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China in life, death struggle with Dalai Lama: media
Beijing (AFP) Feb 16, 2009China's media stepped up its rhetoric against the exiled Dalai Lama Monday, saying the communist-led nation was in a life and death struggle with Tibetan separatist forces led by the spiritual leader. A strident editorial in the Tibetan Daily came only weeks ahead of the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising in Tibet that led to the exile of Dalai Lama, the Himalayan region's most revered ... more First post-quake "second" child born in China 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 16, 2009A couple who lost their only child in China's devastating May 12 earthquake has become the first to have a second one after the nation's "one child" rule was relaxed, state press said Monday. Yang Xia and her husband Xian Ziwen became the first parents to give birth to a second child after having lost their only child in the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that devastated parts of southwest China ... more China Wind Systems Begins Production At New Facility 
Wuxi, China (SPX) Feb 17, 2009China Wind Systems has announced that it has begun producing forged products at its new facility in Wuxi City after successfully completing equipment test runs. Pursuant to preliminary agreements signed in September, China Wind Systems has delivered sample products to Wuxi Lida Gear Manufacturing, Gansu Keyao Electrical Power, and Hangzhou Advance Gearbox all of which have inspected and ... more Japan's economy plummets, China sees crisis worsening 
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 16, 2009Japan said Monday it was trapped in its worst economic slump since World War II, as once-buoyant China and India issued stark warnings on the outlook and more job cuts were announced in Europe. New data released showed the Japanese economy, the world's second largest, shrank for a third straight quarter in the three months to December. It was the weakest performance since 1974 when the ... more Marriott plans 57 Asian hotels over 4 years 
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 16, 2009Hotel group Marriott International said Monday it was planning to open 57 new hotels in Asia over the next four years, mainly targeting the Chinese and Indian markets. Despite the global economic slowdown, the company said it was planning to open 21 new hotels in China, 24 in India and eight in Thailand. The new hotels would create 15,000 new jobs in eight Asian countries, the company ... more |
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Barcelona, Spain (AFP) Feb 16, 2009The head of China Mobile, China's biggest mobile phone operator, said Monday that factory closures and the return of rural workers to their villages had hit the company's revenues. "China has felt the impact of the financial crisis," chief executive Wang Jianzhou told reporters on the sidelines of industry event Mobile World Congress. "Because of the reduction in exports we had a ... more Iran To Launch First Manned Spaceflight By 2021 
Tehran, Iran (RIA) Feb 16, 2009Iran will send its first man into space on board its own spacecraft by 2021, the head of Iran's Aerospace Agency announced on Thursday. "Scientific research has already begun in Iran," Reza Tagipur was quoted by Iranian media as saying. "According to our plans, a successful Iranian manned spaceflight will be carried out before 2021. India and China were able to send their astronaut ... more Niger cancels China, Libya telecom deal 
Niamey (AFP) Feb 13, 2009Chinese and Libyan shareholders in a Niger telecoms firm are to be removed as its owners for poor management of the company, a Niger government minister said Friday. The joint Chinese-Libyan venture Dataport bought a 51 percent stake in Sonitel when it was privatised in 2001, with the government retaining 45 percent and company staff holding four percent. "Dataport will no longer hold an ... more Satellite Collision Not To Delay China's Space Program 
Beijing, China (XNA) Feb 14, 2009The wreckage of US and Russian satellites that collided over Siberia poses a threat to China's satellites in orbit, but the country's space plan will proceed as scheduled. A privately owned US communications spacecraft collided with a defunct Russian military satellite about 800 km above northern Siberia at 4:55 pm GMT on Tuesday, according to the US Strategic Command, which made it public ... more |
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Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Feb 15, 2009Taliban militants have released a Chinese engineer six months after he was abducted in violence-wracked northwest Pakistan, security officials said Sunday. Militants abducted two Chinese men who had been checking a Pakistani telecommunications installation in the area, bordering Afghanistan, on August 29. Both men tried to escape in October. One managed to find his way to an army post ... more Tiny 'the new big' - world's shortest man 
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 13, 2009Wearing a sparkly white suit and sporting a tuft of dyed, slicked-back hair, the world's shortest man said Friday there was every reason to think big about being tiny. Recognised last year by Guinness World Records as the world's shortest man who is mobile, 20-year-old He Pingping stands only 74.1 centimetres (26 inches) and weighs seven kilos (15.4 pounds). The Chinese national, who was ... more Ma Jun: China's environmental patriot 
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 15, 2009In China, where dissent is often brutally suppressed, publicly shaming powerful corporations for destroying the environment is fraught with risk. Ma Jun treads carefully. The author of "China's Water Crisis," a savage catalogue of the country's environmental collapse, Ma now takes the fight to polluters, shaming factories on a website run by his non-governmental organisation the Institute of ... more Chinese president arrives in Tanzania 
Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania (AFP) Feb 14, 2009China's President Hu Jintao arrived in Tanzania late Saturday at the start of a two-day visit to the east African country. The Chinese president arrived at 10:00pm (1900 GMT) in Dar-es-Salaam on the third leg of his African diplomatic tour following visits to Mali and Senegal. President Hu will sign key political and economic agreements with his Tanzanian counterpart Jakaya Kikwete ... more
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