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US envoy due in Japan and China on NKorea nuclear talks
Washington (AFP) June 17, 2008US envoy Christopher Hill is to travel this week to Japan and China, a US official said Tuesday amid a new flurry of talks aimed at scrapping North Korea's nuclear weapons programs. Hill will meet both Japanese and South Korean officials during his talks in Japan before he visits China for consultations with his Chinese counterparts, acting State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos told ... more Japanese warship to visit China next week: minister 
Tokyo (AFP) June 17, 2008A Japanese warship will dock in China next week for the first time since World War II on a visit aimed at building on a thaw in relations, Defence Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Tuesday. The 4,650-ton Sazanami destroyer will leave Japan on Thursday and arrive at a port in Zhanjiang, in the southern province of Guangdong, on June 24, Ishiba told a news conference. During the five-day stay ... more Most of panda habitat damaged or destroyed in China quake 
Beijing (AFP) June 17, 2008Over 80 percent of the giant panda's habitat in China was damaged or destroyed by the earthquake that hit southwest Sichuan province, an official at the State Forestry Administration said Tuesday. "In the earthquake, 83 percent of the giant panda's habitat was damaged or destroyed," Cao Qingyao, a spokesman for the administration, told reporters. The fate of the pandas has been a cause ... more China orders emergency work as floods ravage south 
Beijing (AFP) June 17, 2008China ordered emergency work to strengthen swollen dykes and reservoirs Tuesday and evacuated tens of thousands of people as large swathes of the south reeled under their worst storms in decades. Officials said more than 40 rivers nationwide were exceeding their warning levels with torrential rain continuing to pound the densely populated region. The civil affairs ministry said the death ... more Bird flu hits southern China: state press 
Beijing (AFP) June 17, 2008Authorities in southern China have begun destroying poultry after bird flu was detected to stop the disease spreading, state press said Tuesday. The outbreak was confirmed as the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus by the agriculture ministry on Tuesday after poultry began dying in Jiangmen city, Guangdong province, last week, Xinhua news agency reported. Nearly 3,900 ducks have died, while ... more |
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Sydney (AFP) June 16, 2008A Chinese dissident who was forcibly deported from Australia despite voicing fears of persecution if he was returned to his native country has killed himself, a refugee advocate claimed Monday. The pro-democracy activist, known only as Mr Zhang, who had complained of being beaten and tortured by authorities after being sent back to China a year ago, has now committed suicide after losing ... more French navy looking to strengthen ties with China against Somalia piracy 
Hong Kong (AFP) June 16, 2008The French navy and its Chinese counterpart are discussing ways to strengthen intelligence exchange to combat piracy off the coast of Africa, a senior French naval officer said on Monday. "We will see if we can do something together, especially in the waters off Somalia, where many Chinese fishing boats travel to," Vice Admiral Gerard Valin, who is also commander of French joint forces in ... more China should halt executions, publish statistics: campaigners 
Hong Kong (AFP) June 16, 2008China should impose a moratorium on the death penalty before the Olympic Games in August, and publish statistics on executions, human rights campaigners said here Monday. Since last year all death sentences have to be reviewed by China's Supreme People's Court, but no details have yet been released on how many people have been killed by the Communist state. The measure was seen as a ... more NASA Data Helps Pinpoint Impacted Populations In Disaster Aftermath 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 17, 2008When two catastrophic natural disasters struck within days of each other in May 2008, disaster relief, humanitarian aid, and health officials, as well as members of the news media tapped into a unique set of NASA data products describing the location of the exposed populations. In the hours and days following the cyclone in Burma and the earthquake in China's Sichuan Province, workers had ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) June 16, 2008China's pointman on US trade ties Monday urged Washington to work closely with Beijing to develop energy-efficient and pollution-reducing technologies as he heads to the United States for economic talks. Vice Premier Wang Qishan said in an opinion piece in The Financial Times that China and the United States should set up joint research and development centres to encourage new energy and ... more China economy could be starting slowdown: report 
Shanghai (AFP) June 16, 2008China's economic growth will slow to 10.4 percent this year, likely marking the start of a slowdown which could take several years, according to a new report released on Monday. The report from People's University in Beijing, in tandem with Shanghai firm Donghai Securities, said China will face challenges ahead from the weakening global economy. "The slowdown in the global economy and ... more Hong Kong aims to create oil futures market: financial secretary 
Hong Kong (AFP) June 16, 2008Hong Kong is looking at developing its own oil futures market as China tries to counter the effect of the commodity's rocketing price, the city's financial secretary said Monday. The new market would help fix the disparities that Asian buyers face when purchasing oil, which is priced in Dubai, London and New York and does not take into account local conditions, John Tsang said. "This ... more Gazprom, Chinese oil firms eye Nigeria's Ogoniland: report 
Lagos (AFP) June 16, 2008Russian gas giant Gazprom and several Chinese companies are interested in replacing Royal Dutch Shell in the Ogoniland region of the Niger Delta following the Nigerian government's decision to award the oil fields to another company, the daily This Day reported Monday. Shell abandoned the fields, which hold proven reserves of over 10 trillion cubic metres of gas, 15 years ago after its ... more
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