Typhoon Haikui made landfall in southwestern China Wednesday. The storm is the third of its kind to hit China this week.
The typhoon is moving northeast with winds reaching 70 miles per hour, according to Weather Underground. At 9 a.m. local time, the storm was labeled a tropical storm.
As for the guy in the picture, he needs to find a new place to do his morning jog.
Photo credit: Larry Leung / EPA
U.S. citizens don’t need a passport to visit The Prison Capital of The World.
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A car is stranded in a flooded tunnel after a heavy rainstorm hit China’s Jiangxi Province on May 12, flooding roads in several cities.
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China’s national observatory yesterday upgraded the warning level from blue to yellow for a new round of rainstorms expected to hit the country’s southern regions over next three days.
The National Meteorological Center urged local authorities in south China to strengthen monitoring and guard against possible geological disasters such as landslides.
The national observatory uses a four-tier color-coded weather warning system, with red being the most severe, followed by orange, yellow and blue.
Rainstorm are set to hit southern China over the next three days, with up to 150 millimeters of rain expected in parts of Jiangxi, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces, the center said.
The past few hours have been filled with media coverage surrounding North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-Il’s death. Most of that coverage, from my perspective, has focused on how world relations will be affected. I am not concerned with any of that at this point and time.
I am much more worried about the citizens of North Korea. There is no doubt they live in terrible conditions. After watching a few documentaries, one would learn about the frequent power outages, lack of food and lack of medical care.
Il’s son is only 28. To take control of a communist nation at that age is very tough. I hope the United States will take a stance that includes passive aggressive humanitarianism.
I believe we should make a statement that offers humanitarian help. In fact, all important world powers should join in.
A disorganized government in North Korea could create a terrible refugee situation — much worse than what the U.S. experiences. Refugees will flee to China and perhaps even try to cross the demilitarized zone into South Korea. Life is better for them in every direction. If they stay where they are, they might die. If they make it to another country, they might die. However, there is a much better life waiting for them — if they can find it.
Whatever happens, the International Red Cross and World Health Organization need to take this opportunity to enter North Korea and aid the citizens. They need it more than any citizen in the “western” world. Poverty in North Korea is significantly worse than any poverty an American will ever experience.
Tian Tian made her first media appearance Monday at the Edinburgh Zoo since she and a male panda arrived from China earlier this month. Officials hope that the first giant pandas to live in the United Kingdom in decades will reproduce. (Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)
We would know about:
Heavy Rains causing massive flooding in China
A bomb detonating in the Turkish capital killing 3
If your in the mood for some good reading click here and read an article by the Associated press about…. well, just check the title.
If not, I’ll explain it to you.
Basically, if the government doesn’t raise the debt limit or find a compromise, we are going to be chillin’ just like our ancestors were during the great depression in the 1930’s. In other words the world is going to go into depression because just about everyone has some kind of stock in the U.S. economy, especially China.
Anyway, Obama didn’t introduce a bill that said the wealthy are going to have to pay x number more. He did say that “they can afford to pay more.” This is an important step because — if you know anything about the U.S. economy — the wealthy pay a significantly smaller percentage of their income in taxes than the middle class do.
Although I don’t like the U.S. becoming deeper in debt, It has to be done. More importantly, there needs to be a plan to reduce the debt. The government cannot keep operating the way it does if it ever wants to stop worrying about deficit spending.
