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China tells Nepal to stop Tibet protests
Kathmandu (AFP) April 3, 2008Nepal needs to take stronger measures to prevent daily protests by Tibetan refugees in Kathmandu, China's ambassador to Nepal said in a statement Thursday. China wants Nepal to "safeguard the dignity of the law, and take severer measures to prevent those political organisations from organising and implementing illegal political activities," Ambassador Zheng Xianglin said. For the last ... more China will reopen Tibet to foreign tourists on May 1: govt 
Beijing (AFP) April 3, 2008China announced Thursday that foreign tourists would be allowed to travel into Tibet again from May 1, after the Himalayan region was sealed off following violent unrest there last month. Independent travellers as well as those on group tours would be welcomed back, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing Tibet's tourism bureau. Chinese authorities began clearing Tibet of foreign to ... more China urges US to support its stance on Tibet 
Beijing (AFP) April 4, 2008China has urged the United States to support its position on the Tibet crisis, state media said Thursday, after US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson expressed concern over the Chinese crackdown. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told Paulson to see through Tibet's exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, and respect "truth" regarding the deadly protests, the Xinhua news agency reported. "China ... more More than 1,000 caught, turn themselves in over Lhasa riot: report 
Beijing (AFP) April 3, 2008More than 1,000 people have either been caught by police or have turned themselves in after deadly unrest in the Tibetan capital Lhasa last month, state media said Thursday. Lhasa police have seized over 800 "criminals" since the violent March 14 unrest in the city, the Tibet Commerce newspaper reported, citing the deputy chief of the Lhasa communist party, Wang Xiangming. This is nearly ... more No turnaround in China's liquidity problem: state press 
Shanghai (AFP) April 3, 2008A key Chinese government think tank warned that too much money in the financial system continues to pose a danger to the economy, defying government efforts to curb it, state media reported Thursday. "The excessive liquidity has eased but its root cause has yet to be reversed," Chen Daofu, a vice director of research of the finance research department under the Cabinet, told the official ... more |
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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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