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Hong Kong (AFP) March 14, 2008Hong Kong health authorities tried Thursday to calm public fears over a flu outbreak which has left four children dead and led the city to close all primary schools and kindergartens. It was the first time schools in this Chinese city have been closed for a health scare since the 2003 SARS epidemic. The order came late Wednesday, just hours after a flu-like illness was reported in nearly ... more Japanese official speaks of potential Taiwan alert 
Tokyo (AFP) March 13, 2008A senior Japanese defence official said Thursday that the officially pacifist country's military would go on alert if there was a serious incident in the Taiwan Strait. In a highly unusual remark for a Japanese official, Nobushige Takamizawa, director general of the defence ministry's defence policy bureau, said a contingency over Taiwan would be "a security matter for Japan." ... more China To Use Jumbo Rocket For Delivery Of Lunar Rover, Space Station 
Beijing (XNA) Mar 13, 2008A Chinese space expert said here on Tuesday that the Long March 5 large-thrust carrier rocket, currently under development and scheduled to be put into service in 2014, will be mainly used for the delivery of lunar rovers, large satellites and space stations. "With a maximum payload capacity up to 25 tons, the jumbo rocket is expected to be able to send lunar rovers, large satellites and ... more 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 |
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Washington (AFP) March 12, 2008A top US military leader on Tuesday admitted the United States has a limited understanding of Chinese military aims and is concerned about Beijing's lack of transparency. "The growing PLA (People's Liberation Army) military capability remains a concern, and our understanding of PLA intentions is limited," said Admiral Timothy Keating of the US Pacific Command. "The transparency that they ... more US drops China from list of top human rights abusers 
Washington (AFP) March 11, 2008The United States dropped China from its list of the world's worst human rights violaters, but added Syria, Uzbekistan and Sudan to the category in an annual report released Tuesday. The State Department's 2007 Human Rights Report said however that China, which has raised hopes internationally that it would improve human rights by hosting the 2008 Olympics, still had a poor human rights ... more Taiwan says China's arms buildup menaces region's peace 
Taipei (AFP) March 11, 2008Taiwan's defence ministry said Tuesday that rival China's rapid military expansion has tipped the military balance in the Asia Pacific and threatened the security of the world's major powers. China's total military spending in 2007 was estimated at between 97 and 139 billion US dollars, more than double China's declared budget of 45 billion dollars, according to the Pentagon's annual report ... more 'One-child' policy aids climate change battle: China 
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 |
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Beijing (AFP) March 11, 2008Inflation in China hit a near 12-year high of 8.7 percent in February, the government said Tuesday as it called for a "cool-headed" response to one of the nation's most pressing economic concerns. The figure, issued by the National Bureau of Statistics, marked the steepest rise in consumer prices since May 1996 and showed China's policy makers falling further behind in their efforts to keep ... more China casts doubt on reaching environment goals 
Beijing (AFP) March 11, 2008China faces a "daunting" task reaching its own goals to curb profligate energy use and serious pollution due to stubborn resistance in the booming industrial sector, an official said Tuesday. "In a word, there is still much to be desired. We still have quite a daunting task," said Xie Zhenhua, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, which executes energy and environment ... more Russia Key To BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile Part Three 
Washington (UPI) Mar 10, 2008The Russians are freely sharing with India the full secrets of one of their proudest, most cherished and crucial military technologies with India -- supersonic cruise missiles that fly at Mach 2.8 -- apparently confident it will not leak to the United States. And they have flatly refused to contemplate any similar co-production of these BrahMos series of cruise missiles with China. ... more China says death penalty system improved 
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
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