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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 Congo government buying Chinese arms: opposition 
Brazzaville (AFP) Dec 30, 2008Opposition parties in Congo on Tuesday accused the Brazzaville government of buying weapons and military equipment in China, but a government spokesman denied the allegation. The "weapons and military craft are shipped to Congo under contracts signed between the officials in Brazzaville and the government in Beijing," some 20 opposition groups said in a joint statement read before the press ... more Huge dinosaur discovery in China: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 30, 2008Paleontologists in east China have dug up what they believe is one of the world's largest group of fossilised dinosaur bones, including the remains of an enormous "platypus," state press said Tuesday. Paleontologists have discovered 15 areas near Zhucheng city in Shandong province that contain thousands of dinosaur bones, the Beijing News reported. "This group of fossilised dinosaurs is ... more Hong Kong-born baby girl contracts mild form of bird flu 
Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 30, 2008A Hong Kong-born infant has contracted a mild form of bird flu, the fifth case of its type in the territory, health authorities said Tuesday. The two-month-old girl, who lives with her parents in China's southern city of Shenzhen, was diagnosed with the influenza A (H9N2) infection after she developed vomiting, a cough, and a runny nose, according to the city's Centre for Health Protection ... more Two more stand trial in China milk scandal 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 30, 2008Two more suspects in China's tainted milk scandal went on trial Tuesday, bringing to 17 the number who have faced court in high-profile proceedings over the nation's worst food safety case in years. Brothers Geng Jinping and Geng Jinzhu are accused of making and selling milk tainted with melamine, state-run television CCTV said, broadcasting images of the two standing in court with their hea ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 30, 2008Three Chinese steel companies agreed Tuesday to merge, creating the country's biggest listed steel maker, in a bid to cushion the impact of the global financial crisis, state media reported. Tangshan Iron and Steel, already one of China's largest steel producers, will get together with two smaller firms -- all three based in the northern province of Hebei, the official Xinhua news agency sai ... more China Eastern says bailout increased to one billion dollars 
Shanghai (AFP) Dec 30, 2008China Eastern Airlines, which is struggling with dwindling passenger numbers, said Tuesday a previously planned government cash injection would be more than doubled to over one billion dollars. The country's third-largest carrier will receive the bailout money by selling new shares to its state-owned parent China Eastern Air Holding Company, it said in a statement to the Shanghai Stock Excha ... more Myanmar signs gas deal with SKorea, India, China: state media 
Yangon (AFP) Dec 29, 2008Military-run Myanmar has signed a deal with South Korean and Indian companies to pipe natural gas from the energy-rich nation's offshore fields to China, state media reported Monday. The Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise inked the deal last Wednesday with South Korean companies Daewoo and Korea Gas Corporation and Indian energy firms ONGC Videsh and GAIL to supply gas to the China National Unite ... more China starts anti-dumping probes into European screws: govt 
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 |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 29, 2008Twenty-two Chinese dairy firms will pay 160 million dollars into a compensation fund for families of babies that died or fell ill after drinking tainted milk, state media said Monday. Families of children who died after being given the adulterated formula will each receive 200,000 yuan (29,000 dollars) from the fund, the China Daily newspaper reported. Parents of infants who were hospita ... 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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