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China biggest CO2 emitter last year: Dutch agency
The Hague (AFP) June 13, 2008China's carbon dioxide emissions in 2007 were about 14 percent higher than the United States and accounted for two-thirds of the global rise, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) said Friday. With an eight percent national increase, China's carbon dioxide emissions contributed the bulk of last year's 3.1 percent global rise in CO2 emissions, according to a statement released ... more Heavy rains in China leave at least 65 dead or missing 
Beijing (AFP) June 15, 2008Heavy rains in southern and eastern China have left at least 65 people dead or missing, while more than one million residents have been evacuated, state media said Sunday. Rains were expected to further pound southern China in the coming days, with rising river levels threatening towns in Jiangxi, Guangxi and Guangdong provinces, the state meteorological bureau said. According to the ... more Cambodia approves billion-dollar Chinese dams 
Phnom Penh (AFP) June 13, 2008The Cambodian government on Friday approved two large hydropower dams to be built with more than one billion dollars in funding from Chinese companies. The new projects, Stung Tatay dam and Stung Russey Chrum Krom dam in the southwestern province of Koh Kong, were approved during a cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Hun Sen, according to a government statement. The statement ... more Search for trapped Chinese miners abandoned: report 
Beijing (AFP) June 14, 2008Rescue workers were Saturday forced to abandon a search for seven miners trapped after an explosion at a Chinese coal mine in which at least 27 died, state media said Saturday. The rescue effort, already hampered by high levels of toxic gas in the mine, was abandoned completely after the workers found unused explosives and detonators in the shaft, the state Xinhua news agency said. ... more China manned space flight set for October: state media 
Beijing (AFP) June 12, 2008The launch of China's third manned space flight, the Shenzhou VII, with a crew of three "taikonauts" has been set for October, state media reported Thursday. A short-list of six "taikonauts" or astronauts had already been selected for the flight and would be whittled down to a crew of three before the October launch, Xinhua news agency said, citing a spokesman for the mission. "One member ... more |
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Shanghai (AFP) June 12, 2008China's CITIC Securities said Thursday it plans to launch a six-billion-yuan (870-million-dollar) industrial investment fund to serve reconstruction in a southwestern quake-hit city. The country's top listed brokerage said it has incorporated a new fund management company with registered capital of 100 million yuan in Mianyang of Sichuan province, according to a statement with Shanghai Stock ... more China's quake homeless endure with stoicism 
Mianzhu, China (AFP) June 12, 2008His home destroyed and future uncertain, 51-year-old welder Jiang Cheng would seem to be at his lowest ebb as he swelters in a camp for those displaced by China's earthquake. But Jiang and thousands like him are taking the ordeal in their stride, in a testament to the legendary stoicism of China's masses. Many, too, are thankful for the help of the nation's ruling Communist Party. ... more China quake lake runoff contaminates towns' water: Xinhua 
Beijing (AFP) June 12, 2008Torrents of muddy water gushing from a "quake lake" in southwest China have contaminated water sources for 600,000 people living downstream, state media reported Thursday. At least two towns along the Fujiang River have had to switch to alternative water supplies since the controlled release of water from Tangjiashan lake began on Saturday, the Xinhua news agency reported. ... more Leading China cyber dissident disappears, rights group says 
Beijing (AFP) June 12, 2008A leading Chinese dissident, who has won an international award for his work in publicising China's human rights issues on the Internet, has gone missing, a rights group said Thursday. Huang Qi was last seen on Tuesday evening being taken away by three unidentified people and forced into a car in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan province, the Tianwang Human Rights Centre said. ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) June 11, 2008A teacher who fled a classroom, leaving his students behind when a massive earthquake hit southwest China found himself Wednesday at the centre of a frenzied media debate. Fan Meizhong, a teacher at Guangya school in Dujiangyan, near the epicentre of the quake, was nicknamed "Running Fan" after he abandoned his students -- who all survived -- in the May 12, 8.0-magnitude quake. Chinese ... more Soaring imports shrink China's trade surplus, stoke inflation 
Beijing (AFP) June 11, 2008Soaring imports caused China's trade surplus to shrink nearly 10 percent as rising global commodity prices stoked inflation in the domestic economy, official figures showed Wednesday. China's trade surplus stood at 20.2 billion dollars in May, down 9.9 percent from 12 months ago, prompted mainly by a 40-percent spike in imports to 100.3 billion dollars, according to customs data. ... more Pollution kills 10,000 a year in southern China: study 
Hong Kong (AFP) June 11, 2008At least 10,000 deaths every year in Hong Kong, Macau and neighbouring southern China are caused by the area's worsening air pollution, according to a study released Wednesday. Air pollution is also responsible for 440,000 hospital bed days and 11 million doctor visits each year, the Hong Kong-based think tank Civic Exchange said in its study. "We estimate that there are about 10,000 ... more PetroChina to raise 8.7 bln dlrs as oil price bites 
Hong Kong (AFP) June 11, 2008PetroChina, China' largest oil and gas producer, said Wednesday it would raise 60 billion yuan in a corporate bond sale as it tries to overcome losses caused by fuel price controls. The domestic bonds, worth 8.7 billion US dollars, will be issued in the mainland and will have maturities of no more than 15 years, the company said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The bonds ... more
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