods in the Face of Climate Change," was studied by the UNDP Cambodia, the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Economy and Finance. It is the first comprehensive study of its kind in Cambodia. The report pinpointed human development challenges facing the country's rural populations as they strive to improve their livelihoods while dealing with the effects of climate change. Speaking during the launch of the report, Keat Chhon, Minister of Economy and Finance, said although it was already on the national development agenda of the government of Cambodia, climate change issue now must be thoroughly incorporated into strategic policies and action plans in all sectors at national and sub- national levels to build future resilience. "The priority should be on developing human resources and institutions, research, application of appropriate technology, and financial resource aimed at strengthening the capacity to effectively respond to the climate change," he said. "This needs to be done particularly in the sectors that are the backbone of national economy such as agriculture, water resources, fisheries, forestry, energy and physical infrastructure." Although climate change is often considered an environmental issue, its effects will take a toll on human development gains. Shorter and more intense rainy seasons combined with longer and dry seasons are expected to significantly alter the country's agricultural landscape, said the report, adding that predicted rises in temperature could have devastating effects on the rice crops on which many rural livelihoods rely. Approximately 80 percent of the country's 14.3 million people are farmers, relying mainly on rice crops. Dealing with climate change marks a new paradigm for development, and the report's recommendations emphasised the need to address the structural dimensions of poverty and vulnerability rather than solely focusing on climate change adaptation. The report also argued for a well coordinated effort to build climate resilience among the rural population, particularly in four key areas: water resources, agriculture, protecting forests and fisheries. Also speaking at the launch, Mok Mareth, Minister of Environment, said the report and its recommendations "have the potential to provide long-term benefits to contribute to reducing poverty and ensuring sustainable and equitable development under climate change conditions." He added that participation by all actors government agencies, non-governmental organizations and the private sector, with the support of development partners "can ensure the success of climate change response in Cambodia." | ||
| Lingering droughts plague SW China Posted: 29 Aug 2011 11:02 PM PDT GUIYANG, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- A persistent drought in southwest China's Guizhou Province has created a water shortage for 5.5 million people and 2.8 million livestock, local authorities said. Nearly 70 of the province's counties and cities have been plagued by the drought, according to a meteorological monitoring report released on Monday. There will be little rain in Guizhou before mid-September, according to the report. Temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius will persist, exacerbating the effects of the drought, the report said. The drought, which began in early July, has dried up hundreds of reservoirs and rivers, devastated crops and reduced available supplies of drinking water. A long-lasting drought has also plagued southwest China's Sichuan Province, leaving 1.68 million people and 1.25 million livestock short of drinking water, said Yang Hai, a provincial drought relief official. "Some counties and cites in Sichuan have been dealing with the drought for more than 50 days," said Yang, deputy head of the provincial agricultural water bureau's drought relief office. Yang said that the drought has been particularly hard on rural residents, as many of them have to walk long distances to obtain drinking water. The Sichuan provincial government has allocated 100 billion yuan (about 15.67 billion U.S. dollars) to create a drought relief fund. | ||
| Senior Chinese legislator meets U.S. congresswoman Posted: 29 Aug 2011 11:01 PM PDT BEIJING, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Senior legislator Lu Yongxiang met with U.S. Representative Judy Chu on Tuesday. Chu, who has served as the U.S. Representative for California's 32nd Congressional District since 2009, is leading a delegation for a week-long visit to China at the invitation of the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs. During their meeting at the Great Hall of the People, Lu, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress(NPC), China's top legislative body, reviewed the exchanges that have taken place between the NPC and the U.S. Senate and Congress. Lu called on China and the United States to step up dialogues, enhance mutual trust and carry out more extensive cooperation in order to boost the development of China-U.S. ties. As the first Chinese-American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress,Chu said she pays close attention to her country's relations with China. She said she will play her own part in boosting U.S-China ties. After leaving Beijing, Chu will travel to east China's Jiangsu Province, the financial hub of Shanghai and south China's Guangdong Province. | ||
| Chang'e-2 moon orbiter travels around L2 in outer space Posted: 29 Aug 2011 11:01 PM PDT BEIJING, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- China's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2, has arrived in outer space about 1.5 million km away from Earth and is now orbiting the second Lagrange Point (L2), where gravity from the sun and Earth balances the orbital motion of a satellite, Chinese scientists said Tuesday. Chang'e-2 entered L2's orbit at 11:27 p.m. last Thursday after spending 77 days traveling away from its previous orbital path around the moon, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND). The SASTIND said that China is now the world's third country or organization to successfully put a spacecraft into orbit around L2, after the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States. The Chang'e-2 orbiter will carry out exploration activities around L2 in the coming year, SASTIND said. There are five so-called "Lagrange Points" about 1.5 million km way from the Earth in the exact opposite direction from the sun. Putting a spacecraft at any of these points allows it to stay in a fixed position relative to the Earth and sun with a minimal amount of energy needed for course correction. The orbiter completed all of its assigned tasks after blasting off on Oct. 1, 2010, according to the SASTIND. Although the orbiter was only supposed to remain in space for six months, the SASTIND decided to assign additional tasks to it, as it still had fuel in its reserve tanks. Traveling into outer space from the moon's orbit was one of the orbiter's most important missions, according to the SASTIND. Before arriving at its current position in outer space, the Chang'e-2 took photos of the northern and southern poles of the moon. It then descended to a lower orbit, approximately 15 km away from the moon's surface, where it captured high-resolution images of the Sinus Iridum, or "Bay of Rainbows," an area where future moon probes may land. The SASTIND is reportedly planning to launch measure and control stations into outer space by the end of the second half of next year. The Chang'e-2 will be used to test the two stations' functionality at that time. China's ambitious three-stage moon mission will include a moon landing, as well as the launch of a moon rover during the second stage, which is scheduled to take place in 2012. During the third phase, another rover will land on the moon and return to Earth with lunar soil and stone samples for scientific research around 2017. China does not currently have a timetable in place for a manned moon landing. It launched its first lunar probe, the Chang'e-1, in October 2007. In 2003, China became the third country after Russia and the United States to send a human into space. Two more manned space missions followed, the most recent of which took place in 2008.0 The Chang'e probes are named after the Chinese legendary goddess of the moon. | ||
| Bird flu appears returning: UN Posted: 29 Aug 2011 11:00 PM PDT BEIJING, Aug. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- The United Nations is warning authorities to be on high alert of bird flu as the virus appears to be returning. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization said in a statement Monday a mutant strain is spreading across parts of Asia, and there could be a spill-over to humans. However, it said at this stage, there's no need for any alarm. A mutant strain of H5N1, which can apparently sidestep defenses of existing vaccines, is spreading in China and Vietnam, it said. It said the variant of the virus appears able to side step Vaccines. The UN is concerned the new form of the virus could spread to Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia, as well as the Korean Peninsula and Japan. "Wild birds may introduce the virus, but people's actions in poultry production and marketing spread it," said FAO's chief veterinary office Juan Lubroth in urging greater preparedness and surveillance, according to media reports. Outbreaks of the virus peaked in 2006 before it was eradicated from most countries. | ||
| China Radio International launches broadcasting in Cambodia province Posted: 29 Aug 2011 10:59 PM PDT PHNOM PENH, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- China Radio International (CRI) on Monday launched the second Cambodia-China Friendship Radio FM 105 Mega Herz in Cambodia's Siem Reap province, according to a press release from the broadcaster. "The launch of the radio FM 105 in Siem Reap province is to make closer traditional cooperation between the peoples of Cambodia and China," it said. "It is a new cooperation between Cambodia and China on broadcasting services." The radio will be on air from 06:00 to 24: 00 (local time) every day. It broadcasts in the languages of Khmer, Chinese and English. The radio's programs include news, current affairs, music, and features on politics, economy, culture, science and technology. In December 2008, to mark the 50th anniversary of Cambodia- China diplomatic ties, the CRI launched a Cambodia-China Friendship Radio 96.5 Mega Herz in Phnom Penh, broadcasting from Beijing. Siem Reap is located in Northwest of Cambodia, some 315 kilometers away from Phnom Penh. It houses Angkor Wat temples, one of the World Heritage Sites. |
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