A Consummate Correspondent
Date: 12 December 1977
Holden's career revd
James Chau (Chinese: 周柳建成١-.. Zhōuliǔ Jiànchéng; born 11 December 1977) is a British journalist, television presenter, and United Nations goodwill ambassador. He previously anchored the main evening news on state-owned China Central Television (CCTV). In 2009, he was appointed by the United Nations as China's first UNAIDS goodwill ambassador. He wrote a newspaper column for the Chinese Communist Party-owned tabloid Global Times. His appointment as goodwill ambassador to the World Health Organization attracted attention due to his role in presenting forced confessions while working for Chinese state-run broadcaster CGTN.
Read more...The December 11, 1977 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 344 day of the year. President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.
If you were born on this day, you are 47 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 271 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, December 11, 2025, in 93 days. You have lived for 17,438 days, or about 418,521 hours, or about 25,111,291 minutes, or about 1,506,677,460 seconds.
Date: 11 December 1977
Holden, David: Sunday Times of London chief foreign correspondent found shot to death near Cairo airport (S)
Date: 12 December 1977
Israeli Interior Min Yosef Burg says Israeli journalists will now be permitted to visit Egypt in unlimited numbers; Sup Ct, in legal action initiated by Foreign Press Assn, ordered ministry to explain why it was refusing to permit Israeli reporters representing foreign publications to go to Cairo to cover preliminary peace meeting (S)
Date: 11 December 1977
Robert W Greene, sr editor of Newsday, will receive John Peter Zenger Award (S)
Date: 11 December 1977
elections discussed (M)
Date: 12 December 1977
Date: 12 December 1977
Date: 11 December 1977
By ED CORRIGAN
Ed CORRIGAN