BOAO: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Saturday announced the establishment of a 10-billion-dollar fund to help promote infrastructure projects in Southeast Asia. Speaking at the opening of the Boao Forum on the tropical island of Hainan in south China, Wen stressed the importance of developing infrastructure in the region in the face of the global financial crisis."We should accelerate the development of regional and sub-regional transport, power and communication infrastructure to gradually achieve interconnectivity and form a network," he said in a speech broadcast live on state television.The annual Boao Forum aims to promote regional economic integration. Wen had planned to announce the new fund at an Asian summit in Thailand last week but it was cancelled due to violent demonstrations.BOAO: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Saturday announced the establishment of a 10-billion-dollar fund to help promote infrastructure projects in Southeast Asia. Speaking at the opening of the Boao Forum on the tropical island of Hainan in south China, Wen stressed the importance of developing infrastructure in the region in the face of the global financial crisis."We should accelerate the development of regional and sub-regional transport, power and communication infrastructure to gradually achieve interconnectivity and form a network," he said in a speech broadcast live on state television.The annual Boao Forum aims to promote regional economic integration. Wen had planned to announce the new fund at an Asian summit in Thailand last week but it was cancelled due to violent demonstrations.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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