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China voices concern over ICC move on Sudan
Beijing (AFP) July 15, 2008China on Tuesday expressed concern over a decision by the International Criminal Court's prosecutor to seek the arrest of Sudan's president for alleged war crimes. "China expresses great concern and worry over the ICC prosecutor's accusation against the Sudanese leader," foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told reporters. The court's chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Monday ... more China quake sends 1.4 million back into poverty: report 
Beijing (AFP) July 15, 2008Up to 1.4 million people in remote villages in southwest China have slipped back into absolute poverty after the May 12 earthquake flattened their homes, state press said Tuesday. "In many counties, the hard-won anti-poverty achievements in the previous two decades disappeared within seconds," the China Daily quoted Fan Xiaojian, head of the central government's poverty alleviation office, a ... more China hits back at BBC report on Sudan 
Beijing (AFP) July 15, 2008A BBC report alleging that China is breaking a United Nations arms embargo on Sudan is biased, the Chinese special envoy to Darfur said in comments published here Tuesday. Envoy Liu Guijin said China's arms sales to Sudan were only small scale and that the trade in military equipment was not fuelling the conflict in Darfur, according to the China Daily newspaper. "The programme is strong ... more China Can't Fully Fix Air Quality Problem For Olympics 
Narragansett RI (SPX) Jul 16, 2008The outlook for air quality in Beijing during the Olympics is borderline, and there's little that the Chinese government can do to improve it. That's the conclusion drawn by a University of Rhode Island atmospheric chemist who analyzed pollution data collected regularly for the last five years by Chinese scientists. "There is both a local component and a regional component to the pollutant ... more China boosts world dominance in beer brewing: study 
Munich, Germany (AFP) July 15, 2008China, already the world's top beer-producing country, has boosted its market dominance, according to a German study released Tuesday. The world's most populous country produced 22.0 percent of the global beer supply last year, versus 20.6 percent the year before, the study commissioned by German hop trader Joh. Barth and Sohn showed. It brewed nearly 394 million frothy hectolitres ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) Jul 14, 2008China's third manned spaceship, Shenzhou VII, set to launch in October, reached the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern Gansu Province on Thursday, a source with the launch center said. The spacecraft was transported to the launch center by air from Beijing early on Thursday morning, the source said, adding the move marked the start of the Shenzhou VII launch mission. ... more Russia, China veto UN sanctions on Zimbabwe 
United Nations (AFP) July 11, 2008China and Russia on Friday vetoed targeted UN sanctions on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe over his disputed re-election, prompting an angry reaction from the United States which cast doubt on Moscow's reliability as a G8 partner. The Chinese and Russian envoys joined their colleagues from South Africa, Libya and Vietnam in opposing a US draft resolution in the Security Council which would ... more China trade deficit in food up 14-fold: report 
Beijing (AFP) July 13, 2008China registered a 7.57 billion dollar trade deficit in agricultural products during the first five months of 2008, up by more than 14-fold over the same period last year, state press said Sunday. China imported 23.75 billion dollars of agricultural products in that period, up 59 percent over last year, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing the agriculture ministry. The nation ... more China breaking UN embargo in Sudan: BBC report 
London (AFP) July 13, 2008China is breaking the United Nations arms embargo on Sudan, providing military equipment and training pilots to fly Chinese jets, the BBC said Sunday, citing an investigation by its journalists. Citing two confidential sources, the broadcaster said China was training pilots to fly Chinese Fantan fighter jets, and that Sudan had imported several fighter trainers called K8s two years ago. ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) July 11, 2008North Korea returned Thursday to international talks on its nuclear activities after a nine-month break, in what host China hailed as a potential turning point in the disarmament process. Envoys from the six nations involved in the long-running talks gathered in Beijing in an effort to capitalise on recent progress that saw the North finally hand over a declaration of its atomic activities ... more Sino-Japan Relations Thaw In Wake Of Sazanami Naval Visit 
Moscow (UPI) Jul 10, 2008 China and Japan have done the unthinkable: For the first time since the end of World War II, a Japanese warship docked in a Chinese port on June 24 and stayed there until June 28. Several hundred Chinese sailors welcomed the destroyer Sazanami by holding up signs with slogans and chanting praises for bilateral relations, as ordered by their commanders. The Sazanami's visit was ... more China to urgently boost GM crop development 
Beijing (AFP) July 10, 2008China has said it must urgently step up the development of genetically modified crops as it faces mounting challenges to feed its 1.3 billion people due to shrinking arable land and climate change. Newly-approved plans aim to cultivate high-yielding and pest-resistant genetically modified species, the State Council, or cabinet, said in a statement posted on its website late Wednesday. ... more China's trade surplus falls nearly 12 percent in first half: govt 
Beijing (AFP) July 10, 2008China's trade surplus fell nearly 12 percent in the first half of 2008, official data showed Thursday, as a slowing global economy, rising yuan and the impacts of a devastating earthquake hit exporters. The surplus for the first six months of the year came in at 99.04 billion dollars, the customs bureau said, with strong domestic consumption also helping to boost imports and ease the trade ... more
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