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Analysis: Anti-Taiwan buildup -- Part 1
Hong Kong (UPI) Oct 17, 2008 Despite the apparent easing of cross-strait relations between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan since Ma Ying-jeou assumed the presidency in Taipei, China's armed forces are not lightening up in their preparations for a military struggle against the island. On the contrary, preparations are moving ahead at an accelerated pace. Xu Caihou, vice chairman of China's Central Militar ... more 'Distinct' risk if Uighurs released on US soil: Bush administration 
Washington (AFP) Oct 17, 2008The Bush administration believes the 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp should not be released into the United States because they pose a "risk distinct to this nation," according to court documents obtained by AFP on Friday. The potential risks, said the US Justice Department, were compounded by the fact "that petitioners were detained for six years by the ... more China's Wen says government partly to blame for milk scandal 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 18, 2008China's Premier Wen Jiabao said his government was partly to blame for the tainted milk scandal that has killed four infants and sickened 53,000 throughout the country. In an interview with a US magazine, Wen said although contamination of milk had occurred at dairy companies in China, the government was responsible for monitoring the industry at the heart of the crisis. "We feel that al ... more Chinese drug firm recalls all injection products after deaths 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 18, 2008The Chinese manufacturer of a ginseng injection that killed three people has recalled all its injection products, the country's drug safety watchdog said Saturday. Wandashan Pharmaceutical, based in the northeast province of Heilongjiang, voluntarily recalled all its injection products on Friday, the State Food and Drug Administration said in a statement on its website. Six hospital ... more China quake rumour-monger jailed for four years: court 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 17, 2008A 19-year-old man who hacked into a government website just after southwest China's devastating earthquake and warned of another huge tremor has been jailed for four years, a court said Friday. The court in Nanning, capital of the southern Guangxi region, convicted Chen Zhifeng of deliberately spreading false and terrifying news. Chen hacked into the website of Guangxi's seismological bu ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Oct 19, 2008Chinese farmers will be allowed to trade, lease out and transfer their land rights for profit, according to a landmark agricultural policy document released by the government on Sunday. The policy, approved a week earlier by the ruling Communist Party, is part of a reform push aimed at reducing a gaping rural-urban income gap and maintaining the nation's food security amid growing demand. ... more Nine Chinese oil workers kidnapped near Sudan flashpoint 
Khartoum (AFP) Oct 19, 2008Nine Chinese oil workers have been kidnapped near Sudan's disputed central oil district of Abyei, the Chinese embassy said on Sunday, with a Sudanese driver also feared missing. "Nine Chinese oil workers, they are kidnapped," an embassy spokesman told AFP, asking not to be named. "We're still looking into the issue. We're taking the necessary steps." He said the kidnapping happened on ... more Laid-off factory workers in China say prospects grim 
Dongguan, China (AFP) Oct 19, 2008Frustrated Chinese workers left jobless when a major toy maker went bust said Sunday they might have to go home in debt, as more factories face failure due to the global financial crisis. More than 100 employees of Hong Kong-listed toy manufacturer Smart Union again crowded outside its factory in the southern export hub of Dongguan on Sunday, two days after the firm announced it had gone ... more 16 dead after dynamite explosion at China mine: officials 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 17, 2008Sixteen people were killed when two tonnes of dynamite were detonated at a coal mine in north China, creating a much larger explosion than workers expected, the government and state media said Friday. The accident, which happened Thursday evening at a mine in the northern Ningxia Hui region, also injured 46 people, including 12 seriously, according to China's work safety bureau. ... more |
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Sao Paulo (AFP) Oct 16, 2008Hopes that China will emerge as the world's economic savior in the global crisis are overblown and ignore that country's dependence on the US market, a US economist in Beijing told the Brazilian newspaper Valor Thursday. "A significant slowdown in US growth will hit emerging markets in general, and China in particular," Michael Pettis, professor of finance at the University of Beijing, said. ... more Chinese to invest millions in Guinea Bissau phones 
Bissau (AFP) Oct 16, 2008China is investing 36 million euros (48.5 million dollars) in modernising Guinea Bissau's obsolete fixed telephone network and another three million euros in the mobile phone network, a government minister said Thursday. "It only remains to launch the operation in 90 days," Transport and Communication Minister Vicente Blute told AFP. The work will be carried out by the Huawei group. ... more China dairy companies blame middle men for milk scandal 
Hohhot, China (AFP) Oct 16, 2008China's biggest dairy companies blamed middle men on Thursday for the nation's tainted milk scandal, as they guaranteed their produce was now safe. Milk products made by Yili and Mengniu, along with those of many other leading Chinese brands, were last month found to contain melamine, an industrial chemical normally used to make plastics. "The milk stations that had problems were the one ... more Pakistani, Chinese presidents meet in Beijing 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 15, 2008Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari met his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on Wednesday as he looked to Islamabad's loyal ally for crucial financial and nuclear energy investments. Zardari, on his first state trip since taking office in September, was greeted by Hu at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, the seat of power in China. Hu extended an effusive welcome, stressing close bilateral ... more
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