Women’s voices in U.S. policy

March 26, 2015

China to invite foreign militaries to WWII parade

China will invite militaries of relevant countries to participate in a parade later this year, a defense ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

March 26, 2015

Saudi airstrikes target rebel bases in Yemen

Saudi Arabia bombed key military installations in Yemen on Thursday after announcing a broad regional coalition to oust Shiite rebels that forced the country’s embattled president to flee.

March 26, 2015

Prosecutor: Co-pilot ‘intentionally’ crashed Germanwings flight

As a frantic pilot pounded on the cockpit door and passengers screamed in panic, the Germanwings co-pilot intentionally sent Flight 9525 straight into the side of a mountain in the French Alps, a prosecutor said on Thursday.

March 25, 2015

Israeli-Palestinian ties: parents from both sides seek peace

After Israelis re-elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a group of Israeli and Palestinian parents are calling for peace, reconciliation and tolerance. They all lost children in fighting and they’ve come to the US to make their case.

March 25, 2015

United Kingdom election could lead to vote on leaving European Union

The U.K. general election is six weeks away and the results could lead to a referendum on leaving the European Union. A leading European think tank has warned of potentially huge economic consequences.

March 25, 2015

Chile battling extremes of heavy rain and drought

Chile is suffering flooding in the north and forest fires in the south. More than 6,000 hectares have been consumed by the fires, which may spread and intensify in the face of high winds and temperatures in excess of 30 degrees.

March 25, 2015

Tens of thousands line up in Singapore to remember Lee Kuan

The seven-day period of mourning for Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew moved into a more formal phase on Wednesday, when his body was transferred from SriTemasek – the Prime Minister’s official residence on the Istana grounds – to the Parliament House where it […]

March 25, 2015

Starbucks CEO clarifies racial dialogue initiative

Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz has never shied away from controversy. He supports same-sex marriage, urges customers to keep guns out of stores and also asked Congress to pass a budget by a certain date. Most recently he tried to tackle the issue of race in […]

March 25, 2015

2015 Boao forum to promote economic integration in Asia

This year’s Boao forum, Asia’s New Future: Toward a Community of Common Destiny, will promote cooperation and solidarity across Asia.

March 25, 2015

Nigeria presidential candidates promise to revive economy

In a matter of days, Nigerians will head to the polls in a crucial presidential election. Nigeria’s economy is facing a serious battering from falling global oil prices, which has seen government revenue dwindle. So what are the main candidates putting forward to get the […]

March 25, 2015

Ebola epidemic continues to stagnate Liberia’s economic growth

Liberia’s economy was hard hit during the Ebola epidemic with positive growth forecasts slashed by more than half. Local and international trade stuttered. Now as cases are subsiding, companies both big and small are doing what they can to recover.

March 25, 2015

Chinese officials release documentary to encourage tourism

Chinese officials are looking to revamp the country’s tourism industry by appealing to New Yorkers. China’s tourism board recently launched a new campaign to convince more Americans that the long haul flight is worth the journey.

March 25, 2015

Hong Kong’s $18 billion airport runway faces scrutiny

Hong Kong is set to embark on its most expensive infrastructure project ever. The city plans to build a third airport runway. The cost will be high. The project’s critics say the third runway isn’t necessary and complain the other two runways are underutilized.

March 25, 2015

The Heat: The troubled US , Venezuela relationship

Tensions between the United States and Venezuela are at a high point. Why has the troubled relationship worsened?

March 25, 2015

Saudi Arabia launches military strikes in Yemen

Saudi Arabia has begun air raids targeting rebel positions against Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Saudi Ambassador to U.S. made this announcement at a press conference in Washington.

March 25, 2015

Cuba Emprende helps success of Havana restaurant Atelier

Almost half a million Cubans are now working in the private sector. But after decades of relying on the state, it’s not easy gaining entrepreneurial skills and learning how to run your own business.

March 25, 2015

United Nations honors victims of trans-Atlantic slave trade

The United Nations is honoring victims of the trans-Atlantic slave trade with a memorial.

March 25, 2015

US has world’s highest water consumption rate per capita

In the time it takes you to watch this segment, millions of liters of water will be lost or wasted here in the United States. The biggest reasons are broken pipes and an aging infrastructure.

March 25, 2015

Allies of Yemen’s Shiite rebels capture Aden airport

Yemeni security officials say forces allied with Shiite rebels have captured Aden’s international airport, hours after the country’s embattled president fled his palace home in this southern city.

March 25, 2015

Boko Haram abducts hundreds of Nigerian civilians

Hundreds of civilians, including many children, have been abducted and are being used as human shields by Boko Haram extremists, a top Nigerian official confirmed Wednesday.

March 25, 2015

US removes dozens of Cuban companies from blacklist

The Obama administration has removed dozens of Cuban companies from a U.S. blacklist of terror supporters and narcotics traffickers, another step in the two countries’ process to improve relations.

March 25, 2015

China airline completes first flight powered by biofuel

China’s largest privately owned air transport company, Hainan Airlines has completed China’s first commercial flight powered by biofuel last Saturday.

March 25, 2015

Afghan president to US Congress: ‘We owe a profound debt’ to Americans

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday thanked Congress for billions of American taxpayer dollars, but vowed that his country would be self-reliant within this decade. “We’re not going to be the lazy uncle Joe,” he said.

March 25, 2015

Boao Forum aims to unite Asia Pacific nations over economics

At the 2015 Boao Forum for Asia, host country China hopes the annual meeting will promote solidarity and cooperation among Asian nations.

March 25, 2015

China gives U.S. list of ex-officials suspected of graft

The Chinese government has provided a “priority” list to the United States of Chinese officials suspected of corruption and are believed to have fled there, a top state-run newspaper said on Wednesday.

March 25, 2015

Mainland, Taiwan in communication on cross-Strait chiefs’ meeting

Chinese mainland and Taiwan are in communication on arrangements for a meeting between the two cross-Strait affairs chiefs, a mainland spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

March 25, 2015

Heinz buying Kraft to build $28B food giant, 5th biggest in world

H.J. Heinz Co. is buying Kraft Foods, creating one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world with annual revenue of about $28 billion.

March 25, 2015

Singaporeans line up in thousands to view Lee Kuan Yew’s coffin

Thousands of Singaporeans queued on Wednesday to pay their last respects to former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, who lay in state at Parliament House, waiting for up to eight hours in stifling tropical heat to view his body. Lee’s coffin was taken by gun […]

March 25, 2015

Black box in Germanwings crash opened; 72 Germans, 2 Americans among victims

SEYNE-LES-ALPES, France — French investigators cracked open the mangled black box of a German jetliner on Wednesday and sealed off the rugged Alpine crash site where 150 people died when their plane slammed into a mountain.

March 24, 2015

Thousands mark 39th anniversary of 70s Argentina military coup

Thousands marched in Argentina on Tuesday to mark the 39th anniversary of the 1976 military coup. During the country’s so-called Dirty War, from 1976 to 1983, an estimated 30,000 people were either killed or simply ‘disappeared.’ Argentina has brought to justice many of those found […]

March 24, 2015

Afghan President and Obama meet in high profile White House visit

The U.S. is slowing the pace of troop withdrawal from the country. President Barack Obama made the announcement at a joint press conference with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the White House.

March 24, 2015

Taiwan prepares to get Fair Trade Zone benefits

China has approved three more free trade zones. The country already has one in Shanghai. It opened a year and a half ago. The zones are meant to pave the way to liberalizing the financial sector. One of the new zones will be in northern […]

March 24, 2015

China greenlights plans for Guangdong Free Trade Zone

The ambitious Guangdong Free Trade Zone also got the regulatory greenlight today. Some say it will further enhance cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao. Others are more cynical.

March 24, 2015

Washington struggles to support AIIB inclusion

The United States is unlikely to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, according to financial experts in Washington. But many of America’s closest allies have chosen to become founding members of the China-led bank, including the United Kingdom, France and Germany. That’s left Washington looking […]

March 24, 2015

US cruise industry wants in on Cuba

The normalization of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba is moving forward and so are the cruise lines that are ready to set sail for the island.

March 24, 2015

Uber, LYFT face legal battles over driver benefits

Ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft continue to face legal troubles. This time, it’s coming from within. Lawyers have filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of ridesharing company drivers who say they are deserving of the benefits of true employees instead of contractors.

March 24, 2015

Scientists suggest new ways to clean water, create energy

As hydraulic fracturing expands in the US and across the world, the problem becomes what to do with all the waste water that’s generated during the process. It’s estimated the industry produces 21 billion barrels of waste water in the U.S. each year. Now, some […]

March 24, 2015

Nigeria’s small, medium-sized businesses struggling

Nigeria’s Small and medium-sized enterprises are nearly the only job generators in the country, but with struggling economy and falling currency this promising sector is feeling the squeeze.

March 24, 2015

Elderly in China said to fuel child obesity problem

Childhood obesity has become a growing concern in the most populous country in the world. University of Birmingham published a report, it shows that China’s children who were looked after by their grandparents are more than twice as likely to be overweight.

March 24, 2015

The Heat discusses the dangers of a military-industrial complex

In 1961, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower warned about the dangers of a military-industrial complex – a massive military establishment and arms industry. More than 50 years later, the United States seems to be in a state of perpetual war.

March 24, 2015

Family members hold private wake for Singapore’s founding father

Family members and friends of the late former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew signed condolence cards and paid their respects at a private wake held at the prime minister’s office on Tuesday.

March 24, 2015

Japan finance minister: ‘Desirable’ for AIIB, ADB to work together

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Tuesday it would be desirable if the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) could work with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in meeting growing demand for infrastructure financing in Asia.

March 24, 2015

Shiite rebels fire on protesters in south Yemen, killing 6

Shiite rebels fired bullets and tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters demanding they withdraw from a southern province, killing six demonstrators, wounding scores more and escalating tensions in a country on the verge of civil war.

March 24, 2015

Obama, Afghan leader to finalize plan for US troop pullout

President Barack Obama welcomed Afghanistan’s new president to the White House on Tuesday with fraught questions staring them in the face: Will the U.S. slow its departure from Afghanistan — and for how long?

March 24, 2015

China executes 3 over deadly knife attack in 2014

China executed three accused separatists on Tuesday for their role in an attack that killed 31 people at a train station in the southwest last year, a court said.

March 24, 2015

Germanwings jet crashes in French Alps with 150 on board

A passenger jet carrying 150 people crashed Tuesday in the French Alps as it flew from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, authorities said. A helicopter has landed near where the plan crashed, but found no survivors, said French Prime Minister Manuel Valls.

March 23, 2015

Argentina’s state-run oil producer posts growth

The headquarters of YPF stands tall over the Buenos Aires skyline and the company also stands tall in the energy sector. Argentina’s national oil and gas producer recently posted its 2014 results showing growth in production, reserves, investment and income.

March 23, 2015

China now world’s second highest in obese people

Ask just about any public health expert and they will say obesity is a problem that usually begins in childhood and new research is hammering home just how early in life heart health is affected by poor eating habits.

March 23, 2015

Injera’s health benefits drive popularity of Ethiopian bread

A great staple of Ethiopian cuisine, injera, is now winning converts further afield. The soft and spongy flat bread made from the grain called teff is in demand from Ethiopians living in the United States.

March 23, 2015

Peter LaMotte talks about crisis management

Saving a brand can cost companies billions of dollars, but what exactly does that money buy them? To find out, CCTV’s Phillip Yin sat down with Peter LaMotte, Senior Vice President of the crisis PR firm Levick. So, who is the target audience for post crisis PR […]

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