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Taiwan to mass-produce anti-ship missiles: report
Taipei (AFP) Aug 29, 2008Taiwan plans to mass-produce ship-to-ship missiles to boost its naval defences against China, the United Evening News reported Friday. The defence ministry has set aside more than 2.26 billion Taiwan dollars (71.75 million US) to manufacture the locally-designed Supersonic Hsiung-feng 3, the United Evening News said. The defence ministry declined to comment on the report. Analysts ... more Taiwan to cut military spending amid warming China ties: report 
Taipei (AFP) Aug 30, 2008Taiwan plans to scale back its military spending in 2009 amid warming ties with rival China, it was reported Saturday. Military spending will be 315.2 billion Taiwan dollars (10 billion US), a decline of 10.4 billion Taiwan dollars on this year, the United Daily News said, citing a draft budget pending parliament's approval. It will account for 17.2 percent of next year's government ... more Chinese police kill six in Xinjiang clash: reports 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 30, 2008Chinese police killed six people and arrested three others during a clash in the restive Muslim northwest region of Xinjiang, state media reported on Saturday. Police carried out an operation late Friday in Kashgar prefecture in the far west of Xinjiang against a group of people suspected of involvement in an attack on August 12 in which three security guards were killed, the Xinhua and ... more Explosion at China fireworks factory kills 15: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 31, 2008Fifteen people were killed and six injured when a blast rocked a fireworks factory in northern China, state press reported Sunday. The explosion occurred on Saturday morning in Inner Mongolia's Sijiazi township, destroying 50 workshops at the Xinxin Fireworks Plant, Xinhua news agency said. The blast occurred as workers at the plant were weighing and mixing ingredients for making the ... more China's former richest man gets jail for illegal logging: report 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 29, 2008A Chinese businessman once listed as the richest in the country has been jailed for more than ten years for illegal logging, state media said Friday. Luo Zhongfu, 57, chairman of real estate company Fuhai Fuyingshi New Materials Technology Development Co, was found guilty of clearing a forest to make way for a resort development, the Beijing Youth Daily said. A court in Qingzhen city in ... more |
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Ashgabat (AFP) Aug 29, 2008The president of energy-rich Turkmenistan on Friday pledged to significantly boost gas deliveries to China following talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao. "Each year the future gas pipeline will deliver not 30 billion cubic meters, as before, but 40 billion cubic meters of gas," Turmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov told journalists after the meeting with Hu. Turkmenistan ... more Tibet luxury train project will not start in September: report 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 31, 2008A "five-star" train from Beijing to Tibet will not begin service in September as earlier indicated, state media reported on Saturday. Xinhua news agency reported in early March, just days before deadly riots broke out in the Himalayan region of Tibet against Chinese rule, that the train would go into service on September 1. "There is no detailed schedule yet, but I can confirm it won't ... more Chinese airlines fly into headwinds in Olympic year 
Shanghai (AFP) Aug 31, 2008It was supposed to be Air China's year: the airline heralded a new era in Chinese aviation by joining Star Alliance, became the Olympics official carrier and expected big passenger numbers to follow. However, disasters, a shaky economy, rising fuel costs and falling demand bedevilled Air China and other Chinese carriers, turning a year that began with optimism into one filled with turbulence ... more China's tallest tower aims to take Shanghai higher 
Shanghai (AFP) Aug 29, 2008The dizziness strikes within the first steps onto the world's highest public walkway as the view of fast-changing Shanghai unfolds from more than 100 storeys up. China's tallest building, the 492-metre (1,614-foot) Shanghai World Financial Centre, opens to the public on Saturday with the aim of providing unparallelled views of the city. The 1.4-billion-dollar bottle opener-shaped ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 28, 2008China hailed Thursday a three-billion-dollar oil agreement with Iraq as a win for both nations, as it sought to reassure the rest of the world that it should not be concerned by the deal. Becoming the first foreign firm to enter such an agreement since the end of Saddam Hussein's regime, state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) this week won the right to develop the Al-Ahdab oil ... more US, 19 firms on clean-energy trade mission to China, India 
Washington (AFP) Aug 28, 2008The United States and 19 US companies will travel to China and India next month on a clean energy and environment trade mission, the Commerce Department said Thursday. US Commerce Assistant Secretary David Bohigian will lead the September 1-12 trade mission, the government's third such mission to the fast-growing Asian powerhouses since April 2007. "The 19 companies participating in this ... more Hong Kong and China sign nuclear, gas energy deals 
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 28, 2008Hong Kong and China signed nuclear and gas energy deals on Thursday which the southern city hopes will reduce both pollution and the need for a controversial liquefied gas terminal. The deals aim to provide Hong Kong with a consistent supply of both natural gas and nuclear energy for the next two decades, as it tries to reduce its dependency on coal-fired power, chief executive Donald Tsang ... more Analysis: Sudan courts U.S. with oil 
Sudan has offered the United States the opportunity to explore for oil in Darfur, parts of which reportedly have been recently cleared for Chinese exploration by way of government troops and aerial assaults on rebel-held areas. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir told al-Arabiya TV earlier this week that the United States was welcome to explore for Darfur's mineral wealth, which ... more
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