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Walker's World: Beijing and Obama
Mexico City (UPI) Feb 23, 2009 We now know two important and useful items of good news about the forthcoming summit of the Group of 20 nations in London in April. This meeting is likely to be critical for the prospects of economic recovery in the future. The first reason for this is that President Barack Obama's attendance is now confirmed, and the second reason, almost as important, is that China has made it ... more Pentagon urges resolving fate of Guantanamo Uighurs 
Washington (AFP) Feb 23, 2009A Pentagon report on Monday said the US government needed to move quickly to help arrange the transfer of Chinese Uighurs held at Guantanamo prison who have been cleared of wrongdoing. The group of 17 Uighurs face uncertainty about when they will leave the detention camp for terror suspects and their case has "increased tension and anxiety within the detainee population," the Defense ... more Two arrested over water contamination: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 23, 2009Two managers of a chemical company have been arrested over a spill that led to the suspension of drinking water supplies for hundreds of thousands of people in a Chinese city, state press said Monday. The two officials of the Biaoxin Chemical Company were arrested on charges of causing large-scale environmental pollution that forced water supplies for large parts of Yancheng city to be cut ... more The looting of the Summer Palace: a colonial humiliation in China 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 23, 2009The looting of the Summer Palace in Beijing is one of the most infamous episodes of colonial abuse in China -- a humiliation that remains vivid nearly 150 years on. The auctioning in Paris of two imperial bronze relics that were part of the booty seized by the British in 1860 has opened this wound and become a rallying cry for nationalists. "The looting of the Summer Palace ... more Dozens hit by food poisoning in NE China: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 23, 2009At least 40 people fell sick on Monday from food poisoning in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin just as it staged the Winter University Games, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. A 60-year-old man was in serious condition and dozens of others were suffering from nausea and vomiting after eating in the food court of a shopping center in the city's downtown area, it said. ... more |
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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 |
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Beijing (AFP) Feb 20, 2009Tap water supplies to a city of 1.5 million people in eastern China were cut for seven hours on Friday after becoming contaminated by a poisonous chemical, the government and state media said. Authorities in Yancheng, located in Jiangsu province, took action after "a strange smell" was noticed in the city's drinking water, said a statement on the municipal government's website. ... more China tries to silence dissidents for Clinton visit: activists 
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
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