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Export Prices Of Chinese And Taiwanese Portable GPS Units To Continue Falling In 2008
Hong Kong (SPX) Apr 03, 2008Sixty-one percent of mainland China and Taiwan portable GPS manufacturers expect to reduce export quotes in 2008 due to fierce price competition. Seventy-nine percent of these manufacturers expect to decrease their export quotes by up to 10 percent. This is according to Global Sources' China Sourcing Report: Portable GPS. Despite the price decrease, 77 percent of the surveyed manufacturers ... more Muslim 'extremists' attempt uprising in western China: govt 
Beijing (AFP) April 2, 2008China has accused Muslims in the nation's northwest of trying to start a rebellion, following what an exile group said Wednesday were peaceful protests against injustices under Chinese rule. The unrest occurred in China's Muslim-majority Xinjiang region last month, after Chinese authorities warned that "terrorists" based there were planning attacks on the Beijing Olympics and had tried to ... more Japan hails thaw with China but worried about military 
Tokyo (AFP) April 1, 2008Japan hailed a thaw in relations with China while urging greater military transparency from its neighbour in an annual diplomatic review published Tuesday. Japan has "further strengthened its alliance with the United States and at the same time moved its Asian diplomacy forward greatly by improving and promoting relations with China and strengthening relations with India," the report said. ... more Defense Focus: Carrier strategy -- Part 5 
Washington, April 1, 2008 Russian and Chinese naval weapons designers know they lack the resources and the technology to match the awesome power of U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups ship for ship and plane for plane. So instead, for decades, they have opted for asymmetrical solutions to the problem of killing U.S. super carriers. And they have come up with some lethal weapons. Russian military systems designer ... more Tibetans rubbish China's 'propaganda' on suicide attacks 
New Delhi (AFP) April 1, 2008Tibetan authorities in India on Tuesday dismissed Chinese allegations that Tibetans were planning suicide attacks ahead of the Olympics and asked Beijing for evidence. The India-based Tibetan government-in-exile labelled the claims propaganda and reiterated the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was not opposed to Beijing hosting the Olympics Games in August. "Instead of making ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) April 1, 2008China said Tuesday that Tibet remained closed for foreign journalists, nearly three weeks after deadly riots broke out in the Himalayan region. China's foreign ministry made the remark after the return from Tibet's capital, Lhasa, of a group of foreign reporters on a government-arranged visit that nonetheless showed some resentment there against Chinese rule. "For the reporting activities ... more China hits back at Pelosi's Tibet criticism 
Beijing (AFP) March 24, 2008China has called US House speaker Nancy Pelosi a "defender of arsonists, looters and killers" after she visited the Dalai Lama and criticised Chinese "oppression" in Tibet. Pelosi "turned a blind eye to merciless rioters" in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, the Xinhua state news agency said in a commentary on Pelosi's trip to Dharamshala, seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile, last week. ... more Qaeda in Yemen says it attacked foreign oil assets: SITE 
Dubai (AFP) March 31, 2008Al-Qaeda's wing in Yemen has said it carried out separate attacks on a French oil pipeline and a Chinese oilfield last week in Yemen, web monitoring group SITE said on Monday. The attackers, calling themselves the Jund Al-Yemen Brigades claimed they detonated a timed explosive Thursday on a pipeline belonging to France's Total in the western Saah district, the SITE Intelligence Group reported ... more Solar Cells Business Continue Seeing Rapid Increases In The Chinese Market 
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Apr 01, 2008According to the data from Deep Research Report on China Solar Cell Industry in 2007, the Solar Cell Shipment was 400.9 MW in 2006, compared to 118.7MW in 2005, it got an increase of 237.74%, and in 2007, this figure reached 1021.5 MW, and the increase was 154.8%. In China, the solar cell revenue was 1251.4 Million US dollars in 2006, compared to the 343.3 Million US dollars of 2005, the ... more |
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Dharamshala, India (AFP) March 29, 2008Tibet's government-in-exile reported fresh mass protests in Lhasa on Saturday as foreign diplomats visited the tense city following recent deadly unrest over Chinese rule. As EU foreign ministers called for an end to violence, the exiled Tibet body said "thousands" had joined demonstrations in Lhasa, although a spokesman stressed details were hard to confirm. ... more Nepal to put troops on Everest to block Tibet demos 
Kathmandu (AFP) March 28, 2008Nepal is to deploy soldiers on its side of Mount Everest to prevent pro-Tibet protests when China carries the Olympic torch to the summit in early May, officials told AFP Friday. Government sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said video cameras would be banned from the area and foreign climbers would only be allowed near the top of the world's highest peak once the Olympic expedition ... more Tibet religious official sacked: state media 
Beijing (AFP) March 30, 2008Tibet's top official for minority and religious affairs has been sacked, Chinese state media said Sunday, becoming the first apparent political casualty of the unrest in the Himalayan region. Danzeng Langjie, director of Tibet's Ethnic Minority and Religious Affairs Commission, has been "removed" from his post, according to a statement posted on the website of the Tibet Daily newspaper. ... more Bush calls for China dialogue with Dalai Lama envoys 
Washington (AFP) March 28, 2008US President George W. Bush for the first time publicly pressed China to hold talks with representatives of Tibet's spiritual leader after raising concerns over the bloody turmoil in the Himalayan territory. Bush said after talks with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at the White House that he had told Chinese President Hu Jintao that it was in his country's interest that Beijing "sit do ... more
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