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Rice to visit China in last scheduled trip
Washington (AFP) Dec 22, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday she will travel to China after the New Year, her last scheduled trip before President George W. Bush's administration steps down. "I will go after the first of the year to China for the 30th anniversary of the establishment of US-China relations. I think it's important to do it," Rice said in an interview with AFP. "We are looking at ... more Taiwan-bound panda couple to bid farewell to China 
Ya'An, China (AFP) Dec 22, 2008A pair of giant pandas made their last public appearance in China on Monday ahead of their long-anticipated departure to Taiwan, marking a blossoming of ties between the island and its arch rival. The pandas appeared healthy and active while eating bamboo and fruit at an outdoor enclosure in a panda base in Sichuan, southwest China where a Taiwanese delegation arrived earlier Monday to ... more North China freeze strands travellers 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 22, 2008A Siberian cold front engulfed northern and eastern China on Monday, dumping mounds of snow and closing down airports and highways, officials and state press said. Tianjin, a city of 9.3 million people an hour's drive from Beijing, was experiencing its worst snowfall in half a century, the Xinhua news agency reported. Binhai International Airport near Tianjin cancelled all flights Sunday ... more China plans crackdown as economic crisis spurs crime: report 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 22, 2008China plans to set up a special police division to tackle organised crime and gang-related violence as the global economic crisis deepens social unrest, state media reported Monday. "In the foreseeable future, gangs will remain active as the country undergoes dramatic social and economic changes," the China Daily quoted an unnamed public security ministry official as saying. ... more Chinese Lends Taiwan Billions Places Large Electronics Supply Orders 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 21, 2008Chinese banks will offer nearly 19 billion dollars in financing to Taiwanese-funded firms on the mainland in another sign of warming ties between the longtime rivals, state media reported Sunday. The Industry and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and the Bank of China will each offer 50 billion yuan (7.3 billion dollars) to Taiwanese-funded businesses, Xinhua said, adding that the China ... more |
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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 |
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Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Dec 18, 2008A Malaysian warship was the vessel that helped Chinese sailors repel Somali pirates who had boarded their ship in a dramatic high-seas battle, a maritime watchdog said Thursday. "A Malaysian military helicopter fired warning shots at the pirates' boat. This forced the sea raiders to abandon their operation to hijack the ship," said Noel Choong, head of the International Maritime Board's ... more China rights activist jailed for two years: husband 
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
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