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Zimbabwe may have received Chinese arms via Congo: UN
United Nations (AFP) Dec 19, 2008UN experts have "credible information" that Zimbabwe may have received Chinese arms last year via Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a recently published report. The UN Security Council report cites four Boeing aircraft flights that took place between Kinshasa, Harare and Lubumbashi and "transported a total of 53 tons of ammunition destined to the Zimbabwean army" ... more ADB loan aims to help clean up key China wetland 
Manila (AFP) Dec 19, 2008China is to get a 45 million-dollar loan from the Asian Development Bank to clean up vital coastal wetlands in the east, the Philippines-based lender said Friday. The Jiaozhou Bay wetlands, the most important marine ecosystem in the Qingdao region, provide a breeding ground for many types of fish and shellfish, and is a way station for migratory birds. However, as the coastal population ... more China face transplant patient dead: doctor 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 20, 2008A Chinese man who received a rare face transplant in 2006 has died, his doctor and a government official confirmed Saturday, highlighting the risks of a recent groundbreaking US operation. Li Guoxing, 32, died in July at his rural home in rugged southwestern China after forsaking immune-system drugs in favor of herbal medicine, his surgeon Guo Shuzhong told AFP. "His death was not caused ... more China sinkhole sends hundreds fleeing: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 20, 2008Nearly 400 villagers in southern China were forced to evacuate after a sinkhole opened up, causing one building to collapse and threatening up to 72 others, state media reported on Saturday. The cave-in on Friday afternoon left a three-metre-wide (10-foot) hole in the ground in the southern city of Guangzhou, Xinhua news agency said. However, it has affected at total of 5,000 square ... more China To Help Redundant Migrant Workers Offers Economic Aid To Taiwan 
Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 21, 2008China on Sunday urged local authorities to help find jobs for hundreds of thousands of migrant workers reported to be flooding home after being forced out of work by the global financial crisis. The government warned provincial authorities that the plight of migrant workers was a "pressing" issue as domestic companies are suffering from the crisis, said a statement published on the cabinet's ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 18, 2008Leading Chinese rights defender Ni Yulan was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday for harming public property, after she tried to stop authorities from tearing down her house, her husband said. "The Beijing Xicheng court sentenced her to two years in prison this morning," husband Dong Jiqin told AFP. "They... refused to accept the evidence and arguments that I had prepared." ... more China preparing to send navy to Somalia to fight piracy: govt 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 18, 2008China is preparing to send warships to fight rampant piracy off the coast of Somalia, the government said Thursday, a day after one of its commercial vessels foiled an attack near the African state. "We are preparing and making arrangements to send naval ships to the Gulf of Aden to protect the sea lanes there," foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told journalists. "We will make a ... more China dissident has prison visits cancelled after EU award: wife 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 18, 2008China has banned jailed dissident Hu Jia from receiving family visitors as punishment for winning the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize, his wife said on Thursday. Zeng Jinyan told AFP that authorities informed her on Thursday she would not be allowed her monthly visit to Hu, a day after the European Parliament awarded him the prize in absentia. She said ... more China's First Multi-Functional Experiment System For Space Tribology 
Beijing, China (XNA) Dec 19, 2008A multi-functional experiment system for space tribology, developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), has passed its acceptance check. The feat, the first of its kind in China, is of special significance for the development of high-performance, space lubricants in this country. The system is capable of carrying out various experiment ... more |
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Shanghai (AFP) Dec 18, 2008China said it will cut gasoline and diesel prices by around 13 percent and 17 percent respectively from Friday as it works for a more market-oriented energy pricing system. Gasoline prices will be reduced by 900 yuan to 5,580 yuan (860 dollars) per tonne, the National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement on its website Thursday. Diesel prices will be cut by 1,100 yuan ... more Analysis: China's carriers Part One 
Hong Kong (UPI) Dec 16, 2008 Russia, India and China will be building aircraft carriers for their navies almost simultaneously over the next five years or so, using many of the same design concepts, technologies and equipment. This is unprecedented in the history of shipbuilding. The three countries currently are enjoying healthy political relations, smoothing the way for Russia's continued military cooperation ... more Chinese sailors fend off Somali pirates amid fresh attacks 
Mogadishu (AFP) Dec 17, 2008Chinese sailors fought off Somali pirates trying to hijack their ship in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday in a new wave of attacks that saw three other vessels captured. The high-seas drama heightened after the UN authorised land operations against the sea bandits who are currently demanding ransoms for a Saudi super-tanker, an arms-laden Ukrainian freighter and other ships. China said it ... more Three human traffickers sentenced to death in China: state press 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 17, 2008A court in southwest China has sentenced three leading members of a trafficking ring to death for kidnapping and selling 88 women and a child, state press said Wednesday. The 29-member ring kidnapped the women with the lure of jobs on a tea plantation, before selling them as brides to impoverished areas in the provinces of Shanxi, Fujian and Zhejiang, the Xinhua news agency said. ... more
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