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Taiwan braces for Typhoon Kalmaegi
Taipei (AFP) July 17, 2008Powerful wind and torrential rain disrupted air traffic and forced offices and schools to close in Taiwan Thursday as Typhoon Kalmaegi approached the island. Kalmaegi was 50 kilometres (30 miles) northeast of Hualien on the east coast at 9:00 pm (1300 GMT), packing winds of up to 108 kilometres an hour, Taiwan's weather bureau said. Television images showed residents in Hualien city and ... more China quake zone govt to sell luxury HQ after outcry: report 
Beijing (AFP) July 17, 2008The capital of China's quake-hit Sichuan province has bowed to public pressure and will auction off its luxurious new government headquarters to aid the recovery effort, state media said Thursday. Proceeds from the sale of the controversial Chengdu city government building will go towards rehousing quake victims and for reconstruction, the China Youth Daily quoted He Huazhang, head of the ... more Taiwan to continue arms build-up despite US sales freeze: gov't 
Taipei (AFP) July 17, 2008Taiwan said Thursday it would keep pushing for the procurement of self-defensive weapons from the United States despite Washington's recent decision to freeze arms sales to the island. "We'll step up communications with the United States," the island's leading arms supplier, defence ministry spokeswoman Chi Yu-lan told AFP without elaborating. Another defence ministry official who ... more Water cut in Chinese city after toxic spill: state media 
Beijing (AFP) July 17, 2008A spill of poisonous mining waste forced officials in a northeastern Chinese city to cut off water supplies earlier this week over safety concerns, state media said on Thursday. Water in Donggang, a city of 150,000 people, was cut off on Tuesday when a sluice pipe burst at a nearby mine, sending tailings containing poisonous cyanogen pouring into a reservoir, Xinhua news agency said. ... more Analysis: China dedicated to Nigerian oil 
Beijing, China (UPI) Jul 18, 2008China has committed $1 billion to the creation of a six-lane highway surrounding Nigeria's de facto oil capital, Port Harcourt, the latest indicator of Beijing's intent to become a leader in African oil extraction. The China Harbor Engineering Co. signed a deal this week with the African Finance Corp. for the 75-mile road that AFC officials said in a statement also would help improve ... more |
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Brasilia (AFP) July 16, 2008Brazil's powerful agribusiness sector on Wednesday called for the country to step away from an alliance with China and India in WTO talks next week to concentrate on securing immediate farm trade deals. "The most productive sector in the Brazilian economy must not be held back by the drive to secure a greater trade opening for less competitive sectors," the Permanent Forum for Agricultural ... more Air China says it is to buy 45 Boeing aircraft 
Shanghai (AFP) July 16, 2008Flagship carrier Air China said its board has approved an agreement to buy 15 Boeing 777 and 30 Boeing 737 aircraft in a deal that would be worth several billion dollars. The catalogue price of the 45 planes is approximately 6.3 billion dollars but Air China said it expects Boeing to grant price concessions which will lower the overall cost, the carrier said in a statement late Tuesday. ... more Analysis: Nuclear revival without Germany 
Berlin (UPI) Jul 16, 2008 Global warming and rising energy prices have sparked a worldwide renaissance of nuclear energy -- but not in Germany, where the grand coalition government is still bickering over the planned phase-out of nuclear power by 2021. The United States, China, India, Russia, France, Canada, Britain, Finland, Sweden -- the list of countries aiming to build new nuclear power plants or at least ... more E-commerce in China soars: study 
Shanghai (AFP) July 16, 2008Commerce on the Internet in China is expanding rapidly, with spending rising 60 percent in the first half of the year, an industry body said Wednesday. China's Internet users spent 256.1 billion yuan (37.5 billion dollars) in the first six months of the year, up 58.2 percent from the same period in 2007, research institute Data Centre of China Internet said in a report. Spending online ... more |
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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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