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Lhasa, Oct 7 (Xinhua) At least 30 people were killed Monday when a powerful quake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale jolted this Tibetan provincial capital in china, officials said.The quake occurred at 4.30 p.m. Monday. All the victims were from the Gedar township in Damxung county near Lhasa.

A strong earthquake shook Damxung County, near Lhasa, Tibet, on Monday killing more than 30 people. The magnitude 6.6 quake lasted for around a minute and an aftershock occurred 15 minutes later."A magnitude 6.6 earthquake killed at least 30 people in Tibet on Monday with a... read more

German reporter’s camera captures China’s changes in 30 years September 30th, 2008 - 8:53 am ICT by IANS - Hamburg, Sep 30 (Xinhua) In April 1976, Martin Kummer, a journalist with The Hamburg Morning Post, paid a three-week visit to China and shot hundreds of photos across the country, then a

“CREDIT CRUNCH BANKER KILLS HIMSELF,” screams the Daily Mail’s front-page headline. Kirk Stephenson, who was married with an eight-year-old son, died in the path of a 100mph express train at Taplow railway station, Berkshire.

According to Xie Jinhui, vice director of the Academy of Broadcasting Planning of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television of China, the administration is planning to build a central-level company for China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting.

China Railway Group Ltd<601390><390>, the country’s largest railway and highway builder, announced on Friday that it has clinched a build-transfer contract worth around RMB 9.5 billion (US$1.39 billion) with Shenzhen Metro Co Ltd for the City’s No. 5 subway line, which is expected to further boost the company’s profitability.

By Dr. James R. Ruolngul ABSTRACT Expectations run high after the successful conclusion of the India-ASEAN FTA negotiations that had been dragging on for years. Considering the total population of India and the ASEAN countries, the volume of trade between them, the enormity of their GDP and the

The middle section of China’s longest road and rail bridge is now complete. The Tianxingzhou Bridge, with it’s combined four railroad tracks and six traffic lanes, crosses the Yangtze River in Wuhan, capital of the central Hubei province.

China’s railway investment soared 37.5 percent from January to July. The numbers are attributed to a building boom of high-speed lines and the country’s desire to link together poor regions. The investment reached 133.78 billion yuan (19.6 billion U.S. dollars), the Ministry of Railways (MOR) said on Monday.

China to produce world’s fastest bullet train BEIJING, Sept 1 — China will produce the world’s fastest bullet train for the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, a senior railway official has said. Zhang Shuguang, deputy chief engineer with the Ministry of Railways, said the domestically developed train will run at 380 kph, the highest speed for any railway in the world.