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UN calls for aid to Ethiopia’s 2 mln drought victims

UN officials on Thursday called for assistance Chinese Oxhorn Comb to be stepped up to an estimated 2 million people in Ethiopia who have been impacted by the drought.

In an update on Thursday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that water is being transported by trucks to residents in drought-hit areas of the southern and southeastern lowlands of the east African country.

Emergency conditions are likely to persist until the next rainy season arrives in October.

UN aid agencies, which are working with national authorities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), are also handing out food to households in need in addition to providing health care, Chinese puppet wholesale veterinary services and livestock feed.

UN agencies have said that the areas risk increased threats to disease outbreaks as the Horn of African country has been facing a drought in recent years.

According to OCHA’s latest humanitarian bulletin on Ethiopia, a multi-agency national needs assessment will start in next month, approximately one month earlier than originally scheduled.

Meanwhile, the Ethiopian government has requested an additional 75 million U.S. dollars for humanitarian assistance this month and in May.

UN agencies and their partners have called for additional resources to meet pressing needs, while also expanding operations in the following months in order to prevent gaps in aid delivery.

OCHA also has noted Chinese doll wholesale that the recent unrest in the Middle East and North Africa has led to a decline in the demand for livestock exports from Ethiopia, which, in turn, has reduced the incomes of the affected communities.

As a result, high global food and fuel price rises have raised the cost of buying and importing essential commodities, which include food, said OCHA.

UN honours victims of Chernobyl nuclear accident

The United Nations marked the 25th Chinese drama mask anniversary of Chernobyl today by honouring the victims of the worst nuclear accident in history and stressing the need to do more to help communities in the affected areas of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

More than 300,000 people were displaced and roughly six million were affected by the accident that took place at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986, which contaminated a swathe of territory half the size of Italy.

“The Chernobyl anniversary is an occasion both to remember the human cost of the disaster and to take stock of the many problems that still linger,” Ambassador Maria Rubiales de Chamorro of Nicaragua, the Acting President of the General Assembly, said at a special commemorative meeting held by the 192-member body.

“But it is also a time to look ahead and seek solutions that hold promise for the affected communities and renew our commitment to a safer future,” she added, noting that the affected communities require assistance in areas such as investments and socio-economic development.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that the anniversary is a time to remember the heroism of the firefighters and other emergency workers, Chinese Tiger Patchwork Toy as well as the plight of millions of people who were uprooted from the contaminated regions and those still living in the affected areas.

“Their sacrifices must never be forgotten; their suffering must never go unaddressed,” he said in a statement to mark the anniversary.

He told the meeting of the Assembly that Chernobyl “cast a radioactive cloud across Europe and a shadow around the world,” but it also highlighted international solidarity.

“Chernobyl was not a problem for Ukraine, Belarus or Russia alone. Chernobyl was our problem – a shared challenge for the world,” said Mr. Ban, who last week became the first UN Secretary-General to visit the site of the disaster.

He added that the anniversary, as well as the accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant last month, calls for reflection and robust global debate on how to achieve the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and maximum safety.

Mr. Ban has outlined a five-step plan to enhance nuclear safety, beginning with “a top to bottom review” of current nuclear safety standards, both at the national and international levels. The plan also strengthening the work of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), putting a sharper focus on the nexus between natural disasters and nuclear safety, undertaking a cost-benefit analysis of nuclear energy, and building a stronger connection between nuclear safety and nuclear security.

“With the memory of Chernobyl and, now, the disaster in Fukushima, we must widen our lens,” Mr. Ban wrote in an opinion piece published in the International Herald Tribune. “Henceforth, we must treat the issue of nuclear safety as seriously as we do nuclear weapons.”

In a message to the opening of a photo exhibition in New York on the occasion of the anniversary, Mr. Ban pledged his determination to keep nuclear safety at the top of the international agenda.

“By working to Chinese kitchenware ensure that nuclear power is used peacefully and safely, we can honour the memory of Chernobyl’s victims and its lost heroes.”

The Secretary-General will convene a high-level meeting on strengthening the international nuclear safety regime when world leaders gather at the UN in New York in September.

Sorting out a better system for garbage

Chinese city dwellers will soon have to pay more for Tibetan style bracelets garbage collection and treatment in a series of measures dealing with the increasing garbage produced amid fast urbanization, said a government statement on Monday.

Four bins marked for different kinds of garbage stand in a residential community in Xuchang, Henan province.

The increasing amount of garbage has become too large to adequately treat, polluting urban environments and undermining social stability in recent years, according to the statement from the State Council, China’s Cabinet.

By 2015, China should have technology needed to ensure that 80 percent of the garbage collected from city households can be treated as nonhazardous waste, and that figure will rise to 100 percent by 2030, according to the statement.

Local governments will set the prices they charge for the treatment of urban garbage by taking into account local average incomes and economic circumstances.

At present, both citizens and Tibetan style earrings businesses spend very little on garbage treatment, according to Xie Xinyuan with the research and investigation department of Friends of Nature, a non-governmental environmental protection organization.

“For instance, in Beijing, every household just pays 3 yuan (46 cents) a month, which is not enough to support the whole process of garbage separation and treatment,” he said.

“The charges should vary according to the amount of garbage to be treated. People will then have a reason to reduce the amount of garbage they produce.”

By the end of August, local governments are to report the plans they have made to charge fees, the statement said.

The country will also work to reduce the production of household garbage by encouraging the use of gas and solar energy, and of vegetable baskets and cloth bags for carrying groceries. It will ask the public to separate garbage into categories, making it easier to recycle.

And it will discourage the use of disposable items and excessive amounts of packaging.

More efforts will be made to add to the current number of treatment plants and tighten the monitoring of the construction and operation of such plants. These steps are being taken in response to the public’s increasing concern over health and environmental issues in recent years.

Also as part of those changes, pollutants discharged from plants that treat household garbage will be tested every three months and discharged dioxins will be tested at least once a year. Those results must be released to the public, the statement said.

The amount of garbage thrown away in China is expected to increase from 190 million tons in 2004 to 480 million tons in 2030, according to a World Bank report released in 2005.

By September 2010, China had been able to treat nearly 400,000 tons of garbage a day at the 849 treatment operations then in existence.

The operations were composed of 676 landfills, seven composting plants, 90 incineration plants and 76 integrated treatment plants, according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

“More operations used to separate garbage have been set up in residential areas, silver accessories especially in large cities,” Xie said. “But many people do not know how to use them or even do not know how to separate their garbage correctly.”

“Local governments need to give more training and guidance to residents in the future.”

McDonald’s goes on hiring spree

McDonald’s Corp will recruit 50,000 employees Chinese National Minority Doll this year in China as it quickens its pace of expansion in the fastest-growing market for the world’s biggest restaurant chain.

Oak Brook, Illinois-based McDonald’s now operates 1,300 restaurants and employs 70,000 employees in China since it first entered the market 21 years ago. It plans to raise the store number to 2,000 in China by 2013, and the chain will open 175 to 200 new outlets this year.

Total sales for fast-food chains in China rose 12 percent last year to 60 billion yuan, according to Bloomberg News, citing London-based researcher Euromonitor International. Yum! Brands’ restaurants accounted for 40 percent while McDonald’s had 16 percent, the researcher said.

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COSCO to resume port investments

China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (COSCO), Chinese Oxhorn Comb the largest container ship operator in China and the sixth-largest in the world by volume, will resume its investment in ports, said Wei Jiafu, the president and chief executive officer of the group, on Tuesday.

High demand and robust global economic growth between 2003 and 2008 prompted shipping companies worldwide to deepen investment in ports. However, enthusiasm cooled after the sudden eruption of the global financial crisis and the ensuing fragile economic recovery.

“I believe now is a good time to go bottom-fishing,” Wei told China Daily, without disclosing details of the group’s investment plans.

In July, COSCO bought a 13.7 percent stake in Yantian port in Shenzhen from the Copenhagen-based AP Moller-Maersk Group, the world’s largest container ship operator by volume.

The deal cost COSCO $520 million, a discount of “nearly half the price” the two groups had negotiated before the crisis, Wei said. The current monthly profit from the port stands at $5 million, he added.

Ji Yuntao, an analyst with Citic Securities Co, Chinese doll wholesale agreed with Wei’s overall assessment. However, he did not think COSCO’s move may lead to another wave of investment in ports.

“It is an excellent time to invest in ports, but because of the financial crisis, only a handful of large-scale companies have enough money to take this opportunity,” Ji said.

He added that more investment in ports will help COSCO further strengthen its industry chain and reduce its container-shipping costs.

“But given the current sluggish global economic recovery and China’s shift in focus from rapid GDP growth to upgrading its industrial base, the shipping industry is unlikely to see a booming market in the near future,” he said.

“It may take some time for COSCO to gain substantially from the ports,” he added.

In 2010, COSCO Shipping Co, the group’s cargo-shipping division, saw revenue increase by 13 percent year-on-year to 4.4 billion yuan ($682 million), and net profit shot up by 150 percent from 2009 to 340 million yuan.

In 2008, COSCO group signed a 3.4 billion euro ($5 billion) deal for 35 years of management rights for Pireaus port, the largest port in Greece and one of the major ports in the eastern Mediterranean. It was the first Chinese company in the industry to invest in foreign ports.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of COSCO’s foundation, Chinese puppet wholesale and Wei said the group will continue its development by further investment in research and development, especially in the new-energy industry.

“By 2020, COSCO will become the (global) leading conglomerate in the shipping industry,” he said.

China vows crackdown on kidnapping of children from Xinjiang

China’s Ministry of Public Security has vowed to Chinese Mahjong Set spare no effort in saving minors from northwestern Xinjiang who have been kidnapped and forced to commit crimes.

“Police departments across the country will launch a severe crackdown on those who organize and manipulate the kidnapping of children from Xinjiang and force them to engage in criminal activities,” Vice Minister Zhang Xinfeng said at a meeting on Tuesday.

Zhang noted that in recent years, China has seen an increase in cases in which minors in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region were kidnapped and forced to participate in crimes, such as theft and robbery.

Zhang said the crackdown aimed to protect the rights of Xinjiang minors, promote ethnic unity and ensure the social stability of Xinjiang and the entire country.

As he urged the country’s police to fully realize the importance of this plan, Zhang called on them to strengthen their cooperation with civil affairs departments in Chinese music instrument saving the children and assisting with their return home.

The move came one day after Public Security Minister Meng Jianzhu, during an inspection of Xinjiang, urged local police to adopt “resolute and effective” measures to fight crime and strengthen the sense Chinese musical instruments of security among people there.

Hungary to ban smoking in indoor public places

Hungarian parliament approved a proposal on Tuesday in Tibetan style bracelets support of a smoking ban in all indoor public places including workplaces, restaurants and pubs.

Of the 386-member parliament, 271 voted in favor of the proposal seeking protection of non-smokers, 37 were opposed and 14 abstained.

The ban will be in force Tibetan style earrings from January next year in all public institutions, on public transport vehicles, at stops and stations, underground pedestrian passages and in playgrounds.

According to the law, designating indoors areas for smokers are not allowed in public institutions, offices or trains. However, people are allowed to smoke in open-air sections or garden terraces of restaurants and pubs.

Public education, childcare and health care institutions will be banned from designating areas for smokers both indoors and outdoors.

Hungarian State health authority will fine violators after a three-month silver accessories grace period. Individuals smoking in forbidden areas will be fined up to 30000 forints (approximately 166 U.S. dollars).

South China drought affects crops, people

About 60,000 people and Chinese National Minority Doll more than 2.4 million mu (160,000 hectares) of crops have been affected by a lingering drought in south China’s Guangdong Province, local authorities said on Tuesday.

A total of 59,804 people are suffering from a drinking water shortage and 455,000 mu (about 30,333 hectares) in 12 cities and counties of the province have been hit by a severe drought, according to the local flood control and drought relief headquarters.

The local government in the province has allocated 8 million yuan (about 1.23 million U.S. dollars) to fight the drought and guarantee sufficient girls baby shoes wholesale drinking water supplies.

Guangdong Province has received an average rainfall of 231 millimeters since last October, nearly 50 percent less than that in previous years.

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Sorting out a better system for garbage

Chinese city dwellers will soon have to pay more for garbage Chinese Oxhorn Comb collection and treatment in a series of measures dealing with the increasing garbage produced amid fast urbanization, said a government statement on Monday.

Four bins marked for different kinds of garbage stand in a residential community in Xuchang, Henan province.

The increasing amount of garbage has become too large to adequately treat, polluting urban environments and undermining social stability in recent years, according to the statement from the State Council, China’s Cabinet.

By 2015, China should have technology needed to ensure that 80 percent of the garbage collected from city households can be treated as nonhazardous waste, and that figure will rise to 100 percent by 2030, according to the statement.

Local governments will set the prices they charge for the treatment of urban garbage by taking into account local average incomes and economic circumstances.

At present, both citizens and Chinese doll wholesale businesses spend very little on garbage treatment, according to Xie Xinyuan with the research and investigation department of Friends of Nature, a non-governmental environmental protection organization.

“For instance, in Beijing, every household just pays 3 yuan (46 cents) a month, which is not enough to support the whole process of garbage separation and treatment,” he said.

“The charges should vary according to the amount of garbage to be treated. People will then have a reason to reduce the amount of garbage they produce.”

By the end of August, local governments are to report the plans they have made to charge fees, the statement said.

The country will also work to reduce the production of household garbage by encouraging the use of gas and solar energy, and of vegetable baskets and cloth bags for carrying groceries. It will ask the public to separate garbage into categories, making it easier to recycle.

And it will discourage the use of disposable items and excessive amounts of packaging.

More efforts will be made to add to the current number of treatment plants and tighten the monitoring of the construction and operation of such plants. These steps are being taken in response to the public’s increasing concern over health and environmental issues in recent years.

Also as part of those changes, pollutants discharged from plants that treat household garbage will be tested every three months and discharged dioxins will be tested at least once a year. Those results Chinese puppet wholesale must be released to the public, the statement said.

The amount of garbage thrown away in China is expected to increase from 190 million tons in 2004 to 480 million tons in 2030, according to a World Bank report released in 2005.

By September 2010, China had been able to treat nearly 400,000 tons of garbage a day at the 849 treatment operations then in existence.

The operations were composed of 676 landfills, seven composting plants, 90 incineration plants and 76 integrated treatment plants, according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

“More operations used to separate garbage have been set up in residential areas, especially in large cities,” Xie said. “But many people do not know how to use them or even do not know how to separate their garbage correctly.”

“Local governments need to give more training and guidance to residents in the future.”

Micro blogs popular among officials

At least 2,428 Chinese governmental Chinese bamboo flute agencies and officials have been posting short messages online using domestic micro-blogging services that are similar to Twitter, according to a research report published by the Fudan University on Friday.

By March 20, government and Party departments had opened 1,708 mico-blog accounts and officials had opened 720 accounts under their own names, according to a report titled The Research Report on Micro-blogs for Chinese Political Affairs.

The research tracked and analyzed official micro-blog accounts held with prominent Internet services such as Sina, Tencent and People.com.cn, a subsidiary of People’s Daily.

Official micro blogs posted on regional Chinese fan wholesale Internet portals such as the Shanghai-based Eastday.com and Xinmin.cn were also noted in the research, part of which considered the status of official micro blogs in Shanghai.

“Of all the official micro blog accounts, police authorities write the biggest portion and their micro blogs are the most helpful,” said Zhang Zhi’an, the report’s main author.

Chinese police authorities have opened 1,228 micro-blog accounts, which constitute about half the total number of official micro blogs in China. And 139 police officers have written micro blogs online, said the report.

For the police, Sandalwood Fan micro-blogging has become a convenient means of publishing information and a way to ask Internet users to help them in investigations, said Zhang.