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Anti-China protests bring Taiwan capital to standstill
Taipei (AFP) Nov 6, 2008The streets of central Taipei came to a standstill Thursday as tens of thousands of protesters chanted slogans and blew air horns to protest closer ties with China being promoted by their leaders. The demonstrators were determined to express their outrage at the presence of Chen Yunlin, Beijing's top negotiator on Taiwan affairs, who was heading a large delegation of Chinese officials and ... more Global crisis leaves mountains of cotton unsold in China: report 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 6, 2008Half of the autumn cotton harvest in northwest China's Xinjiang region remains unsold as demand from textile and garment makers has weakened amid the global slowdown, state media said Thursday. Planters in Xinjiang, China's largest cotton plantation area, are left with more than a million tonnes of unsold cotton, as bulging stockpiles have turned dealers into reluctant buyers, the Xinhua new ... more China rejects tainted imported products: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 6, 2008China said it had rejected over 2,700 batches of tainted imported food and cosmetics in the first seven months of the year, state media reported Thursday, as it coped with its own food safety issues. The products included batches of baby milk formula made by Australian firm Ausnutria that were found to contain a potentially deadly bacterium, the official China Daily reported, quoting the ... more China rejects 'semi-independence' for Tibet: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 6, 2008A senior Chinese official told envoys of the Dalai Lama during talks in Beijing this week that any type of independence for Tibet was not an option, even "semi-independence", state media said Thursday. "Regardless of the time or the circumstances... Tibet independence is out of the question," said Du Qinglin, a top Communist party official in charge of relations with non-communist groups ... more China oil refiners post huge losses in first eight months 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 6, 2008China's oil refiners suffered huge losses in the first eight months of 2008 as a result of the global economic slowdown, an industrial association said Thursday. They lost more than 120 billion yuan (17.6 billion dollars) from January to August, a researcher with the government-linked China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association told AFP. That compared with a net profit of 23.1 ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) Nov 06, 2008A giant surrealistic tower, erratically skewed, points at the sky on top of a 960-meter hill 170 kilometers northeast of Beijing. The white structure, with a wide dome at its lower end, looks more like a missile silo. Chinese scientists have built the world's most powerful optical telescope in a research base of the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) ... more China envoy in Taiwan trapped in hotel by protesters 
Taipei (AFP) Nov 6, 2008Taiwan pro-independence activists early Thursday scuffled with police outside a hotel in Taipei where visiting Chinese envoy Chen Yunlin was enjoying a banquet in his honour, trapping him inside. Chen, the most senior Chinese official to visit the self-ruled island in 60 years, finally left the Regent Hotel in the early hours after police struggled to keep back more than 2,000 protesters ... more Raytheon Awarded Contract For Standard Missile-2 Production 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 06, 2008U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command awarded Raytheon a $422 million production contract for Standard Missile-2 Block IIIA and Block IIIB missiles. Raytheon will provide SM-2 missiles to the U.S. Navy, Taiwan, the Republic of Korea and Japan. The SM-2 employs dual-mode infrared and radio frequency guidance to defeat target countermeasures. The SM-2 has demonstrated success against supersonic ... more China vows closer Latin American ties ahead of Hu visit 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 5, 2008China vowed closer trade, energy and military ties with Latin American and Caribbean countries in a policy paper released on Wednesday ahead of a planned trip to the region by President Hu Jintao. Although the paper contained few specifics, China pledged to pursue a "comprehensive and cooperative" partnership with a region that has traditionally been viewed as falling under US diplomatic ... more |
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Hong Kong (UPI) Nov 5, 2008 The People's Republic of China has been making extensive efforts to penetrate the Middle East and Africa, especially by trading arms for oil. In recent years China also has stepped up its efforts to acquire oil from Central and South America, again offering weapons in exchange, as well as space technology. Its top targets are Venezuela and Brazil. Last month Venezuela sent its ... more CSIRO Strengthens Scientific Relationship With China 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Nov 06, 2008CSIRO Exploration and Mining has signed an historic Relationship Agreement with the China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT). The signing follows years of close collaboration between the division and the University including, technical discussions and information exchange in coal mine science and technology in Beijing, Xuzhou and Brisbane. "The agreement formalises an already ... more China top target for computer attacks: Microsoft 
San Francisco (AFP) Nov 3, 2008Chinese computer users have become chief targets for online criminals, according to a security report released Monday by Microsoft. The global software giant's latest assessment of threats and vulnerabilities reveals that attackers favor hiding malicious programs in seemingly innocent Web browser applications and that China is their preferred target. "The majority of (exploits) we are ... more Taiwan's anti-China ex-president accuses incumbent of sedition 
Taipei (AFP) Nov 4, 2008Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-bian Tuesday demanded an official investigation into his successor Ma Ying-jeou and a senior Chinese envoy on charges of "sedition". Ma's government signed historic agreements with Chen Yunlin, who arrived in Taipei representing Beijing's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, aimed at bringing the two former enemies closer after 60 years of ... more
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