HOUSTON Air Huarache Mens , Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Three more U.S. oilfield services companies, all based in the country's oil hub of Houston, on Thursday joined a list of energy firms in cutting jobs and capital spending due to plummeting crude prices.
Parker Drilling, which had roughly 3,400 employees at the end of 2013, said in a quarterly conference call Thursday that it has cut its field workforce from its peak by about 70 percent.
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At Oil States International, another Houston-based oilfield services firm which had more than 9,000 employees, said it has cut an undisclosed chunk of its well services workforce.
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Earlier, Halliburton Co., one of the world's largest oil-field services companies, said it would cut 5,000 to 6,500 jobs to cope with falling crude prices.
JAKARTA, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia held 8th national celebration for the 15th day of the Chinese Lunar New Year Air Huarache , or Lantern Festival, in an effort to show respect to the local Chinese.
Taking a theme of "Build Indonesia Together -- One Indonesia, Glorious Indonesia," the annual event featured a musical drama titled the same as the event's theme, involving at least 120 dancers of various ethnicity in Indonesia.
Apart from the musical, the event also featured Chinese traditional Lion Dance as well as several popular songs performed by Indonesian Chinese Singers.
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Joko conveyed firstly his best wishes to the Indonesian Chinese for the Chinese Lunar New Year, and said "Happy Lantern Festival" in Chinese.
He noted that the Chinese Lunar New Year is part of Indonesia's cultural diversity, holding such a celebration is to show respect for the local Chinese, who has played an important role in the country's development.
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Murdaya Poo, organizer of the event thanked Indonesian government for lifting the ban on celebrating the traditional Chinese festival, adding that Indonesian Chinese should join hand in hand with other ethnicity in the country to accelerate growth the Indonesian economy.
Established in 2008, the annual celebration of Lantern Festival were co-organized by the Joint Chinese-Indonesian Forum and Indonesia's Metro TV. More than 5,000 local residents attended the event.
WASHINGTON, May 13 (Xinhua) -- The passenger train that derailed near the U.S. city of Philadelphia Tuesday night was traveling twice as fast as it should have been, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Wednesday.
NTSB spokesman Robert Sumwalt said at a news briefing that the train was traveling at 106 miles per hour Nike Huarache Womens , or 170 kilometers per hour, while the speed limit for the curve is 50 mph. The emergency brakes slowed the train from 106 mph to 102 mph before "the entire train derailed."
The black box data recorders will be sent to Washington D.C. for assessment, said Sumwalt, who added his team will also examine other details, such as the condition of the track and the train, how signals operated and "human performance."
When asked about what makes the train going at 106 mph, Sumwalt said that needed more time to find out.
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Hospitals have treated more than 200 people, at least half of whom have been released. Among the injured, 25 passengers were being treated at Temple University Hospital, including eight in critical condition, according to the hospital's medical director Herb Cushing.
Cushing said that many passengers were injured when other passengers or objects fell on them. Authorities have not ruled out the possibility of more victims from the incident.
An Amtrak passenger train was traveling from Washington, D.C. to New York when it derailed near Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania Tuesday night. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said that seven cars, including the engine of the train were derailed. The train was carrying 238 passengers and five crew members.
"It is an absolute Nike Huarache Shoes , disastrous mess," Nutter said. Rescue workers are still searching at the scene to find any possible survivor.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that so far there is nothing to indicate the incident was an act of terrorism.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said that the Obama administration is "hard at work," trying to figure out what caused the crash, and that their thoughts and prayers are with the families of everyone effected.
Amtrak said that because of the derailment, train service between Philadelphia and New York City remained suspended Wednesday.
MADRID, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Biochemists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna were on Thursday named as the winners of the 2015 Princess of Asturias Awards for technical and scientific research as the result of their work studying the immune system of bacteria.