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Five dead as storm wreaks havoc in China
Beijing (AFP) July 31, 2008Five people were killed and tens of thousands moved to safety as tropical storm Fung-wong lashed eastern and southern China, state media reported Thursday. Four people were found dead in eastern Jiangsu province, while one person died and four were still missing in the southern province of Guangdong, Xinhua news agency reported. The storm has caused a trail of devastation across the ... more China's Export Trade Impacts Climate 
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008Carnegie Mellon University's Christopher L. Weber argues that China's new title as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter is at least partly due to consumption of Chinese goods in the West. As the world's greatest athletes prepare to participate in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, there is increasing concern from some athletes about the growing pollution caused by smoke and smog from ... more Miners At Risk As Coal Demand Spikes 
Beijing (AFP) July 31, 2008Workers in China's main coal-producing region, under pressure to meet nationwide shortages, are facing increased safety hazards as mines exceed normal capacity, state media said Thursday. Many mines in northern Shanxi province are exceeding certified capacity to meet soaring demand, threatening efforts to improve safety conditions, the China Daily said, citing Wang Shenzhen, head of the ... more Spire Enters Multi-Year Contract With Trina Solar 
Bedford MA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008Spire has announced that it has entered into a multi-year, multi-system contract to provide key module line equipment to Trina Solar of the People's Republic of China. Spire will provide Trina Solar with multiple Spi-Sun Simulator 4600 Single Long Pulse (4600 SLP) systems. The 4600 SLP is the world's leading solar simulation system. It is unique as it is the choice in research ... more Analysis: Olympic cybersecurity warning 
Washington (UPI) Jul 29, 2008 American business executives visiting Beijing for the Olympics should not take their laptops or BlackBerrys and should "assume all electronic communications are monitored," according to a briefing prepared by a U.S. State Department advisory panel. The briefing also says that U.S. businesses and even visitors could be the target of violent Chinese nationalist protests and that traveling ... more |
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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 Niger campaigners call for more details on oil deal with China 
Niamey (AFP) July 30, 2008Transparency campaigners and union officials in Niger on Wednesday denounced the lack of information on an oil deal signed with China, calling for more details of the contract to be released. On June 2, Niger signed an agreement with the China National Oil and Gas Development Exploration Corporation (CNODC). It covered prospecting and exploiting oil reserves in Agadem in the southeastern ... more Emerging economies to drive world auto sales to record highs 
Ottawa (AFP) July 30, 2008Auto sales in places like Brazil, India and China are expected to drive world demand to new records despite a sales slump in Europe and the United States, a Canadian bank said Wednesday. Global car sales advanced a mere 1.5 percent in the first half of 2008, undercut by slowing Western economies and record oil prices, Scotiabank said in its Global Auto Report. But Brazil, Russia, India a ... more |
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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 Over 600,000 evacuated as tropical storm hits China: reports 
Shanghai (AFP) July 29, 2008More than 600,000 people were evacuated as tropical storm Fung-wong made landfall on China's southeastern coast, state media reported Tuesday. The storm was downgraded from typhoon level as it hit Fujian province late Monday after slamming into Taiwan, where it had whipped up strong winds and unleashed heavy rains that left two people dead. No one was reported hurt in China, but state ... more Typhoon kills two in Taiwan: officials 
Taipei (AFP) July 29, 2008Two people have been killed and six others injured after a typhoon bringing strong winds and heavy rains pounded Taiwan, the National Fire Agency said Tuesday. Typhoon Fung-wong slammed into Taiwan on Monday morning, sparking flash floods and forcing 1,200 people to evacuate from their homes across the island. A 51-year-old woman drowned in southern Tainan county while a 68-year-old man ... more
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