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Indonesia called off until first light a search for an AirAsia plane
with 162 people on board that went missing on Sunday after pilots asked
to change course to avoid bad weather during a flight from Indonesia's
Surabaya city to Singapore.<br />
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Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501, an
Airbus 320-200 carrying 155 passengers and seven crew, lost contact with
Jakarta air traffic control at 6:17 a.m. (2317 GMT on Saturday). No
distress signal had been sent, said Joko Muryo Atmodjo, an Indonesian
transport ministry official.<br />
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On board were 155 Indonesians, three
South Koreans and one each from Singapore, Malaysia and Britain, plus a
French pilot, the airline said in a statement, correcting earlier
information.<br />
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Tatang Kurniadi, head of Indonesia's National
Committee of Safety Transportation, expressed hope of locating the
aircraft quickly and said it was too early to detect any of the
so-called electronic pings from its black box recorder.<br />
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"We are
using our capacity to search on sea and land. Hopefully we can find the
location of the plane as soon as possible," he told a news conference.<br />
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"What I need to emphasize is until now, we have not found out how the plane fell or what kind of emergency it was."<br />
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Indonesia
AirAsia is 49 percent owned by Malaysia-based budget carrier AirAsia
(AIRA.KL), which has had a clean safety record since it began operating
13 years ago. The AirAsia group also has affiliates in Thailand, the
Philippines and India. The aircraft had accumulated approximately 23,000
flight hours in some 13,600 flights, according to Airbus (AIR.PA).<br />
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The
pilots of QZ8501 "was requesting deviation due to en-route weather
before communication with the aircraft was lost," the airline said in a
statement. Singapore, Malaysia, Britain, South Korea and Australia
offered to help in the search and any investigation. Malaysia said it
was sending vessels and a C130 aircraft while Singapore had also sent a
C130. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said a P3 Orion aircraft was
on standby if needed.<br />
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ANXIOUS RELATIVES<br />
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Flight QZ8501 was
between Tanjung Pandan on Indonesia's Belitung island and Pontianak, in
West Kalimantan province on Borneo - almost halfway between Surabaya
and Singapore - when it went missing. There was bad weather over
Belitung at the time and the aircraft had been flying at 32,000 feet
before asking to fly at 38,000 feet to avoid clouds.<br />
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In both Surabaya and Singapore, anxious relatives of people on the plane awaited news.<br />
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Louise Sidharta was at Singapore's Changi Airport waiting for her fiancée to return from a family holiday.<br />
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"It was supposed to be their last vacation before we got married," she said.<br />
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A man named Purnomo told TVOne in Surabaya of a lucky escape.<br />
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"I
should have been on the flight," he said. "We, seven people, had
planned to go to Singapore for vacation but this morning I had an
emergency. I had my passport in hand."<br />
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Tony Fernandes, chief of Malaysia's AirAsia, said he was heading to Surabaya.<br />
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"My
only thoughts are with the passengers and my crew. We put our hope in
the SAR (search and rescue) operation and thank the Indonesia, Singapore
and Malaysian governments," he said on Twitter.<br />
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AirAsia swapped its distinctive bright red logo for a grey background on its website and social media accounts.<br />
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The
incident comes during a troubled year for Malaysia-affiliated airlines.
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 went missing on March 8 on a trip from
Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew on board and has
not been found.<br />
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On July 17, Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.<br />
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Indonesia
AirAsia has a fleet of 30 Airbus A320s. The missing plane has been in
service for just over six years, according to airfleets.net.<br />
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All
AirAsia-branded airlines operate aircraft made by Airbus, which has
orders for several hundred planes from the group. AirAsia is considered
one of the European planemaker's most important customers.</div>
News Updateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15492587465128541859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836526272017131516.post-11678898190797616622014-09-24T02:28:00.001-07:002015-01-04T00:09:20.759-08:00Mangalyaan is world's cheapest Mars mission<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As Mangalyaan successfully entered the Mars orbit on Wednesday, India not only became the first country to reach Mars on its maiden attempt, but also spent the least amount of money to do it.<br /><br />Narendra Modi had earlier remarked that the mission is cheaper than Hollywood movie "Gravity", which cost $100 million to make.<br /><br /><br />At approximately Rs 450 crore or around $75 million, the cost of the mission was only about one-tenth of the $670 million Nasa spent on its Maven explorer.<br /><br />European space agency's 2003 Mars express orbiter had cost about $386 million. Another exploration mission by Japanese, which failed to enter the Red Planet's orbit, had cost more than double than that of Mangalyaan. Russia's Phobos-Grunt which failed to leave the earth's orbit cost about $117 million.<br /><br />India has been particularly proud that MOM was developed with homegrown technology.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Isro's scientists are already planning new missions, including putting a rover on the Moon. But space agency chief K Radhakrishnan said their main focus would be to continue developing technologies for commercial and navigational satellite applications.</div>
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The Indonesian Meteorological and Geophysics Agency earlier measured it as a 6.1-magnitude quake with a depth of 24 kilometres.</div>
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The glittering Hong Kong International Art Fair opens on Thursday, featuring works by artists from Picasso to Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei and cementing the city's status as a global art hub.<br />
More than 260 galleries from 38 countries, representing an even split from the West and the East, have booked space at the four-day event known as Art HK, now in its fifth edition.<br />
"The transformation here culturally has been pretty significant," art collector and fair board member Richard Chang told reporters ahead of the opening, referring to Hong Kong's emergence as a centre of the Asian art world.<br />
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"It's testament to what is happening in this region and it's very exciting."<br />
A record 63,511 visitors attended Art HK last year, and organisers expect a bigger crowd in 2012. By comparison, the prestigious Frieze New York fair earlier this month attracted a reported 45,000 visitors.<br />
A Wednesday night preview drew thousands of VIPs who had first pick of works including Ai's "Cong", a chilling installation about child deaths in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, a Sherrie Levine cast bronze called "Dada", and a fresh-off-the-easel 2012 portrait in oil of Lady Gaga by Yan Pei-Ming.<br />
Director Magnus Renfrew said there had been a marked increase in interest from Western dealers compared to 2011.<br />
"The art market tends to follow the money and the greatest source of wealth at the moment is in Asia," he said.<br />
Traditionally known as a centre of banking and finance, Hong Kong has become a hub of all things luxury -- from fine wine to fashion and, increasingly, art -- thanks to the explosion of personal wealth among mainland Chinese.<br />
Western gallery owners are now rushing to open franchises in the former British colony, despite some of the most expensive rents in the world.<br />
Gagosian, White Cube, Acquavella, Simon Lee and Pearl Lam are just some of the recent arrivals. The government is weighing in as well, with a massive art and culture district being developed on the harbour in Kowloon.<br />
"If you look at the calibre of some of the exhibitions this year, it's a top-tier fair now," London-based Australian gallery owner and Art HK exhibitor Simon Lee told AFP.<br />
He said his "boutique-type offering" at the fair was more about making contacts and introducing his gallery to the Asian market than selling art to collectors.<br />
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"I can't hope to just come over here, plonk a few things on a booth and think it's all going to happen. It's sort of condescending to think it will all happen without doing the ground work," he said.<br />
Asia's art boom has also caught the eye of the world's biggest art fair franchise, Art Basel, which bought a controlling stake in Art HK a year ago. The Hong Kong fair's 2013 edition will be held under the Art Basel banner.<br />
Meanwhile a new art fair devoted to "affordable" contemporary art will be held in Hong Kong next year, organisers said Wednesday, confirming the city's new status as a hot ticket on the art scene.<br />
The fair is being put together by Affordable Art China, a company which has organised a similar event in Beijing since 2006 and is opening a new franchise in Shanghai later this year.<br />
Chief executive Tom Pattinson said the new fair offered a chance for smaller galleries and emerging artists to showcase their work in the booming art market of Hong Kong, now third only to New York and London in terms of art auctions.<br />
"The success of the events in mainland China has demonstrated the demand for accessible contemporary fine art in the region and Hong Kong is now a major focus for us as we launch our first event in this territory," he said.<br />
He said the value of the "affordable art" market -- pieces priced at less than $5,000 -- in China was estimated at $1.1 billion a year, and was doubling annually.<br />
Renfrew said the new fair was not a threat to Art HK, which is held at the city's vast harbourside convention centre, as the two events catered to "very different audiences".<br />
He urged Western artists and dealers to take a long-term view of the Asian art market.<br />
"There are now more billionaires in Asia than there are in Europe, so it's a very exciting time for the art market here," he told AFP.<br />
"It takes time to build an audience in Asia but the galleries are increasingly seeing that they have to diversify their audience and put in that investment and time."<br />
Art fairs and auctions around the world have seen giddy bidding despite, or perhaps because of, the turmoil in the eurozone and on the world's stock markets, as investors look for other places to park their money.<br />
At Sotheby's impressionist and modern sale in New York earlier this month, the only privately owned version of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" went for $119.9 million, the most ever paid for any art work at public auction.<br />
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Rajnikanth left for Hong Kong early this morning from Bangalore. Soundarya Ashwin, the director of the film was there earlier in March to study all she could about Motion Capture Technology which is to be employed for Kochadaiyan.<br />
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Visit hong kong island - Shepherd Entertainment takes you on a tour of Hong Kong Island, an island in the southern part of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
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This antique culture is continuously remaking itself into a vibrant
consumer society. Hong Kong has been called the "most thrilling city on
the planet".</div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10562987580362420356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836526272017131516.post-45379132272864419702012-05-11T21:56:00.003-07:002016-07-27T22:33:58.482-07:00Hong Kong Travel Guide - "What's Cool?"-香港3天,"有甚麼好玩?"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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experience around to share in this series of video. To share travel tips
in Hong Kong, places that they explored in 3 days. Places went in the
second day was Wong Tai Sin Temple, Sham Tseng, the famous place for
its roast goose and The Peak, seeing Wax Statue in madame tussauds wax
museum and hong kong night view. Andy, who have bring every one along
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Rapper Pharrell Williams kicks off the arts and culture festival
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Hong Kong, Asia’s World City, is quickly becoming a regional wine trading and distribution hub in Asia. Since the elimination of wine duties in February 2008, merchants have seized the opportunity to increase shipments and establish a greater presence in Hong Kong.</div>
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Wine exports to Hong Kong in 2011 amounted to US$1.2 billion, representing a growth of 40% over 2010.</div>
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According to the annual survey conducted for VINEXPO by International Wine and Spirit Research, Hong Kong has emerged as Asia's wine drinking capital. Hong Kong's average adult consumption (five litres a year) is the highest in Asia. In 2011, Hong Kong's wine consumption increased by almost 7%, reaching 39 million bottles. Consumption doubled from 2006 to 2010.</div>
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Companies from various sectors of the wine industry are seeking to uncork the huge potential market in Asia and particularly in Mainland China – a region tipped by the industry to be the driver of global wine sales in the next decade and beyond. As a premier international gateway to Mainland China, Hong Kong is well placed to capitalize on this market growth.</div>
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LONDON – The director of the new James Bond movie said he initially had doubts about Daniel Craig being cast in the role of the legendary British spy.</div>
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Speaking at Pinewood Studios, he said, "I was one of the people who said I didn't think he was the right casting. At the time, I was asked in an interview and I said, 'I'm not sure, I would advise him not to do it'."</div>
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Mendes, who directed Craig alongside Jude Law in 2002 movie "Road To Perdition," admitted he was wrong.</div>
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"I watched him go through that intense pressure and come through that with flying colors," Mendes said. "I bumped into him after 'Casino Royale' and I was so excited to see him as Bond. It was great to watch him come through that and prove the doubters wrong."</div>
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A study of mobile phone calls suggests that women call their spouse more than any other person.</h3>
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That changes as their daughters become old enough to have children, after which they become the most important person in their lives.</div>
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The study has been published in the journal Scientific Reports.</div>
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It also shows that men call their spouse most often for the first seven years of their relationship. They then shift their focus to other friends.</div>
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The results come from an analysis of the texts of mobile phone calls of three million people.</div>
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According to the study's co-author, Professor Robin Dunbar of Oxford University, UK, the investigation shows that pair-bonding is much more important to women than men.</div>
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"It's the first really strong evidence that romantic relationships are driven by women," he told BBC News.</div>
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"It's they who make the decision and once they have made their mind up, they just go for the poor bloke until he keels over and gives in!"</div>
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But the data shows that women start to switch the preference of their best friend from about the mid-30s, and by the age of 45 a woman of a generation younger becomes the "new best friend", according to Professor Dunbar.</div>
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Human societies are moving back to a matriarchy”</div>
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"What seems to happen is that women push the 'old man' out to become their second best friend, and he gets called much less often and all her attention is focussed on her daughters just at the point at which you are likely to see grandchildren arriving," he says.</div>
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Prof Dunbar also claims that the findings suggest that human societies are moving away from a patriarchy back to a matriarchy.</div>
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The aim of the project was to find out how close, intimate relationships vary over a lifetime.</div>
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This kind of anthropological study is normally very difficult to do because it is hard for researchers to get such a big picture of people's lives.</div>
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But by looking at an at an extremely large mobile phone database, they were able to track these changes extremely accurately.</div>
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They had access to the age and sex of the callers, who between them made three billion calls and half a billion texts over a period of seven months.<br />
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The team wanted to find out how the gender preference of best friends, as defined by the frequency of the calling, changed over the course of a lifetime and differed between men and women.</div>
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They found that men tend to choose a woman the same age as themselves - which the researchers presumed to be their girlfriend or wife - as a best friend much later in life than women do, and for a much shorter time. This occurs when they are in their early-30s, possibly during courtship, and stops after seven years or so.</div>
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Women, however, choose a man of a similar age to be their best friend from the age of 20. He remains for about 15 years, after which time he's replaced by a daughter.</div>
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The pendulum between the two sexes is swinging back towards women, says Prof Dunbar</div>
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The researchers say that a woman's social world is intensely focussed on one individual and will shift as a result of reproductive interests from being the mate to children and grandchildren.</div>
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According to Prof Dunbar, the data suggests that "at root the important relationships are those between women and not those between men".</div>
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"Men's relationships are too casual. They often function at a high level in a political sense, of course; but at the end of the day, the structure of society is driven by women, which is exactly what we see in primates," he explains.</div>
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Many anthropologists argue that most human societies are patriarchal on the basis that in most communities men stay where they are born whereas the wives move.</div>
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But Professor Dunbar and his colleagues are arguing that this only occurs in agriculturally based societies.</div>
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"If you look at hunter-gatherers and you look at modern humans in modern post-industrial societies, we are much more matriarchal. It's almost as if the pendulum between the two sexes, power-wise, is swinging (back) as we move away from agriculture toward a knowledge-based economy," he says.</div>
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