Ukraine to honour Welsh reporter
A Welsh journalist who exposed Stalin's cruelty to Ukrainians in the 1930s is to be honoured by the Ukraine government.
German Historians Compile List of Nazi Euthanasia Victims
German historians are compiling a register of 9,000 mentally ill people killed by the Nazis as part of Hitler's euthanasia policy. Berlin's Freie University and Brandenburg's memorial trust are leading the project.
Fire kills eight, injures 16 in China
BEIJING: A fire at a hotel in northern China has killed eight people and injured 16 others, state media said on Saturday. The hotel, in Luliang city in Shanxi province, caught fire early on Saturday morning, with flames eventually engulfing the whole
Air China says it faces half-billion dollars loss from jet hedge
Air China has seen its jet fuel hedge slump to almost half a billion dollars in the red, the Chinese airline warned shareholders in a notice published on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange after markets closed Friday. The company, one of the big three national
APEC 2008 CEO Summit kicks off in Lima
Chairman of the APEC 2008 CEO Summit Jose Miguel Morales delivers a speech during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO summit in Lima, capital of Peru, Nov. 21, 2008. The APEC 2008 CEO Summit kicked off in the Peruvian capital on Friday to
China, Russia bid Bush farewell at trade summit
LIMA (AFP) - Leaders of the Pacific rim are set to meet to chart ways to boost trade despite turmoil in the global economy, as aspiring powers China and Russia bid farewell to US President George W. Bush. Leaders from 21 Asia-Pacific economies accounting
Why China Stocks are a Screaming Buy
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: It's easy to be gloomy when it comes to the financial markets. It's even easier to write off China. After all, the Red Dragon's markets have collapsed by 70%, businesses are shutting down, lead-laced toys and poisoned medicines
Eight killed in north China fire: report
At least eight people were killed and another 16 injured when a blaze erupted in a hotel in northern China on Saturday, state press reported. The fire spread through the seven-storey Jintian hotel in Luliang city, Shanxi province early on Saturday
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