May 12 Dispatch: China’s Balancing Act I spent last week in northeastern China zipping around on new superhighways, passing millions of newly planted trees, new rail lines and massive train stations, enormous shopping malls, and skyscrapers -- all amid a people working, working, working. Continue reading
May 12 Watch News Wrap: Dutch Child Sole Survivor of Libyan Plane Crash In other new Wednesday, a Libyan plane crash on landing in Tripoli, killing 103 people on board but sparing a 10-year-old Dutch boy and seven children and two adults were hacked to death at a school in China by the… Continue watching
May 12 Watch World’s ‘Better City’ Wonders on Display at Shanghai Expo As China kicks off its five-month World Expo festivities in Shanghai, Jeffrey Brown talks to Ray Suarez about what is on displayed in the international pavilions at the largest, most expensive World's Fair in history. Continue watching
May 11 Shanghai World Expo: Serious Business with a Side of Campy Fun World's fairs are fun. There, I've said it. Campy fun, perhaps, but fun all the same. Traditional music and native dress. Buildings that attempt to boil down the essence of a country's identity into a striking, but affordable structure. Continue reading
Apr 19 Watch News Wrap: Rescue Efforts Continue After Deadly Chinese Quake In other news Monday, search crews continued to rescue survivors after an earthquake in western China that killed nearly 2,000 people, and bombings targeting police in Pakistan killed 23 people. Continue watching
Apr 15 Watch News Wrap: Attacks Kill 11 in Southern Afghanistan In other news on Thursday, a suicide car bombing in Afghanistan killed seven foreign workers in the southern city of Kandahar and rescue workers in China continued the search for survivors of Wednesday's powerful earthquakes. Continue watching