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China's Hu to shore up African ties
Beijing (AFP) Feb 8, 2009Chinese President Hu Jintao launches a whistlestop tour of Saudi Arabia and Africa Tuesday in a trip expected to focus more on shoring up political ties and less on securing energy supplies. Hu's one-week trip takes him to Saudi Arabia, China's biggest source of oil imports, but the four countries that he will then visit in Africa -- Mali, Senegal, Tanzania and Mauritius -- are not endowed ... more China detects no bird flu outbreaks among poultry: UN 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 6, 2009China has detected no bird flu outbreaks among poultry in the provinces where eight people have been infected this year, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Friday. The FAO's senior technical adviser on bird flu in China, Vincent Martin, said Chinese authorities on Thursday reported to the agency the findings of extensive testing in the seven provinces. "The Ministry of Ag ... more China resorts to artillery to fight drought 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 8, 2009China fired thousands of artillery shells into the sky to make it rain and prepared to divert water from its two longest rivers to fight the country's worst drought in decades, officials said Sunday. Premier Wen Jiabao said the drought - which has hit central and southwestern rice-growing provinces, as well as the north - risked straining food supplies when people already faced hardships ... more China Urges Forgiveness As Suspect Named In Wen Shoe Case 
London (AFP) Feb 9, 2009British prosecutors have named the man suspected of throwing a shoe at the Chinese premier in Cambridge as a German postgraduate student at the university, ahead of a court appearance Tuesday. Martin Jahnke, a 27-year-old German national working at the prestigious university's Department of Pathology, was arrested following the protest against Wen Jiabao last week as he gave a speech in the ... more Safety scandal hits China's dairy exports: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 7, 2009The scandal over tainted milk powder led to a 10 percent fall in Chinese dairy exports by volume and a rise in foreign imports last year, state media said Saturday, citing the customs department. Dozens of countries pulled Chinese dairy products from their shelves in 2008 after it emerged that the industrial chemical melamine had been added to milk to artificially boost its protein content. ... more |
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Taipei (AFP) Feb 8, 2009Taiwan Beer, made by Taiwan's state-owned brewery, will be sold on the Chinese mainland from May, amid warming ties between the two cross-strait rivals, it was reported Sunday. The Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corp said that China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce had registered its Taiwan Beer trademark and had announced this on its website, the Taipei-based Economic Daily News ... more Laid-off China migrants seek Plan B 
Zhugao, China (AFP) Feb 8, 2009When migrant worker Zhong Yan lost her job in southern China amid the implosion of the country's manufacturing sector, she wasted no time coming up with a Plan B. Zhong, 26, returned home to rural Sichuan province in December and plunged into China's now perilous business waters, opening a small clothing shop with her savings and a new government credit line for peasant businesses. "My h ... more India defends ban on Chinese toys, says 'WTO-compliant' 
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 6, 2009India on Friday defended its ban on Chinese toy imports, saying it acted out of safety fears, following a report that Beijing might challenge the move before the World Trade Organisation. India prohibited the import of Chinese toys such as dolls, cars, trains and puzzles on January 23 for six months, triggering trade tensions between the world's two biggest emerging economies. The ban wa ... more Saudi-China-French group wins Mecca rail project 
Riyadh (AFP) Feb 7, 2009A Saudi-French-Chinese consortium has bagged the 1.8 billion dollar civil works contract for the Mecca-Medina high speed railway, a project official said Saturday. The Al-Rajhi construction group together with France's Alstom and China Railway Engineering won the 6.8 billion riyal (1.8 billion dollar) contract, an official of the Saudi Railways Organisation told AFP, declining to be named. ... more |
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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
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