Myanmar to put low-cost mobile phones into service across country
YANGON — Myanmar telecommunications authorities announced on Wednesday that it will put low-cost mobile phones into service across the country next month. It said that GSM/WCDMA sim cards, which will be sold at a low price of 200,000 Kyats (247 U.S. dollars) since May 3, can be carried and used at any place across the […]
Internet contributes 0.9 pct to Vietnam’s GDP
HANOI — Internet contributes 0.9 percent to Vietnam’s GDP and 1.6 percent to the country’s GDP growth rate of 14.4 percent, according to the figures released in a workshop held here on Wednesday. Vietnam is an emerging market for the Internet development, ranking 13th in the world in terms of young Internet users with a […]
Japanese woman eyes Mt. Qomolangma record
KATHMANDU, Nepal — A 73-year-old Japanese mountaineer, who became the oldest woman to scale Mt. Everest (also called Qomolangma) a decade ago, is attempting to smash her own record. According to Tuesday’s The Himalayan Times daily, Tamae Watanabe made history when she reached the world’s tallest peak on May 16, 2002, taking the title of […]
Russia suffers frequent plane crashes
Russian emergency workers search the crash site of the ATR-72 plane crash outside Tyumen, a major regional center in Siberia, Russia, Monday, April 2, 2012. <Photo: AP/Newsis> MOSCOW (Xinhua) — Russia, once an aviation powerhouse, has been plagued by deadly plane crashes in recent years, with the latest claiming 31 lives on Monday when a French-Italian-made […]
Ashes widely used as detergent in Bangladesh
DHAKA, March 29 (Xinhua) — Some old practices are still surviving in Bangladesh, competing with modern inventions for kitchen. Ashes produced in conventional home-made oven and modern detergent are in a queer combination in the country. Ashes are sold by vendors in the residential districts of the capital Dhaka. Nobody can say exactly when the […]
English becomes main foreign language in Georgia
A Georgian student majoring in Chinese edits a script at the get-together in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, Jan. 26, 2011. <File photo> TBILISI, Georgia, March 28 (Xinhua) — The Georgian Education Ministry on Wednesday announced that English has become the main foreign language for examination with a choice rate of 73 percent of test takers. […]
BRICS summit held in New Delhi
From left to right, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chinese President Hu Jintao and South African President Jacob Zuma join hands during the group picture for the BRICS 2012 Summit in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 29, 2012. Heads of States of the five nations are meeting […]
Slovak scientists invent cloak of invisibility
<Filephoto=Newsis> BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (Xinhua) — Slovak scientists have invented a device that can create the illusion of invisibility by hiding objects from a static magnetic field, researchers said Tuesday. Although it was a team of Barcelona-based scientists who came up with the original idea, the three Slovaks from the Slovak Academy of Sciences were able […]
Kathmandu to be cleaner thanks to cleaning campaign
Nepal’s former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal (L) sweeps the road during a cleaning campaign in Kathmandu, Nepal, Oct. 7, 2010. <File photo: Xinhua> KATHMANDU, Nepal (Xinhua) — Nepali capital city may soon take on a cleaner look after the city launched a clean city campaign. The metropolis is all set to boost public […]
Leaders reiterate opposition to “Taiwan independence”
Hu Jintao <File photo> BEIJING, March 28 (Xinhua) — Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and Wu Po-hsiung, honorary chairman of the Kuomintang party, reiterated their opposition to “Taiwan independence” and recognition of the “1992 consensus” during their recent meeting, a government spokesman said Wednesday. “They have developed a […]
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