HIV infection keep on rising

According to the Shanghai Daily, HIV infections among men who have sexual intercourse with men keep on rising rapidly in China. More intervention and education campaigns are carried out to warn everybody and reduce infections.

Life on Mars?
Scientists are searching for life on the mars, as a long canyon and the remain of beaches could be the sign of an ancient lake.

Swine flu reaches Shanghai
After declaring a A(H1N1) flu pandemic of the WHO, 111 cases of swine flu infections are confirmed in mainland China. Some infected person are in Shanghai.

Pilot dies- plane lands safely
The pilot of a flight from Brussels to Newark died from a sudden heart attack abroad. The passengers of the flight didn't know anything, except of the fact the cockpit was asking for a doctor abroad, and landed safety as the copilots were taking the wheel.

01.06.09

Last Titanic Survivor Died
On Sunday Millvina Dean, aged 97 died. Millvina was called to be the last survivor of the RMS Titanic which sunk after a collision with an ice berg on her maiden voyage in 1912.

5 Cases Of Swine Flu In Shanghai
Last weekend Shanghai confirmed its 5th case of swine flu. The first infected, a business man who arrived from Melbourne, has already recovered.

Tug-of-War: Man Looses hand
While playing tug-of-war a guy lost his hand in Shenzhen. Because of having the rope winded around his hand too tight, he severed it when a couple of contestants joined the match out of the blue and pulled the rope too strong. Although being brought to hospital immediately, the state of his hand is still unknown.

Chongqing Mine Accident: Death Toll Rises To 30
While working underground a colliery gas burst happened Saturday in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality. About 100 of the 131 workers were rescued, 59 injured and 30 died so far.

20.5.09
Shanghainese get off their high horse
According to a new survey of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Shanghainese people are less snobbish than in 2003.

Elevated Road in Hunan Province collapsed
On the 17th of Mai at 5am an elevated Road in Zuxhou collapsed out of the blue. The number of the injured people is still not clear.

Plane crash in Indonesia
A military plane crashed with about 100 passengers into several houses near Jakarta, Indonesia. For now the death toll is at 97 people.

Swine flu vaccine not available yet
According to announcements of the Word Health Organization the creation of the vaccine takes obviously longer than estimated. It will be on the marked earliest at the mid of June.

Swine Flu all-clear

Judging from recent news, the death toll of the swine flu is no longer rising in Mexico. According to Shanghai Daily, Mexico's health minister Jose Angel Cordova blames the laziness and self-medication of most people for the high death toll. Now, that everybody knows about the new virus most people go to the doctor for a health check.

Passengers got stuck in Shanghai's metro
Yesterday metro line 2 couldn't leave Zhongshan Park subway station due to technical problems with the door-closing-system. This morning line 3 broke down on it's way to Shanghai South Railway Station. 6 minutes later the train started running again but the passengers arrived delayed nevertheless.

Sichuan Earthquake Anniversary
On May 12th was the first anniversary of Sichuan Earthquake. Entire China commemorated the victims.

Shanghai is getting smokeless

According to Shanghaiist a new Anti-smoking-campaign started at the Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai. Smoking is prohibited everywhere except of 5 special ventilated smoking rooms after the security check-in.

More secure ATMs in Shanghai
In Shanghai some different banks use new taller machines which reject bankcard cloning devices. I guess it is a seminal technical improvement.

Swine Flu also in China
After the first case of swine flu last week, China is very sensitive with people coming from Mexico.

Britain goes Australia
A British guy won the race of getting a dream job on an Australian Island. His job will be snorkeling, having a go for a walk at those amazing beaches, living in a villa and writing a Blog. His remuneration will be about 150.000 australian dollars for a stay of 6 months. Enviable!!

Visa- Never ending disaster
The Chinese government found a new way to make it more complicated for U.S. citizens to get a Visa for China after the swine flu cases. One of the new rules is filling out a form with a listing of all states and countries they visited recently.

WHO Fears Swine Flu Pandemic

According to the Shanghai Daily there were already 93 infections of swine flu found worldwide. Not to mention about 159 people died already from swine flu in Mexico.

Apologies For Frightening The US Citizens

U.S. President Obama was according to CNN news furious about the plane flyover on Tuesday. Finally the President ordered a review. Louis Caldera, director of the white house military office, explained himself by telling he approved the mission to hedgehop and takes on responsibility. The flyover caused quite a political stir.

Number Of Ravish Victims In Zhejiang Provice Rises To 19

On Feburary 13th a schoolgirl in Zhejiang Province accused a KTV club owner of ravishing her. Meanwhile the number of the ravished girls rose to 19. Apart from the club owner, named Chen Weijun, some other adults, as well as a school girl being the one who helped procuring more girls are involved in that case.

China Will Be Enchanted By Flowers

According to China daily: “The Seventh China Flower Exposition will be held in Qingzhou, East China's Shandong province and Beijing's Shunyi district simultaneously from September 26th to October 5th.” Numerous different types of flowers will blossom and transform the exhibition area into a sea of flowers.

21.04.2009

Coffee makers could hurt customers

PHILIPS recalled about 6000 coffee makers of the type HD7810. It is said they could hurt user under extreme circumstances, although nobody has been hurt yet.

China Expo volunteer hiring starts in May

On the first of May the recruitment of 70.000 volunteers who are going to look after the visitors and 100.000 volunteers for jobs outside the Expo side starts.

Chemical tanker - group released

Last Year Somali pirates were kidnapping the chemical tanker Stolt strange with his 23 members on its way to India. According to the Seafarers they were just released.

China’s great wall is even longer then always thought

According to new researches China’s great wall it stretches 3800km more then previously thought. The researches are going to continue the next 18 months.

Steven Hawking is very sick

The world famous physicist Steven Hawking is suffering from ALS (Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis). It was diagnosed about 40 years ago, but now the state of the wheelchair-bound Hawking got so worse that he has to stay overnight in Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge.