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Trust in Chinese food exports drops over milk scandal: state media
Beijing (AFP) Dec 2, 2008International confidence in Chinese food exports has dived since the scandal erupted over contaminated milk in China, with dairy items the worst affected, state press reported on Tuesday. China exported just over 1,000 tonnes of dairy products in October, down 92 percent from a year earlier, the China Daily reported, quoting figures from the customs administration. In September ... more US, China set to grapple with economic growth concerns 
Washington (AFP) Dec 1, 2008The United States and China hold high level talks this week expected to be dominated by concerns whether China can maintain high growth rates at a time when global expansion has been dampened by financial turmoil. The two powers will hold their twice-yearly "strategic economic dialogue" on December 4-5 in Beijing, the last under the administration of President George W. Bush whose successor ... more China Launches Remote Sensing Satellite 
Jiuquan, China (XNA) Dec 02, 2008China launched a new remote sensing satellite "Yaogan IV" on Monday at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu Province. The satellite will be used for scientific research, land resources surveying, crop yield estimate and disaster prevention and relief, according to its chief developer, China Academy of Space Technology. The satellite was launched on a Long March-2 ... more Some 100 countries to sign cluster bomb ban in Oslo 
Oslo (AFP) Dec 1, 2008Some 100 countries will ban the use of cluster bombs with the signing of a treaty Wednesday in Oslo but major producers such as China, Russia and the United States are shunning the pact. The treaty, agreed upon in Dublin in May, outlaws the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions which primarily kill civilians. "It's only one of the very few times in history that a ... more China scraps price control on foods 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 1, 2008China's top economic planning agency Monday removed price controls on grain and other food products that were imposed early this year when inflation was a bigger concern. Caps on the prices of grain, edible oil, meat, dairy products and eggs were lifted with immediate effect, the National Development and Reform Commission said on its website. Requirements on enterprises to submit price-r ... more |
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Hong Kong (SPX) Dec 01, 2008The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is working closely with the well-established Russian Space Agency in designing a state-of-the-art space tool which will be carried onboard a Russian spacecraft for the Red Planet in the 2009 Sino-Russian Space Mission - the first strategic interplanetary collaboration between China and Russia. This historical mission also marks the first ... more China executes Taiwan spy: daughter 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 28, 2008China on Friday executed a scientist accused of passing information to Taiwan, his daughter told AFP, amid strong condemnation from the United States. Wo Weihan, a 59-year-old medical scientist, was executed Friday morning, his daughter Ran Chen, an Austrian citizen married to an American, said. "I found out through the Austrian embassy," a distressed Chen said by telephone. The Unit ... more Africa worried over China slowdown 
Addis Ababa (AFP) Nov 27, 2008The African Union's top executive on Thursday expressed his concern over the prospect of an economic recession in China, a key trade partner and investor for the continent. China's economy has slowed sharply in recent months amid the global downturn and the World Bank has forecast growth of 7.5 percent for next year, down from 12 percent last year and the slowest expansion in nearly two deca ... more Angry China flexing muscle with Europe over Tibet: analysts 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 27, 2008China's unprecedented decision to cancel a summit with the European Union over Tibet shows an increasing willingness for Beijing to flex its ever-strengthening global muscle, analysts said Thursday. The China-EU summit, due to take place on Monday in France, was called off at the last minute by the Asian giant, which said it was unhappy at French President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to meet the ... more |
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Athens, Greece (AFP) Nov 26, 2008Chinese President Hu Jintao completed Wednesday a three-day visit to Greece that bagged a key deal opening a major European gateway to Chinese products via the port of Piraeus. Hu oversaw Tuesday's deal that assigns the running of cargo facilities in Piraeus, one of the main ports in the eastern Mediterranean and Greece's largest, to Chinese port operators Cosco for 35 years. The Chinese ... more China warns of worse to come for its economy 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 27, 2008China's economy slowed further in November, the nation's top planner said Thursday, as he warned the government was being forced to act to avoid massive unemployment and social unrest. Zhang Ping, the minister in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission, made the sombre remarks at a briefing explaining recent measures to trigger domestic consumption and lift economic growth. ... more China to grow 10 percent in 2009 despite global crisis: government economist 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 30, 2008A senior Chinese government analyst has forecast 10 percent growth in the nation's economy in 2009, state media reported Sunday, a far higher figure than most other predictions. The main reason is China's ability to provide its own growth momentum, Xinhua news agency reported, citing Zhang Liqun, an economist with the Development Research Centre, a cabinet think tank. "Although the dim ... more China postpones talks with Airbus: spokesman 
Paris (AFP) Nov 27, 2008China has postponed talks on finalising a deal with Airbus for 150 passenger planes after Prime Minister Wen Jiaboa scrapped his visit to France, a spokesman for the European aircraft maker said Thursday. But the spokesman said there were no indications that Beijing would back out of the contract for the 110 A320 medium-haul planes and the bigger 40 A330s carriers. China, angry over ... more
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