BEIJING: China has started constructing the second of four planned aircraft carriers, officials said.
The ship is under construction in the northeastern port of Dalian and will take six years to build, the reports said quoting Wang Min, Communist Party chief for Dalian’s Liaoning province.
The country’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, was completed in September 2012 in a symbolic milestone for the country’s increasingly muscular military.
Japan fishermen catch dolphins
TOKYO: Fishermen and divers caught at least 25 dolphins in a controversial Japanese fishing village yesterday, according to environmentalists, who said the process was captive selection ahead of a mass slaughter.
Activists from the militant environmental group Sea Shepherd streamed live footage of the dolphin capture in the village of Taiji, which drew worldwide attention in 2010 when it became the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary “The Cove”, a hard-hitting film about the annual dolphin hunt.
S Korea ups fowl culling
SEOUL: Seoul confirmed the outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu and said it would expand the culling of birds to a radius of 3km around a duck farm, but a nationwide suspension of poultry shipment was considered premature.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said the case reported at a farm about 300km (186 miles) from Seoul, was of the highly pathogenic H5N8 strain.
The strain was previously identified in a 2010 case reported in China and is largely similar to the H5N1 type, Yonhap news agency said.
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