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NKorea's Kim 'weeps' as US urges response on rocket
Seoul (AFP) April 7, 2009North Korea hailed its controversial rocket launch as a famous victory Tuesday but said reclusive leader Kim Jong-Il wept tears of regret that the money could not have been used to help his people. As world powers struggled to agree on a response, with China and Russia both urging restraint, the North's media boasted of the "historic" achievement of putting a satellite into orbit that was no ... more US wants UN to condemn NKorea, open on format 
Washington (AFP) April 6, 2009The United States said Monday it wanted a strong response from the United Nations condemning North Korea's rocket test but hinted it need not come through a Security Council resolution. Diplomats in New York said that China and Russia, which have veto power on the Security Council, have been pushing for a more muted response after Pyongyang fired a rocket Sunday over Japan. "We are activ ... 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 China, NKorea trade booming despite rocket tensions 
Dandong, China (AFP) April 6, 2009Trucks loaded with food, electronic goods, clothes and household items line up every day at the custom house here, awaiting final approval to cross the Friendship Bridge into North Korea. Cross-border trade between China and North Korea is rising quickly in the frontier town of Dandong, despite the political and diplomatic problems that Pyongyang's erratic behaviour has created for Beijing, ... more Guantanamo Uighurs take case to US Supreme Court 
Washington (AFP) April 6, 2009Fourteen Chinese Uighurs who have been detained at Guantanamo prison without charge for seven years on Monday petitioned the Supreme Court for their release. The case would be the first to deal with terror detainees that has come before the Supreme Court since President Barack Obama came to power in January. The men -- captured in Afghanistan -- have asked for the top court to lift a bar ... more |
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Shanghai (AFP) April 6, 2009Banking giant HSBC said Monday it had signed a 250-million-dollar financial service agreement with Shanghai Electric Group to support the Chinese power equipment maker's global expansion. Under the agreement, HSBC will provide Shanghai Electric and its units with a global facility limit of 250 million dollars to meet their financial needs, HSBC said in a statement. The funds could be use ... more Germany's Linde unveils new Chinese joint venture 
Frankfurt (AFP) April 6, 2009German industrial gases group Linde said Monday it would create a joint venture with the Chinese group Sinopec to provide gas to a chemical complex in the central city of Chongqing. The new company should be set up by June and would be held in equal parts by both partners, a statement said. Initial investment would total around 50 million euros (68 million dollars). Linde has already sig ... more Beijing extends post-Olympics car rules: report 
Beijing (AFP) April 6, 2009Beijing has extended its post-Olympics traffic control measures for one year after a successful initial effort at easing road congestion and curbing pollution, state media reported Monday. The rules, first introduced in September last year following more stringent rules during the 2008 Olympic Games, will take 930,000 of the city's 3.6 million vehicles off the roads every weekday, the China ... more 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 |
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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 China orders tighter controls on online videos 
Beijing (AFP) April 2, 2009China issued new rules Thursday aiming to crack down on "harmful" political or religious online videos, two weeks after footage of police allegedly beating Tibetan monks circulated on the Web. The rules specifically ban online clips that harm national stability, "instigate hatred between ethnic groups" or "maliciously disparage" the nation's police or armed forces, a notice on the government ... more China, Ecuador move toward energy deal 
Quito (AFP) April 4, 2009China is close to inking a one-billion-dollar deal to receive Ecuadorian oil, President Rafael Correa said on Saturday. "China has offered us initial capital worth one billion dollars for infrastructure projects, we are going to pay little by little with our oil," Correa said during a weekly television address. The deal will be discussed this week and is expected to include "a fund worth ... more Five dead, seven missing in China mine flood: report 
Beijing (AFP) April 5, 2009Rescuers found the bodies of five miners and were searching for seven others in a flooded colliery in northeast China, state media said Sunday, in the latest accident to hit the country's coal industry. The tragedy struck early Saturday at a coal mine in the city of Jixi in Heilongjiang province when 22 miners were underground, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Around 4,000 cubic ... more
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