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Tibet, a tourist mecca, closed to foreigners: tour operators
Paris (AFP) March 15, 2008Tibet shut the door to foreign tourists Saturday following China's deadly crackdown on protesters opposed to Beijing's half-century rule of the mountainous region, a booming tourism mecca last year. Tour and hotel operators in China contacted by AFP said foreign visitors have left Tibet or have been barred from entering, while Chinese tanks and soldiers patrol the capital Lhasa after quashing ... more As Tibet becomes more Chinese, frustration builds 
Beijing (AFP) March 16, 2008For a foreign traveller excited about visiting the "Roof of the World" and falling into a mystical land of Buddhist customs, a walk through Tibet's capital can be a disappointing experience. Long rows of Chinese shopfronts dominate even the so-called "genuine" eastern end of Lhasa where pilgrims gather, while traffic woes and drab new malls are as prevalent as in the rest of modern China. ... more Prized fish the latest liquid asset for Asia's super-rich 
Jakarta (AFP) March 14, 2008Gingerly removing a black cloth from his aquarium, Erfin Hongdoyo beams as he unveils one of his most treasured possessions -- a large red, and very rare, Arowana fish. The ethnic Chinese Indonesian is proud owner of a 45-centimetre (18-inch) "scleropages formosus," a freshwater fish native to the wilds of Indonesian Borneo which is nearing extinction. While the so-called "super red" ... more Hu Jintao re-elected China's president with 99.7 pct support 
Beijing (AFP) March 15, 2008China's parliament on Saturday almost unanimously re-elected Communist Party chief Hu Jintao to serve as president for five more years, according to a ballot made public. Hu received the support of 99.7 percent of the 2,965 votes cast by delegates to China's parliament. He was also re-elected head of the China's Central Military Commission with the same level of support. ... more Dalai Lama condemns 'rule of terror' in Tibet as protests spread 
Beijing (AFP) March 16, 2008The Dalai Lama condemned a "rule of terror" in his native Tibet on Sunday as Chinese forces blanketed the region's capital in security and pro-independence protests spread elsewhere in China. A fresh protest in southwest China's Sichuan province reportedly left at least seven people dead in a dangerous escalation of the uprising by Tibetans against China's rule of the vast Himalayan region. ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) March 16, 2008Bird flu has broken out in the south of China killing more than 100 poultry, state media reported Sunday, citing the agriculture ministry. The outbreak occurred in a market in Guangzhou, in Guangdong province on Thursday, and was a "highly pathogenic" subtype of the H5N1 influenza virus, which can be deadly to humans, the report said. A further 500 birds were culled and the disease was ... more Analysis: Chad eyes China role in conflict 
United Nations, N.Y. (UPI) Mar 14, 2008Rebel forces have attacked N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, twice in the past two years, and each time the world's eyes turned to Beijing. At the time of the first attacks in April 2006, China and Chad were not on diplomatic speaking terms, and widespread reports that the rebels carried Chinese weapons left Beijing fending off allegations that its growing economic support for Sudan was ... more Blair urges binding gas cuts by all countries 
Makuhari, Japan (AFP) March 15, 2008Tony Blair on Saturday urged the world's heaviest polluters including the United States, China and India to agree to binding emissions cuts, saying failure to act on global warming would be "unforgivably irresponsible." But disagreements were out in the open as the former British prime minister took on his new role as a mediator trying to help all sides meet a deadline to draft a successor ... more China reports more than 81,000 road deaths last year 
Beijing (AFP) March 16, 2008More than 81,000 people died on China's roads last year, an average of around 223 a day, state-run press said Sunday. The 81,649 deaths was down from 89,000 in 2006 but still meant there were more fatalities on China's roads last year than anywhere else in the world, Xinhua news agency said, citing the China Automotive Technology Research Centre. "The government should attach greater ... more |
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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 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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