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Hainan Airlines hebt gen China ab (FVW.com)Der Airport Berlin-Tegel hat ab dem heutigen Freitag eine erste Direktverbindung nach Peking. "In diesen für Airlines und Flughäfen schwierigen Zeiten ist das ein außergewöhnliches Ereignis", jubiliert Airportchef Rainer Schwarz. Germaine Greer on Britain's lack of proper statues of women (Guardian Unlimited)Germaine Greer: Monumental effigies of women are rare. The city fathers of London prefer even their abstractions to be male, especially if they are going to be naked First direct flight linking Chinese, German capitals launches (China Daily)The first direct flight linking the capitals of China and Germany launched at 2:30 p.m. on Friday. Each Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, Hainan Airlines takes off from Beijing at 2:30 p.m. and reaches Berlin at 6 p.m. local time. Elephant addicted to heroin completes detox program (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)BEIJING -- Chinese vets have put an Asian elephant who was fed with drugged bananas by animal smugglers through a detox program to cure the animal of his addiction, the Xinhua news agency has reported. Chinese jumbo kicks heroin after rehab stint 6 Sep 2008, 0040 hrs IST,REUTERS (The Times of India)BEIJING: A once drug-addled elephant fed heroin-laced bananas by illegal traders will return home after emerging clean from a three-year detox program on China's tropical island province of Hainan. First direct flight linking Chinese, German capitals launched (People's Daily)The first direct flight linking the capitals of China and Germany launched in Beijing at 2:30 p.m. on Friday. Each Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, Hainan Airlines takes off from Beijing at 2:30 p.m. and reaches Berlin at 6 p.m. local time. The return flight takes off from Berlin at 8:20 p.m. and reaches Beijing at 11:10 a.m. the next morning. Airbus A330-200 aircraft will operate on the ... World's widest tunnel completes digging in Shanghai (People's Daily)The world's widest tunnel with an inner diameter of 13.7 meters completed its excavation in Shanghai under the Yangtze River on Friday. The 8.9-km tunnel is part of a 12.6 billion yuan (1.84 billion U.S. dollars) bridge and tunnel project to link Shanghai with Chongming Island, the country's third largest after Taiwan and Hainan. The tunnel will accommodate a six-lane expressway and a rail line. ... Endlich Peking-Flüge bestätigt (FVW.com)Das Geduldsspiel ist zu Ende. Ab September fliegt Hainan Airlines zwischen Peking und Berlin-Tegel. "Wir sind sehr erleichtert, dass die Streckenrechte endlich erteilt wurden", erklärt Rainer Schwarz, Chef der Berliner Flughäfen. Elephant beats heroin habit with detox (Reuters via Yahoo! News) A once drug-addled elephant fed heroin-laced bananas by illegal traders will return home after emerging clean from a three-year detox programme on China's tropical island province of Hainan. World's widest tunnel completes digging in Shanghai (China Economic Net)The world's widest tunnel with an inner diameter of 13.7 meters completed its excavation here under the Yangtze River on Friday. |
