More than 270 injured passengers have undergone hospital treatment in hospital, after a subway collision in central Shanghai yesterday afternoon.

CRI reporter Zhou Qiang was at the scene.

"The collision occurred after 2p.m. at a station on the Line 10. Police have cordoned off the exit of the station when I got there at 3 p.m. Ambulances were rushing to the site to pick up the injured being taken out of the station. Most of them had waist, knee and head bruises, but these injuries were not serious."

Around two-thirds of the people taken to hospital have since been released.

It's thought a signaling failure was to blame.

The signaling system on Shanghai's Line 10 is designed by the same company that created the centralized control system that failed in Zhejiang, leading to the bullet-train crash that left 40-people dead.

Local authorities in Shanghai have now launched an investigation.

 

 

Typhoon Nesat to hit southern China in less than 24 hours

A Yellow Alert is now in effect for southern China, ahead of the onset of Typhoon Nesat.

The tropical Typhoon is currently located in the South China Sea, about 600 kilometers from the south coast of the mainland.

The storm is carrying winds of over 140-kilometers per hour and is set to hit Hainan in the next few days.

Nesat has already caused devastation across northern Philippines last night, leaving at least 7 people dead and around 100-thousand people forced from their homes because of heavy flooding.

The Hong Kong Observatory is tracking Nesat to make a direct hit on Hainan by the end of the week.

 

 

New Nkorea PM meets with President Hu

Chinese President Hu Jintao has met visiting North Korean Prime Minister Choe Yong Rim in Beijing.

The two have discussed ways to try to strengthen ties and revive North Korea's economy.

Choe's trip follows the signing of an agreement earlier this year connected to the establishment of development zones along China and North Korea's shared border.

Choe has also taken time to visit a Chemical plant in East China.

The Chinese government is hoping the development of joint projects can help stabilise North Korea's economy and prompt Pyongyang to engage peacefully in the region.

 

 

China's top legislator, Kazakh president agree on practical cooperation

Top Chinese lawmaker Wu Bangguo and Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev have signed off on a 4-point deal for better bilateral ties.

Wu Bangguo says the Chinese side wants to see bilateral trade between the two countries reach 40-billion US dollars by 2015.

The two sides have also signed agreements for more cooperation in the energy field, particularly when it comes to oil and gas pipelines.

 

 

British PM meets Chinese state councilor on bilateral cooperation

Issues, including the European debt crisis, have now been discussed during a meeting between British Prime Minister David Cameron and Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo.

At the same time, Dai Bingguo has told Cameron that he wants to see the UK side try to help China more when it comes to getting the European Union to recognize China as a market-economy.

Dai is also pressing for Britain to help with greater EU high-tech exports to China.

Dai Bingguo is currently visiting the UK.

 

 

Annual debate of UN General Assembly concluded

World leaders have concluded the annual debate of this year's UN General Assembly.

In his closing remarks, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, the current president of the UN General Assembly, is calling for member states to build consensus and sustainable solutions to global challenges while fulfilling their joint responsibilities.

The general debate runs for about a week.

During the week-long debate, representatives from the UN's 193 member states have delivered speeches focused on areas ranging from the Millenium Development Goals, climate change to sustainable development.

Some 120 world leaders have used their countries time to address the debate personally.

 

 

Putin appoints replacements for resigned Kudrin

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has now appointed Igor Shuvalov as a replacement for his deputy, Alexei Kudrin.

Kudrin was fired after vocally announcing this week that he wants no part of a new government following the next Presidential elections if current President Dmitry Medvedev later becomes appointed Prime Minister.

It's expected that Vladimir Putin will become Russia's President again following next year's election, and that he'll nominate Medvedev to become his Prime Minister.

 

 

Egyptian parliamentary elections to start on Nov. 28

Egypt's current interim government, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, now says that Parliamentary elections are going to be held on November 28th.

Elections for Egypt's Shura Council will be held at the end of January.

Under the rules, 70-percent of the seats in the Parliamentary election are going to be decided through the so-called list system.

The rest will be decided through individual candidate voting.

Parliamentary elections in Egypt were supposed to be held earlier this year, but were put off amid continued unrest in the country following the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.