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Chinese negotiator leaves Taiwan after scuffle
Taipei (AFP) Oct 23, 2008A top Chinese negotiator shoved to the ground by pro-independence protesters in Taiwan departed the island ahead of schedule Wednesday, potentially complicating delicate talks on improving relations. Zhang Mingqing, vice president of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, told reporters that he was flying back to Beijing for medical tests. "The police put a lot of ... more Outside View: China's silent dominance 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 21, 2008 Chairman Mao Zedong can finally rest easy in his grave. His country has now become the dominant partner in the Sino-Russian relationship, a complete reversal of the past. Since the 1930s Mao had a tense relationship with the Russians, largely because of their view that China and the Chinese Communist Party were in a subordinate position to their Soviet counterparts. Although Soviet ... more Crime crackdown in SW China yields 10,000 arrests: report 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 22, 2008Chinese police in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing have detained nearly 10,000 people in an 80-day crime crackdown, state media reported on Wednesday. Police detained 9,512 suspects in the crackdown, which was Chongqing's biggest in 25 years, the Chongqing Evening News reported. As a result of the sweep, which came as Beijing hosted the Olympics amid unprecedented security ... more Taiwan independence groups plan huge China envoy protest 
Taipei (AFP) Oct 23, 2008Taiwanese pro-independence activists plan to stage their biggest rally Saturday since President Ma Ying-jeou took office as his China-friendly government readies the red carpet for a top Beijing envoy. Organisers say they expect half a million people to take to the streets of the capital Taipei to protest against China's continued claim of sovereignty over the self-ruled island. ... more UN urges China to revamp food safety after milk crisis 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 22, 2008China must modernise its food safety system, the United Nations said Wednesday, arguing an outdated and disjointed approach may have worsened a crisis over contaminated milk that killed four babies. In a new report on food safety in China, the UN urged Beijing to adopt a "modern" food safety law and introduce other measures that would help build trust in the government's ability to ensure ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Oct 22, 2008US retail giant Wal-Mart said Wednesday it would step up efforts to ensure the quality of products it sources, including in China, where a milk scandal has again highlighted weak standards. "Today, we're asking suppliers to take those standards to an even higher level," Wal-Mart Vice Chairman Mike Duke told a conference in Beijing. "We will require greater transparency and ownership from ... more China to lift taxes to boost ailing property market: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 23, 2008China announced a range of measures to boost the nation's ailing real estate market amid global financial turmoil, state media said Wednesday, quoting the finance ministry and the central bank. The moves to help home buyers comes after a Cabinet meeting last week which resolved to take steps to lift the slowing sector and head off a market crash after recent data showed a drop in China's ... more Brazil hopes to launch satellite rocket in 2011: report 
Brasilia (AFP) Oct 21, 2008Brazil hopes to have a basic version of a satellite transport rocket blasting off from its territory in 2011 after successful tests of one of the vehicle's engines this week, a report said. The information, given by the G1 news website run by the Globo news group, confirms Brazil's ambitions to join China and Russia as a top emerging economy with its own space program. The Brazilian Space ... more US court blocks release of Uighurs from Guantanamo 
Washington (AFP) Oct 21, 2008A US federal appeals court has blocked the release of 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs from the Guantanamo Bay prison until more legal hearings are held in November. The men have been held at the US "war on terror" detention camp for more than six years without charges. A federal judge on October 7 had ordered the men released and brought to the US capital, home to a significant Uighur ... more |
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Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 22, 2008CSIRO technologies are helping petroleum companies improve their exploration methods not only in Australia but worldwide. Chinese petroleum companies, including PetroChina, China's largest oil and gas producer use CSIRO technologies to improve predictions on the presence and quantity of oil to reduce the risk of drilling dry wells. CSIRO Petroleum's Chinese program coordinator and Project ... more China faces crisis due to unhealthy lifestyles, report warns 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 20, 2008China faces a looming health crisis if efforts are not made to tackle the effects of changing diets and lifestyles due to rising standards of living, medical experts warned in a report published on Monday. The report published in The Lancet medical journal is the latest to warn that the worsening diets and other unhealthy habits of increasingly wealthy Chinese threaten to trigger epidemics ... more China blames global woes as economy eases 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 20, 2008China's economic growth slowed to 9.0 percent in the third quarter as global financial woes started taking a toll, the government said Monday, signalling it would respond with new stimulus measures. It was the first time since late 2005 that quarterly growth slipped into single digits and the lowest growth figure since the second quarter of 2003, providing the most powerful indication yet ... more Contact sought with kidnappers of Chinese in Sudan 
Khartoum (AFP) Oct 20, 2008Sudanese and Chinese authorities were seeking on Monday to contact the kidnappers of nine Chinese oil workers snatched near Sudan's disputed oil district of Abyei. "To now we haven't any information about the kidnappers," China's ambassador to Khartoum Li Chengwen told AFP. "There is no communication between us and the kidnapped or the kidnappers. We are trying to collect new information" ... more
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