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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 Hu, Bush hail 30 years of Sino-US ties: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 1, 2009Chinese President Hu Jintao and US counterpart George W. Bush exchanged congratulations Thursday on the 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties and vowed even closer relations, state media reported. Hu's message called the establishment of formal diplomatic ties on January 1, 1979, a key moment in world history and said China was eager to work with the United States in facing today's global chal ... more Tough sentences in China over huge piracy ring, Microsoft says 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 1, 2009A Chinese court has issued tough sentences to members of a huge software counterfeiting ring, which distributed more than two billion dollars' worth of fake Microsoft goods, the company said. The court in the southern city of Shenzhen on Wednesday sentenced 11 people to jail terms of up to six-and-a-half years for making high-quality counterfeit software that was sold in 36 countries, Micros ... more China milk boss admits delay in reporting danger: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 1, 2009The former boss of the company at the heart of China's tainted milk scandal has pleaded guilty to selling dodgy products and admitted she delayed reporting the danger, state media said Thursday. Tian Wenhua, former head of Sanlu Group, told a court she was informed in May that children were falling ill from Sanul's products but she did not alert authorities until August, the China Daily repo ... more Scam artists sell 'forest' lands in barren northern China 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 1, 2009A pair of Chinese forestry executives cheated thousands of investors out of 160 million dollars by selling off "timber lands" in a barren desert region, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday. Chairman Chen Xianggui of Inner Mongolia's Wanli Afforestation Co. was sentenced to 11 years in prison by a court in the region while general manager Liu Yanying received nine years for the ... more |
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Washington DC (UPI) Dec 31, 2008Once firmly atop the list of Africa's top oil producers, Nigeria slipped behind Angola - albeit temporarily - during the course of 2008, while other African countries received even more attention from eager foreign investors like China. Production in Nigeria, whose output once reached 2.5 million barrels per day, dropped below 1.9 million bpd by midyear, with relative upstart petrole ... more Peace and calm for 2009, but not economic recovery: soothsayers 
Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 31, 2008The world can look forward to peace and harmony in 2009, but Chinese soothsayers warned that the road to economic recovery will be long. The Year of the Rat, marked by an unprecedented, global financial crisis, will give way to a much more stable Year of the Ox, Chinese astrologists and feng shui masters predicted. "The soil represents a garden or a green field, a feng shui symbol for ha ... more Thirteen trapped in flooded coal mine in China: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 31, 2008Thirteen people were trapped in an illegal coal mine in southwest China after it flooded, state media reported Wednesday, in the latest mining accident to hit the nation. The flood happened early Wednesday morning in Anshun City in Guizhou province, when 20 people were working in the pit, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Seven escaped but the others were trapped and chances of ... more Vestas lands large wind turbine contracts in China 
Copenhagen (AFP) Dec 31, 2008Vestas Wind Systems, the world's largest wind energy group, said Wednesday it had received Chinese orders for turbines with a total capacity of 100 megawatts, just two days after it announced a similar-sized contract in China. "Vestas has received another two orders with a total capacity of 100 MW to be delivered to two wind power projects in China," the Danish company said in a statement. ... more |
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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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