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The Spring Festival, the most
important Chinese holiday, is only 10 days away and millions of passengers are
struggling to make the once-a-year trip home.
Almost 150,000 passengers were
stranded at Guangzhou Railway Station on Saturday night after a power failure
caused by snow, ice and sleet stopped more than 136 trains in
An official with
"Last night, 100,000
passengers packed the square in front of the railway station in heavy rain;
another 50,000 crouched inside the building or under nearby crossovers,"
said an official in Yuexiu district of Guangzhou.
Though the power supply resumed
at 4:00 p.m. Saturday, 50 trains remain stranded between
He said the authorities were
trying to find shelter for the passengers at nearby schools, conference halls
and other public facilities.
International News
French president marries former
model
French President Nicolas Sarkozy married former model Carla Bruni
on Saturday at the
In a terse statement, the couple said only that they were married
this morning in the presence of their families in the strictest privacy." The
official statement followed an announcement of the wedding several hours earlier
from the official who had performed the ceremony at the presidential
"The bride wore white; she was ravishing, as usual," Francois
Lebel, mayor of
Sarkozy, 53, and Bruni, 40, were married in the presence of about
20 close family and friends, Lebel said. He called the ceremony "a moment of
family intimacy for the young newlyweds, of great simplicity and apparently a lot
of affection between the spouses.
"I wished them a lot of happiness," he said.
Under French law, couples must tie the knot before a mayor to make
their union official. Sarkozy was not the first French president to marry in office:
Gaston Doumergue tied the knot at the
Sarkozy's openness about his private life has surprised many French,
accustomed to presidents who keep their love lives under wraps.
At a news conference in January, Sarkozy revealed that the relationship
was "serious" and hinted that wedding plans were in the works. But he
refused to reveal the date for a wedding, saying only that
The couple went public with their relationship during a visit to
Disneyland Paris, and they carried out their brief but highly publicized courtship
in such places as the ruins of
Sarkozy's approval ratings dropped during their courtship — in part,
analysts say, because many older, more traditional voters were put off by his glitzy,
jet-setting style.
The wedding was the third for Sarkozy, who has three children. He
ended his 11-year marriage with Cecilia in October last year.
Industry News
What would you do before the end of the world?
An asteroid is on a collision course with the earth and you have one hour
left to live. What would you do in your last 60 minutes?
Not surprisingly, the majority of Britons
questioned in a survey -- 54 percent -- said they would like to spend it either
with or on the phone to their loved ones.
But the survey revealed a
strong hedonistic streak -- 13 percent would sit back, accept the inevitable and reach for a glass of
champagne.
Sex appealed to only nine percent while just three percent would turn to
prayer.
Two percent intriguingly said they would reach for some fatty food while
another two percent decided, with just an hour's life to go, that it was time
to start looting.
The survey was commissioned by Ziji Publishing to mark the release of
"
The survey was commissioned by Ziji Publishing to mark the release of
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Domestic News
New airport to operate in
A
second airport will be built in
Scheduled
to open in 2015, the new facility will provide additional capacity once Capital
International reaches its maximum.
A
new, third terminal at Capital will open for testing at the end of next month.
A bird's-eye view of
Terminal 3 at
Yang
Guoqing, deputy minister of the General Administration of Civil Aviation of
China (CAAC), said at a press conference there will be no further large-scale
developments at Capital.
He
dismissed rumors the second international airport will be built in
"The
location of the second airport has not been decided, because choosing the right
location is a very complicated matter," he said.
Yang
said the economic development strategy of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area and
the pattern of passenger and cargo flow has to be considered.
The
new airport should also not come into conflict with the existing facilities in
The
CAAC is currently conducting a study of several world cities that have two or
more airports, including
His
remarks marked the first time a senior CAAC official has spoken about the plan
to build a second international airport.
The
idea for the facility emerged in 2002, after
While
the
The
central government decided in 2003 on the expansion of Capital and ordered all
works to be completed before 2008, Zhang Guobao, deputy minister of the
National Development and Reform Commission, said yesterday.
The
expanded airport has been designed to handle 76 million passengers and 1.8
million tons of cargo a year by 2015.
The
new third terminal has been billed as the largest and most advanced in the
country, with the 27 billion yuan ($3.75 billion) investment expected to be
recovered in 12 years.
Two
areas of the terminal - T
Zhang,
who is also chief commander of the airport expansion project, said the first
batch of six airlines, including two domestic carriers and four foreign ones,
will move into T3 on Feb 29. A second batch of 26 airlines, including Air
A
third section of the terminal, T3D, is still undergoing interior work and will
be completed in May, officials said.
The
later date is due to work on T3D starting two years after T
On
completion, T3D will receive foreign athletes and officials who arrive in
charter flights during the Olympics. This group of visitors accounts for at
least 65 percent of the total number of foreign guests, Zhang Zhizhong,
president of the Capital Airports Holding Co, said.