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US envoy in NKorea on mission to save nuclear pact
Seoul (AFP) Oct 2, 2008US negotiator Christopher Hill arrived in North Korea on Wednesday to try to salvage a nuclear disarmament deal, as Washington said it was working on a face-saving compromise involving China. A dispute over nuclear inspections is threatening to undo the 2007 six-party disarmament deal, with Pyongyang accusing Washington of violating its dignity by seeking Iraq-style "house searches." ... more French judge dismisses Taiwan warship graft case 
Paris (AFP) Oct 1, 2008A French judge on Wednesday ordered the dismissal without trial of one of France's biggest graft cases involving the 1991 sale of French warships to Taiwan, judicial sources said. Judge Renaud van Ruymbeke found there were no grounds for a trial over accusations of massive kickbacks after prosecutors cited a lack of evidence. France led a seven-year inquiry into claims that illegal ... more SKorea says tonnes of unsafe Chinese herbal medicine destroyed 
Seoul (AFP) Oct 1, 2008South Korea destroyed 871 tonnes of imported Chinese herbal medicine ingredients over the past two years because they contained excessive level of toxins, official figures showed Wednesday. The Korea Food and Drug Administration told parliament in a report that the imports had higher than permitted amounts of heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and arsenic as well as sulphur dioxide. ... more Two people die of rare form of plague in Tibet: report 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 1, 2008Two people in eastern Tibet have died of the deadliest and least common form of plague, Chinese state media said Wednesday. The health department of the Himalayan region was notified on Friday that two people had died of an unidentified illness in a village in the Linzhi area, more than 200 kilometres (125 miles) southeast of the capital Lhasa, the Beijing Times reported. Health ... more China's Hu demands action as milk tests find melamine 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 1, 2008Chinese authorities said Wednesday tests had found traces in nearly 12 percent of milk powder products of an industrial chemical that has so far sickened 53,000 children, killing four. As China marked its national day, President Hu Jintao said lessons must be learned from the scandal over tainted milk that has soiled China's reputation and led to a series of bans or curbs on its dairy export ... more |
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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 |
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 29, 2008The completion of the Shenzhou 7 space mission has been a major achievement for China. The principal goal of performing China's first spacewalk was accomplished without major problems. Observers are calling the flight a success, and for good reason. If we look at the mission more closely, China has gained more from the flight than just a spacewalk. China's astronauts and mission planners ... more China spacewalk fires national pride 
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
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