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150 dead, missing after storms hit northern Vietnam
Hanoi (AFP) Aug 11, 2008Vietnamese emergency services were Monday seeking to reach isolated and flood-hit northern communities after tropical storm Kammuri left at least 100 people dead and 50 missing over the weekend. Flash-floods and landslides since Friday have cut major highway and rail links to the mountainous region bordering southern China. The heavy downpours have also knocked over trees and telephone and ... more Twenty die in torrential rain in southwest China: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 11, 2008Twenty people have died in southwest China in floods and landslides caused by torrential rain, and 10 are still missing, state media reported on Monday. The rain fell on parts of Yunnan province for four days from August 7, the official Xinhua news agency said, quoting the provincial civil affairs office. More than 810,000 people were affected by the rain, and direct economic losses were ... more Taiwan to push ahead with US arms purchases: Ma 
Taipei (AFP) Aug 11, 2008Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou Monday said his administration would push ahead with plans to purchase arms from ally Washington while trying to improve ties with traditional rival China. Ma, who was elected in a landslide in March and took office in May, has pledged better relations with China. The two sides launched regular direct flights for the first time in nearly six decades last month. ... more Trade surplus shrinks, inflation risk returns in China 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 11, 2008China's trade surplus has shrunk and factory gate inflation has soared to a 12-year high, official data showed Monday, as the country's stock market plunged 9.4 percent in two days. The benchmark stock index closed below the psychologically important 2,500 mark, reflecting serious concerns about where the economy was heading, observers said. "Investors were jittery over the economy ... more Applied Materials Awarded Multi-Year Solar Service Contract 
Santa Clara CA (SPX) Aug 12, 2008Applied Materials has announced that it has signed a five-year service contract with Green Energy Technology Inc. (GET) of Taiwan to support GET's Applied SunFab Thin Film Line for solar module manufacturing. Through its SunFab Performance Service program, the most comprehensive service offering in the solar industry, Applied will reduce operating costs while enabling a quick ramp to volume ... more |
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Detroit, Michigan (AFP) Aug 8, 2008General Motors Corp. said Friday it plans to export its newest hybrid, a version of the Cadillac Escalade sport utility vehicle, to Europe, China and the Middle East. The hybrid powertrain boosts the Escalade's fuel economy by 50 percent in city driving and by 10 percent on the highway, GM officials said. Production of the new hybrid begins next week at an assembly plant in Texas and the ... more CTDC Launches New Website 
Hong Kong (SPX) Aug 11, 2008China Technology Development Group has announced that the Company unveiled a redesigned website. The newly redesigned site includes many resources and helpful information that were previously unavailable for both existing and prospective clients. The site has been revised and updated to offer dedicated content sections on the Company's products and technology, production facility and ... more Bush confident China's future to reflect universal aspirations 
Washington (AFP) Aug 9, 2008US President George W. Bush expressed confidence Saturday that China's future will reflect "the universal aspirations of mankind," despite criticism of a lack of freedom in the world' most populous country. "The China of the future will reflect its own culture and traditions, but it will also reflect the universal aspirations of mankind -- and there's no deeper human desire than liberty." ... more Australia to work with China to revive world trade talks: PM 
Sydney (AFP) Aug 8, 2008The Australian and Chinese trade ministers will work together to attempt to revive the global trade talks which collapsed last month, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Friday. The latest Doha round of World Trade Organisation negotiations, which saw emerging powers such as India, China and Brazil take centre stage, fell apart in July in a potentially devastating blow to millions of the world's ... more |
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Mexico City (AFP) Aug 6, 2008The UN goal of achieving "universal access" to anti-HIV drugs and care by 2010 is unlikely to be reached worldwide, two leading figures in the campaign against AIDS said here on Wednesday. Looking to the mounting bill for the drugs that keep millions of poor people alive, they also said China and other fast-advancing economies could shoulder more of their own burdens in the future, freeing ... more China's Sinochem secures exploration deal in Indonesia 
Shanghai (AFP) Aug 7, 2008China's Sinochem Corp., a state-owned oil trading conglomerate, said Thursday it has entered into an agreement to explore oil and gas in two blocks in Indonesia. Sinochem has bought a 20-percent working interest in Merangin II Block and a 40-percent stake in Belida Block, both in oil-rich south Sumatra, from Pt. Sele Raya, a private oil firm, the Chinese firm said in a statement. The ... more Japan kept quiet on food scare at China's request: FM 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 7, 2008Japan's foreign minister said Thursday the government had withheld information about the latest health scare involving Chinese dumplings at the request of Beijing. Chinese authorities "asked us not to disclose it because it could become an obstacle to the police investigation," Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said. The foreign ministry said Wednesday it had been told by Beijing that ... more China's Space Ambitions 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2008Everyone seems to be sure the Olympic Games in Beijing are destined to be a success. Given the scale of preparations, the event is likely to be unprecedented. The Chinese are highly motivated and committed, which, combined with a phased approach, enables them to succeed in implementing any programs which Beijing turns its attention to. The space program, along with purely military ... more
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