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Drunk hubby slits wife’s throat over untidy house on V-day eve

September 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Sept 1 (ANI): An inebriated husband, in Shenyang, Liaoning province, killed his wife on the eve of the Chinese Valentine’s Day after she accused him of wasting his life on liquor.

The drunken man picked up a quarrel with his wife because he thought the house was ill kept and untidy, reports China Daily.

When his wife told him he had done no good to the family, he slit his wife’s throat with a kitchen knife.

The woman succumbed to injuries on the way to the hospital.

The husband has been placed under arrest. (ANI)

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Beijing has largest number of rich people in China: Hurun Report

August 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Aug 24 (ANI): A new report has revealed that Beijing has the maximum number of rich people in China.

The latest Hurun Report on China’s wealthiest people said that there are 143,000 multimillionaires and 8,800 billionaires in Beijing.

In Shanghai, there are 116,000 multimillionaires and 7,000 billionaires, reports the China Daily.

The report also sheds light on how the super-rich in Beijing want to live their lives.

In Beijing, wealthy people need to spend at least 87 million yuan on property, cars and other luxury goods in order to be regarded as one of the city’s ‘new aristocrats’, or upper class, the report said.

They have at least three dwellings of their own, including a villa, like the 400-sq-m Ziyu Shanzhuang villa costing 24 million yuan, a luxury apartment in the downtown area for work purposes, and a Siheyuan courtyard house probably in Houhai.

The report said that most of them prefer investing in arts and they are willing to spend as much as 50,000 yuan for a year on piano classes.

In their luxury homes, they also have rare porcelain and jade ware collections interspersed with works of ancient or contemporary painters.

The rich in Beijing consider Cartier as the favourite luxury brand. They keep themselves updated on the world of finance with China Business News rather than the 21st Century Business Herald.

The bulk of their expenditures are on property, furnishings and fabrics, according to the report.

“During the past several years, the complexion of the rich in China has changed in many aspects. Many of them say they want to be a sort of upper class, rather than only being rich,” said Rupert Hoogewerf, founder and publisher of the Hurun Report.

The report described the capital’s richest as people who wear haute couture and who carefully choose gifts for parents, spouses and children on special days.

They probably drive a 1 million yuan Mercedes Benz R500 limousine and are also members of Yongfoo Lite, the most popular club for Beijing’s wealthiest.

Their wives usually frequent the Lan Club with friends, wear Bulgari platinum and diamond watches and drive BMW sports cars.

Japan’s Osaka and Tokyo are the top travel destinations for spouses, and they attend musicals and the opera several times a year.

The report said that annual spending of the rich in Beijing is estimated at about 5.7 million yuan, mainly for new cars, collections and about 1 million yuan for donations.

The report also defined the upper class in five other cities including Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu and Shenyang. (ANI)

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China’s robot helicopter ready for market

May 23, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 23 (ANI): Chinese scientists have said that their independently developed robot helicopter, which can fly automatically without remote control, was ready for production.

The Shenyang Automation Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has taken four years to develop two types of the robot, Xinhua reported.

The larger model at three meters long is almost the size of a small car, weighs 120 kg and has a payload of up to 40 kg. It can fly for 4 hours at a maximum cruising speed of 100 km per hour.

The smaller model weighs 40 kg and has a payload of 15 kg and maximum cruising speed of 70 km per hour.

Installed with a camera, the robot can hang in the air to catch aerial images, and search for or trace targets automatically.

Researchers in the institute said the robot could fly missions based on assigned coordinates and control programs, when wind gusts were below a velocity of force six (11 km per hour).

“They are fueled by petroleum and priced from 700,000 ($102,000) to 2 million yuan,” said Wu Zhenwei, a researcher at the institute based in northeastern China’s Liaoning province. (ANI)

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China preparing to hold massive military drill

May 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Beijing, May 6 (ANI): The Chinese military will hold a massive military drill, involving 50,000 troops in the second half of this year.

According to the Headquarters of General Staff, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has started preparations for the massive military drill, dubbed Kuayue-2009.

It will be undertaken by troops from four military command areas, namely, Shenyang, Lanzhou, Jinan and Guangzhou.

This is the first time in the history of the PLA that four divisions from four military command areas are taking part in a drill that involves the deployment of troops across different military command areas, chinaview reported.

The PLA has seven area command areas. The other three are Beijing, Chengdu and Nanjing.

“The Air Force and the Army Aviation troop will also send men and various aircraft to take part in the drill,” the sources said.

The drill, which is aimed at assessing and improving the PLA’s overall combat capacity in the context of information warfare, will test many military prowesses.

It will put to tests the PLA’s capacity in command and decision-making, joint operations of land and air troops, operations in complicated electro-magnetic conditions, paratrooper assault operations, simulated battles, and comprehensive exercises by specialist units. (ANI)

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China to display its nuke submarines for first time

April 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Apr 21 (ANI): China will display its nuclear-powered submarines for the first time in history during a fleet parade to mark the 60th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army Navy.

The Chinese navy’s missile destroyer 115 Shenyang is docked at Qingdao Port for an international fleet review.

Deputy Commander of the PLA Navy Ding Yiping did not disclose any further details about the submarines.

In addition to the fleet parade, there will also be seminars and a sampan race that will be held off the coast of the eastern city of Qingdao during the four-day celebration.

“It is not a secret that China has nuclear submarines, which are key to safeguarding our country’s national security,” Xinhua quoted Ding, as saying.

Ding stressed that China’s national defense policy and nuclear strategy is purely defensive in nature, and that the country’s naval forces would not pose any threat to other countries.

“The PLA Navy will continue to make contributions to maintain world, regional and maritime peace,” he said.

The fleet parade will strive to be grand, practical, safe and frugal, the officer added. The parade would be grand as it was unprecedented in terms of the celebration scale.

Dozens of Chinese naval ships and planes and 21 naval vessels from 14 countries will participate in the fleet review, Ding said.

He said it is the first time for the country to have a fleet parade participated by high-level naval delegations from 29 countries.

The whole celebration will feature the concept of practicality. All activities must have an actual effect rather than just being aesthetic and pompous.(ANI)

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Nearly 20,000 Hong Kong airline staff asked to take unpaid leave

April 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Hong Kong – Hong Kong’s leading airlines Cathay Pacific and Dragonair Friday invited nearly 20,000 employees to take between one and four weeks of unpaid leave as part of a raft of cost-cutting measures.

The sister airlines also announced that they would cut flight schedules, axing some Dragonair flights to mainland China and cutting Cathay Pacific’s London flight schedule by 17 a month upwards.

The cost-cutting moves came as the airlines announced that first quarter revenue on Cathay Pacific and Dragonair for passenger and cargo services fell 22.4 per cent from 2008.

Cathay Pacific said it would cut passenger capacity by 8 per cent and overall cargo by 11 per cent from May in response to the downturn.

All staff would, meanwhile, be invited to take between one and four weeks unpaid leave depending on seniority, although the airline stressed the leave would not be mandatory.

Cathay chief executive Tony Tyler said: “We have no option but to take measures that will help us weather the current storm and maintain the long-term sustainability of the business.

“Our staff are being asked to make sacrifices that will be needed to see the company through this violent storm. The pain will be shared from the top down.”

Flight frequencies or seat capacity would be reduced on flights to London, Paris, Frankfurt, Sydney, Singapore, Bangkok, Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo, Mumbai and Dubai, Cathay Pacific announced.

Dragonair will meanwhile cut its passenger capacity by 13 per cent, reducing its services to Bengaluru, Busan, Sanya and Shanghai and suspending services to Fukuoka, Dalian, Shenyang, Guilin and Xian.

Dragonair chief executive officer Kenny Tang said: “Our business has been badly hit since the financial crisis first began to bite late last year.

“We have seen a significantly reduced demand for premium travel and pressure on our passenger yield due to the low fares in the market.

“The cost-cutting measures we have initiated since the end of last year are clearly not enough so we have no alternative but to introduce further measures to help us preserve cash.”

Unions representing pilots and flight attendants were Friday still locked in talks with management over the unpaid leave issue and the other cost-cutting measures.

More than 1,000 Cathay Pacific flight attendants and around 200 pilots took voluntary unpaid leave when it was offered in December in an earlier move to reduce costs.

Cathay Pacific has 13,600 staff in Hong Kong and 3,400 staff overseas while Dragonair has 1,820 staff in Hong Kong and 680 staff overseas.(dpa)

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China starts mass production of domestically developed regional jet

February 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Feb 14 (ANI): China’s state-owned Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing has said that it has signed contracts with four other factories, marking the start of mass production of the country’s first domestically developed regional jet, the ARJ21-700.

The four companies are the Avici Commercial Aircraft Co Ltd (ACAC) and aircraft component factories in Chengdu, Xi’an and Shenyang.

The ACAC will produce the main bodies, while the other three will make wings and other parts, Xinhua reported.

According to Luo Ronghuai, deputy general manager of ACAC, there have been 208 orders for ARJ21 jets from foreign and domestic customers, including an order for 25 from US-based GE Commercial Aviation Services.

The first five planes will be delivered next year, with 10 to be delivered in 2011 and 15 in 2012.

Luo said this year would be “the year of trial flights” as four planes would make trial flights. The first ARJ21-700 made a trial flight in Shanghai on November 28. (ANI)

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