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Beijing (AFP) July 24, 2008Chinese authorities had to drag a woman from the water as she protested the evacuation of the last town to be submerged by China's Three Gorges Dam project, a local campaigner said Thursday. The last residents in Gaoyang, in central China's Hubei province, were removed from their homes on Tuesday to make way for the reservoir that will expand behind the giant dam that sits astride the Yangtze ... more Asia forges agreement towards joint disaster taskforce 
Singapore (AFP) July 24, 2008Asia's top security forum agreed Thursday on military exercises aimed at forging a regional taskforce to deal with calamities like those that struck Myanmar and China this year. The ASEAN Regional Forum resolved two years ago to develop guidelines for joint disaster relief, but the confused response to the Myanmar cyclone showed up the fact that little has been done since then. Singapore ... more China's mobile users top 600 million: govt 
Beijing (AFP) July 24, 2008The number of mobile users in China, the world's biggest cellphone market, now tops 600 million, the government said, as subscribers increasingly abandon fixed lines. Mobile phone users in the country increased to 601 million at the end of June, up by 8.6 million from the end of May, the Ministry of Information Industry said in a statement posted on its website on Wednesday. From January ... more Analysis: Threatening Taiwan -- Part 1 
Hong Kong (UPI) Jul 24, 2008 In terms of Taiwan's general strategic posture, the military machinery that the Kuomintang -- Nationalist Party -- inherited after winning the general election recently is, in fact, in a state of crisis. Taiwan's military buildup has been neglected for eight years, with military spending decreasing year by year except for a slight increase in 2008. Over the past eight years the only ... more Chinese Earthquake Provides Lessons For Future 
University Park PA (SPX) Jul 25, 2008The May 12 Sichuan earthquake in China was unexpectedly large. Analysis of the area, however, now shows that topographic characteristics of the highly mountainous area identified the mountain range as active and could have pointed to the earthquake hazard. Topographic analysis can help evaluate other, similar fault areas for seismic risk, according to geologists from Penn State and Arizona State ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) July 22, 2008A Tibetan Buddhist temple in an area of China wracked by anti-Chinese unrest earlier this year collapsed, killing two monks, after a powder used in religious rituals exploded, state media said Tuesday. Four other monks were hurt in the explosion and collapse of the Gonchen monastery on July 12 in southwestern China's Sichuan province, Xinhua news agency said. The accident at the monastery ... more China says deadly bus blasts, Olympics not linked 
Beijing (AFP) July 22, 2008China said Tuesday that no evidence of an Olympic terror link had been found in a pair of bus explosions that killed two people in a southwestern city. The mysterious blasts on Monday in Kunming have added to security tensions ahead of next month's Olympics because they followed repeated government warnings that terrorists were planning to attack the Beijing Games. Authorities have ... more Everphoton Plans To Set Up The First HCPV Power Plant In Asia 
Taipei, Taiwan (SPX) Jul 24, 2008LED companies Everlight and Epistar are collaborating with Yee Fong Chemical and Everphoton to set up the first HCPV power plant in Asia by the end of 2008, with the plant to have an estimated initial capacity of 1MWp. The project is lead by Everphoton, a company located in Taiwan and dedicated itself to HCPV industry and engaged in developing and manufacturing of high efficiency modules ... more China's parliament warns of runaway inflation, calls for support for exports 
Shanghai (AFP) July 23, 2008China's parliament on Wednesday urged the government to do more to curb inflation, while also calling for more policy support for the export sector. "We must closely watch price trends to avoid overly high inflation causing severe damage to the domestic economy," the financial committee of National People's Congress said in a statement on its website. The committee warned China's economy ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) July 21, 2008China and Russia signed an agreement Monday that ended a decades-long territorial dispute and finally determined their borders, in the latest sign of warming ties between the former Cold War foes. The protocol, signed by the two countries' foreign ministers in Beijing, added to an existing agreement on their 4,300-kilometre (2,700-mile) boundary, meaning all of the frontier is now set. ... more Asia's disaster response in spotlight at security talks 
Singapore (AFP) July 21, 2008Two years after Asia's top security forum vowed to develop guidelines for joint disaster relief, precious little has been done and hundreds of thousands more have died in calamities around the region. The Myanmar cyclone, China quake and Philippines ferry sinking have catapulted disaster preparedness back to the top of the agenda of the annual ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) talks in Singapore on ... more SKorea's Ssangyong plans shutdown as SUV demand falls 
Seoul (AFP) July 21, 2008South Korean smallest automaker Ssangyong Motor will shut down its plant for almost three weeks this summer because of sluggish demand for its gas-guzzling SUVs, union officials said Monday. Both management and union at the Chinese-owned carmaker have agreed to the shutdown from July 31 through August 17 at the plant in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometres (44 miles) south of Seoul, the union officials ... more 56 trapped in south China mine: state media 
Beijing (AFP) July 22, 2008A flood in a south China coal mine has trapped 56 people underground, state-run media said Tuesday. Rescuers have yet to make contact with the miners at the Nadu mine in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Xinhua news agency said, citing the Guangxi Work Safety Administration. It is not clear what caused the flood, which occurred Monday afternoon. The State Administration of Coal Mine ... more
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