Christian louboutinVietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh (R) shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Government Guest House in Vietnamese capital Hanoi, on July 10, 2012. Hillary Clinton arrived in Hanoi on July 10 for a two-day visit to Vietnam. (/Ho Nhu Y)HANOI, July 10 () -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said the United States and Vietnam are discussing their interests in deepening cultural, educational and economic ties.Clinton made the remarks during a press briefing after she met with her Vietnamese counterpart Pham Binh Minh."Nearly 15,000 Vietnamese students study in United States each year. They contribute to Vietnam's continuing development. And we are hoping to deepen our ties by sending volunteers to Vietnam in the near future," she said, adding that U.S. and Vietnam are also working on expanding trade cooperation through Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.Clinton said during her talks with Pham Binh Minh, they are working on a lot of issues, including maritime security, public health, disaster relief, economic growth, as well as Agent Orange and unexploded ordnance issues.The United States appreciates Vietnam's contribution to a collaborative diplomatic resolution of the disputes and the ease of tensions in the South China Sea, she said.Hillary Clinton arrived in Vietnam's capital of Hanoi on Tuesday for a two-day visit aimed to further boost bilateral ties.On the same day, Hillary Clinton is to pay a courtesy call to Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong.Hillary is also to join U.S. businessmen in a meeting held by the U.S.-ASEAN Business Council in Hanoi, and attend the 20th anniversary of the Fulbright Scholarships at the Hanoi University of Foreign Trade.The U.S. secretary of state left Washington on Thursday for an eight-nation tour, including France, Japan, Mongolia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Egypt and Israel. She made an extra surprise visit to Afghanistan on Saturday morning, one day ahead of a key conference on the insurgency-hit country to be held in Tokyo, Japan on Sunday.
Top: Egg traders negotiate through agencies in a hotel lobby in downtown Beijing on Oct 22. The black market for eggs target girl students from famous universities and pay good money. Above: A doctor checks a frozen egg in a Petrie dish at the Peking University Third Hospital. (Photo source: China Daily)By Yang Wanli and Tang YueBEIJING, Jan. 3 (net) -- Dreams of childless couples are difficult to fulfill as egg donations strictly limited, report Yang Wanli from Beijing and Tang Yue from Tianjin.It is 6 am in a Beijing winter, and dozens of people are waiting outside Peking University Third Hospital to make appointments. "We've seen many doctors in Hebei but got nowhere. This is our final hope, and we have to line up earlier to see a chief physician," said a young man from Hebei province who was lining up outside the hospital for the first time with his wife. He had been there since 4 am. Unlike at other hospitals, couples here are all lining up for one thing - help getting a baby. This is an increasingly common scenario as the incidence of sterility in China has grown from 3 percent in the 1970s to about 15 percent in 2009.As China's renowned hospital for treating sterility, Peking University Third Hospital receives more than half of Bejing's couples with fertility problems seeking help, as well as from many from other provinces.More than a thousand couples visit the medical reproductive center every month and about 8,000 tried in-vitro fertilization in the hospital last year.Some couples, though, will have to rely on a third person to realize their dreams."About two or three in 100 couples we received need to get another's sperm or egg," said Liu Ping, deputy director of the hospital's reproductive center."Although there are several sperm banks nationwide, most of them fall short of demand."Five hundred couples are still on the center's sperm waiting list. Liu said that they have to politely refuse more patients, who would just end up hopelessly waiting.The Ministry of Health began allowing sperm banks to open in 2001, setting a maximum of one per province or autonomous region. Today, 10 operate nationwide. All are State-run, but demand exceeds supply.The situation for egg banks, on the other hand, is bleaker.Peking University First Hospital, which generated media attention for its egg freezing technology and once planned to build an egg bank, is stopping the service.A press official surnamed Sun said that the Ministry of Health released regulations on egg donations in 2006 - including many "strict" rules with concerns of higher standards for facilities and moral principles - which led to the hospital halting the plan.Short of eggsThe first successful in-vitro fertilization procedure took place in 1978 in Britain and the first pregnancy using donated eggs was reported in Australia in 1983. In China, the first baby from a frozen egg was born in 2004."But there is no egg bank in China to date, I mean, like sperm banks that provide germ cells," said Liu. "Egg banks are hard to operate because of the few eggs that one donor can give as well as the negative effects to donors in the donation process."Liu said there are tens of millions of sperm cells in one milliliter of semen. Despite imperfections or those damaged during the freezing process, there are still enough healthy sperm cells remaining for fertilization."But the eggs are easily damaged in freezing. About 10 percent of all eggs taken from the human body can be frozen without any damage and about half are able to make a test tube baby after thawing," she said.Moreover, unlike sperm donors, egg donors need medical assistance and have to take fertility drugs to stimulate ovulation."Generally speaking, a woman will only produce one egg every month. But for egg freezing, we need more," Liu said.After taking the drug, about 10 to 15 eggs will be produced, creating more chances for collection. But side effects include shortness of breath, calf and chest pains, marked abdominal bloating or distention, and lower abdominal pains.In addition, the eggs must be surgically removed with a probing pin inserted into the ovary through the
****.According to a regulation released by the Ministry in 2006, only those women who are to have IVF babies themselves are allowed to donate their redundant eggs during the assisted reproductive process."The regulation was made, more specifically, to prohibit egg and sperm donation for business purposes. Under the regulation, there are so few donors that it can hardly support a bank," said Liu.According to Liu, the best age for egg freezing is from 22 to 35."But if donors can only be those who are prepared for IVF babies, there will hardly be any possibility to get donated eggs. They went through pain to get these eggs," she said.Great dangerEggs are hard to get, but the demand is still there. Without egg banks, more than 100 local agents are doing business on the black market, serving more than 10,000 families in China, reported The Beijing News.The agents advertise online with college students the main target. Interviewing is regularly organized to let the clients choose the egg provider, followed by physical examinations. Beautiful young college students in renowned schools are preferred.The egg retrieval is usually conducted in Hong Kong and Thailand, but sometimes illegally in some local clinics. The donors are paid thousands of yuan on average while the agent can earn up to 100,000 yuan."I've read news online that a college student sold her egg. It also said the well-educated and the beauties can earn more. I will never do this. It leads to a moral dilemma. Who is the child's mother in the end?" said Wu Shihe, 24, a marketing specialist in a super market in Wuxi, Jiangsu province."I think it is just like selling an organ. It is just **** or even worse than **** because it is not being responsible for the children. I don't think we should promote it even if the dealers say they did this to give hopes to the family. Child traffickers also claim they have helped the families that want babies. But they are something really bad," she said.Under Chinese law, eggs from one donor can be provided to a maximum of five married women (singles are not eligible) and should not be distributed again after a recipient is confirmed pregnant.But if donations are done on the black market, things are different."Ethical issues might happen in the black market without regular follow-up visits in hospitals," said Wu Yuanyuan, a doctor in the Guangdong Family Planning Hospital. The hospital is one of the most famous hospitals for human assisted reproductive technology in the province. It is also the only hospital with a sperm bank in Guangdong and has freezing technology.According to Wu, prohibitions on the human egg trade in China are mainly to protect women who have never given birth.In general, women with three types of reproductive problems use egg donation: women who lack functioning ovaries, women who cannot achieve pregnancy for some reason through in-vitro fertilization, and women who donated eggs for genetic reasons.Li Xiang contributed to this story.(Source: China Daily)
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LUSAKA, Dec. 22 () -- The Zambian government on Thursday expressed concern at the increased rate of timber harvesting, saying this will lead to depletion of forests if not checked.Mines and Natural Resources Minister Wilbur Simuusa said the current demand for timber had increased to unprecedented levels due to a rise in construction and mining activities, adding that there was need for the country to embark on a massive tree planting exercise.The Zambian minister, who was speaking at a tree planting exercise in Ndola city in the Copperbelt province, said the increased demand for timber and the associated environmental needs was a clear wake-up call for all Zambians to double their efforts in expanding forest plantation in all parts of the country. "The forestry sector has the capacity to create employment to our people in all forest activities starting from planting, weeding, pruning, logging and processing of the wood into other timber products. Given the fact that trees are replaced after harvesting, I have no doubt that this industry is a haven for job creation in the country," he said.Zambian forests are under threat due to increased deforestation. According to the United Nations Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) , 66.5 percent or about 49, 468, 000 hectares of Zambia is forested. But between 1990 and 2010, Zambia lost an average of 166, 600 hectares or 0.32 percent of the forest per year.In total, between 1990 and 2010, Zambia lost 6.3 percent of its forest cover, or around 3, 332, 000 hectares. Zambia was ranked among the top 10 countries globally in terms of deforestation between 2000 and 2006.
BANGKOK, June 29 () -- His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah, Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam, is paying an official visit to Thailand from Friday through Monday, Thai News Agency reported.The four-day visit has come from the invitation of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra made during her official visit to Brunei on September 10 last year.The Sultan will be granted an audience with His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand at the Grand Palace on Saturday.An official welcoming ceremony will be held late this evening at Government House, followed by bilateral discussions with Yingluck.The intended topics of discussion include various issues of cooperation, particularly in agriculture, education, and the halal food industry.A dinner in honour of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di- Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam will be hosted by the Thai prime minister at the Outer Santi Maitri Building, Government House.Thailand and Brunei have enjoyed excellent diplomatic relations since 1984. The frequent exchanges of high level visits in the past 28 years have helped expand cooperation between the two countries.The official visit will provide a good opportunity for Thailand and Brunei Darussalam to further enhance their mutual cooperation for the benefit of their countries and peoples.
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KOLKATA, India, July 25 () -- U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter, as part of his first official trip to the Asia-Pacific region, visited India and discussed with key government officials and defense industry leaders how the U.S. and India can work more closely to ensure security and prosperity in the 21st century, according to a press release from the American Center here Wednesday.Carter's meetings in New Delhi on Monday with Indian defense secretary, foreign secretary and national security advisor followed through on U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta's visit to India last month when he had made it clear that "we must work to deepen our security partnership so that our relationship becomes more strategic, more practical, and more collaborative".The release said that one of Panetta's initiatives that Carter discussed in New Delhi was further leading an effort, along with Indian counterparts in the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of External Affairs, "to make our respective bureaucratic processes simpler, more responsive, and more effective to increase defense trade and cooperation".Carter also met with Indian defense industry executives in Hyderabad, the state capital of India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh, on Tuesday to discuss practical next steps for streamlining bureaucratic barriers in both the U.S. and India. He toured several joint defense ventures co-producing transport plane and helicopter components.Carter's visit to India is part of a 10-day tour that has already taken him to Japan and Thailand and he will conclude his trip in South Korea later this week.
CHICAGO, Feb. 27 () -- Forty years after then U.S. President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China, the U.S.- China relationship has evolved with the times from professional politics to more multifaceted relations, a U.S. professor told in an exclusive interview.Yang Dali, a Chinese American professor of political science at the University of Chicago and director of the University's Confucius Institute, said that Nixon's 1972 visit to China was truly a "sea change" in international relations, which ultimately led to the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.However, Yang also noted that the current global environment is an "extremely different world from then," and that U.S.- China relations had consequently grown to become more "multifaceted" and much deeper than Nixon and Chairman Mao had perhaps ever envisioned.Yang said considerations such as Cold War strategy and geopolitical concerns prompted the United States to reengage China in the 1970s. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international system has been heavily based on multilateralism, rather than the bipolar power politics of the Cold War era.Such a change in the world power structure has thus led the United States and China to a very different bilateral relationship than that of the 1970s, a relationship that is arguably more complex but also much deeper and more significant, Yang added.Through trade, investment, educational exchanges and other outlets, the United States and China have dramatically increased their ties to one another in this new globalized world.Many experts such as Yang believe these cross-cultural exchanges can foster mutual understanding between the two peoples in a way that is as effective as or sometimes even more effective than professional politics.As for the United States and China, since Nixon's 1972 visit, people-to-people exchanges have increased from virtually zero to tens of thousands, and government officials from both countries have pledged their support for such bilateral experiences.According to the Institute of International Education's Open Doors report released last November, the United States housed over 150,000 Chinese exchange students over the 2010-2011 academic year, more than students from any other country.In the meantime, 13,910 U.S. students are studying in China, making China the fifth most popular destination for Americans seeking to study overseas. And according to the Modern Language Association, about 61,000 American students are currently studying Chinese in the United States.Yang praised such developments, but at the same time said they could potentially bring disagreements as the two countries may have different perspectives on many issues."(As opposed to 40 years ago) however, today this is a multifaceted relationship, that means actually we are going to see burgeoning relations but at the same time also conflicts, only because when there are so many interactions there are so many areas where the countries may disagree," Yang told ."But at the same time the framework for resolving those conflicts or tensions also exists - so the leaders from both countries meet frequently, they can go to the WTO to resolve trade disputes, they meet through the IMF, the World Bank, various other forums," Yang continued, stressing how communication was key and that the international system was now far more accommodating.Yang believed that the United States and China share more and more interests and their relationship will likely continue to grow and prosper in the future."If you look at the fundamental aspects of the relationship, it rests on a very strong basis, whether it's based on strategic considerations or because of the economic interactions, and I think that's going to continue to provide the kind of support and foundation for continued, sustained relationship between the two countries," Yang noted.
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