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Russia slams West, looks to China for support
Dushanbe (AFP) Aug 27, 2008Russia on Wednesday lashed out against Western criticism of its actions in Georgia as President Dmitry Medvedev discussed the situation in the Caucasus with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao. "The Russian president informed his Chinese colleague about the situation in South Ossetia and Abkhazia," Kremlin spokeswoman Natalya Timakova said after the talks, referring to two Georgian rebel region ... more Europe raises fears of wider Russia confrontation 
Paris (AFP) Aug 27, 2008European leaders raised fears Wednesday that Russia could set its sights on other neighbouring countries after recognising two Georgian rebel regions as independent states. Ukraine and Moldova are both vulnerable, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said as Russia shrugged off a welter of condemnation from the West with even China saying it was concerned at Russia's actions. Russia ... more Police, money silence protests over China quake school deaths 
Dujiangyan, China (AFP) Aug 27, 2008Parents of children killed when poorly built schools collapsed in China's earthquake remain angry but police intimidation and cash payments have largely quelled their protests, locals said. About 7,000 schools collapsed in the May 12 quake, often as nearby buildings stood firm, and relatives of the dead children initially spoke out loudly against the graft they believed led to the shoddy ... more Death toll in China chemical plant blast rises to 20: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 27, 2008Twenty people have been confirmed dead after an explosion at a chemical plant in southern China that injured 60 others and forced the evacuation of more than 11,500 people, state media said Wednesday. Rescuers found the last two bodies of employees at the plant in Yizhou city in Guangxi province on Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency said. The initial explosion happened early on ... more Chinese logging company to invest 8.3 million euros in Congo 
Brazzaville, Drcongo (AFP) Aug 27, 2008A Chinese logging company will invest 8.3 million euros (12.2 million dollars) in the the Democratic Republic of Congo by 2010, a government statement said Wednesday. The Chinese company Yuan Dong (SEFYD) would operate in Souanke in the northern Sangha region, according to the statement. The investment was expected to create over 150 jobs. Wood is DR Congo's second largest natural ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) Aug 26, 2008President Hu Jintao said Tuesday that China remains committed to bold economic reforms introduced 30 years ago and urged South Korean firms to invest more in his country's modernisation. Hu, in a speech to business groups on the second day of his visit to South Korea, noted that this year is the 30th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's reforms which have brought the communist-ruled ... more China considers 54-billion-dollar stimulus plan: state media 
Shanghai (AFP) Aug 25, 2008China is considering a 54-billion-dollar stimulus plan involving tax cuts and government spending, state media said Monday, in another sign that boosting the economy is becoming a priority. The 370-billion-yuan proposal, which has yet to be finalised, includes 220 billion yuan in fiscal spending and 150 billion yuan in tax cuts, according to the Economic Observer, a weekly newspaper. ... more India Set To Ramp Up Air Force Part One 
Hong Kong (UPI) Aug 22, 2008 Within the next four months, a first batch of eight Russian-built Sukhoi Su-30MKI multirole fighters will be positioned at India's Tezpur Air Base in the state of Assam, near the border with China, an Indian navy source has revealed. This is almost six months ahead of the timeline reported some time ago in the Indian media. This will be the first time for Su-30MKI fighters to be ... more Two years on, face transplant patients can smile: study 
Paris (AFP) Aug 22, 2008Two facial transplants -- one on a Chinese man who had half his face ripped off by a bear -- have proved highly successful two years on, opening the way for wider use of the procedure, studies released Friday report. The operations in China and France are among a handful that have pioneered the use of donor tissue to repair severe disfigurement of the face caused by burns, tumours ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 22, 2008The death toll from a gas explosion at a coal mine in northeast China rose to 26 on Friday, state media reported. The blast in the Baijiagou Coal Mine in Liaoning Province occurred Monday morning as 81 miners were working underground, Xinhua news agency reported. Eleven miners were injured in the accident, four of them severely. Rescuers had been working to find four miners trapped ... more First Of 300 GE China Mainline Locomotives To Arrive In China 
Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 22, 2008GE Transportation has announced that the first China Mainline Locomotive (CML) will be delivered around Aug. 30, 2008, to the Tianjin Port in Tianjin, China. After being transferred to the Tanggu Depot for inspection, the locomotive will make its way to China's capital Beijing. Locomotive "CML 50001" is the first of three hundred 6,000-horsepower Evolution Series China Mainline Locomotives ... more EU quizzes Eutelsat on failure to transmit private Chinese TV 
Brussels (AFP) Aug 18, 2008The European Commission has sought an explanation from a European satellite operator as to why a private Chinese channel's signal has not been broadcast for two months, an EU spokesman said Thursday. "We are aware of the matter and (EU Telecoms) Commissioner Viviane Reding has written to Eutelsat to ask it what exact is going on," the spokesman said. Employees of Chinese-language New ... more China sticks to Tibet luxury train project 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 21, 2008China still aims to launch "the most luxurious train in the world" from Beijing to Tibet despite riots that broke out in the Himalayan region this spring, railway officials said Thursday. "The plan hasn't been cancelled," said an official at the Railway Ministry who declined to be named. State-run Xinhua news agency reported in early March, just days before deadly riots broke out in Tibet ... more
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