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North Korea launch called 'reckless', 'provocative'
Tokyo (AFP) April 5, 2009North Korea's rocket launch Sunday rattled all of East Asia and US President Barack Obama led global condemnation of what he called an attempt to provoke trouble. Obama said North Korea had tested a ballistic missile in defiance of UN resolutions. South Korea, which called the act "reckless", and Japan put their militaries on heightened alert. China and Russia pleaded for restraint while the ... more China's leverage on North Korea limited: analysts 
Beijing (AFP) April 5, 2009North Korea's rocket launch on Sunday shows China does not have as much influence on Kim Jong-Il's regime as some believe, despite being its biggest economic and political ally, analysts said. In the lead-up to the rocket launch, China came under pressure from many fronts to use its influence on its communist neighbour to not go ahead with it. North Korea had said it was launching a comm ... more China's Korean War vets uneasy over rocket launch 
Dandong, China (AFP) April 5, 2009Gathering to remember fallen comrades, elderly Chinese veterans who have tasted war on the Korean peninsula voiced hope that North Korea's rocket launch would not lead to renewed conflict. "I come here every year to pay respects to my old army friends," a 78-year Korean War veteran surnamed Fan told AFP, turning his head to adjust his hearing aid as he stood in a cemetery for victims of the ... more Asia forking out on defence despite slowdown: experts 
Singapore (AFP) April 5, 2009Increased military spending by China and India is forcing other Asia-Pacific countries to modernise their armed forces despite the severe impact of the global financial crisis, experts say. Data from defence research firm Jane's Information Group estimates total military spending in the region rising year-on-year - from about 220 billion dollars in 2008 to 239 billion dollars this year and ... more Children of China's migrants endure a life without parents 
Mingchuan, China (AFP) April 6, 2009Like millions of Chinese children, 16-year-old Song Yuedong sees his parents just once a year. As China's army of migrant workers toil to build their nation's future, children like Song live with relatives, often knowing their parents only as voices on the end of a phone. Shy, wearing an American basketball tee-shirt and sporting the fuzzy beginnings of a mustache, Song looks like any ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) April 5, 2009Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is due to arrive in China on Tuesday for a two-day visit, the Asian nation's foreign ministry said Sunday, following a trip to Iran and Japan. "At the invitation of President Hu Jintao, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez will pay a working visit to China from April 7 to 9," foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in an online statement. Venezuela and ... more China moves to quell anger after workers' protest march 
Beijing (AFP) April 4, 2009Authorities in northern China moved Saturday to contain a dispute over factory job losses that sparked an unprecedented attempt by workers to mount a mass protest march on Beijing, state media said. More than 1,000 workers were prevented Friday from marching 140 kilometres (90 miles) to Beijing from the city of Baoding to protest the closure of their textile factory. But on Saturday the ... more Brazil's Lula proposes China trade without dollars 
Brasilia (AFP) April 3, 2009Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva revealed Friday before leaving the G20 summit in London that he proposed to Chinese premier Hu Jintao conducting bilateral trade through each country's local currency. "I put on the table (in the meeting with Hu on Thursday) that we begin discussing commercial trade between Brazil and China being made in Brazilian and Chinese currencies (the real ... more Chinese workers abandon Beijing protest march: state media 
Beijing (AFP) April 4, 2009More than 1,000 workers Friday began a march towards Beijing in protest over job losses at a factory in the north of China, but later gave up after authorities intervened, employees and state media said. Demonstrators travelling by bicycle and on foot had attempted to make the 140-kilometre (90-mile) journey from Baoding city in Hebei province to the Chinese capital to present a petition to ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) April 2, 2009A man died Thursday when he detonated a bomb in an office building in China's Muslim-populated Xinjiang region, police said. Two office workers were also injured when the man, who was apparently owed money, detonated his explosives in the building in Urumqi, capital of the northwestern region, a police official told AFP. The incident did not appear to be related to ethnic unrest in Xinji ... more Military Matters: China clash Part Two 
Washington, April 2, 2009 The U.S. Navy may argue that a Chinese-American war is unlikely to start over harassment of a survey ship like that experienced by the USNS Impeccable in international waters off of Hainan island on March 8, and it would be right. However, surveillance missions such as the Impeccable's send a message that the United States sees China as a likely enemy. Such messages, if repeated ... more Taiwan, China to collaborate in Antarctic research 
Taipei (AFP) April 2, 2009Taiwan and China will cooperate on research in Antarctica for the first time, scientists said Thursday, in a further sign of closer ties between the two rivals. Taiwanese researchers are expected to join China's icebreaker and research vessel Xue Long when it sets off for Antarctica in late October or November, said Wang Wei-hsien, director of Taiwan's Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium. ... more Australians ride anti-China wave: analysts 
Sydney (AFP) April 2, 2009A wave of anti-China feeling in Australia over Beijing's interest in the resources sector reflects unease about the Asian giant's increasing power amid the global financial crisis, analysts said. Chinese state-owned companies have moved to snap up debt-laden Australian resources firms in recent months, including a bid from Chinalco to invest 19.5 billion US dollars in mining giant Rio Tinto. ... more
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