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چین(نیٹ نیوز/ایمرا نیوز) چین میں پچاس ہزار افراد ایک ساتھ ملکر دلچسپ انداز میں ایکسر سائز کرتے دکھائی د یئے۔دلکش رنگوں کے ملبوسات میں لگ بھگ پچاس ہزار افراد نے ایک ساتھ ملکر ایکسر سائز کی اور سرد ہواؤں کی پرواہ کئے بغیر شاندار پرفارمنس پیش کی۔

BUENOS AIRES: China and the United States have agreed to halt additional tariffs as both nations engage in new trade negotiations with the goal of reaching an agreement within 90 days, the White House said on Saturday after President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held high-stakes talks in Argentina.

Trump agreed not to boost tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods to 25 per cent on January 1 as previously announced, while Beijing agreed to buy an unspecified but “very substantial” amount of agricultural, energy, industrial and other products, the White House said in a statement. China “is open to approving the previously unapproved” deal for US company Qualcomm to acquire Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors “should it again be presented.”

In July, Qualcomm — world’s biggest smartphone-chip maker — walked away from a $44 billion deal to buy NXP Semiconductors after failing to secure Chinese regulatory approval, becoming a high-profile victim of the Sino-US trade dispute.

The White House said that if agreement on trade issues including technology transfer, intellectual property, non-tariff barriers, cyber theft and agriculture has not been reached with China in 90 days that both parties agree that the 10 per cent tariffs will be raised to 25 per cent.

Trump slapped 10 per cent tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods in September. China responded by imposing its own round of tariffs. Trump has also threatened to add tariffs on another $267 billion of Chinese imports.

Xi agreed to designate the drug fentanyl as a controlled substance, the White House said. For more than a year, Trump has raised concerns about the synthetic opioid being sent from China to the United States, which is facing an epidemic of opioid-related deaths.

China also agreed to start purchasing agricultural products from US farmers immediately, the White House said.

US companies and consumers are bearing part of the cost of the US tariffs on China by paying higher prices for goods, and many companies have hiked prices on imported goods. At the same time, US farmers have been hurt by reduced Chinese imports of soybeans and other products.

چین (نیٹ نیوز/ایمرا نیوز) شمالی چین میں واقع ایک کیمیکل پلانٹ میں دھماکے کے نتیجے میں 22افرادہلاک اور دو درجن لوگ زخمی ہوگئے۔دھماکے کے بعد پلانٹ میں آگ لگ گئی، آگ بجھانے کے لیے امدادی کارروائیاں جاری ہیں۔خبر ایجنسی کے مطابق دھماکے کے نتیجے میں قریب کھڑی ہوئی 50 گاڑیاں بھی تباہ ہوگئیں۔حکام کا کہنا ہے کہ دھماکے سے متعلق تحقیقات جاری ہیں۔

The way some irrigated rice paddies are managed worldwide, with cycles of flooding followed by dry periods, may lead to twice the planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution as previously thought, researchers said Monday.

Since rice is a major staple for at least half the world´s seven billion people, the way it is managed has significant effects on the Earth´s warming climate, said the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed US journal.

For the study, researchers at the non-profit Environmental Defense Fund took a closer look at emissions of nitrous oxide, a long-lasting atmospheric pollutant that is more potent than methane or carbon dioxide.

N2O rises when rice fields are allowed to dry before being wetted again.

This process, called intermittent flooding, happens when water falls below the soil level several times per year.

It is used by some rice farmers — just how many is unclear — because it reduces methane, another major greenhouse gas emitted by rice paddies.

“When the soils are frequently wetted and dried, they repeatedly become ideal environments for microbes that produce nitrous oxide,” explained lead author Kritee Kritee, senior scientist at the EDF.

“Methane on the other hand is produced by microbes that require soils to be submerged in water,” she told AFP in an email.

It is widely assumed that “almost all irrigated farms in the world are continuously flooded and it is a fact that continuously flooded farms do not produce significant amounts of nitrous oxide,” she added.

But it is not true that all farms are continuously flooded.

That´s why Kritee says the “full climate impact of rice farming has been significantly underestimated.”
200 coal plants

Currently, the amount of unaccounted-for N2O global emissions from rice may be as high as the annual climate pollution from about 200 coal power plants, according to the authors.

In India alone, where the study took place across five intermittently flooded rice fields, nitrous oxide emissions “could be 30-45 times higher than reported under continuous flooding,” researchers estimated.

Overall, they calculated that nitrous oxide per hectare (2.5 acres) was three times higher than ever reported by research on intermittently flooded farms before.

“When this new information is extrapolated across the world and embedded into estimates of methane emissions, the net climate impact from both methane and nitrous oxide could be two times higher than previous estimates,” Kritee said.

Experts say a better way would be for all irrigated rice farmers to shallowly flood their fields, meaning the water level stays within five to seven centimeters of the soil level.

“This flooding regime produces the least amount of methane and nitrous oxide,” Kritee said.

As of now, N2O from rice-growing simply isn´t being tracked on a broad scale, and is left out of greenhouse gas inventories reported to the United Nations by major rice-producing countries including China and India.

But as water becomes scarcer around the globe, many rice farmers may look to wet and dry cycles as a solution, not knowing the danger they are posing to the planet.

To avoid that, scientists need better tracking and reporting of N2O worldwide, the EDF said

BEIJING: The special Pakistan International Airline (PIA) that has been tasked with bringing back the stranded Pakistanis in Guangzhou, China will have to take permission from India and China before flying, sources informed

According to sources, PIA will take permission from the Civil Aviation Authorities (CAA) of Pakistan, China and India before bringing back the remaining passengers, however, there are chances that permission can be delayed due to offices being closed on Sunday.

As many as 300 Pakistanis were left stranded in the Chinese port city of Guangzhou after their Shaheen Air flight was abruptly cancelled on July 29, following a dispute over payment of arrears totalling over Rs1.5 billion between the airline and the CAA.

PIA to operate special flight to bring back stranded Pakistanis from China: sources

The airline’s international operations — except Hajj flights — were suspended several days ago by the CAA owing to the mounting debt.

The stranded citizens have continued to face immense difficulties amid blame game between the CAA and Shaheen Air.

A few of them have also reportedly fallen sick as they continue to await their return home for past seven days.

However, the national flag-carrier has now decided to reach out to stranded countrymen.

Sources said that PIA CEO has directed the PIA authorities to make arrangements to bring back stranded Pakistanis from China.

Pakistani consul general meets stranded passengers
A spokesman for the Foreign Office of Pakistan said with the cooperation of Pakistani consul general, 214 passengers reached home through an alternate flight, whereas 46 preferred to return via Shaheen Air’s next flight.

The spokesman further explained that Shaheen Air flights scheduled for August 2 and 5 were also cancelled, and now several other Pakistani passengers have been stranded, in addition to the 46 previously left in Guangzhou.

Shaheen Air provided accommodation to these passengers at a hotel in Guangzhou, he said, where they are also being provided food.

The Pakistani consul general also met with the stranded passengers, the spokesman said, adding that the accommodation provided to them was comfortable and efforts were being made that they face no difficulties.

He said the consul general was constantly in touch with the passengers, Shaheen Air and Chinese officials.

Local officials of the Chinese ministry of foreign affairs have been fully cooperating with regard to expiry of visas of some stranded passengers, the spokesman said.

He also said that Shaheen Air was making efforts for early return of stranded passengers.

بیجنگ (ایم نائن ٹو)چین میں ایک نئی صنعت ابھر کر سامنے آئی ہے جہاں وہ شادی شدہ جوڑے جو ایک دوسرے کے پیٹھ پیچھے دوسروں کے ساتھ ناجائز تعلقات قائم کرتے ہیں۔ ان میں سے متاثرہ فرد کئی ہزار ڈالر دے کر ناجائز تعلق قائم کرنے والے فرد کے محبوب سے چھٹکارا پا لیتے ہیں۔ ویئ قنگ لوو ہسپتال میں کالے کپڑے پہنے درمیانی عمر کی ایک عورت کو لایا گیا جس نے برطانوی نشریاتی ادارےکے نمائندے سے بات کرتے ہوئے بتایا کہ وہ شنگھائی کے سب سے مشہور محبوب بھگانے والے ہسپتال کیوں آئی ہیں۔ انھوں نے بتایا کہ ان کے شوہر کے ساتھ تعلقات مشکلات کے بعد اب بہتری کی جانب گامزن ہیں۔ مجھے لگتا تھا کہ ہماری شادی شدہ زندگی پہلے تھی لیکن اب مجھے اندازہ ہو رہا ہے کہ یہ زیادہ بہتر ہے اور یہ اصل زندگی ہے۔ کئی ہفتے تک ماہرانہ رائے دہی یعنی میرج کونسلنگ لینے کے بعد یہ خاتون اس نتیجے پر پہنچی ہیں۔ ان کونسلنگ کے مراحل میں انھیں زندگی کو مثبت انداز میں دیکھنے اور بہتر بیوی بننے کے بارے میں بتایا گیا۔ ویئ قنگ ہسپتال کی مشترکہ بانی منگ لی ہسپتال آنے والی خواتین کو ماہرانہ رائے دیتی ہیں تاکہ وہ کامیاب شادی شدہ زندگی گزار سکیں اور اس طرح اپنے شوہر کی توجہ اپنے تک محدود و مرکوز رکھیں لیکن کئی کیسز ایسے ہوتے ہیں جہاں شوہر اپنے بیویوں کے علاوہ اوروں کے ساتھ ناجائز تعلقات قائم کر لیتے ہیں۔ ایک خاتون نے نمائندے کو بتایا جب مجھے اپنے شوہر کے ناجائز تعلقات کا علم ہوا تو میں نے اُس سے سوالات کیے۔ ہماری لڑائیاں ہوئیں اور میں بار بار سوال کرتی رہی کہ اس نے ایسا کیوں کیا۔ شروع میں اس نے احساس ندامت دکھایا لیکن مسلسل لڑائی کے بعد اس نے مجھ سے بات کرنا ختم کر دی جس کے بعد میں نے ماہرانہ مدد لینے کا فیصلہ کیا۔ اس مدد کے لیے اس خاتون نے شنگھائی کے ویئی قنگ ہسپتال سے رجوع کیا اور انھیں پیسے دیے تاکہ وہ ان کے شوہر کی محبوبہ سےچھٹکارا دلا دیں۔ کئی ہزار ڈالر خرچ کرنے کے باوجود یہ خاتون سمجھتی ہیں کہ یہ طریقہ طلاق لینے سے بہتر حل تھا۔ ہسپتال کی بانی منگ لی اور ساتھی بانی شو ژن شنگھائی میں اپنا ہسپتال گذشتہ 17 سال سے چلا رہے ہیں اور اب تک دس لاکھ سے زیادہ گاہکوں کو مشورے فراہم کر چکے ہیں۔ شو ژن نے بتایا کہ شادیوں میں مختلف قسم کی مشکلات ہوتی ہیں۔ ان میں سے ایک ہے ناجائز تعلقات جو بہت سنگین مسئلہ ہے اور یہ نہ صرف خاندان بلکہ معاشرے کے لیے مشکلات پیدا کرتا ہے۔’انھوں نے بتایا ہمارے پاس 33 مختلف طریقے ہیں جس کے ذریعے ہم محبوب سے جان چھڑواتے ہیں۔ جو طریقے شو ژن نے نمائندے کو بتائے وہ یہ تھے: محبوبہ کو ترغیب دینا کہ وہ کسی اور شخص کی محبت میں مبتلا ہو جائے، شوہر کو دوسرے شہر میں نوکری کے لیے منتقل کر دیا جائے،والدین اور دوستوں کو راضی کیا جائے کہ وہ اس معاملے میں مداخلت کریں اور محبوبی کو شوہر کی بدکرداری اور بیماریوں کے بارے میں آگاہ کرنا تاکہ وہ اسے چھوڑ دے۔جب نمائندے نے شو ژن سے باقی 29 طریقوں کے بارے میں معلومات حاصل کرنا چاہی تو انھوں نے بتایا کہ وہ ہمارے کاروباری راز ہیں۔ ہم ان کے بارے میں میڈیا میں گفتگو نہیں کر سکتے۔