China urges more aid for people in need as economic woes persist The Chinese government urged local officials to provide more financial relief or step up one-time allowances to people in need ahead of major holidays over the next month, as China's economic ... 12/29/2024 - 7:12 pm | View Link
China’s firms are taking flight, worrying its rulers Chinese firms invested a record $177bn in non-financial assets abroad. More than four-fifths is likely to have been ploughed into “greenfield” projects, in which assets are built rather than bought, ... 12/29/2024 - 2:22 am | View Link
China’s Xi vows to stop mass killings known as ‘revenge on society crimes’ China’s leader Xi Jinping wants the recent spree of mass killings that shocked the country not to happen again. 12/28/2024 - 6:07 am | View Link
Inside China’s plan to conquer the Pacific Rugby League is a fast-moving, sometimes physically brutal game born in the working-class communities of northern England. 12/27/2024 - 5:00 pm | View Link
China is building new detention centers all over the country as Xi Jinping widens corruption purge More than 200 specialized detention facilities have been built or expanded across China, a CNN investigation finds, as the Chinese leader extends his crackdown beyond the ruling Communist Party to a ... 12/27/2024 - 11:27 am | View Link
China–Japan relations China–Japan relations or Sino-Japanese relations (simplified Chinese: 中日关系; traditional Chinese: 中日關係; pinyin: Zhōngrì guānxì; Japanese: 日中関係, romanized: Nitchū kankei) are the bilateral relations between China and Japan. The countries are geographically separated by the East China Sea. 12/27/2024 - 3:57 pm | View Website
EXPLAINER: What's behind strained China-Japan relations Yasuo Fukuda, a former Japanese prime minister who is an active proponent of better ties with China, says friction between Japan and China largely stem from U.S.-China trade issues. “The question is if global trade works better by excluding China,” he said. 12/26/2024 - 9:11 am | View Website
Japan, China seek mutually beneficial ties through talks amid strains Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed Thursday to build "mutually beneficial" bilateral relations based on common strategic interests, despite what Tokyo views as an "unscientific" import ban on its seafood and a host of other pending issues. 12/25/2024 - 10:05 pm | View Website
China, Japan foreign ministers agree visit, security dialogue Talks between China and Japan's foreign ministers in Beijing have paved way for Japan to host China's foreign affairs chief next year, and mutual agreement to hold a security dialogue as soon as ... 12/25/2024 - 6:41 am | View Website
Japan, China Agree to Visit by Beijing’s Top Diplomat Next Year China and Japan agreed that Beijing’s top diplomat should visit in 2025, adding to signs the two nations are repairing ties that have been strained in recent years. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang ... 12/25/2024 - 4:04 am | View Website
Crocodile Dundee was 1986 movie that struck gold and became an international sensation. It cost roughly 8.8 million dollars to make and grossed around 328 million dollars.
Paul Hogan became a star as well as crocodiles in general.
Today we learn that Burt, the giant crocodile that featured in hit Australian comedy Crocodile Dundee, has died at around 90 years-old.
Crocosaurus Cove, an aquarium and exhibition space in Darwin, Australia, where Burt was housed, announced the news on social media, saying that the crocodile “passed away peacefully” and was “estimated to be over 90 years old”
In Crocodile Dundee, Burt features in a scene where American reporter Sue Charlton (played by Linda Kozlowski) is rescued by Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) from a crocodile attack.
“Donald Trump has appointed Justin Caporale, the man credited with some of his most eye-catching campaign gambits on the path to his second presidential election victory, to a White House role, signalling that high-profile publicity stunts are likely to be a key feature of his second presidential term,” The Guardian reports.
“Pro-Palestinian groups in the U. S. are staring down a new challenge: Donald Trump and Republicans,” Politico reports.
“The movement has tended to focus its efforts on who controls the White House and Democrats, whom its leaders view as more persuadable to soften support for Israel. But 15 months into the war in the Middle East, as the GOP trifecta prepares to control the White House and Congress, leaders in the movement find themselves with far less leverage — and much more to lose.”
“House Republicans on Wednesday released their proposed rules package for the 119th Congress, which includes several notable changes to the rules that governed the lower chamber for the last two years,” Axios reports.
“The most crucial alteration raises the threshold to introduce a motion to vacate — a measure to force a vote on ousting the House speaker.”
“Instead of any single House Republican being able to force such a vote, now the motion will have to have eight additional GOP co-sponsors.”
Politico: House rules would make it harder to oust speaker in next Congress.
“A 42-year-old Texas man with the flag of the Islamic State on his pickup rammed the vehicle into celebrating crowds on Bourbon Street in the early hours of New Year’s Day, officials said. The attack killed at least 10 people and injured about 35 others,” the New York Times reports.
“The suspect, who died in a shootout with police officers, was identified by the F.