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Boeing to sell 300 jets to China firms, set up China plant – Xinhua

Boeing Co has signed deals to sell 300 aircraft to three Chinese firms and set up an aircraft plant in China, becoming the first U.S. firm to clinch a business tie-up in the country since Chinese president Xi Jinping began a U.S. state visit, the official Xinhua news agency said. China’s ICBC Financial Leasing Co, a unit of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, on Wednesday separately confirmed it

Boeing to sell 300 jets to China firms, set up China plant – Xinhua

Boeing Co has signed deals to sell 300 aircraft to three Chinese firms and set up an aircraft plant in China, becoming the first U.S. firm to clinch a business tie-up in the country since Chinese president Xi Jinping began a U.S. state visit, the official Xinhua news agency said. China’s ICBC Financial Leasing Co, a unit of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, on Wednesday separately confirmed it

Brazilian film on maids' life gets country talking

A Brazilian film about a maid in a wealthy home is not only making waves as Brazil’s Oscars entry, but stirring painful debate over inequality and racism in a country in crisis. “Que Horas Ela Volta?”, released in English as “The Second Mother,” is a long way from the violence-filled depictions of drug gangs, like “City of God,” that foreigners have come to expect from Brazil. Released at a time

Brazilian film on maids' life gets country talking

A Brazilian film about a maid in a wealthy home is not only making waves as Brazil’s Oscars entry, but stirring painful debate over inequality and racism in a country in crisis. “Que Horas Ela Volta?”, released in English as “The Second Mother,” is a long way from the violence-filled depictions of drug gangs, like “City of God,” that foreigners have come to expect from Brazil. Released at a time