09 Mar, 2010
Posted by: admin In: Around Beijing| News
By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province — It shouldn’t come as any surprise that one of the great perks of working in China is the food. I’m only half-joking when I say that my colleagues and I rate field assignments here more on the cuisine than anything else.
And for that reason alone Hunan [...]
By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent
BAGHDAD _ For a country recovering from a single party dictatorship, Iraqis have had more elections in the last five years than Americans. But elections in Iraq, while once hailed as a proof of success, have also created bloodshed and chaos. This election is has the [...]
Barry Keller is a hydrogeophysicst who has a home in Pichilemu, a beach town in central Chile known as a surfer’s paradise. He shares this FirstPerson report:We were at home during the quake at 3:34 a.m. local time. There were very strong motions for about a minute. Our house in Pichilemu is a four-story (counting [...]
06 Mar, 2010
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By Adrienne Mong, NBC News ProducerZhangjiajie, Hunan Province — It was an interesting formula.
“One Japanese tourist spends the same as two Korean tourists,” said Wang Ai Ming, an official from the Hunan tourism bureau. “And one Korean spends as much as three Chinese tourists.”
Unfortunately for our minor functionary from Zhangjiajie, the Japanese and especially [...]
Tuesday, March 2
How a young girl prevented a larger tragedy in Robinson Crusoe island | 1:30 p.m. ET
Local papers are telling the story of how a 12-year-old’s quick thinking might have saved the residents of Robinson Crusoe, an island about 400 miles off the coast of Chile named after the fictional sailor.
Martina Maturana felt as slight tremor and [...]
