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US may sell F-16s to Taiwan's new govt after May: air force
Taipei (AFP) April 7, 2008A top Taiwan air force officer said Monday that the United States may clear the island's bid to buy 66 F-16 fighters after the island's new president takes office, a move that could irk China. Taiwan had applied to the US government to buy the F-16 C/D fighters in early 2007, but observers said Washington held up the deal because it didn't approve of Taipei's efforts to hold a vote on applying ... more Bird flu breaks out at Tibet poultry farm: China 
Beijing (AFP) April 7, 2008An outbreak of bird flu has occurred at a poultry farm in restive Tibet, resulting in the deaths of at least 268 fowl, China's Ministry of Agriculture said Monday. Tests on dead birds at the farm in the village of Zhuba in Qamdo county revealed the virus was the deadly H5N1 strain, according to an announcement on the ministry's website. The outbreak was reported to authorities last Friday ... more China can meet domestic grain demand: premier Wen 
Shanghai (AFP) April 7, 2008Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has insisted that the nation was capable of feeding itself and that grain reserves were expected to meet demand despite tight global supplies, state media reported Monday. "The Chinese people completely have the capacity to feed themselves," the official Xinhua news agency quoted Wen as saying during an inspection tour in the northern part of the country. ... more China Slams US House Resolution On Tibet And Growing Chorus Of Condemnation 
Beijing (AFP) April 8, 2008International condemnation of China's crackdown in Tibet was "a typical example of confusing right with wrong," Chinese state media said in a commentary published early Tuesday. Mentioning by name US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who slammed China's "oppression" in Tibet, the article said: "The Lhasa riots were violent acts premeditated, organised and masterminded by the ... more Dyslexia in Chinese, English speakers is different: study 
Chicago (AFP) April 7, 2008Chinese- and English-speaking dyslexics have different neurological deficits, according to a study released Monday which suggests that dyslexia may be different brain disorders in the two cultures. English speakers with the reading disability typically have functional abnormalities in posterior parts of the brain associated with reading and possibly less gray matter in these areas also. ... more |
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Dharamshala, India (AFP) April 6, 2008The Dalai Lama said Sunday that protests in Tibet and nearby provinces had disproven Chinese "propaganda" about unrest in the region, adding the situation could no longer be "neglected". The exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader also repeated his call for an independent international probe into the unrest and subsequent Chinese crackdown, and again rejected Chinese allegations that he was behind ... more China insists torch will go through Tibet 
Beijing (AFP) April 7, 2008China's top official in Tibet, rejecting a demand of activists around the world, has insisted that the Beijing Olympics torch relay will pass through the Himalayan region as planned. The iconic flame was Sunday carried through London, where demonstrations against the Chinese crackdown in Tibet saw 35 protesters arrested, but the Dalai Lama urged Tibetan exiles not to disrupt events leading ... more China reports fresh Tibetan unrest, police fire warning shots 
Beijing (AFP) April 5, 2008China on Friday reported a fresh outbreak of violence as it sought to contain the biggest challenge to its rule of Tibet in decades, saying police were forced to fire warning shots to quell "rioters." One local official was seriously wounded during the "riot," which took place in a Tibetan-populated area of Sichuan province in southwest China on Thursday evening, the official Xinhua news ... more Taiwan's vice president-elect headed to China: official 
Taipei (AFP) April 6, 2008Taiwan's vice president-elect will head to China this week and could meet with President Hu Jintao, his spokesman said Sunday, amid optimism about improving ties between the cross-strait rivals. Vincent Siew will head on Friday to Hainan island in southern China for the Boao Forum for Asia, a gathering of business people and officials focused on greater trade cooperation in Asia, his ... more |
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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 Paulson urges China to lift barriers on environmental technology 
Beijing (AFP) April 3, 2008US Treasury chief Henry Paulson urged China Thursday to lift import barriers on environmental technologies, turning the tables on the Chinese, who often blame the Americans for curbing hi-tech trade. The call came as China pressed the United States to lift its own export restrictions that affect China and to reduce trade and investment barriers to boost bilateral trade, Xinhua news agency ... more
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