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18 December 2014 Last updated at 10:33 GMT World leaders have welcomed a historic move by the US to end more than 50 years of hostility towards Cuba and restore diplomatic relations. Ordinary people have been giving their reaction too - Raul Marchena-Margadan is from Cuba but moved to the UK in...
Sony’s decision to cancel the cinema release of Seth Rogen and James Franco’s film 'The Interview' is a national defeat in “America’s first cyberwar”, it has been claimed. Politicians, legal commentators and Hollywood itself united to condemn the production company’s “collapse” in the face of a...
The fast-growing Sino-Canadian trade and calls to strengthen economic and trade cooperation between the two countries were the main topics at a forum of Chinese and Canadian officials, experts on policy research and analysis, entrepreneurs and investors. In a keynote address to the nearly 200 people...
Canada's new program that would give approximately 50 immigrants and their families residency visas by investing at least 1 million Canadian dollars in a venture-capital fund has appeal for many Chinese, despite its stricter assessment and verification, according to observers. The visa program,...
China and Canada's national airlines, Air China Ltd and Air Canada, are increasing their cooperation. The two airlines signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Beijing on Nov 8. The MOU defined a comprehensive revenue-sharing joint venture, upon which the two carriers can enhance partnership in...
CHICAGO - China and the United States vowed on Wednesday to further enhance bilateral cooperation in boosting tourism and people-to-people exchanges. At a forum on China-US tourism cooperation held here as part of the ongoing 25th session of the US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade...
George Stinney Jr became the youngest person to be executed in the US in the 20th century when he was sent to the electric chair in 1944, but more than 70 years after his death his conviction has been overturned. Circuit Judge Carmen Mullen said the speed with which the state meted out justice...
There has been a mixed reaction to Sony’s decision to cancel the release of “The Interview” due to an anonymous security threat, but one Texas cinema’s response has been outstandingly, quintessentially American. Several major cinema chains across the US had said they would not be showing Seth Rogen...
