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US refuses Chinese demand for Guantanamo prisoner return: official
Beijing (AFP) Jan 22, 2009The United States Friday appeared to reject a demand by China that all Chinese prisoners at Guantanamo Bay be handed back following US President Barack Obama's decision to close the "war on terror" jail. Beijing had called for the return of 17 Chinese prisoners that it said were part of a terror group seeking an independent homeland in the northwest of the country. "These people are memb ... more Britain makes China 'major priority' in global strategy 
London (AFP) Jan 22, 2009Britain said Thursday that building its relationship with China was now a "major priority", adding that it could help the rest of the world tackle the fallout from the credit crunch. In the first government document to spell out a new strategy for dealing with Beijing, Britain said Chinese policies were "enormously significant" for London's approach to issues including the economy. But B ... more Chinese official visits NKorea, prospect of Kim appearance 
Seoul (AFP) Jan 22, 2009A senior Chinese official is visiting North Korea, state media said, raising the prospect of Kim Jong-Il making his first appearance before foreign media since reportedly suffering a stroke. The visit by Wang Jiarui, who has met the North Korean leader on all his recent trips to Pyongyang, coincides with the inauguration of the new US administration. "Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Cent ... more France seeks constructive dialogue with China 
Paris (AFP) Jan 22, 2009France wants a constructive dialogue with China and a calm relationship, the foreign ministry said Thursday, after Beijing offered to mend ties that have been strained over Tibet. But Paris did not say whether it was willing to make a special gesture towards Beijing in response to Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Wu Hongbo's call for France to make the first step. Ties between France a ... more White House 'can't imagine' returning Uighurs to China
Washington (AFP) Jan 22, 2009President Barack Obama's administration said Thursday it could not imagine returning Muslim Uighurs held in Guantanamo Bay to China and said no inmate would be sent to a nation where they may face persecution. "I cannot imagine that we would support transferring the Uighurs back to China," said a senior administration official on condition of anonymity. "We are not going to transfer deta ... more |
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Monrovia (AFP) Jan 22, 2009Liberia signed Thursday a 2.6 billion dollar agreement with Chinese conglomerate China Union to develop its main iron ore mine, the biggest ever investment in the West African nation. A government statement said President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf signed a mineral development agreement with officials from the Chinese mining company to develop the Bong Mines. Sirleaf invited other Chinese ... more China ignores questions about Obama speech censorship 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 22, 2009China Thursday brushed aside queries about why it censored the translation of US President Barack Obama's inauguration speech, which deleted his references to communism and regimes that quash dissent. "I'm not aware of the issue you mentioned, but I think the Chinese media have their own editing rights," foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters. State-run China Central ... more China ready to mend ties with France 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 23, 2009China said Thursday it was ready to mend ties with France following a deep row over Tibet, in its first conciliatory move since tensions flared last year. But it said it was up to France to take the first step after a meeting between the French president and Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama damaged relations between the two nations. "We are ready to work with France to improve our ... more Two sentenced to death over China milk scandal 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 22, 2009A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced two men to death and gave stiff jail terms to 19 others over a milk scandal that led to widespread poisoning of babies in China and dairy recalls around the world. The former head of the dairy firm at the heart of the scandal, Tian Wenhua, a 66-year-old woman accused of initially covering it up, was among three people jailed for life. One other ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Jan 22, 2009Grim economic news from China and Japan showed the global crisis hitting ever harder Thursday, burning Asia's champion exporters while data from the United States signalled more pain to come. China's powerhouse economy slowed dramatically at the end of 2008, dragging growth of the world's third-largest economy to a seven-year low, official data showed, in a striking sign of the current ... more Chinese slowdown to cost Australia billions: PM 
Sydney (AFP) Jan 23, 2009The slowdown in the Chinese economy will slash at least 5.0 billion dollars (3.3 billion US) from Australia's economy and endanger jobs, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned. In a speech late Thursday, Rudd said China's latest growth figures - the lowest in seven years - meant its gross domestic product would be 200 billion US dollars less than previously anticipated. ... more Key To Future Of Mobile LBS In China Is The GPS Phone And Smartphone 
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Jan 22, 2009Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The GPS Phone and Smartphone-Key to Future of Mobile LBS in China" report to their offering. Mobile LBS is still in the emerging stages in China. Awareness among non-users is still very low. In-Stat's consumer survey, however, found that GPS phones and smartphones are very important in encouraging the use of mobile location-based serv ... more Purdue Technology Detects Contaminant In Milk Products 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 22, 2009A new analysis method can detect the kidney-damaging chemical melamine, used to contaminate infant formula in China last September, at very low levels within a matter of seconds. A research team at Purdue University created the analysis method to detect levels of melamine in the low parts-per-billion in milk and milk powder in about 25 seconds. An estimated 50,000 Chinese children we ... more
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