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Analysis: Ukraine aids China carrier plan 
Hong Kong (UPI) Dec 10, 2008 The People's Republic of China has been sending military personnel to the former Soviet republic of Ukraine to learn how the country trains its aircraft carrier pilots, in preparation for the aircraft carrier battle group it eventually plans to build. According to a source in the Ukrainian military industry, China first sent a large naval delegation, headed by the deputy chief of the ... more No progress in six party talks on NKorea: Hill 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 10, 2008Negotiators failed to make any progress Wednesday over a Chinese proposal on verifying North Korea's atomic activities in marathon talks aimed at ending the communist state's nuclear drive. Discussions at a Chinese government compound in western Beijing focused on the exact wording of a verification protocol, based on a draft which host China handed out Tuesday to participants in the ... more Worries grow for Chinese economy amid global downturn 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 9, 2008Chinese exports fell for the first time in seven years in November, data showed Wednesday as the global economic crisis caught up with the Asian powerhouse. Elsewhere, Japan received more bad news as a gauge of business investment fell sharply and US investors eyed negotiations between lawmakers on a rescue plan for the vital auto sector which could go to a vote Wednesday. ... more China leaders draft 2009 macroeconomic policy 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 10, 2008China's top leaders ended the most important economic policy gathering of the year Wednesday, focusing on how to stimulate demand and create jobs in 2009 to ward off the global economic crisis. The annual Central Economic Work Conference, chaired by President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, wrapped up after three days with a macroeconomic policy blueprint for next year, the government ... more Analysis: Indian and Russian energy ties 
Washington (UPI) Dec 10, 2008 The global economic slowdown has focused national economies inward, but one of the more intriguing stories of 2009 will be the economic changes in the so-called BRIC countries -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- especially their growing bilateral relations. Even Washington is tracking their growth. A National Intelligence Council's report titled "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed ... more |
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Tokyo (AFP) Dec 9, 2008Japan has nothing to fear from Taiwan's warmer ties with Beijing, the visiting head of the ruling Kuomintang party said Tuesday. "Improving cross-strait relations is in the interest of not only Taiwan but also Japan and Asia as a whole," Wu Poh-hsiung, the first leader of a ruling Taiwanese party to visit Japan, told reporters. Ties between China and Taiwan have improved dramatically ... more NKorea talks look at new Chinese proposal 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 9, 2008Delegates from six nations resumed talks Tuesday on North Korea's nuclear ambitions, looking at a Chinese proposal on how to verify the secretive regime's claims about its atomic programme. A dispute over verification has been the latest snag in the long-running negotiations intended to bring an end to North Korea's nuclear activities, which tested an atomic bomb in 2006. The regime ... more 30 years after reform, China farmers once again hope for change 
Xiaogang, China (AFP) Dec 9, 2008Thirty years ago, 18 farmers in this rural backwater of east China entered a pact to carry out a bold economic experiment, and became heroes of reform almost overnight. Now these pioneers, their hair greying, are hoping for a new revolution to once again transform their small community and close a yawning wealth gap with the cities. Some official histories argue that China's market ... more Public security forces undermine China's HIV fight: rights group 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 9, 2008The harassment and imprisonment of drug users in China is undermining the country's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, activist group Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. Police and public security forces are driving drug addicts away from community-based prevention services and denying them access to treatment, the group said in a report. "The government has expanded prevention and ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 9, 2008Delegates from six nations focused Tuesday on a Chinese proposal on how to verify North Korea's claims about its atomic programme in talks aimed at ending the secretive regime's nuclear activities. A dispute over verification has been the latest snag in the long-running negotiations over the North's nuclear ambitions. The regime appeared to accept the verification process in October as ... more Fed approves Chinese bank CCB to open office in US 
Washington (AFP) Dec 8, 2008The US Federal Reserve said Monday it had authorized China Construction Bank, a leading Chinese state bank, to operate in the United States. The proposed New York City branch of CCB "would engage in wholesale deposit-taking, lending, trade finance, and other banking services," the Fed said in a statement. The US central bank recalled that China Construction Bank Corporation (CCB) is ... more China dismisses Japan criticism over ship incident 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 9, 2008China has dismissed a Japanese protest over two Chinese ships that entered what Tokyo considers its waters, with Beijing reiterating its own territorial claims to the area, state media reported. Japan said Monday it had lodged a formal protest with Beijing about the "extremely regrettable" presence of the Chinese survey ships near the Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea. But a Chinese ... more Reforms triggered a style revolution in China 
Shanghai (AFP) Dec 9, 2008Fashion in China's largest city constantly begs double takes. Families window-shop in multicoloured pyjamas, young women sport pink, plush bear heads as winter hats, and even dogs wear denim. Perhaps nowhere are the changes set off by the reforms that opened China up to the world 30 years ago more visible than in ordinary Chinese people's personal style. The same streets in 1978 were ... more
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