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Beijing (AFP) March 10, 2008Use of the death penalty has been checked in China since the top court began reviewing capital cases, the chief justice said Monday, but he withheld data on executions, which remain a state secret. State-run Xinhua news agency quoted Xiao Yang, president of the Supreme People's Court, as saying "very few" death sentences had been handed down. "The SPC has been working to ensure ... more China to stick with one-child policy 
Beijing (AFP) March 10, 2008China will keep its controversial one-child policy unchanged for at least 10 years, the country's family planning chief was quoted as saying Monday, amid a government debate over easing the controls. Any changes to strict family planning laws would only come after an expected peak in the number of births in the next decade, Zhang Weiqing, minister of the State Population and Family Planning ... more Alarming Increase In Expected Growth of China's CO2 Emissions 
La Jolla CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2008The growth in China's carbon dioxide emissions is far outpacing previous estimates, making the goal of stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gases much more difficult, according to a new analysis by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, and UC San Diego. Previous estimates, including those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, say the region that include ... more Clean Coal Agreement With China 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 10, 2008In an important step towards a greener global future, Australia and China signed a formal international agreement for clean coal research in Beijing. The agreement, between CSIRO and China's Thermal Power Research Institute, will see TPRI install, commission and operate a post combustion capture pilot plant at the Huaneng Beijing Co-Generation Power Plant as part of CSIRO's research program ... more China's trade surplus drops sharply in February: official data 
Beijing (AFP) March 10, 2008China's trade surplus shrank in February to a third of the level in the same month a year ago, customs authorities said Monday, as analysts said the US economic slowdown was starting to bite. The surplus of 8.56 billion dollars in February compared with a surplus of 23.8 billion dollars a year earlier, according to customs. The lower surplus came amid a 35.1 percent rise in imports, which ... more |
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Hong Kong (UPI) Mar 07, 2007China is not prepared to handle a large-scale external crisis -- particularly in the Taiwan Strait -- it can be concluded after assessing the nation's hardware, including ammunition supplies and fuel reserves, as well as the quality of its military personnel. In terms of its "soft" infrastructure, including the national political system, the Chinese government is unlikely to be able to ... more China's military officials urge combat readiness: report 
Beijing (AFP) March 7, 2008Chinese military officials have urged combat readiness in efforts to reunify Taiwan, just days after the government announced a 17.6 percent rise in defence spending, state press said Friday. "Preparations for military struggle shall be continued, which is now the most important, practical and imperative task", Xinhua news agency quoted Jing Zhiyuan, a People's Liberation Army (PLA) artillery ... more Team to sequence giant panda's genome: report 
Beijing (AFP) March 7, 2008Scientists from China and across the world are to sequence the genome of the giant panda to try to stop one of the world's most endangered species from being wiped out, state media reported Friday. They hope the project will help be able to control diseases that affect the animal and help understand its famously low level of sexual activity, Xinhua news agency said. "(This is) the first ... more US says contaminated blood-thinner came from China 
Washington (AFP) March 6, 2008Batches of the recalled blood thinner heparin, which contained an unidentified contaminant and has been linked to 19 deaths, have ingredients that came from China, the US government said Thursday. The federal Food and Drug Administration, which added that Germany has announced its own recall of heparin due to allergic reactions, has yet to prove that the contaminant was the cause of ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) March 7, 2008China's economy will keep growing fast for up to 30 more years thanks to its vast domestic market and foreign investment, incoming World Bank chief economist Justin Lin Yifu said Friday. "For the prospect of China's development, as you know I'm an optimist and I believe China is absolutely likely to see high-speed growth for 10, 20, or 30 years," Lin, a Chinese professor, told reporters at a ... more China Kicks Off New Space Launch Center Project 
Beijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2008The State Council of China has greenlighted the construction of a new space launch center in the southern island province of Hainan and the project has been kicked off, said a top provincial official on Thursday. The launch center, the fourth in China, is expected to complete in five years, Wei Liucheng, Secretary of Hainan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, told ... more Chinese Cyberattacks Target US Think Tanks 
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 07, 2008Defense-related think tanks and contractors, as well as the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies, were the target of repeated computer network intrusions last year apparently originating in China, the Department of Defense said this week. In its annual report to lawmakers on China's military power, the department said the intrusions "appeared to originate in" China but added, "It is unclear ... more Outside View: Concerts and nukes 
Moscow (UPI) Mar 07, 2008 The United States and China normalized bilateral relations with the so-called ping-pong diplomacy, when the exchange of ping-pong players between them in the 1970s encouraged an improvement in their political ties. Now Washington has introduced a "sing-song diplomacy" regarding North Korea by sending the New York Philharmonic to play Gershwin and Dvorak in Pyongyang last week. The conc ... more
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