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Taiwan, China eye talks in October: report
Taipei (AFP) Sept 29, 2008Taiwan and its rival China are expected to hold a second round of negotiations next month following historic talks in June, a newspaper reported Monday. The discussions will focus on direct cargo flights and shipping links as well as the shortening of the existing flight routes across the Strait, the United Daily News said, without identifying its sources. The two sides held landmark ... more Death toll of August landslide in China rises to 41: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 29, 2008The death toll from a landslide in northern China rose to 41 after rescuers found 12 bodies on Monday, state media reported. Four people remain missing from the disaster, which happened in Sigou village in Shanxi province on August 1, the official Xinhua news agency said. The landslide occurred in an iron ore mining area, and it was difficult to know the number of missing since many of ... more Cadbury recalls China-made sweets from Hong Kong, Australia 
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 29, 2008British sweet maker Cadbury said Monday it had recalled its China-made chocolates from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia after tests "cast doubt" on their safety. In the latest fallout from the toxic milk scandal, which has sickened some 53,000 Chinese babies, Cadbury said it had carried out internal tests on products made at its Beijing plant. "As a result of these tests... we have ... more China smothers milk-crisis reporting: rights group 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 29, 2008China is suppressing vital media coverage of the country's dairy product crisis, a rights group said Monday, just days after Premier Wen Jiabao said the government had faced up to the scandal. China Human Rights Defenders, a network of domestic and foreign human rights activists, cited several instances of reporting by Chinese media censored by authorities. "China has tightened its grip ... more Toyota says curbing production in China 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 29, 2008Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. is curbing production in China as sales slow in the once-booming market, a company spokesman said Monday. "As sales growth has become slower than we projected earlier, we are adjusting output," Toyota spokesman Toshiaki Hori said, without disclosing the extent of the production cutbacks. The Nikkei economic daily reported that Toyota plans a 10-percent cut in ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 28, 2008China's first successful spacewalk triggered an outpouring of national pride on Sunday, with ordinary citizens and state-run media hailing it as a historic national achievement. "Following the Soviets and Americans, the black-haired and yellow-skinned Chinese have now left a footprint in space," declared a Beijing Youth Daily commentary, which also evoked the words of US astronaut Neil ... more Beijing Control Center Achieves Real Time Control Of Multiple Space Missions 
Beijing (Xinhua) Sep 29, 2008As China's third manned spaceship Shenzhou-7 moved into orbit on early Friday, the country has unprecedentedly fulfilled a mission of controlling more than one space vessels in real time, namely the Shenzhou-7 and the lunar probe. It marks a major breakthrough in China's aerospace control development, said Zhu Mincai, director of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC), the nerve ... more China plans manned trip to moon after successful mission 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 28, 2008China set its sights Sunday on a manned trip to the moon and a space station after completing a historic mission that included the country's first space walk. China laid out the ambitious targets after the return to Earth of its third manned mission, a 68-hour voyage hailed as a major boost to its space ambitions. "We believe that as long as we can make further progress in science and ... more Chavez defies US by cozying up to Russia and China 
Caracas (AFP) Sept 27, 2008Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's visit to China and Russia this week and the military and energy cooperation deals he signed put him on dangerous ground in his relations with the United States, political analysts said. "This trip shows he intends not only to break free of the US sphere of influence in matters of defense, but also to strike significant political links with the very powers ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 28, 2008The toxic milk scandal in China could never have happened under Mao Zedong or Deng Xiaoping, as dairy products only landed on Chinese dinner tables when the nation began opening up to the outside world. Westerners visiting China 20 or 30 years ago were hard pressed to find dairy products, and were only able to drink yoghurt out of a straw from a stone pot carved with Chinese characters ... more Italian police bust Chinese imports in operation 'Toxic Shoes' 
Rome (AFP) Sept 26, 2008Italian police said Friday they had confiscated some 1.7 million counterfeit shoes made with leather containing illegal toxins, most of them from China. Operation "Toxic Shoes" began in May and 21 Chinese and seven Italians are now being prosecuted for selling counterfeit products and threatening public health, a police spokesman told AFP. Shoes containing hexavalent chromium compounds ... more China's Wen vows to make 'made in China' brand safe 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 27, 2008Prime Minister Wen Jiabao vowed Saturday to ensure the 'Made in China' brand was safe for consumers at home and abroad, as a mounting contamination scandal led to a new European Union import ban. The European Union said Saturday it was banning all imports of Chinese children's products containing milk, such as biscuits and chocolate, with immediate effect. Although Chinese dairy products ... more China tries to reassure public over milk scare 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 27, 2008China on Saturday scrambled to reassure the public over a toxic milk scandal, announcing that nearly 50 Chinese brands which had been tested contained no melamine. The government said it had tested 47 brands of milk and yoghurt and detected no trace of melamine, the industrial chemical discovered in baby milk powder that has sickened 53,000 children and killed four so far. China's General ... more
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