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Taipei (AFP) Feb 5, 2009Taiwan is considering building a bridge to mainland China in the latest sign of warming ties between the cross-Strait rivals, an official said Thursday. President Ma Ying-jeou asked Taiwan's top economic planners to conduct a feasibility study when he visited Kinmen, a Taiwan-controlled fortified island group off the Chinese mainland, in August. The bridge would link Kinmen with Xiamen ... more Dam may have triggered huge China quake: scientists 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 5, 2009A man-made dam may have triggered China's devastating earthquake last year, some government officials and scientists are claiming, pitting them against others who insist it was a natural disaster. Pressure on a fault line caused by water amassed in Zipingpu dam's reservoir in the southwestern province of Sichuan may have caused the disaster that killed and left missing 87,000 people, some ... more Emergency as drought hits key farm regions in China: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 5, 2009China on Thursday declared an emergency for parts of the country experiencing their worst drought in half a century, with some of the nation's winter harvest at risk, state media reported. President Hu Jintao called for an all-out effort to help offset the dry spell that has spread across seven key farming provinces, leading to water shortages for millions of people and livestock. ... more Shrinking glaciers worry Chinese 
Xining, China (UPI) Feb 4, 2009 The steady retreat of glaciers on China's Qinghai-Tibet plateau during the past 40 years is troubling, scientists in the Asian nation said Wednesday. Xin Yuanhong, senior engineer in charge of a three-year field study, said the glaciers at the headwaters of the Yangtze, China's longest river, now cover 406 square miles, down from 482 square miles in 1971, Xinhua reported. The scientists ... more Chinese envoy urges US help on climate change 
Washington (AFP) Feb 5, 2009The United States has a profitable self-interest in assisting Chinese efforts to combat climate change, China's ambassador here said Thursday as global talks loom. Zhou Wenzhong said China must focus on industrial growth to lift millions of its citizens out of poverty but was not stinting in the global warming fight, outlining a national government plan on efficiency and renewable energy. ... more |
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Shanghai (AFP) Feb 5, 2009Shanghai Airlines said Thursday it is in talks for an emergency government capital injection, the latest carrier to seek aid as China's air industry struggles through the economic crisis. Trading in Shanghai Airlines shares were suspended as the company's board and shareholders discussed ways to reduce its debt, the airline said in a filing with the Shanghai Stock Exchange. "We are in ... more China's jobless migrants confront a dim future 
Zhugao, China (AFP) Feb 5, 2009Newly unemployed and careworn at just 19, Zhan Ke is typical of a swelling mass of Chinese with no jobs and dim futures who pose an acute challenge for China's leaders as the economy stumbles. Forced back to his rural home in Sichuan province three months ago when the global financial crisis closed the electronics factory where he toiled for low pay in south China, Zhan now scratches out ... more Workers protest as Italian sofa maker folds in China: govt 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 5, 2009Over 2,000 factory workers in China launched a protest after their employer, an Italian maker of luxury sofas, closed down in the wake of the global financial crisis, local authorities said Thursday. DeCoro, a leather upholstery producer with a factory in the southern city of Shenzhen, ran into liquidity problems last year and from November was unable to pay wages on time, the Shenzhen ... more Green Comet Approaches Earth 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 05, 2009In 1996, a 7-year-old boy in China bent over the eyepiece of a small telescope and saw something that would change his life--a comet of flamboyant beauty, bright and puffy with an active tail. At first he thought he himself had discovered it, but no, he learned, two men named "Hale" and "Bopp" had beat him to it. Mastering his disappointment, young Quanzhi Ye resolved to find his own comet ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Feb 4, 2009China may have experienced outbreaks of bird flu among poultry recently, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said Wednesday, even though the government had yet to report any cases this year. The FAO's comments come after eight people contracted the H5N1 bird flu virus in China this year -- five of whom died -- compared with just three cases in all of 2008. "There must have been so ... more EU envoy says China won't get out of climate crunch for free 
Washington (AFP) Feb 4, 2009The European Union's envoy to Washington told skeptical US lawmakers Wednesday that China will not escape making firm commitments at global climate change talks set for December. Questioned by a leading US critic of China's actions on climate, Republican Representative James Sensenbrenner, Ambassador John Bruton agreed that US and EU populations would likely reject any treaty that does not ... more After currency row, US, China see need for talks 
Washington (AFP) Feb 3, 2009After a currency spat in the midst of global financial turmoil, the United States and China have agreed on the need to hold high-level talks to resolve their economic issues, officials said. But US President Barack Obama's administration does not want any institutionalized economic dialogue to be the centerpiece of discussions between the two powers, a strategy pursued by his predecessor ... more China bank loans hit record in bid to reignite economy: report 
Shanghai (AFP) Feb 4, 2009Chinese state banks extended a record amount in loans in January, heeding calls to help boost the economy, state media said Wednesday, in what analysts called an encouraging sign from the Asian giant. The loans, totalling an estimated 1.2 trillion yuan (175 billion dollars), were focused on road, power, railway, and other infrastructure projects, the China Securities Journal report said ... more
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