Founder of Alibaba Group Jack Ma talks about e-commerce in Taiwan

Tuesday, November 6, 2007 Following the success of “Chinatrust Global Leaders Forum” in 2005, Chinatrust Commercial Bank (CTCB), the forum organizer, invited Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group, to give the main address on the subject of “Cross-Strait e-Commerce Development” yesterday. “We (CTCB) held this forum originally with a speech-style type, and hoped participants absorb good experiences from some world-class […]

Earthquake, tsunami combo caused devastation in Pichilemu, Chile

Thursday, March 4, 2010 Pichilemu, Chile – Last Saturday, Chile was hit by a 8.8 earthquake. Many coastal towns were also hit by a tsunami, and Pichilemu was one of them. Its inhabitants were surprised by the giant waves that destroyed the most of the costanera and that reached the city square. Pichilemu, that means in Mapudungun language small forest, […]

American journalist in Iran freed from prison

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 On Monday, Iran released Roxana Saberi, an American journalist with Iranian and Japanese parentage, from prison. Saberi was arrested in April and accused of spying. “[Saberi will be] released today,” said one of Saberi’s defense attorneys, Abdolsamad Khorramshahi. He added that after being released, Saberi “is entitled to leave Iran immediately.” She is, however, forbidden from […]

Surgeons reattach boy’s three severed limbs

Tuesday, March 29, 2005A team of Australian surgeons yesterday reattached both hands and one foot to 10-year-old Perth boy, Terry Vo, after a brick wall which collapsed during a game of basketball fell on him, severing the limbs. The wall gave way while Terry performed a slam-dunk, during a game at a friend’s birthday party. The boy was today awake […]

Ahmadinejad sends letter to George W. Bush

Tuesday, May 9, 2006For the first time in three decades, direct and at least partially public diplomatic communication will commence between the United States (US) and Iran. Iranian government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sent a letter to the U.S. president George W. Bush proposing “new solutions for getting out of international problems and the […]

Many hurt on Alton Towers ride

Thursday, July 20, 2006 Investigations are continuing at Alton Towers after a total of 29 people were injured on a roller-coaster. Six people were taken to hospital after the accident at the UK’s most famous theme park. The front carriages of the Runaway Mine Train, which had 46 passengers on it at the time, became separated and subsequently crashed back […]

Wikinews interviews former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party

Monday, November 5, 2012 With the U.S. presidential election looming, former New Mexico governor and current Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson spoke with Wikinews reporter William S. Saturn on an assortment of economic, foreign, and social issues. In the interview, Johnson makes his final plea to voters before they cast their ballots on Election Day, November 6. Though a […]