try to ship honk kong baby formula to mainland china. >> does this improve the quality of food on the mainland? >> i have to give a lot of credit to food companies like mcdonald's and kfc, they are really craving better quality control supply chains. mcdonald's is investing in their own potato fields. it is a good opportunity for foreign brands to take advantage of the trust of foreign brands. they trust foreign brands because they're less likely to cut corners in the quality control process. the government can support huge investment by foreign brands. >> we will have to leave it there, he is the managing director of the china market research group. president has endorsed the elections on sunday. the national league for democracy won 43 of the 44 seats contested. they called for economic sanctions against burma to be lifted. power remains firmly in the hands of the military-backed government. >> saturday, a messenger arrived at the miramar times. it is published in english and burmese. s on whatstruction and w can and can not be included in the paper. what is the matter with that art

. >>> now let's check some economic figures from mainland china and hong kong. r reporter in hong kong jamie ung has more. >> china's inflation rate started rising again nationwide in march. in shanghai, prices come down slightly from february. the shanghai municipal bureau said prices rose 3.8% in march compared to a year ago. it was down 0.1 percentage point from the previous month. but food prices were still high, up over 9%. prices for home appliances and maintenance services also rose 5%. the chinese property market seems to have cooled down. the national statistics bureau says home sales declined 17.5% in first quarter compared to a year ago. overall properties sales including homes, offices and commercial buildings fell 14.6%. the government road various curbs to clampdown on housing prices including property taxes and restrictions on second home purchases. a report by citigroup says the cost of homes in hong kong rose 6% in the first quarter. the report said house prices dropped for seven months from mid-2011 before bottoming out in january, and then pick

> look at this video, this woman was caught at a border check point going from hong kong into mainland china. this guy has old bottles, and they weighed the bottles, and they were heavier. this woman was smuggling iphones. she cut the bottles in half, painted the bottles, and she can put three phones in there. >> we have seen people smuggle iphones from one part of china to another part. >> more and more, they're catching people smuggling iphones on their bodies or in this case some beer bottles. this woman had 72 beer bottles in her chashopping cart. >> i think it would be suspicious if you went in and 47 iphones. >> when i turned on my phone it was in chinese, i had to do a system reboot. >> a monkey story. some videos just do that to you. we're showing you this one, coming up. >> and it's the real life parking pinball game. >> so people do this? >> see what this >>> sadly for whatever reason, people steal a lot of stuff, but for real, i'm going to get really real, who steals from a church? i mean come on. we have this video from albuquerque, new mexico. he is stealing mail. >> why, what's

but the band did something really nice and invited another band from mainland china to march with themn the rose parade. valley christian is -- and if you're wondering about the language barrier, no worries. they speak the only language that matters, music. >> but to be able to then create relationship with some young people that share the bond of music on the other side of the world, i think makes it even that much more special. >> reporter: now, the marching band will be in beijing for eight days. there'll be one final group rehearsal and then it's show time, the rose parade on new year's day. "today in the bay." >> very fun. >> yeah, beautiful music all around. >>> hey, let's check the forecast right now with meteorologist christina loren. a lot of egg hunters out this weekend. >> a lot of egg hunters. and the good news is, it should remain dry for your celebrations. as we head throughout the second half of sunday, we are expecting a little bit of shower activity in the north bay and it will be light. i think we're going to get a lot of sunshine as we head into easter sunday. this g

and labor pains, why mainland china's opinions women may not be welcome if they want to give birth in hong kong. it's 9:00 in the morning in singapore. >> 2:00 in the morning in london. broadcasting to viewers in pbs in america and around the world, this is "newsday." >> hello, and welcome. the media tie kuehne rupert murdoch has told of british inquiry into british ethics he wanted to end what he called the myth he used the power or influence of one of his newspapers "the sun" to gain favorable treatment. he told the inquiry in london that never asked a prime minister for anything. >> in the long-running inquiry into press standards, this was the most keenly awaited witness so far. the chairman and chief executive of news corporation. >> i swear by almighty god the evidence i shall give shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. >> but mr. murdoch, known for his strong views, appeared surprisingly reticent about his decades as a powerful newspaper proprietor. >> i in ten years have never asked mr. blair for anything, nor indeed did i receive any favors. >> this a

they will be marching side by side with a band from mainland china. a band in a performed at the 2008 summer olympics opening ceremony in beijing. >> we'll be in our blue uniforms. they'll be in their red uniforms. >> reporter: valley christian is leaving for china this weekend to meet and rehearse with their chinese counterparts for the first time. and if you're wondering about the language barrier, no worries. they speak the only language that matters, music. >> we can connect through music. and i can't wait to put that into action. >> to be able to create relationships with some young people that share the bond of music on the other side of the world, i think makes it that much more special. >> reporter: for the next nine months, they'll be preparing mentally and physically for the parade route. their mission is simple for this opportunity of a lifetime. >> don't mess up. >> the valley christian marching band will be in beijing for eight days. and the chinese marching band will travel to san jose for one final rehearsal. then, it's show time, the ro

, preparing for new year's day, but the band did something nice and invited another band from mainland chinamarch with them. valley christian is leading for china to meet and rehears with their counterparts for the first time. if you're wondering about the language barrier, no worries. they speak the only language that matters, music -- >> to be able to create relationship with some young people that share the bond of music on the other side of the world i think makes it that much more special. >> reporter: the marching band will be in beijing for eight days. the chinese band will then travel to december for one final group rehearsal, then it's showtime, the rose parade on new year's day. george kit yamma in san jose. >>> coming up, meet the most popular sandwich maker. how she wentro fm just making meat, to a successful business owner. >>> i thought that was katy perry on the tv for a minute. let's look outside, you'll notice sunshine and a bit of fog out there. we are waking up to cold conditions, but it's going to warm nicely. we're talking 60s and f 70s, ba to detail your weather needs a

the company's ceo says mainland, china could overtake canada as its second largest market by the year has more than 570 stores there with plans to triple that number over the next few years. forget the fries. how about a bag gte with that. bag get with that. announcing the mcbaguette. mixed reviews. they are happy to see them adapting to their country's culture. the hits keep coming in a gsa scandal. we just found out of another perk. for the wife the guy who organized the big vegas bash. the one we know so well from the hot tub there and two glasses of something or other. new set back for the u.s. mission in afghanistan as if the country could use another. we are seeing a photograph of american troops apparently posing with the remains of a suicide bomber. that's coming up as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news on fox report. [ nadine ] buzzzz, bzzzz, bzzzz, bzzzz, you know, typical alarm clock. i am so glad to get rid of it. just to be able to wake up in the morning on your own. that's a big accomplishment to me. i don't know how much money i need. but i know

but the band did something really nice and invited another band from mainland china to march with theme rose parade. valley christian is leaving for china this weekend to meet with the chinese counterparts for the first time. and if you're wondering about the language barrier, no worries, they speak the only language that matters, music. >> but to be able to then create relationship with some young people that share the bond of music on the other side of the world, i think makes it even that much more special. >> the marching band will be in beijing for 18 days. the band will travel to san jose for one final group rehearsal and then it's show time. the rose parade on new year's day. san jose, "today in the bay." >> when you think of easter animals, of course a small little bunny comes to mind, right? but australian conservationists are trying right now to get rid of the easter bunny with an indigenous animal they claim is just as cute. there it is. they want to replace the easter bunny with this, the bilby, how about an easter bilby, trying to bring more attention to this threatened sp

more ambitious and aggressive, and that led to basically a state of permanent war on the asian mainland with china, burma, vietnam and then, of course, in 1941 when the expanded into the dutch east indies for its petroleum wealth and the philippines. >> do you feel at all the information that was classified after the second world war has been released now? >> as far as i know any operational material has long since been declassified. it's possible or perhaps even probable that some of the crypto material remains classified. not because of the content of the, but perhaps because of the methods used. although the geniuses who were able to decipher the complex military and diplomatic codes by hand thought they were cooking with gas, as they used to say, when they got analog computers. now there are banks and banks of extra in a computers that can crack most codes in a matter of days, if not hours. so i can understand why the crypto guys sort of the aired on the side of caution. >> prior to the war, yamamoto was very much against going to war against the united states. it was the most influential man

he's talking about opening 1500 stores in mainland china by 2015. i think he'll do far more than that. >> it's the 7th consecutive quarter. staggering. he's doing 7, 8% in the united states. the only company i saw that did more than that was chipotle. and you're seeing these, again, dominant companies. i like to call it the dominant companies because i find that when their stocks go down, it's a good chance. >> i think you need to film some people in the starbucks using their iphones. i think that will wrap it up for people. >> exactly. >> i was told to help consolidate the investment case. >> we talked about mobile. the best i know is e-bay. so what's my action, e-bay? >> what is your action, jim? >> i think that the other customers want a horse race. no one wants google to be dominant. no one wants amazon to be dominant. no one wants facebook to be dominant. even zynga, wow, they actually did pretty well. >> they depend a lot on facebook. wouldn't facebook help zynga a lot? >> it would. yes. they have to show that they can live without facebook. c

they haven't started selling the new ipad in mainland china yet. consider that when apple closed yesterday afternoon, it was trading at a discount to microsoft. i think, you know, people are justifiably kind of afraid of the market cap if you've never seen something like this. >> right. >> but in terms of valuation in the market cap. >> right. in terms of the numbers themselves, 600 -- you know, when you start approaching three quarters of a trillion dollars but never hit it. but how bad is it that it saturated here, peter and what does that mean? >> it means everyone in the post market, verizon, at&t, means that whoever want answer iphone, has one. we can't look at verizon and at&t anymore for a gauge of how apple is going. it's not a good gauge anymore, and china mobile is about 7 million subscribes, double wa the other two carriers are combined. >> will they beat the numbers they gave for guidants? >> we think so. it's been ridiculous. they've been doing it by 20%. >> they've produced more in this quarter so they were able to take advantage of i

mainland you have to launch the misil missile to the north. the first one would fly over china and the other over russia. so you don't want to do that. they've decided to launch it to the south where it has a clear path over the ocean. >> right. so is the launch likely to succeed, do you think? >> well, north korea's launching more or less the same missile as the one launched in 2009 so north korea is using the proven technology, but then the missile flew more than 3,000 kilometers. however in the past three taepodong test flights, are not korea has never succeeded in launching what they call a satellite. so the missile launch is likely to succeed, but what they call a satellite polite nmight not be orbit. this is their fourth attempt. we'll wait and see what happens. >> thank you very much, professor. >>> now the question is when north korean authorities will give the green light. as we've mentioned, they are weighing several factors, not the least of which is the weather. what's the forecast? >> according to the japanese aerospace organization, the ideal condition for the lau

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mainland, you have to launch a missile to the north. however, if you do so, the first stage of booster would fall over china, and the second one over russia. so you don't want to do that. as a result, the north koreans have decided to launch a missile to the south where it has a clear path over the ocean. >> so is the launch likely to succeed, do you think? >> well, north korea's launching more or less the same missile launched in 2009 so north korea is using the proven technology. but then the missile flew more than 3,000 kilometers. however, in the past three taepodong flight tests, north korea has never succeeded in launching what they call a satellite. so the missile launch is likely to succeed, but what they call a satellite might not be put into orbit. anyway, this is their fourth attempt. so we'll wait and see what happens. >>> china's ruling communist party has suspended a bo xilai, a senior member who used to be party member in chongqing and destined for better things. the xinhua news agency reports the party suspended bo on his political bureau. members suspect he was involved in serious violations of discipline. bo was a notabl

mainland, you have to launch a missile to the north. however, if you do so, the first stage of the booster will fall over china and the second one over russia. so you don't want to do that. as a result, the north koreans have decided to launch a missile to the south where it has a clear path over the ocean. >> right. is the launch likely to succeed, do you think? >> well, north korea is launching more or less the same missile as the one launched in 2009. so north korea is using the proven technology. but then the missile threw more than 3,000 kilometers. however, in the flight tests, north korea never succeeded in launching what they call a satellite. so the missile launch is likely to succeed, but what they call a satellite might not be put into orbit. this is their fourth attempt. we'll wait and see what happens. >>> people in japan's northeast are focused on overcoming challenges of the 2011 disaster, but they have to rebuild homes, businesses, communities. we'll show you their struggles and successes on "the road ahead" every wednesday at 1:00 p.m. japan time here on newsline. >> the ruling party has secured a majority in the general el

mainland and in order to do so, you have to send it to the north. if you do so, the first stage of booster will fall over china and the second one over russia. so you don't want to do that. as a result, the north koreans have decided to launch the missile to the south, where it has a clear path over the ocean. >> is the launch likely to succeed, do you think? >> north korea's launching more-or-less the same one launched in 2009, so north korea is using the proven technology. but then the missile flew more than 3,000 kilometers, however, in the past three flight tests north korea has never succeeded in launching what they call a satellite. so the missile launch is likely to succeed but what they call a satellite might not be put into orbit. anyway, this is their fourth attempt. we will wait and see what happens. >> the ruling party has secured a majority in the general election in south korea. the victory for the party is a major boost fand she is expecte to run next year. they took 152 out of the 300 seats in parliament. the democratic united party took 127. the ruling party lost ten seats, but it will maintai

tensions between the united states and china is over taiwan because as america sells arms to taiwan, then taiwan does not want to have political integration with the mainland, feel they can remain independent. and that's very disturbing. he had hoped that in his lifetime he would achieve the unification of taiwan. i think the most bitter disappointment he had with aiz aiz -- with his achievements was he was not able to bring taiwan back into the mainland. >> it surely would blacken his heart to see taiwan talking about reunification becoming inevitable. >> it certainly would. >> hi. professor, i have a question about the current new administration. china is going think changing of guards this year, and that the recent scandal with -- [inaudible] seems like there is, you know, comment that china's going to go backward, is going to be less open. i wonder what is your view about the new administration. are they following the path of deng xiaoping, becoming more open market reform, or you think that it's kind of going backward? >> there are a lot of things we don't know, and in the united states before a person takes office we have election campaigns which the

hang seng, china closed for a three day holiday, into the lot of cues from the mainland, so hang sengg lower. the taiwan weighted index down 0.9%. comments coming out from the finance ministry to say the government can aring whether to impose a capital gains tax on stocks. that is weighing on sentiment over in taiwan and the singapore up to the up side a little bit, so a little of a mixed picture here in asia and that's your global market report. >> some of the other stories we're following, a host of europe's financial institutions could start repaying loans obtained by the ltro program this is year. financial times suggests unicredit, socgen will pay back to a third of their loans. repayments aren't officially due until december of 2014. and shares of total up on news the group could in the coming days send experts to assess how to cap a leaking gas well. plans to land a held wiicopter sealing the well will being discussed with the health and safety executive today. and total conditifirmed the flan the platform has extinguished itself. stefane is following the story for us in paris.

mainland. >> it's hard to see the business of taiwan talking about it becoming inevitable. >> guest: it certainly would. >> proffer, i have a question about the current administration. china is going through changing of guards this year. , and recent school dahl it seems like there is, you know, comment that china's going to go backwards. it's going to be less open. i wonder what is your view about the new administration. are they following the path of deng xiaoping becoming more open more reform. or do you think it's kind of going backwards? >> guest: there are a lot of things we don't know and in the united states before a person takes office, we have election campaigns with their constant exposure to tv and press conferences. now the new successor. he knows if he speaks out it may disrupted things. it's very difficult join them to analyze what he'd do. he'll not telling or stating his polsz policies. one can say a few things from his background to give some clues. one is when he was the party secretary, he was very open, secondedly, that when he met foreigners in australia and japan and ottawa, they feel that he's a very open man they can deal with in a frank and direc