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Rice defends dropping China from rights blacklist
Washington (AFP) March 12, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday defended withdrawing China from the State Department's list of top human rights violators, citing renewed dialogue with Beijing on rights issues. "We just got China to renew or to begin again the human rights dialogue that had been in limbo for some time," Rice told reporters. In the State Department's annual report on human rights ... more China's leadership 'election' begins: report 
Beijing (AFP) March 12, 2008The nominees for China's president and prime minister were unveiled to the national parliament Wednesday, state media said, kicking off the nation's communist-style election process. The nomination lists were handed over to the nearly 3,000 delegates at the ongoing National People's Congress for "discussion and consultation", Xinhua news agency said of the nation's opaque political process. ... more China's retail sales jump 20.2 percent: govt 
Shanghai (AFP) March 12, 2008Chinese retail sales jumped 20.2 percent in the first two months of the year, the government said Wednesday, driven to what analysts called an 11-year high by steep inflation and heavy holiday spending. The National Bureau of Statistics data reflected February's Lunar New Year, a period of lavish consumer spending, but inflation, now at levels not seen for nearly 12 years, was a more ... more China tells developed world to go on climate change 'diet' 
Beijing (AFP) March 12, 2008The developed world should go on a climate change diet rather than lecture China over its rising greenhouse gas emissions, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said Wednesday. Yang told reporters that China's per capita emission of the gases linked to global warming remained less than one third the average in developed countries. "It's like there is one person who eats three slices of ... more China's Recoverable Moon Rover Expected In 2017 
Beijing (XNA) Mar 12, 2008China will have a recoverable moon rover, which will carry back lunar soil samples, by 2017 if technical research "progresses smoothly," said the chief designer of Chang'e-1, the country's first moon probe, here Tuesday. China plans to land a probe on the moon in 2013, said Ye Peijian, chief commander and designer of probe's satellite system, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) March 11, 2008China said on Tuesday its battle to rein in soaring greenhouse gas emissions has received a boost from an unexpected source -- the nation's controversial family-planning policy. Since its adoption in the late 1970s, the so-called "one-child" policy has averted the births of more than 300 million people, who would have emitted an additional 1.3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, a ... more Disasters killed 20,000 in 2007: study 
Zurich (AFP) March 11, 2008Natural and man-made disasters killed 20,000 people in 2007 and cost the world economy more than 70 billion dollars (45 billion euros), reinsurer Swiss Re said Tuesday. The world was hit by 142 natural catastrophes and 192 man-made disasters in 2007, the company said in a report, with most deaths in Bangladesh, India, China and Pakistan as a result of heavy flooding and cyclones, the report ... more China announces 'super-ministries', including one for environment 
Beijing (AFP) March 11, 2008China announced Tuesday it would set up five new "super ministries", including its first one dedicated to environmental protection, in an effort to streamline the government and fight corruption. The reshuffle of the nation's cabinet will also see the health ministry upgraded to oversee food and drug safety, according to a copy of the plan given to journalists that will be approved at the on ... more Daimler unveils plan to sell more buses in China, India and Russia 
Frankfurt (AFP) March 11, 2008German heavy vehicle manufacturer Daimler said Tuesday it planned to expand its bus division in emerging markets such as Russia and India to boost global sales. "Daimler Buses aims in the long term to reinforce its position of number one worldwide by investing in new growth markets like Russia, India and China," a company statement said. In Russia, "we are considering local production ... more |
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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
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