the United States Argentina: 83 % Obama, 17 % Romney Austria: 93 % Obama, 7 % Romney Belgium: 93 % Obama, 7 % Romney Brazil: 90 % Obama, 10 % Romney Canada: 83 % Obama, 17 % Romney Chile: 80 % Obama, 20 % Romney China: 48 % Obama, 52 % Romney Colombia: 77 % Obama, 23 % Romney Costa Rica: 83 % Obama, 17 % Romney Finland: 93 % Obama, 7 % Romney France: 88 % Obama, 12 % Romney Germany: 92 % Obama, 8…
Japanese architect Toyo Ito will receive 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize, a prestigious award, known throughout the world as architecture’s highest honor, often compared to Nobel Prize. The formal ceremony will take place at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts on Wednesday, May 29. The location was designed by another Pritzker Laureate, Ieoh Ming Pei who…
Vietnam has accused a Chinese vessel of firing on one of its fishing boats in disputed waters in the South China Sea, setting it alight. Vietnamese foreign ministry said the “very serious incident” took place on March 20 near the Paracel islands. Its statement did not specify what kind of Chinese vessel was involved. Vietnam and China both claim the Paracel islands, which have been co…
– called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. The Japanese coast guard said it was the highest number of Chinese boats in the area since Tokyo nationalized part of the island chain in September 2012. China said its ships had been monitoring Japanese vessels. The State Oceanic Administration issued a statement saying three of its ships had “found” several Japanese ships around th…
Rice imported into the US from some countries in Asia, Europe, and South America contains enough lead to cause health problems, according to a research presented this week at the American Chemical Society’s national meeting in New Orleans. American adults eating just one 200-gram serving (about a cup) of this rice could consume 10 times the amount of lead deemed safe by the Food and Drug Ad…
…p in China’s battle to demonstrate that the potentially oil-rich area is Chinese. Xinhua quoted the Haihang Group ship company as saying that a 47,000-tonne ship, capable of accommodating nearly 2,000 passengers, was ready to sail and that another was being built. The first tours would take place ahead of the May Day holiday, said Tan Li, the executive vice governor of Hainan province, just…
Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of China’s central bank, has pulled out of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings being held in Japan. The move comes amid an ongoing territorial dispute between the two countries. Relations between the two soured after Japan said it had purchased disputed islands in the East China Sea claimed by both Tokyo and Beijing. China’s four state-…
…apanese protests in China have forced Japanese businesses to close or scale down operations. In some cities on Tuesday, Japanese shops were attacked and vandalized on the anniversary of an incident in 1931 which led to Japan’s invasion of north-east China. The protests appeared to have diminished on Wednesday. “Regarding damage to our embassies and consulates, we plan to demand compens…
…gzhou, demonstrators gathered near the Japanese consulate calling on Tokyo to quit the islands. In Shanghai, protesters held a banner reading “down with Japanese imperialism”. An estimated 200 demonstrators also marched through central Hong Kong to the Japanese consulate chanting anti-Japanese slogans, broadcaster RTHK reported. In the south-western city of Chengdu, protests shut down…
Japanese politicians have set sail for a group of disputed islands, in the teeth of protests by China which claims them for its own. A flotilla of some 20 Japanese boats set out for the Senkaku (Chinese: Diaoyu) islands and is expected to anchor off them early on Sunday. The politicians plan to commemorate Japanese dead in World War II, when Japan occupied eastern China. But Japan’s governm…
Micron Technology has decided to buy rival Japanese chipmaker Elpida in a deal worth 200 billion yen ($2.5 billion). Once completed, the deal will see Micron become the world’s second-largest maker of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips. These chips are key components of personal computers. Elpida had filed for bankruptcy protection in February after being unable to repay debts of 448…
…g toward the Japanese island of Okinawa Japan’s meteorological agency estimated wind speeds near the storm’s centre at around 180 km/h (112 mph), while extremely strong gusts were reaching 252 km/h. All domestic and international flights out of the island’s Naha Airport have been cancelled. According to news agency AP, some 200 households are already without electricity and aroun…
…s hailed as one of the best vantage points. “That’s got to be the prettiest thing I’ve ever seen,” said Brent Veltri of Salida, Colorado. The eclipse was fully visible across a 240 to 300km-wide swathe but partial views could be seen across much of east Asia and North America. The Slooh series of space telescopes has been covering the event on its website …
US defence secretary Leon Panetta has warned territorial disputes in East Asia have the potential to become wider conflicts if provocations are not reduced. “A misjudgement on one side or the other could result in violence, and could result in conflict,” Leon Panetta said at the start of an Asian tour. His comments came as anti-Japanese protests continue to sweep China over a disputed…
Google has decided to base its first Latin American data centre in Chile, near the capital Santiago. The computer server base is expected to cost $150 million and will employ up to 20 people, Google said. Google said it chose Chile because of its reliable infrastructure and skilled workforce. The country has been trying to become a tech hub, with initiatives such as Start-Up Chile attracting entr…
A tsunami warning has been issued for the Philippines, Indonesia and Palau after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake offshore. The quake had a depth of 33 km (20 miles) and struck at 20:47 local time, the US Geological Survey said. It was located off the Philippines island of Samar. A tsunami warning has been issued for the Philippines, Indonesia and Palau after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake offshore There…
…anning to release tablets designed for Windows 8. The company’s chief executive, Steve Ballmer, said he had wanted to give the software “its own companion hardware”. The devices have 10.6 inch (26.9 cm) displays, built-in kickstands and are housed in magnesium cases – which the company described as the first of their kind. Microsoft has unveiled Surface, its own-brand fami…
Lufthansa has cancelled the majority of its flights scheduled for Monday, April 22, due to a planned warning strike. The German airline said about only about 30 of its flights would run as planned on Monday, out of more than 1,700 originally scheduled. Only a select few short-haul flights will operate on Monday, such as in Berlin, where strike actions should end by 2:30 p.m. CET. In all, only 20…
Luka Rocco Magnotta, the Canadian porn actor wanted for the murder and dismemberment of his lover, has been arrested Berlin, Germany. Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, was reportedly picked up in a cybercafe in Berlin’s Neukoelln district. An Interpol notice says Luka Rocco Magnotta is suspected of killing Jun Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese student, in Montreal. Body parts were posted to political parti…
…dn’t have his Capitol One card and [was] Abusive to attendant.” Alec Baldwin appears in commercials for Capitol One credit cards. The actor has allowed his temper get the better of him in the past. In 2007, Alec Baldwin horrendously left a voice mail for his young daughter calling her a “rude, thoughtless little pig”. He later apologized and wrote a book inspired by the incident. The gossip starte…
…s owned by a hunter who has it shipped to places he hunts, according to authorities. It was taken back to Texas after being nursed back to health. Lynn Jones said she was fired on the spot on November 15, adding: “[My supervisor] kept yelling, <<That’s it, you’re done, you are out of here, go home>>.” Officials at St Louis-based Airport Terminal Services, didn’t retur…
…s told he died in 1999. It was the FBI’s most promising lead after the Northwest Airlines flight from Portland to Seattle was hijacked and robbed following a bomb threat on the night of November 24, 1971. Marla Cooper also provided investigators with a photograph of LD Cooper and a guitar strap that he owned for fingerprint testing. While the results of the fingerprint test have not yet been…
…take advantage of the new longer “extended operations” option is Air New Zealand which earlier this month flew from Los Angeles to Auckland. Last October The European Aviation Safety Agency granted a 207-minute rating after receiving an application from Air France to fly a 777-300ER from Los Angeles to Papeete, Tahiti. The European agency is also expected to adopt the 330-minute rule. Planes once…
A couple and their four children, who attempted to fly on just three tickets, were kicked off the plane by US Airways flight attendants. The parents had bought a ticket for their 3year-old son but not for their 20-month-old twins or 8-month-old baby. They planned to seat one infant in the same seat as their three-year-old and each hold a child in their lap. Kathy and Jason Fickes and their childr…
…n to show Indian passengers that the airline did know something about their culture. The performance took place on a flight on January 17 and was uploaded to Finnair’s YouTube channel on January 25 to mark India’s Republic Day on January 26. So far, the video clip has received more than 1.7 million viewings….
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