FUZHOU, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Eleven Chinese are missing in the southern Pacific Ocean after the engine of their ship broke down, Chinese maritime authorities said Monday.

The 11 people, including 10 men and a woman from east China's Fujian Province, were aboard a 31-meter-long and 5.5-meter-wide wooden vessel that set off from Fujian's port city of Putian to Guam on Jan. 1.

The ship's engine was broken on Jan. 9 when it was about 500 nautical miles off Guam, and began drifting on the high seas. The passengers had called for rescue by maritime satellite telephone, a spokesman with the Fujian Maritime Safety Administration said.

Zheng Xiuguang, a villager of Fengwei Town of Fujian's Quanzhou City, said he had received a call on Jan. 9 from his brother aboard the ship.

"He told me there was a failure in their ship engine and asked me to seek help from local authorities if there was no news from him a few days later," Zheng said.

But his brother has been out of touch ever since, and Zheng called the police on Jan. 15.

So far, the relatives of nine people aboard the ship have called the police.

The ship was not registered, and most of the passengers were villagers from Quanzhou, according to the Fujian Maritime Safety Administration.

The maritime authorities and border troops have launched a search and rescue operation.

ISLAMABAD, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Death toll from an avalanche and consequent landslide in northern Pakistan has reached 102 and 45 people are still buried in snow, a mayor in the affected area has said.

Last week, heavy snowfall and rain had caused avalanche in Saheri village, some 50 kilometers from Dasu, a main city in the Kohistan district, near the Karakorum Highway, which connects Pakistan and China, according to local police Muhammad Ilyas.

District mayor of Kohistan, Dr Saif-ur-Rehman confirmed that 102 people, including 52 children, have been killed and 45 are still buried in the 15-feet snow. He said that 15 members of a family were among the dead.

He said that the rescue teams have so far pulled out nine injured of the snow and the teams are facing the challenge to evacuate the remaining trapped people.

He said that food, air and drinking water are being provided to the trapped people through a hole but he feared that they may die if more snowfall and rain occurred or the sun melt the snow. He said that if the snow is melted, glacier can killed the trapped people.

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The local authorities have requested the government to dispatch proper equipment and food to save the people.

Officials say that all land routes to the affected area are closed due to heavy snowfall and rains over the past few days, which had hindered relief and rescue attempts.

The district mayor said people from the affected villages are moving to safe places on foot and some 200 members of rescue teams had been sent to the area.

Officials say that some people have suffered from psychological problems as they had seen the tragic disaster and now they urgently need medical attention.

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So, at the exact moment in time that the United States needs every last drop of intel about China's assuredly nefarious designs, the Obama administration has set in motion a policy that ratchets down our efforts.

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Retired Stonehouse school caretaker Mr Wright, 90, joined the Royal Navy at 16 in 1935.

World War II saw him leave the Senior Service as a man a horrific 14 years later.

Great-grandfather Mr Wright, who is Stroud born and bred, has titled his historic tale The Memories of An Outdoor Man.

It tells of the wartime action he saw, including on the destroyer HMS Montrose off the east coast of Britain before enemy bombers put the ship out of action.

Mr Wright was then moved on to the ill-fated battleship HMS Prince of Wales before it was sunk by land-based Japanese bombers in the South China Sea in 1941.

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The navy then transferred him to the heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire only a few short weeks before she too was hit by Imperial Japanese Navy dive-bombers and disappeared beneath the waves.

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The man who talked Buckle into the transfer, became one of the biggest influences on him and has since set hundreds of other promising players on the path to professional careers, is Don O'Riordan.

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Operating loss for the fourth quarter was $21.1 million, compared to $6.0 million for the third quarter of 2009. The increase in operating loss was due mainly to non-cash charges of approximately $14.6 million associated with the acceleration of depreciation and other equipment write-offs relating to the planned transition of panel assembly at our Devens facility to our China facility, where we expect to recoup these charges through incremental cost savings.

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