to counter negative images of China, especially over issues such as human rights,cheaptomsshoessalei.com, one-party communist rule, and Beijing's policies in the restive western regions of Xinjiang and Tibet. While it enjoys top-level access to Chinese officialdom, state control tightly restricts CCTV's reporting about China, leading critics to question what special advantages it can offer over other global networks. "We consider accuracy, objectivity, truthfulness, and public accountability more important than anything else. We will strive to provide good journalism, high quality television, and alternative views," CCTV America Director General Ma Jing was quoted as saying in the statement. Among those joining the new venture are ex-Bloomberg Television anchor Phillip Yin,http://www.oh315.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=773963, former "60 Minutes" producer Barbara Dury,http://bbs.icanwi.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2958857&extra=, and veteran BBC correspondent Michael Voss,tomsoutletsalecheap.com, based in Havana, Cuba. BBC veterans will also join the staff in the Washington bureau, along with former employees of CNN,http://www.8l365.com/home.php?mod=space&uid=20544&do=blog&id=150417, NBC, CBS, and Fox News. Two Chinese reporters are being posted from Beijing. The television arm of China's official Xinhua News Agency is also expanding overseas and on Wednesday listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange as a way to raise funds. The station, now known as CNC, launched Chinese and English-language channels in 2010, beaming them to near nearly 60 countries, including the U.S., Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Thailand, the company said. Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Your comment will be posted immediately, unless it is spam or contains profanity. For more information, please see our Comments FAQ. An insider's guide to politics and policy, available on the iPad or as a PDF download.
By MATTI HUUHTANEN, Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) Nokia Corp,toms shoes sale. plans to stop assembling cell phones in Europe by year-end as it shifts production to Asia and will cut another 4,000 jobs, its latest attempts to cushion itself from stiff competition in the smartphone sector. The Finnish company said Wednesday it will make the new job cuts at three plants in Finland, Mexico and Hungary this year as it reorganizes global manufacturing operations to compete better with the likes of Apple Inc.'s iPhone and handsets using Google Inc.'s Android operating software. The cuts come on top of nearly 10,000 layoffs announced last year. Nokia said it had increasingly shifted cell phone assembly from Europe to Asia, where the majority of component suppliers are based, to help it reach markets faster. The company said it would not close the three factories, however. "There will be no assembling of mobile phones at our plants in Europe after this," Nokia spokesman James Etheridge said. "We plan to focus product assembly at our plants in Asia where the majority of our suppliers are based, while our facilities in Salo, Komarom and Reynosa will focus on the software-heavy aspects of the production process." Neil Mawston from Strategy Analytics said Nokia's move "made sense" and