新闻纵贯线 The Beijing Hour updated 08:00 2017/08/10（在线收听）

The Beijing Hour

Morning Edition

Shane Bigham with you on this Thursday, August 10th, 2017

Welcome to the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital.

Our news focus this morning...the earthquake in Sichuan province... rescue work has intensified... as aftershocks continue to be felt in the quake zone...

In other news...

The second annual China-Canada Foreign Ministers Dialogue has been held in Beijing. Trade volume reached 64 billion US dollars last year...

and the international community has had a mixed response to the heated rhetoric between Washington and Pyongyang...

In business...the Asian Development Bank has approved a 200 million US dollar loan for Bangladesh...

In Sports...China has earned its first gold medal of the World Athletics Championships in London...

In Entertainment...the 75th World Science Fiction convention is now underway in Helsinki...

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