and southeasasia, and the utheastern province guangdong, as well western multinationals, has developed booming economy. the same is hoped for china's northeast. a number of foreign enterprises are moving into the economic and technical zone that the national government has declared here. this machinery manufacturing plant has been fanced by a chinese enterprise and a large japanese automaker. it will manufacture spinning mhines. here a japanese manufacturer andand a singapore companyaker. have combined in this precision equipment plant to manufacture machinery that is used in making floppy disks. but despite these promising beginnings, the attraction of foreign investment in liaoning province has lagged. part of the problem the nature of ry there. pannell: the problem is, if you've got iron and steel works, machine tool works, refineries, coal gasification plants-- sort of the dinosaurs of the industrial structure-- the real action is more in the light industrial side, the consumer goods and those kinds of things. if you can produce sporting equipment, for example-- shoes, garments, co

tropical depression, but it's still bringing some very heavy rain down through and spreading into guangdong province in the next couple days. you could see an additional 150 millimeters of rain or so, and that's in addition to about 200 millimeters in the last 24 hours. i want to show you some video briefly about what happened over the weekend. now, as ta typhoon, son-tinh hi on sad and the floods blocked roadways throughout the city leaving vehicles stranded. air travel was also disrupted. meanwhile, a tornado spawned from son-tinh hit wanting city in hainan province. houses sustained significant damage while trees came down as well. several people in the twister's path were injured. fortunately, there were no fa l fatalities reported from that tornado. all right. moving on, i want to take you to europe where we have a cold surge spreading out across much of the continent here. we've got storms hitting the southeast, as well so, as they head towards western russia, that's going to be turning over to snow. and take a look at the temperatures here. we have the lows for you. bear in mind, the

reporter: the latest installment of the china import and export fair opened in the southern province of guangdong on monday. it's held every spring and autumn. about 25,000 domestic and foreign firms are participating in the event, which runs until november 4th. representatives from japanese companies are showing off their products. some are from areas devastated by the earthquake and tsunami. 17 equipment and parts makers from japan have set up exhibition booths. this is almost double the number that took part last autumn. representatives from japan explained how their products work and exchanged business cards with potential chinese buyers. >> translator: there are many problems in relations between japan and china at present. but we want to continue selling our products in china. i hope these issues will be resolved soon. >> reporter: about 6,000 japanese attended the fair last autumn, looking to buy chinese goods. the event organizer warned that the number may be lower this time around. shun ishibe, nhk world, guangzhou. >>> myanmar's transition towards democracy is one of this year's most re

has signed a contract with the guangdong southern tigers. he averaged just 14 points a game with the memphis grizzlies last season. the move likely means his nba career is over. ♪ gangnam style >> this is for all you hoya fans. that is former georgetown university center and current indiana pacer roy hibbert putting his spin on gangnam style in a flash mob fashion. hibbert organized the whole thing, surprising mallgoers at the indianapolis circle center. he got into it. check that out. he was helped out by his personal cheering section called area 55. according to yahoo sports, he even had the white suit jacket made specially for the occasion. >> very good. of course he has his own cheering section. >>> halloween isn't just for people anymore. more and more people are picking out costumes for their pets. this morning we have to show you one that is going viral. this is from a halloween parade. in new york city. the biggest costume hit was this dog. the pup, more thing, probably didn't even know why people were laughing at his little bottom.

c-span: you say that guangdong province, right above hong kong in southern china, ha--have--that it--that all flus emanate there? >> guest: well, there's some people who say that all--every major epidemic, every pandemic that's swept around the world in this century has--has begun in southern china. and there's a reason why they--they s--they think this is sort of the hot spot for flus. and that is that flu--in order to really, really sweep the world, you have to get a flu that's so different from anything you've seen that virtually everybody in the world is susceptible to it. and one way of doing that is to get a flu that--a flu that its genes have not been--or have not been seen by human beings really before. and birds gets infected with flu all the time. they don't even get sick. it lives in their intestines. and bird flus are generally really different than ones that infect people. and pigs can be infected with both bird flus and human flus, and they can sort of a mixing bowl and come out with a new flu that has bird characteristics and--and human characteristics and can infect pe