Posts Tagged ‘death’

49 words missing in the last ten years (V)

August 28th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
29) People are the luckiest of Chinese youth - date of death: July 2001
As the university entrance examination was restored in 1979 after the famous “cultural revolution” and that the rate of access to higher education was only 1%, t...

49 words missing in the last ten years (III)

August 25th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
15) VCD - Date of death: 1998
Between 1995 and 1998 the sales volume of VCD player jumped from 600 000 to 14 million. At the option of the popularization of counterfeit VCD, Chinese users have quickly jumped on the VCR era as experienced by fore...

Saddam’s trial suspended until Wednesday

August 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
The trial of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and six of his co-defendants was postponed until Wednesday, said Tuesday the presiding judge.
“The court decided to suspend the session until Wednesday, September 20,” said the chie...

The ICRC confirmed the death of a kidnapped in the troubled region of Darfur

July 17th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed the death of its Sudanese workers kidnapped two weeks ago by an armed group in the troubled region of Darfur in Sudan.
In a statement received here Thursday, the ICRC said that th...

Promised cooperation in dealing with the death of the observer

June 7th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
Israel vowed on Tuesday first of August to cooperate “100%” with China in the handling of cases following the death of a Chinese observer of the UN in an Israeli air strike of a UN post in south Lebanon .
Nadav Eshcar, official polic...

A Chinese team travels to Lebanon following the death of a Chinese observer of the UN

June 4th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
A Chinese team visited Lebanon Thursday to take the case of a Chinese observer of the United Nations died on the spot, according to diplomatic sources.
The Chinese victim Du Zhaoyu was killed Wednesday in an Israeli air raid on UN post in southe...

Chinese President expresses his sincere condolences following the death of a Chinese observer of the UN

June 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday presented his condolences after the death of a Chinese observer of the United Nations during an Israeli air strike against a UN post in southern Lebanon, according to a statement by the Chinese Ministry of Fore...

The death toll rises to 80 in the earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia

May 19th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
The death toll in the earthquake and tsunami in West Java province has risen to 80, reported Monday night the website Detik Indonesian.
to 22:40 local time, the death toll is set at 80 dead following the earthquake magniture 6.8 on the Richter s...

China expresses its condolences on the death of Hashimoto

May 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
“We express our deep condolences on the death of former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto,” said Saturday in Beijing, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Hashimoto died Saturday from diseases at the age o...

The decisions in appeals of death sentences will be taken openly

May 2nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
calls for death sentences will be heard in public session, and no longer behind closed doors tomorrow, said yesterday at a national conference, Xiao Yang, a senior Justice.
“The whole process, when death sentences in the second instance mu...