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Fire engulfs Beijing hotel near cutting-edge TV tower
Beijing (AFP) Feb 10, 2009A huge blaze sparked by fireworks engulfed a hotel late Monday in the unfinished headquarters of Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, one of the icons of Beijing's architectural rebirth, state media said. The blaze consumed the Mandarin Oriental Hotel due to open later this year within the complex housing the future headquarters of China Central Television, the country's state television ... more Chinese PM shoe protestor faces British court 
London (AFP) Feb 9, 2009The student protestor who threw a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will appear in court Tuesday accused of threatening behaviour, and could also face punishment from his university, officials said. Martin Jahnke, 27, a German national at Cambridge University's department of pathology, was arrested following the protest last Monday as Wen gave a speech in the eastern English city. ... more China signals 'first' human rights action plan 
Geneva (AFP) Feb 9, 2009China dismissed allegations of repression of Tibetans and Uighur Muslims during a UN hearing Monday and said it was preparing a "first of its kind" human rights action plan. "At this moment, about 50 governmental agencies are working on a human rights action plan... which would soon be made public," said Li Baodong, China's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva. "It is the first of ... more No 'Buy China' policy: Beijing official 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 9, 2009A senior Chinese official said Monday that Beijing will not implement a "Buy China" policy similar to the "Buy America" clause in a stimulus package making its way through the US legislature. "We won't practise a 'Buy China' policy," Vice Commerce Minister Jiang Zengwei told a press conference in Beijing. "We'll treat domestic and foreign products the same way as long as they are needed. ... more Half of Chinese toy makers wiped out in crisis: report 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 9, 2009Nearly half of China's toy makers closed last year due to shrinking exports brought about by the global financial crisis, Chinese media reported Monday. At the start of 2008, China had 8,610 companies that produced and exported toys, but by the end of the year, that number had declined by 49 percent to 4,388, the Beijing Times said, citing customs data. Chinese toy exports grew marginally ... more |
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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 |
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Beijing (AFP) Feb 6, 2009China was struggling Friday to get water to millions of people and save swathes of its wheat harvest, after raising its drought emergency to the highest level for the first time. The decision to go to emergency level one was taken Thursday at a meeting of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, Xinhua news agency reported. The increased alert level was made official at t ... more 'Taiwan Beer' on sale in China in May: report 
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
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