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China accused of defying its own ban on breeding tigers to profit from body parts

Edit The Guardian 27 Sep 2016
The Chinese say their domestic market is nobody else’s business since Cites covers only international trade ... But the Chinese draft stated ... While the IUCN had called for urgent action to deal with “the growing use of tiger parts and derivatives as luxury items”, the Chinese draft reported that “the evidences and informations are not enough to demonstrate the growing use of parts and derivatives of Asian big cats as luxury items.”....

Mike Gerger Leads Golfers at Mercyhurst Invitational (Pitt-Johnstown Athletics)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Sep 2016
Pitt-Johnstown Athletics) shot a two-day total of 163 to finish in a tie for 47th-place and pace the Mountain Cat golfers at Sunday and Monday's 2016 Mercyhurst University Fall Invitational in Erie ... The Mountain Cats travel to the Gannon University 'Bud Elwell' Classic on October 9-10, before competing in the 2016 PSAC Championships ......

Documentary traces apple's origin to China

Edit China Daily 27 Sep 2016
A documentary broadcast on Monday traces the origins of the apple to the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, quashing the popularly held Chinese belief that they were introduced to the country from the West ... Many Chinese attribute the introduction of the apple to China by John Livingston Nevius (1829-93), a US Christian missionary....

World Tourism Day 2016 (EAA - Ecotourism Association of Australia)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Sep 2016
Bale Mountain Lodge. As the first high-end lodge within an Ethiopian national park, Bale Mountain Lodge has set the national standard for wildlife-based tourism, supporting the environment, providing alternative sources of income and establishing a community trust to engage local people in conservation ... Ron Knight - Bale Mountain National Park ... Citizen Action for Tigers (CAT)....

Taiwan closes schools, offices ahead of island-wide typhoon

Edit The Oklahoman 27 Sep 2016
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan closed schools and offices as a large typhoon with 162 kilometers- (100 miles-) per-hour winds approached the mountainous island Tuesday ... On the Chinese coast, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) from Taiwan, fishing boats were ordered back to port....

Li Keqiang Welcomes Overseas Chinese in Canada to Invest, Contribute Ideas and Participate in China's Innovative Development (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Sep 2016
Cheng Hong, who were visiting Montreal, attended and addressed a welcome banquet held by overseas Chinese in Canada. More than 800 representatives of overseas Chinese from different sectors from Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and Montreal, as well as representatives of the Canadian government attended the welcome banquet ... Chinese is the third most widely-used language in Canada....

Four killed, scores injured as Typhoon Megi sweeps across Taiwan

Edit Belfast Telegraph 27 Sep 2016
Rainfall had topped 12in in the mountains of south and eastern Taiwan by midday. Megi is 310 miles in diameter and is expected to pass over the island's steep central mountain range later ... More than 8,000 people had been evacuated, mostly from mountainous areas at risk of landslides or floods ... On the Chinese coast, about 100 miles from Taiwan at its ......

California heat wave intensifies wildfire threatening homes

Edit Austin American Statesman 27 Sep 2016
A heat wave stifling drought-stricken California worsened a wildfire Tuesday that burned some buildings and forced people from their homes in remote communities along the Santa Cruz Mountains ... More California residents were ordered from their homes Tuesday as a growing wildfire threatened remote communities in the Santa Cruz Mountains....

Zhang Daqian makes waves as his ink works go under the hammer

Edit China Daily 27 Sep 2016
In 1948, Zhang produced Spring Clouds Amid Autumn Landscape, a mountain-and-water ink painting featuring gongbi (meticulous brushwork), as a gift for Li's 50th birthday ... as he sought to master the mountain-and-water style, according to C.K. Cheung, head of Sotheby's Chinese painting department....

Strong winds from island-wide typhoon hurt dozens in Taiwan

Edit Deccan Chronicle 27 Sep 2016
Rainfall had topped 300 millimeters (12 inches) in the mountains of south and eastern Taiwan by midday. Megi is 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter and is expected to pass over the island's steep central mountain range later ... More than 8,000 people had been evacuated, mostly from mountainous areas at risk of landslides or floods....

Missing Cat Found After Three Years (Kalgoorlie-Boulder City Council)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Sep 2016
City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Rangers had a pleasant surprise today after discovering a trapped feral cat was actually a domestic cat that has been missing for three years. Shadow the cat had disappeared while its owners were on holidays and was never found before the family relocated from Kalgoorlie ... your dog or cat....

Nick Clegg reveals that there is a special security door for cats in Downing Street

Edit New Statesman 27 Sep 2016
“Cats come first.” ... Another day, another story about Whitehall cats to distract the nation from the hellfire of British politics and the death of social democracy as we know it ... He revealed, during an interview on Absolute radio, that there is a special security entrance for cats in Downing Street ... The cats come first.”....

Strong winds from island-wide typhoon kill 4 in Taiwan

Edit Springfield News-Sun 27 Sep 2016
Megi is 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter, and rainfall had topped 300 millimeters (12 inches) in the south and eastern mountains ... More than 8,000 people had been evacuated, mostly from mountainous areas at risk of landslides or floods ... On the Chinese coast, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) from Taiwan at its nearest point, fishing boats were ordered back to port, the country's official Xinhua News Agency said ... ....
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