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Beijing (UPI) Nov 26, 2008 China's "Green Great Wall" forest project could become a model that could help lower environmental disasters, researchers said. The project, relying on a method called afforestation that changes land lacking dense tree cover into a forest, could lead to an increase in precipitation and a decrease in temperature in the area, researchers wrote in an article published in Journal of the ... more Lindes Major Gases Supplier In Global PV Industry 
Beijing (SPX) Nov 27, 2008Technology company The Linde Group announced the award of three new multi-million US-dollar (USD) contracts to capture more than 50 percent of the thin film photovoltaic (PV) market in China. The agreements are bolstering the company's position as the world's largest supplier of bulk and specialty gases to the thin film PV industry. The Linde Group's local subsidiary, Linde LienHwa has ... more Far from home, Medvedev finds China a looming presence 
Lima (AFP) Nov 25, 2008As President Dmitry Medvedev takes Russian assertiveness to Washington's doorstep on a tour of Latin America, analysts point out an uncomfortable truth: China is stealing the show. The 43-year-old leader was relentlessly upbeat as he met other heads of state at a weekend forum of Asia-Pacific leaders in Peru, exhorting Russian journalists following his punishing itinerary: "For those that ... more China defiant on product safety record 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 25, 2008China on Tuesday laid part of the blame for poor product safety on foreign companies whose designs were flawed, as millions of parents around the world prepared to buy Chinese-made toys for Christmas. In a defiant response to a reporter's question on toy safety, foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said China took product safety seriously but toy producers in the country should also be ... more China to build second rail line into Xinjiang: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 25, 2008China will spend more than 17 billion dollars building a second rail line into its Muslim-populated and resource-rich far northwest Xinjiang region, state press reported Tuesday. Work on the railway further linking Xinjiang with the rest of China will begin next year with the new line to run alongside the existing 1,892-kilometre (1,173-mile) one, Xinhua news agency said. Xinjiang is ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Nov 24, 2008China's state press Monday condemned the Dalai Lama and his followers for their "support of secession" in the first comments published in the country since Tibetan exiles decided to stick with a moderate China policy. Comments carried by the official Xinhua news agency condemned Tibet's exiled spiritual leader and others for their "continued support of secession by violent means while waving ... more China says southeast nuclear plant part of stimulus plan 
Shanghai (AFP) Nov 24, 2008China National Nuclear Corp., the country's biggest nuclear reactor builder, said Monday it has begun building a plant in the southeast as part of the government's economic stimulus plans. The 100 billion-yuan (14.6 billion-dollar) plant in Fuqing in the province of Fujian will have six 1,000-megawatt reactors, the state-run company said in a statement. China announced a four trillion ... more Jordan, China sign nuclear protocol 
Amman (AFP) Nov 24, 2008China on Monday signed a protocol with Jordan to help the tiny desert kingdom produce nuclear power to meet its growing energy needs and desalinate water, a senior official said. "China is going to assist Jordan in mining and enriching uranium as well as training and studies related to building a nuclear station," Khaled Tukan, head of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission, told the state-run ... more Walker's World: Don't count on China 
Washington (UPI) Nov 24, 2008 As panic gripped the world markets again last week after U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry "Hank" Paulson decided to sit on his remaining $350 billion war chest and not buy any toxic mortgage assets, the only sign of relief came from China. The Beijing government's decision to pump $586 billion into new infrastructure investment appeared like manna from Keynesian heaven, a promise that ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Nov 21, 2008China has developed a sophisticated cyber warfare program and stepped up its capacity to penetrate US computer networks to extract sensitive information, a US congressional panel warned on Thursday. "China has an active cyber espionage program," the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in its annual report to the US Congress. "China is targeting US government and commercial ... more China angrily dismisses US congressional report 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 22, 2008China reacted angrily Saturday to a US congressional report that accused Beijing of developing sophisticated cyber warfare and militarising its space programme. The annual China report to Congress of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission was aimed at misleading the public and impeding bilateral cooperation, foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said. "The commission has all ... more China, Russia pledge deeper cooperation 
Lima (AFP) Nov 23, 2008Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday pledged closer cooperation to face the world financial crisis, a Chinese spokesman said. "Both leaders agreed the world political and economic situation is experiencing great change and that the two sides must strengthen cooperation to face the current economic troubles," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Liu ... more NKorea talks in China set for December 8: Rice 
Aboard Air Force One (AFP) Nov 23, 2008The next meeting of the six-party talks seeking agreement on North Korea's nuclear disarmament will be held next month in China, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters Sunday. En route from the Asia-Pacific Cooperation summit in Lima, Rice said the meeting would be held December 8 in China. "The goal is to get agreement ... on North Korea's nuclear disarmament," she said. ... more
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