Toyota to make largest auto recall in China

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- Toyota to make largest auto recall in China
- Guangzhou Gov’t to Impose Energy-saving Plan
- China Southern Airlines launches Melbourne – Guangzhou Promotion
- China’s Press: Still Not Free but More Freewheeling
- Guangzhou 2010 Asian Para Games rganizing Committee officially formed
- Guangshen Railway Announces 2009 Interim Results
- Malaysia’s AirAsia adds 7th China destination

Toyota to make largest auto recall in China
Reuters
The list also included 35523 Vios cars made at its joint venture with FAW between February 18 and December 25 of 2008 and 245288 Corolla models made at the venture from May 17 2007 to December 25 of 2008 it said. A spokesman for Toyota’s China operations said he had received no reports of casualties or accidents linked with the defect. Guangzhou Auto is the parent of Hong Kong-listed Denway Motors (. (Reporting by Fang Yan and Jacqueline Wong).
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Guangzhou Gov’t to Impose Energy-saving Plan
CRIENGLISH.com
The first of its kind in China the energy-saving plan will demand government buildings to limit their use of elevators to floors above the third storey and ask releant authorities to reduce the use of public street lighting. The plan specifies that the turning-on of streetlights should be lowered to reasonable levels to ensure they do not compromise the safety of vehicles and pedestrians. It also calls on businesses to turn off their neon lights and signs to save electricity except during holidays and festivals. The plan also notes that its first phase will focus on the theme “an experience of energy shortage” which urges people not to drive or use air-conditioning or electric lights for one day to help them realize the importance of saving energy.

China Southern Airlines launches Melbourne – Guangzhou Promotion
ASIATravelTips.com
China Southern Airlines (CZ) has launched a range of special fares for families and friends to travel together from Melbourne to Guangzhou on selected Saturday flights until the end of November. hotels business travel news trade industry agents operators airlines daily latest.

China’s Press: Still Not Free but More Freewheeling
New York Times
Shao 48 is tall lean and casual. He started out in his native town of Guangzhou in China’s south where he put in a few years in city government as a member of the Guangzhou City Development and Planning Commission. Around 1990 he said he began thanks to China’s opening to the outside world to see a lot of foreign magazines and he contrasted them unfavorably to those being published in China which he said were “ugly. ” He got some very specific inspiration from a book “Seventy Years of Time Magazine” that chronicled how Time’s founder Henry Luce built his magazine publishing empire a story that inspired Mr. Shao to strive to be a sort of Chinese Luce — ironic given Luce’s famous animosity to China’s Communists.

Guangzhou 2010 Asian Para Games rganizing Committee officially formed
Xinhua
25 (Xinhua) — The 2010 Para Games of Asia part of the worldwide Paralympic Movement and governed by the Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) saw the official launch of its organizing committee (GAPGC) on Tuesday. The Guangzhou 2010 Asian Para Games is the first edition of the Asian Para Games replacing the Far East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled which has been held nine times. Guangzhou Mayor Zhang Guangning Vice President and Secretary General of GAPGC said that the Games that will be held in Guangzhou from December 12 to 19 2010 will feature 19 sports with approximately 3000 athletes expected to participate; some 2000 team officials 1100 technical officials and 2000 news media are also expected to come to Guangzhou. Editor: Yan.

Guangshen Railway Announces 2009 Interim Results
PR Newswire (press release) (press release)
Revenue from passengertransportation rose 7. 68% year-on-year to RMB3512 million. f such amountthe passenger delivery volumes of Guangzhou-Shenzhen trains Through Trainsand long-distance trains amounted to 16172000 1599300 and 23544800respectively representing year-on-year increases of 3. 42% and adecrease of 0. 82% respectively; and realizing revenues of RMB990 millionRMB181 million and RMB2341 million respectively representing an increase of2. 86% a decrease of 5.

Malaysia’s AirAsia adds 7th China destination
BusinessWeek
AirAsia will be the first airline to fly direct from Kuala Lumpur to Chengdu the capital city of Sichuan province in southwestern China with four weekly flights from ctober 20 it said in a statement. The carrier said the new route would be operated by its long-haul affiliate AirAsia X. AirAsia already flies to Shenzhen Guangzhou Guilin and Haikou in the southern region Hangzhou in the east and Tianjin in the north. It also has flights to Hong Kong and Macao. With China a key trading partner for Souteast Asia the new route will also boost trade and tourism AirAsia said. AirAsia X which began long-haul operations in November 2007 currently flies from Kuala Lumpur to London Australia Taiwan and China.

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