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BEIJING, June 11 () -- Torrential rains have ravaged central China's Hunan Province over the past several days, leaving eight dead and another seven missing, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said Monday.Natural disasters caused by the downpours had affected nearly 1.39 million people in 49 counties in the province as of 4 p.m. Monday and forced the evacuation of 123,000 residents, the ministry said in a statement.Provincial disaster relief and civil affairs authorities had initiated third-grade emergency response and sent two teams to the disaster-affected areas to direct relief work. The local government also allocated 4 million yuan (about 631,330 U.S dollars) as relief fund.
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WASHINGTON, May 31 () -- U.S. Department of Defense said on Thursday that two military liaison officers have returned to Pakistan at the request of the country's government, a sign that the relations between the two countries maybe improving.Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. John Kirby briefed reporters Thursday that the posting is part of an effort to improve tactical and operational coordination between NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan and the Pakistani military.Based in Peshawar, Pakistan, the liaison officers are working with the headquarters staff of the Pakistani army's 11th Corps, Kirby said. The purpose of the posting is to "increase and improve communication between the two militaries along that border."The liaison officers left Pakistan following the cross-border incident last November, in which U.S. air strike on the country's Mohmand Agency killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. Relationship between the two countries deteriorated after the incident, and Pakistan had closed the land routes of NATO supplies through its territories.A Pentagon review of the incident cited inadequate coordination as a cause of the attack.
WASHINGTON, May 10 () -- The U.S. federal government on Thursday announced a national strategy to attract 100 million international visitors annually by 2021 in a bid to boost economic growth and job creation.U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Thursday announced the Obama administration's National Tourism and Travel Strategy, a blueprint for expanding travel to the United States and laying out concrete steps including streamlining the visa process."This Administration will continue to do everything we can to support travel and tourism -- our number one services export -- which will help support millions of American jobs," Bryson said in a statement released by the White House."As our nation's economy continues to gain strength, tourism -- especially international tourism -- holds the promise of being an economic engine for the country," Salazar noted.The U.S. Department of State was investing approximately 68 million U.S. dollars in 2012 on existing facilities in Brazil and 22 million dollars in China to add interview windows, expand consular office space and improve waiting areas, noted the statement.The Obama administration was also adding staff and streamlining its operations to continue to keep visa interview wait times low. Travelers currently wait less than one week for an appointment at U.S. consulates in China, less than one week in large Brazilian cities including Brasilia.The Department of State intended to double the number of diplomats performing consular work in China and Brazil over the next year to offer timely visa services to qualified applicants.The travel and tourism industry generated 1.2 trillion U.S. dollars from domestic and international travel and supported 7.6 million jobs in 2011, with international travel to the United States resulting in a record 153 billion dollars in receipts and supporting 1.2 million jobs, figures from the White House revealed.The 100 million international visitors the United States aimed at attracting by 2021 were estimated to spend 250 billion dollars every year.The federal government would also leverage high-profile spokespeople, websites, social media tools, its diplomatic presence in 192 countries around the world to better communicate interesting travel opportunities to the international public.
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COLOMBO, July 17 () -- Sri Lanka is finalizing plans to end the age-old telegram service citing unprofitability due to e- mail and other forms of communication, a minister said here on Tuesday.Sri Lanka has been operating a largely unprofitable telegram service for years without seeing profits, Postal Minister Jeevan Kumaratunge told media adding that only an average of 50 telegrams are sent daily."As a result we are considering closing that department and transferring around 1, 800 employees to other work in the postal services," he said.The postal service, which is state-owned in Sri Lanka made a loss of 3 billion rupees (about 23 million U.S. dollars) last year.The telegram service has been in use since colonial times and was used by banks as well as the public sector before technology made it obsolete.Growing popularity of the internet, fax and text messaging has resulted in the telegram service losing customers prompting the government to end the service, said Kumaratunge.
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 19 () -- Solving Europe's debt crisis will take the center stage in Denmark's upcoming EU presidency, the country's Minister for Europe said here Monday."The crisis will heavily affect our agenda and we will do our best to secure what we can do to do bring Europe forward within the limits of the presidency role," Nicolai Wammen told international journalists at a news conference.The comments came as he released the government's focus areas for Denmark's six-month EU presidency which starts Jan. 1, 2012.The official priorities are a "responsible, dynamic, green and safe Europe," but beating the debt crisis will be paramount."The basic objective for the Danish presidency will be to contribute to get Europe out of the crisis... The economic crisis, and also the lack-of-trust crisis. We need to restore faith in the EU," he added.For Denmark, this means encouraging greater economic responsibility among EU members, which in turn "implies (members') political willingness to comply with new rules on economic governance."These rules, proposed by EU leaders at their Dec. 9 summit in Brussels, include preventing EU members running deficits of more than 0.5 percent, and automatic sanctions for those with deficits exceeding three percent.The rules are scheduled to come into force in March 2012.EURO OPT-OUTDenmark is put in an awkward position while drafting a course for the eurozone out of the crisis, as it does not use the euro and has not yet agreed to sign on to the new fiscal agreement, which so far only binds the 17-member euro zone, and is still being drafted."We have a positive attitude towards the draft and the government will engage constructively in the negotiations with a clear political intention to the greatest extent possible participate in the agreement with full respect of our national opt-out on the euro," Wammen said.He insisted that the euro opt-out would not prevent Denmark taking a leading role in economic negotiations with euro zone members under its presidency."I believe there is strong confidence in the Danish presidency from all member states... we have a strong economy, a strong commitment to Europe, we are seen as an honest broker, and that is the way we will deal with the presidency," Wammen said in response to questions from ."We will try to bring all 27 together to find solutions to the problems and challenges we are facing," he added.Denmark will chair most meetings on the EU budget, and other vital meetings, during its presidency. This means it will have an important role to play as a mediator between the 17-member euro zone, and the 10 EU members outside the euro, including the UK, which is the only member to outright reject the new intergovernmental fiscal agreement.GREEN GROWTH, ENLARGEMENTJob creation, improvement of the single market, and improving competitiveness in the global market, are also high on the presidency agenda.In this respect, Wammen said more funds would have to be channeled to "growth-enhancing areas like research, education and innovative technologies."The green emphasis will promote sustainable growth, preserve the EU's lead on climate and energy policies and measures, and keep and create knowledge-intensive green jobs in the EU.With regard to the EU enlargement, Wammen said Denmark was looking "forward to continuing negotiations with Turkey and Iceland, opening negotiations with Montenegro in June, and granting candidate status to Serbia in February."Under its previous presidency in 2002, Denmark oversaw the expansion of the EU by 10 new member states.
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