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China slams Russian attitude to sunken ship: report
Beijing (AFP) Feb 20, 2009China's foreign ministry said Friday Russia's attitude to the sinking of a Chinese cargo ship by a Russian warship was "unacceptable", according to Chinese state media. Eight of the 16 crew members on board were killed when shots from a Russian naval vessel sank the Chinese-owned cargo ship the New Star off Russia's east coast on Sunday. Russia has blamed the cargo ship's captain for the ... more Algae-eating fish deployed to clean up Chinese lake: state media 
Shanghai (AFP) Feb 20, 2009Chinese authorities have again turned to algae-eating fish in a bid to clean up a pollution-linked blue green bloom on one of the country's most scenic lakes, state media reported Friday. Taihu Lake in eastern China has seen a re-emergence of algae growth that forced authorities to cut water supplies to 2.3 million residents of the nearby city of Wuxi in 2007, the official Xinhua news agency ... more China quake-damaged reservoirs fixed by end-2010: official 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 20, 2009About half the 2,125 reservoirs damaged by the massive earthquake in southwest China will be repaired this year, state media on Friday quoted a water resources official as saying. The repairs to roughly 1,000 reservoirs and 378 kilometres (234 miles) of embankment will cost 5.5 billion dollars, Leng Gang, Sichuan province's water resources director said, according to the China Daily. ... more US, China pledge joint effort on economy, climate change 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 21, 2009The United States and China glossed over differences on human rights as they pledged here Saturday to work more closely in tackling the global economic crisis and climate change. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi set the stage for future joint action on the two crises, as Chinese activists said police had sought to muzzle them during Clinton's high ... more Hong Kong bird tests positive for H5N1 
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 20, 2009Hong Kong authorities said Friday that a dead bird found in the southern Chinese territory had tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus. The government said laboratory tests had confirmed that the Crested Myna found on an island in the territory on February 12 carried the deadly strain. Hong Kong was the scene of the world's first reported major H5N1 bird flu ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Feb 21, 2009Chinese dissidents said Saturday police had tried to silence them during Hillary Clinton's visit, as the US secretary of state defended her remarks about not pushing China's leaders on human rights. Rights activists reported being placed under house arrest, harassed and intimidated in an effort to stop them speaking out during Clinton's trip to China, the final leg of her four-nation Asian ... more China quake victims clash with police: rights group 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 20, 2009More than 2,000 victims of last year's massive earthquake in China clashed with police over alleged misuse of reconstruction funds and the death of a protester in custody, a rights group said Friday. The violence occurred Wednesday and Thursday in the town of Baolin in Sichuan province, an area hit hard by the May 12 quake, the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and ... more China's tax revenue growth slows in 2008: govt 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 20, 2009Stunning growth rates in China's tax revenue reversed sharply late last year as the global economic crisis hit home, the government said Friday. Tax revenue reached 5.4 trillion yuan (790 billion dollars) in 2008, up 18.8 percent from the previous year, the finance ministry said in a statement. But growth in the first half was 33.5 percent, and just 3.2 percent in the final six months of ... more 74 dead in China mine blast: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 22, 2009Seventy-four workers were killed after a gas blast early Sunday at a northern Chinese colliery, the worst accident to hit the nation's mines in over 14 months. More than 400 miners were on the job when the pre-dawn explosion ripped through the mine, the official Xinhua news agency reported. A number of victims died after being rescued, it said. Dozens of miners were reported trapped at ... more |
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Shenzhen, China (AFP) Feb 19, 2009From its headquarters in south China, BYD Auto is pursuing a project of staggering ambition: To be in the lead as the world's cars free themselves from their century-old dependence on petrol. The company, which was founded just 14 years ago and found success making batteries, has unveiled a series of slick electric and plug-in hybrids as it prepares to enter the US and European markets in 20 ... more China tells foreign banks to lend more: regulator 
Shanghai (AFP) Feb 19, 2009China's banking regulator said Thursday it had told foreign banks operating in the country to do their bit to stimulate economic growth by lending more money. Foreign banks must "actively implement the nation's macro-tuning policies (and) boost their contribution to financial stability and economic growth," said Yan Qingmin, head of the China Banking Regulatory Commission's Shanghai branch. ... more Boeing SLAM ER Scores Direct Hit In Land-Based Moving Target Test 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Feb 20, 2009Boeing Standoff Land Attack Missile Expanded Response (SLAM ER) weapon system scored a direct hit against a remote-controlled, land-based moving target Jan. 15 in a flight test conducted at the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, Calif. "SLAM ER has demonstrated its effectiveness against stationary targets, moving surface-ship targets and, now, land-based moving targets," said ... more Russian guards fired on stricken ship: prosecutors 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 19, 2009Russian border guards repeatedly fired on a cargo ship that hit trouble off its Far Eastern coast at the weekend with the loss off several crew members, prosecutors were quoted as saying Thursday. Officials said the ship, the Sierra Leone-flagged New Star with 10 Chinese crew and six Indonesians on board, was in Russian waters illegally and repeatedly ignored warnings to stop. "The inves ... more
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