China's tourist island of Hainan to gain third airport

China's tourist island of Hainan to gain third airport

Chinese authorities have given the green light for an airport project in the city of Qionghai in the southernmost tropical island province of Hainan.

The project will provide the tourist island with its third airport. The other two airports are located in the provincial capital of Haikou and the scenic beachside city of Sanya.

According to a document of approval issued by the State Council, or China's cabinet, the airport will be built in Qionghai's Zhongyuan Township.

Built with a projected cost of 945 million yuan (146 million U.S. dollars), the airport will handle 3,190 flights, or 290,000 passengers and 725 metric tons of cargo, annually by 2015.,CVC Fabric, It will be able to accomodate a variety of aircraft, including corporate jets and airliners.

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The construction of the airport will help to facilitate travel to Bo'ao, a small town that has become a popular tourist destination as a result of the Bo'ao Forum,,cheap Chargers Jerseys, an annual gathering that brings together state leaders, government officials, businessmen and academics from across Asia. The forum aims to promote regional economic integration.

Partly boosted by the launch of a duty-free shopping program in April, Hainan's tourist traffic witnessed a year-on-year surge of 8.,Cheap Christian Louboutin,94 percent in the first half of the year, reaching 14.42 million visitors.

many of which are collaborations between U.S. and Brazilian artists

"We were surprised," said Mr. Dranoff in his office recently. While he knew Beck's 1998 recording, "Mutations," is a reference to the group Os Mutantes—key figures in the Tropicalia movement—Mr. Dranoff found other fans. "Devendra [Banhart], the members of Of Montreal and Beirut, the kids from Brooklyn"—a reference to the members of Dirty Projectors and Grizzly Bear—"they all loved Tropicalia; it made us think, 'maybe this is what we should do next.'"

Tropicalia, which followed bossa nova in the 1960s, was a wide-ranging cultural movement that had expressions in visual arts and poetry. But it is best known for its music. Singers and songwriters like Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, and the members of Os Mutantes fused their native sounds with American pop and other styles to create a vibrant mix. "They took all the rock and soul music coming from Europe and the U.S., all the energy and rebellious spirit," said Mr. Dranoff. "They made it Brazilian and sent it back out into the world."

Mr. Dranoff, who is 47 and was born in S?o Paulo, Brazil, said that the cross-cultural blend has enabled Tropicalia to remain a force in contemporary music. For many U.S. musicians, their introduction to the style may have come from David Byrne, whose Luaka Bop imprint has released several superb compilations dedicated to the genre. Mr. Byrne is one of 64 artists who appear on the 33 tracks of "Red Hot and Rio 2," many of which are collaborations between U.S. and Brazilian artists.

Texas Rangers to Raise Ballpark Railings After Fan Death

Texas Rangers to Raise Ballpark Railings After Fan Death

The Texas Rangers plan to make all the protective railings at their stadium the same height, raising some as much as a foot to make their stadium safer following the death of a fan during a recent game.

Rangers executive vice president Rob Matwick said Tuesday that the team's intention is for all rails in the front of seating sections to be 42 inches throughout Rangers Ballpark.

Architectural and engineering studies are already under way at 17-year-old Rangers Ballpark to determine how to do the work.

Railings around the ballpark now are 30 or 34 inches in most areas, with 42-inch rails already at the base of aisles that lead to the front row. City building requirements are that guardrails must be at least 26-inches high.

"Part of the goal is to not only raise it, but to raise it to the highest standard that exists in the United States at this time, and to do that uniformly on all the front rows around the ballpark," Matwick said.

Shannon Stone, a Brownwood firefighter, died less than an hour after he tumbled headfirst over a rail out of the seats in left field during a game July 7. Stone fell about 20 feet to concrete behind the outfield wall after reaching out to catch a ball tossed his way by All-Star outfielder Josh Hamilton.

Evaluation

Evaluation Report 2006 of Safe Mobility and AIDS Prevention Project Implemented by Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County, Liaoning Province

Since the Safe Mobility and AIDS Prevention Project began in Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County in November 2005 under the leadership of the Department of International Cooperation of the National Population and Family Planning Commission of China (NPFPC), the government of Kuandian County has attached great importance by organizing working meetings for the project, establishing project leading group, developing project implementation plans and investing a great deal of personnel, financial resources and material resources, which greatly facilitate the smooth implementation of the project with good achievements.

Various IEC activities to produce a social atmosphere of public opinions

Various IEC activities to produce a social atmosphere of public opinions

IEC on basic knowledge about HIV/AIDS to increase the awareness of the whole society is the key to HIV/AIDS prevention. Various forms have been taken to strengthen IEC activities.

1. Related units, peer educators and volunteers for HIV/AIDS prevention were organized during the big occasions such as the family planning publicity month and week, World Population Day and World AIDS Day to enforce publicity by sending out publicity vehicles, organizing folk dances, putting up banners over the streets, establishing publicity boards and distributing picture albums on HIV/AIDS prevention.

2. Conducted Publicity on HIV/AIDS prevention to villages, communities and households

3. Coordinated the Bureau of Communications to display publicity slogans on the electronic screens along Highway No. 201; coordinated the Association of Sciences to enforce study and publicity on HIV/AIDS knowledge during their professional activities to the villages; coordinated the government offices to organize students to attend related publicity activities during their holidays; and put up posters in the publicity window in Huangyishan Park in the county.

4. Enforced various IEC activities on HIV/AIDS prevention, so that awareness rate of the people had remarkably increased to over 95% (aware of more than 2 ways of HIV/AIDS spread).

Active plans to set up preventive system

I. Active plans to set up preventive system

After the start of the project, the county government immediately conducted special meetings for the project, organized related units at the township/town, village, sub-district and county levels to carry out survey on the floating population, made up files for them and pursued dynamic management. Information about the floating population concise and clear, with special attention paid to contract worker sent abroad, immigrants from other countries and drug users. Based on the basic information of the floating population and in accordance with its characteristics of long border lines and large number of trans-border floating population, commercial establishments, restaurants and entertainment places, the county government formulated a project implementation plan, project leading groups were set up at various levels, network for project activities was established according to geographical distribution, and peer educators were recruited openly from among the floating population to take care of IEC and service at the project points. A volunteer for the project was recruited from each villager/resident group to assist in IEC activities and supervision of target population. A preventive network was thus formed at the three levels of township/town, village/sub-district and group, which provide organizational guarantee for the project implementation.

According to the characteristics that most immigrants were from Henan Province and Sichuan Province and that most contract workers were sent to Japan and Republic of Korea, these four places were taken in as the cut-in points. Mr. Song Zengming from Henan, Ms. Jiang Yan from Sichuan, Mr. Jiang Yuchen about to Japan and Mr. Li Yan about to Republic of Korea were recruited as peer educators. All of them had the educational level of secondary specialized school or above and were enthusiastic and supportive to the project.

Speech by Dr. Ru Xiaomei at Project Start-up Meeting

Speech by Dr. Ru Xiaomei at Project Start-up Meeting

Respected Director General Shang, Director General Shi, Director General Guo and Ms.Chung Lai Shan, and all leaders and colleagues,

Good morning!

First of all, please allow me, on behalf of NPFPC Department of International Cooperation, congratulate on the successful opening of the Start-up Meeting for Practice of Gender Sensitive Social Work in Population and Family Planning: Project of Rehabilitation and Community Development after Earthquake in Lanzhou, and express my gratitude to Oxfam, especially Ms. Chung Lai Shan, for their support to the project and to population and family planning commissions of Gansu Province and Henan Province for their firm commitment and strong support to the project of great significance, especially Gansu Population and Family Planning Commission, who have exerted every effort in organizing this large meeting attended by people from various sectors.

The start-up meeting for the Jinta-Sunan Project was conducted on 25 March 2008 and a summing-up meeting for that project was held on 28 July 2009. Afterwards, we gained support from Oxfam and carried out promotion training and material test in November 2009.