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Chinese TV Stations Team Up For More Original Faster Reporting
Beijing (XNA) Dec 30, 2008Fifty national and local TV stations in China have jointly set up a news sharing network, aiming for more original and faster reports. Luo Ming, vice president of the China Central Television (CCTV), the state broadcaster and member of the newly-established China Satellite News Gathering Alliance (CSNG), said the move was an important step for China to "gain a new stronghold in internation ... more Pakistani Leaders Call For Calm With India 
Islamabad (AFP) Dec 29, 2008Pakistan on Monday called for an easing of tensions with India, one month after ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours were sent into a tailspin in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks. President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and the country's powerful army chief General Ashfaq Kayani told visiting Chinese vice foreign minister He Yafei that Islamabad wanted calm. ... more Xinhua Reporter On Board As Chinese Navy Heads For Somalia 
Destroyer Wuhan (XNA) Dec 30, 2008Rear-Adm. Yin Dunping has worked with his crew for days, preparing for the Chinese Navy's first overseas deployment patrolling the waters off the Somali coast. "We are in real combat status," said Yin, the deputy commander of the Navy's three-vessel fleet. Yin had only a few words for journalists on board. "Reporters are also crew members. By being here, you become soldiers and must ... more China invested record amount in Tibet in 2008: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 28, 2008Beijing invested a record 16 billion yuan (2.3 billion dollars) this year in Tibet, whose economy suffered severely after waves of unrest in March, Chinese state media reported Sunday. Tibet's industrial economic growth fell 11 percent on year in 2008's first half while fixed asset investment dropped 10.3 percent due to the violence, Xinhua reported, citing the Tibetan Development and Reform ... more Taiwan peacemaker not troublemaker: Ma 
Taipei (AFP) Dec 28, 2008President Ma Ying-jeou on Sunday said his efforts to ease nearly six decades of hostilities that have occasionally brought Taiwan to the brink of war with China, have paid off. The two split in 1949 at the end of a civil war, and tensions between them flared frequently during the eight years the island was ruled by the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party until Ma of the China-frien ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 29, 2008China on Monday launched an anti-dumping probe into screws and bolts made in the European Union, following a EU decision this month to impose high import duties on Chinese fastener exports. The investigation, which covers carbon steel screws, bolts and washers, could last for as long as 18 months, said a statement posted on the commerce ministry's website Monday. The move came after EU ... more China Starts Work On Largest Radio Telescope Ever Built 
Guiyang, China (XNA) Dec 29, 2008China officially started construction of a Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the largest in the world, in a remote southwest region on Friday. Preparation and research for the project took some 14 years. The dish-like telescope, as large as 30 football fields, will stand in a region of typical Karst depressions in Guizhou Province when it's done in 2013. ... more China Launches Third Fengyun-2 Series Weather Satellite 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 23, 2008China has successfully orbited its third meteorological satellite, the Fengyun-2-06, the country's central television CCTV reported on Tuesday. The satellite was launched from the XiChang Satellite Launch Center, in southwest China at 08:54 a.m. local time (00:54 a.m. GMT) on board a Chang Zheng-3A carrier rocket. The Fengyun-2-06 weather satellite will collect meteorological data fr ... more Islamabad Calls For Calm As Indo-Pak Military Hotline Lights Up 
Islamabad (AFP) Dec 29, 2008Pakistan's powerful army chief called Monday for an easing of tensions with India, the military said, one month after the Mumbai attacks sent ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours into a tailspin. General Ashfaq Kayani made the call during a meeting with visiting Chinese vice foreign minister He Yafei, who was dispatched by Beijing to Islamabad as part of an international effort to resto ... more |
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Hsinpu, Taiwan (AFP) Dec 28, 2008Scandals surrounding poisoned Chinese foods have taken a heavy toll on Taiwan's bakeries and makers of dairy products in recent months, but could provide a long-term boost for local food makers. Liu Li-chien, who produces dried persimmons according to a 150-year tradition, thought his days in business were numbered when the island lifted restrictions on Chinese imports. In 2004, to confo ... more China celebrates 115th anniversary of Mao's birth: report 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 26, 2008China marked the 115th anniversary of the birth of revolutionary Mao Zedong Friday, with "long-life" noodles and a foot race in the iconic leader's hometown, state press said. Thousands of people gathered in Mao's birthplace of Shaoshan village to commemorate the "Great Helmsman," who founded the People's Republic in 1949 and served as China's leader until his death in 1976, Xinhua news agen ... more Chinese, Lebanese men among 13 dead in DR Congo crime wave 
Lubumbashi, Dr Congo (AFP) Dec 26, 2008A Chinese man and two Lebanese nationals were shot dead in a crime wave in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo that also left 10 Congolese dead this week, witnesses and officials said Friday. The Chinese man was shot dead in broad daylight in the town of Likasi late Friday, witnesses told AFP. In the city of Lubumbashi, near the border with Zambia, a Lebanese man was shot dead in h ... more Chinese dairy firms agree to pay compensation for melamine victims: report 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 27, 2008Chinese dairy firms whose products contained the toxic chemical melamine have agreed to pay compensation to the families of babies that died or fell ill from tainted milk, state media said Saturday. The 22 companies will pay a lump sum to victims of the melamine scandal, which has shocked China since it erupted in September and has left six babies dead while sickening nearly 300,000, the Xin ... more
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