http://english.people.com.cn/ http://english.people.com.cn/images/en/top_logo_e.gif People's Daily Online http://english.people.com.cn/90777 7726704 2012-02-12 11:29:41 7726700 2012-02-12 10:51:26 7726660 2012-02-12 10:51:32 &$【1】 &$&$【2】 &$ &$ &$&$ ]]> 7726650 2012-02-12 10:36:33 7726646 2012-02-12 10:35:39 7726643 2012-02-12 10:34:35 7726546 2012-02-12 10:10:25 【1】 【2】 【3】 &$&$ &$ ...]]> 【1】 【2】 【3】 &$&$ &$ ]]> 7726513 2012-02-12 09:52:42 【1】 【2】 &$&$ &$ ]]> 7726400 2012-02-12 09:20:17 【1】 【2】 【3】 【4】 【5】 &$&$

【1】 【2】 【3】 【4】 【5】 &$&$ &$ ]]> 7726359 2012-02-12 11:33:01 7726358 2012-02-11 16:41:14 7726357 2012-02-11 16:39:54 7726356 2012-02-11 16:38:33 7726355 2012-02-11 16:37:18 7726354 2012-02-11 16:36:12 7726353 2012-02-11 16:34:30 7726075 2012-02-10 16:18:25 &$Edited and translated by People's Daily Online&$&$ The Cobra Gold 2012, the largest ever multinational military exercise in the Asia-Pacific region jointly held by Thailand and the United States, began in Thailand on Feb. 7. More than 13,000 military personnel from the United States, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia have participated in the 11-day exercise. The Cobra Gold exercise has been held annually since 1982. Given the large scale and busy ...]]> &$Edited and translated by People's Daily Online&$&$ The Cobra Gold 2012, the largest ever multinational military exercise in the Asia-Pacific region jointly held by Thailand and the United States, began in Thailand on Feb. 7. More than 13,000 military personnel from the United States, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia have participated in the 11-day exercise. The Cobra Gold exercise has been held annually since 1982. Given the large scale and busy schedule of the 31st Cobra Gold exercise this time and America’s newly unveiled military strategy that switches focus to the Asia-Pacific region, analysts believe that this exercise will be an important step the United States takes to enhance ties and expand cooperation with its Asian allies and to achieve its goal of “returning to Asia” and shifting its strategic focus eastward. Some analysts believe that carrying out military drills with allies has turned into an important link of the United States' strategy of trying to dominate the Asia-Pacific Region. By carrying out military drills, the U.S. forces could strengthen its relationships with its allies and their mutual trust and carry out interactions dominated by the United States in aspects such as the military command and action, early warning and weapon systematization, and therefore, the United States' dominant military status in this region will be strengthened. &$&$Will China be invited to participate? &$&$ According to an anonymous officer from an air force staff officer college, the possibility that China participates in this drill is very small, because the participators are mainly the United States' allies in the Asia-Pacific Region. Furthermore, in some items of the drill, the imaginary incident is a conflict of the Taiwan Strait, the United States and its allies interfere in the war and the possible opponent is China. Regarding the issue that the United States strengthens its military deployment in the Asia-Pacific Region, Ernest Bower, director of the Southeast Asia project group under the U.S. Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that the U.S. forces emphasizes strengthening the patrol instead of founding new military bases, indicating that the United States' paces in the Asia-Pacific Region are light-footed but everywhere. He believes that the United States should continue implementing this clear policy, strengthen not only relationships with its allies including Australia, the Philippines and Japan but also the cooperation with Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and countries of west Asia, and ultimately bring China in. The United States should also regard establishing the trust and further strengthening the military relationship with China as a long-term goal to alleviate Southeast Asian countries' worries and create the peace and prosperity of double dividends in the most vigorous Asia-Pacific Region of the world. ]]> 7726048 2012-02-10 15:56:40 7725989 2012-02-10 15:40:45 &$【1】 &$&$【2】 &$ &$ &$&$ ]]> 7725985 2012-02-12 11:22:25 【1】 【2】 &$&$ &$ ]]> 7725983 2012-02-10 15:36:24 7725980 2012-02-10 15:33:51 7725978 2012-02-10 15:33:06 7725974 2012-02-10 15:32:03 7725966 2012-02-10 15:22:44 7725959 2012-02-10 15:20:24 &$【1】 &$&$【2】 &$&$【3】 &$ &$ &$&$ ]]> 7725858 2012-02-10 14:15:22 7725852 2012-02-10 14:12:26 7725849 2012-02-10 14:10:24 7725846 2012-02-10 14:16:54 7725844 2012-02-10 14:08:07 7725834 2012-02-10 14:03:23 7725824 2012-02-10 13:49:52 &$【1】 &$&$【2】 &$ &$ &$&$ ]]> 7725412 2012-02-10 09:34:01 &$【1】 &$&$【2】 &$ &$ &$&$ ]]> 7725400 2012-02-10 09:25:52 7725397 2012-02-10 09:24:45 7725235 2012-02-10 08:52:09 【1】 【2】 【3】 &$&$ &$ ...]]> 【1】 【2】 【3】 &$&$ &$ ]]> 7725213 2012-02-10 08:46:54 7725193 2012-02-10 08:42:12 7725183 2012-02-10 15:19:09 7725179 2012-02-10 08:38:54 7725161 2012-02-10 08:37:07 7725155 2012-02-10 08:34:22 7725148 2012-02-10 08:33:41 7725095 2012-02-10 08:22:58 7725090 2012-02-10 08:26:24 【1】 【2】 【3】 【4】 【5】 【6】 【1】 【2】 【3】 【4】 【5】 【6】 【7】 【8】 【9】 &$&$ &$ ]]> 7725076 2012-02-10 10:46:55 7725068 2012-02-10 08:21:02 7722762 2012-02-12 11:07:22 7721781 2012-02-10 10:48:14 【1】 【2】 【3】 &$&$ &$ ...]]> 【1】 【2】 【3】 &$&$ &$ ]]> 7721348 2012-02-10 13:33:58 &$ “Typically what happens to electronic waste is it ends up in landfills or is shipped to third world countries,” said Macaulay Campbell, a volunteer at the ...]]> &$ “Typically what happens to electronic waste is it ends up in landfills or is shipped to third world countries,” said Macaulay Campbell, a volunteer at the Lower East Side Ecology Center. “People don’t deal with electronic waste in environmentally friendly ways.” In 2011, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a report on selected electronic products. Most of them were either dumped in landfills or shipped abroad. The Natural Resource Defense Council reported that in New York City alone, over 25,000 pounds of electronics are landfilled or incinerated each year. Only 25 percent of the 2.37 million tons of end-of-life electronic products in the U.S. were collected for recycling. In 2009, Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) TVs and monitors comprised, by weight, nearly half of the electronics that entered the waste stream, according to an EPA 2011 report. CRTs are recognized as one of the most significant environmental health threats to humans. “Monitors and TVs have a lot of glass and can contain 2kg of lead. The flat screen monitors are more energy efficient, but they have mercury in them,” said Christine Datz-Romero, Executive Director of the Lower East Side Ecology Center. “These heavy metals in electronics need to be handled correctly.” They cannot be disposed of in ordinary waste landfills, but recycling companies can export them abroad. According to GrowNYC, a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve New York City’s quality of life through environmental programs, “allthough they are a small portion of the waste stream by volume, computers and electronics contribute about 70 percent of the heavy metals in landfills.” The EPA states that 40 percent of the lead found in landfills can be attributed to these discarded electronics. “We have a moral imperative. We use these electronics…they have added a lot of heavy metals and toxic materials into our waste stream,” said Datz-Romero. “It is very important for us to take responsibility for these technologies.” Recycling electronics, such as cell phones, televisions, and computers (along with rechargeable batteries) keeps potentially harmful materials out of the waste stream and the environment. In New York City, a combination of local and state laws dictates the handling or recycling electronics and harmful materials. The New York State Electronic Equipment Recycling and Reuse Act was signed into law on May 28, 2010. “New York has become the 23rd state to have e-waste legislation,” said Datz-Romero. “The law requires both manufacturers and retailers to offer free programs to make electronic recycling accessible to people in New York State.” According to the Act, violators are liable for a civil penalty for each violation not to exceed $1,000 for the first violation, $2,500 for the second violation and $5,000 for the third and subsequent violations. The new rules were to be introduced in two steps. The first ban, which began on April 1, 2011, said that “no manufacturer, retailer, or owner or operator of an electronic waste collection site, electronic waste consolidation facility or electronic waste recycling facility in the state shall dispose of electronic waste&n ]]> 7028915 2012-02-12 10:44:03 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004692 2012-02-12 11:27:47 &$ A performer dances at the food festival in Bluefields, Nicaragua, May 28, 2010. A food festival were held in Bluefields which locates in east of Nicaragua and is also a popular tourist destination. The food festival features traditional Caribbean food and local Tululu dances. (Xinhua Photo) &$ 【1】 ...]]> &$ A performer dances at the food festival in Bluefields, Nicaragua, May 28, 2010. A food festival were held in Bluefields which locates in east of Nicaragua and is also a popular tourist destination. The food festival features traditional Caribbean food and local Tululu dances. (Xinhua Photo) &$ 【1】 【2】 【3】 &$&$ &$ ]]> 7004627 2012-02-12 11:27:47 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004605 2012-02-12 11:27:47 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004604 2012-02-12 11:27:47 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004602 2012-02-12 11:27:47 7004601 2012-02-12 11:27:47 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004600 2012-02-12 11:27:48 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004599 2012-02-12 11:27:48 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004597 2012-02-12 11:27:48 【1】 【2】 &$&$ &$ ]]> 7004596 2012-02-12 11:27:48 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004595 2012-02-12 11:27:48 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004594 2012-02-12 11:27:48 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004593 2012-02-12 11:27:48 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004592 2012-02-12 11:27:48 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004591 2012-02-12 11:27:48 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004590 2012-02-12 11:27:48 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004589 2012-02-12 11:27:48 7004588 2012-02-12 11:27:48 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004587 2012-02-12 11:27:48 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004586 2012-02-12 11:27:48 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004585 2012-02-12 11:27:48 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004584 2012-02-12 11:27:48 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004582 2012-02-12 11:27:48 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004579 2012-02-12 11:27:48 【1】 【2】 【3】 &$&$ &$ ]]> 7004578 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004577 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004576 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004575 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004574 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004573 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004572 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ...]]> &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004571 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ...]]> &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004570 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004569 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$ Volcanic ash blanket Guayaquil,Ecuador, May 28, 2010. Ecuador's Secretariat of Risk Management (SNGR) ordered on Friday the evacuation of thousands of people living at the bottom of Tungurahua Volcano, central of the country, which earlier registered a new eruption and ash emission. (Xinhua/Santiago Armas) Ecuadorian authorities on Friday closed the airport in the countr ...]]> &$ Volcanic ash blanket Guayaquil,Ecuador, May 28, 2010. Ecuador's Secretariat of Risk Management (SNGR) ordered on Friday the evacuation of thousands of people living at the bottom of Tungurahua Volcano, central of the country, which earlier registered a new eruption and ash emission. (Xinhua/Santiago Armas) Ecuadorian authorities on Friday closed the airport in the country's largest and most populated city Guayaquil and ordered the evacuation of thousands of residents due to a volcanic eruption in the South American country. Earlier, the General Direction of Civil Aviation (DAC) halted the domestic flight between Quito and Cuenca and the international flight between Lima and Quito due to the ash emission of the Tungurahua Volcano. The DAC said in a statement that the airports were closed for operational security, but there are alternative routes for the planes to take off or land without problem. Ecuador's National Geophysics Institute said ash plumes soared 10 kilometers above the volcano. The Secretariat of Risk Management (SNGR) on Friday ordered the evacuation of thousands of people living at the bottom of the Tungurahua Volcano in central Ecuador, which earlier registered a new eruption and ash emission. The people living in towns nearby the volcano including Juive Grande, Cusua, Cotalo, Bilbao, and Chacauco in the west side of the volcano were evacuated, the SNGR said in a statement. The area near the volcano is cloudy due to the ash columns and the lava coming from the Tungurahua Volcano. The eruption took place at 8:47 a.m. local time (1347 GMT) Friday and was considered as "complicated." Rescue teams went to the affected areas immediately after the SNGR issued an alert at 9:30 a.m. local time (1430 GMT). The director of the National Geophysics Institute, Hugo Yepez, said the ash cloud is heading southwest, so the ash cloud could also affect the coastal zones in the north of Guayaquil. The Tungurahua Volcano is of 5,016 meters above sea level and located 135 km south to Quito. It began its eruptive process in 1999. &$&$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004566 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$ U.S. President Barack Obama talks to the media as he surveys the damage along the Louisiana coastline at Fourchon Beach caused after a BP oil line ruptured in the Gulf of Mexico, May 28, 2010. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) U.S. President Barack Obama inspected a Louisiana beach on Friday to show that he was taking charge of the response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. This is O ...]]> &$ U.S. President Barack Obama talks to the media as he surveys the damage along the Louisiana coastline at Fourchon Beach caused after a BP oil line ruptured in the Gulf of Mexico, May 28, 2010. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) U.S. President Barack Obama inspected a Louisiana beach on Friday to show that he was taking charge of the response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. This is Obama's second visit to the Gulf areas after the oil spill. "It's an assault on our shores, on our people, on the regional economy and on communities like this one," Obama said after meeting governors and lawmakers from the five affected states. " People are watching their livelihoods wash up on the beach." With about 22,000 people already in the region working to contain and clean up the still-gushing crude, Obama ordered Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Coast Guard chief Admiral Thad Allen to "triple the manpower in places where oil has hit the shore or is within 24 hours of impact." The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, owned by Transocean and leased by BP, sank April 22 some 52 km off Venice, Louisiana, after burning for roughly 36 hours. The untapped wellhead continues gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. With the oil continuing to come ashore, criticism of the spill response mounted. Defending his response, Obama said the government had begun gathering vessels and equipment to deal with the cleanup from the first days of the accident. He also stressed there were no simple solutions to the spill. "There are going to be a lot of judgment calls involved here. There are not going be silver bullets or a lot of perfect answers for some of the challenges that we face." Obama said he had deployed doctors to the affected areas to check on coast residents' and rescue workers' health. "I'm here to tell you (residents) that you are not alone, you will not be abandoned, you will not be left behind," Obama said. " The media may get tired of the story, but we will not. We will be on your side and we will see this through." He also pleaded for volunteers to join the cleanup effort and for tourists to spend money along the majority of the region's coastline that is untouched by the spill. &$ &$【1】 &$&$【2】 &$&$【3】 &$ &$ &$&$ ]]> 7004565 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$ Actor Gary Coleman arrives at the 6th Annual TV Land Awards in Santa Monica, California, June 8, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters File Photo) Former U.S. child television star Gary Coleman died at the age of 42 in Utah on Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported. Coleman died at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage earlier this ...]]> &$ Actor Gary Coleman arrives at the 6th Annual TV Land Awards in Santa Monica, California, June 8, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters File Photo) Former U.S. child television star Gary Coleman died at the age of 42 in Utah on Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported. Coleman died at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage earlier this week, according to a statement from hospital spokeswoman Janet Frank. Coleman was lucid and conscious Thursday morning but that he was on life support by Thursday afternoon, according to a statement released by his management team. The statement continued to say, "Family members and close friends were at his side when life support was terminated". A resident of Santaquin, Utah, Coleman had been hospitalized Wednesday and lost consciousness the next day. He was taken off life support Friday afternoon with his family at his side, the hospital said. Born with failed kidneys, Coleman had undergone two transplants by age 14 and his growth was permanently stunted by the side effects of dialysis medications, the paper said. The diminutive star soared to fame in the late 1970s as perhaps the most well-known child star in the country during the period, starring in hit sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" as Arnold Jackson and whose post-TV-series life included a stint as a shopping mall security guard and an unlikely run for California governor, according to The Times. &$&$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004564 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004563 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004562 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004561 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004560 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$Source: Xinhua&$ &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004559 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$ Pakistani police commandos outside a mosque in Lahore on May 28. Gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed two Pakistani mosques belonging to a minority sect in Lahore, bringing carnage to Friday prayers and killing around 80 people, officials said. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) It was the biggest of this kind of attacks in 2010 when two separate unknown groups attacked two worship plac ...]]> &$ Pakistani police commandos outside a mosque in Lahore on May 28. Gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed two Pakistani mosques belonging to a minority sect in Lahore, bringing carnage to Friday prayers and killing around 80 people, officials said. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) It was the biggest of this kind of attacks in 2010 when two separate unknown groups attacked two worship places of a minority group, Ahmadis on Friday in Pakistan' s eastern city of Lahore. The two attacks were carried out nearly simultaneously, at Garhi Shahu and Lahore Model Town, 15 km apart. Police said at least 73 people were killed and 100 others were injured. Several attackers were killed and one was captured. During the shootout a policeman was killed and four others, including senior police officials, were injured. The time of the terrorizing act was very important to note. The attack was made on Friday when more than 2,000 of Ahmadis, also known as Qadiyani, gathered in the worship places. On the same day, Pakistan was also celebrating the Youm-i-Takbeer (or Pakistan's Self Reliance Day), when Pakistan became a nuclear power on May 28, 1998. Two separate groups identified themselves as Tehrek-e-Taliban Pakistan Punjab wing and Al-Qaeda Al-Jihad Punjab wing claimed responsibility for the incident. The two names were new for observers. Therefore, several questions were raised about the real culprits behind the attacks against Ahmadis, a non-Muslim minority group in Pakistan. Some people believed that some foreign hands were involved in the incidents as May 28 was an important day for Pakistan. Some officials like commissioner of Lahore, the capital of the eastern province Punjab, doubted some foreign forces for carrying out the attacks when they answered local media's questions. However, analysts did not agree that foreign hand could be involved in this particular incident. Retired Lieutenant General Talaat Masood, a seasoned defense analyst, said that Pakistan has a long history of sectarian violence and Qadaynis were opposed in history. "The militants groups in Pakistan act in accordance with their ideological orientation and training and there are certain groups that consider killing of infidels or non-believers as good, and all those who are not in line with their believes are considered as infidels," he added. Masood dubbed the incident as a sectarian violence and ruled out involvement of any foreign hand. He doubted involvement of even Tehrek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Rahimullah Yousafzai, an expert on militancy and well-known analyst, told Xinhua that the militants want to convey the message that they are targeting non-believers besides America. He also ruled out foreign involvement in the attacks against Ahmadis. If TTP and foreign hands are not behind the attack, then who planned it? Yousafzai and Masood agreed that the Punjab based militants, sometimes referred as Punjabi Taliban, are responsible for the action. Masood said that Pakistan is facing the problems like Friday's incident, as in the past no action was taken against the groups promoting violence inside the country. &am ]]> 7004558 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]> 7004553 2012-02-12 11:27:49 【1】 【2】 【3】 &$&$ &$ ]]> 7004552 2012-02-12 11:27:49 &$Source: Xinhua&$&$ ]]>