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Taiwan Rebuilds Defence Relationships
Hong Kong (UPI) Jul 30, 2008 The worries of neighboring countries about China are on the rise. Therefore, the top priority of the new Kuomintang government in Taiwan is to strengthen its strategic relations with the United States and Japan and rebuild strategic mutual trust. This kind of trust between Taiwan, the United States and Japan has been greatly jeopardized over the last eight years. In rebuilding its ... more China has 'nothing to fear' from Internet: White House 
Washington (AFP) July 30, 2008US President George W. Bush said China has "nothing to fear" from Internet freedom, after Beijing sparked an uproar with its plans to censor the Internet during the Olympics, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. "President Bush has long said that China has nothing to fear from greater access to the Internet or to the press or from more religious freedom and human freedom and human rights," press ... more China earmarks 200 mln dollars to rebuild schools in quake zone 
Beijing (AFP) July 30, 2008China has earmarked nearly 200 million dollars to repair and rebuild schools damaged in a devastating magnitude-8.0 quake that struck the country's southwest in May, state media said Wednesday. The finance ministry has allocated 1.34 billion yuan (196 million dollars) to rebuild schools in badly-hit areas in Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces, the Beijing Times reported. It has also ... more Teacher sent to labour camp for China quake photos 
Beijing (AFP) July 30, 2008A teacher in southwest China has been sent to a labour camp for publicising photos of school buildings that collapsed in the devastating May 12 earthquake, a rights group said Wednesday. Liu Shaokun was jailed without trial after posting photos on the Internet showing schools flattened in the magnitude-8.0 quake in Sichuan province, the New York-based Human Rights in China said. Liu's ... more India, China: top trade powers, different styles 
Geneva (AFP) July 30, 2008Top negotiators from India and China displayed sharply different operating styles at just-ended WTO trade talks here: Indian Trade Minister Kamal Nath happily obliged reporters with corridor comment while Chinese counterpart Chen Deming steered well clear of the limelight. But both were blamed in some circles for Tuesday's breakdown in a nine-day marathon effort to forge a deal to free up ... more |
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 30, 2008On Friday, August 1st, millions of people in Greenland, Siberia, Mongolia and China-especially China-are going to witness a total eclipse of the sun. The Moon's cool shadow will sweep across the landscape, silencing wildlife with sudden darkness, filling the sky with the sun's ghostly corona, transforming ordinary folks into life-long eclipse chasers. Mainstream media gives this sort of ... more China To Broadcast Solar Eclipse Live On Internet 
Beijing (XNA) Jul 30, 2008While the best observation place in China for Friday's solar eclipse is a small county in the far-away Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, most people can also see it in all its glory on their laptop. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) will broadcast the total solar eclipse, the first in China this century, live on the Internet, the Division of Information Technical Sciences (ITS) said on ... more Analysis: Taiwan defense plans -- Part 1 
Hong Kong (UPI) Jul 29, 2008 In light of China's increasing military buildup, Taiwan's strategic security can be guaranteed only under three conditions. These are: first, a solid and appropriate national defense buildup; second, a government in Taipei that does not indulge in stimulating or appeasing the Chinese communist regime on the Mainland; and third, an effective strategic alliance with the United States and ... more Institute to promote US-China relations inaugurated in Washington 
Washington (AFP) July 29, 2008Nearly 40 years after then US secretary of state Henry Kissinger's landmark visit to China in 1971, an institute bearing his name and dedicated to promoting US-Chinese relations was inaugurated in Washington Tuesday. "China and America no longer have a common enemy, but a common opportunity," Kissinger said in a speech at the launch of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States. ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) July 29, 2008Bank of China said Tuesday its British subsidiary had bought 30 percent in Switzerland's Heritage Fund Management (HFM) for nine million Swiss Francs (8.7 million dollars). The bank, one of the country's big four state-owned commercial lenders, said in a statement the subsidiary, Bank of China (UK), intended eventually to raise its share in HFM to 70 percent. "Primarily, we're attracted ... more China insurers expect 1.5 bln dlrs in snow, quake claims: officials 
Beijing (AFP) July 29, 2008China's insurers expect to pay out more than 10 billion yuan (1.5 billion dollars) in claims due to the earthquake in the southwest and blizzards at the start of the year, officials said Tuesday. However, so far only 520 million yuan in earthquake claims has been paid out compared to five billion yuan for the snowstorms, Yuan Li, a spokesman for the China Insurance Regulatory Commission ... more Sudan dam floods villages: farmers 
Khartoum (AFP) July 29, 2008Villagers complained Tuesday that a massive hydro-power, Chinese-engineered dam under construction in Sudan had deliberately flooded seven small villages and left 200 families homeless. Mohamed Said Ahmed, from an executive committee that represents 25 villages around the Merowe dam, 300 kilometres (188 miles) north of Khartoum, said homes had been under water for days and local residents ... more US business groups blame China, India for WTO talks collapse 
Washington (AFP) July 29, 2008US business groups on Tuesday blamed China and India for the collapse of the WTO's Doha Round of trade negotiations, saying it was a blow to the world economy and the poor. The WTO talks broke down in Geneva after the United States and India failed to agree on proposals for measures to help poor farmers. The US Chamber of Commerce, which represents more than three million businesses and ... more
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