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Australia says military boost due to shifting dynamics
Melbourne, Australia (AFP) May 3, 2009Australia's defence minister denied Sunday that the country was massively boosting military spending solely because of China's emergence as a global power. Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon unveiled plans Saturday to spend more than 70 billion US dollars in the next 20 years boosting Australia's military capability. Fitzgibbon said the move was prompted by global power shifts which meant ... more SKorea and US forge deal to fight cyber attacks 
Seoul (AFP) May 4, 2009South Korea and the United States have agreed to cooperate in fighting cyber attacks against their defence networks from countries including China and North Korea, officials said Monday. The April 30 deal calls for an exchange of information on detecting and fighting cyber attacks against information systems used by the militaries of the two allies, the defence ministry said. At least on ... more Six-billion-dollar upgrade for Taiwan's sewers 
Taipei (AFP) May 4, 2009Taiwan Monday announced that it would spend more than 200 billion Taiwan dollars (six billion US dollars) on a six-year project to upgrade its sewerage systems. The project aims to divert wastewater from 35.77 percent of Taiwan's households for treatment before being released into the rivers and oceans, said the cabinet-level Construction and Planning Administration. Critics say Taiwan h ... more EU, Japan team up to fight climate change 
Prague (AFP) May 4, 2009The European Union and Japan decided to join forces in the battle against climate change and invited large countries to follow suit at a summit meeting in Prague on Monday. "Japan and the EU are aiming at building a low-carbon society. We believe that it is necessary for the United States, China, Russia to participate in a responsible manner," Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso told reporters. ... more China denies discriminating against Mexicans 
Beijing (AFP) May 4, 2009China on Monday denied discriminating against Mexicans with its strict flu control measures, but quarantined travellers from Mexico questioned aggressive Chinese steps that have sparked a diplomatic spat. "The relevant measures are not directed at Mexican citizens and are not discriminatory," foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said in a statement posted on the ministry's website. The s ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) May 4, 2009China's cabinet said Monday it had approved a plan to develop further a coastal economic zone near Taiwan, in the latest sign of warming ties with the democratic island. Under the plan, the economic zone on the Taiwan Strait's west side, mainly southeastern Fujian province and neighbouring regions, will be the focus of "major reforms," the State Council, or cabinet, said in a statement. ... more Aus treasurer slams opposition's Rio 'scare campaign' 
Melbourne (AFP) May 3, 2009Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan Sunday accused the opposition of running a "reds-under-the-beds scare campaign" against Rio Tinto's proposed 19.5 billion US dollar tie-up with China's Chinalco. Conservative opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull last week spoke out against the deal, saying it would give Beijing access to vital data relating to the debt-laden mining giant's production, costs, pri ... more Australia to boost military might: government 
Sydney (AFP) May 2, 2009Australia will spend more than 70 billion US dollars boosting its defences over the next 20 years in response to a regional military build-up and global shifts in power, the government said Saturday. A long-term strategic blueprint for the future of Australia's armed forces warned that war could be possible in the Asia-Pacific region in the next two decades, as emerging powers such as China ... more Clinton frets over Chinese, Iranian inroads in Americas 
Washington (AFP) May 1, 2009Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday defended new moves to engage anti-US leaders in Latin America as a way to check what she called "disturbing" Iranian and Chinese inroads in the region. Clinton said President Barack Obama has had to take a new tack after his predecessor George W. Bush's efforts to isolate such leaders had only made them "more negative" toward Washington and more ... more |
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Hong Kong (AFP) May 2, 2009Swine flu continued its global march Saturday as South Korea confirmed its first case and Hong Kong and China scrambled to track down anybody who had been in contact with an infected Mexican man. But amid the spread of the virus, health authorities said the world appeared better prepared to fight an epidemic than a few years ago, and vowed that a vaccine was only months away. Hong Kong w ... more Solar flares affect Earth's magnetosphere 
Paris, April 29, 2009 The European Space Agency says scientists have found extreme solar activity drastically compresses the Earth's magnetosphere and modifies ions. The researchers obtained their findings from coordinated in-situ measurements by the ESA's four Cluster satellites and two Chinese-ESA Double Star satellites. The scientists said they are now creating a model to determine how the changes affect ... more Taiwan seeks seven passengers on Asian swine flu flight
Taipei (AFP) May 2, 2009Taiwan was Saturday trying to track down seven people who travelled on to the island after sharing a flight with the Mexican man who became Asia's first confirmed case of swine flu. The seven were among 26 people who had flown from Shanghai to Hong Kong on the same flight as the man, and who later flew on to Taiwan on six different flights, Health Minister Yeh Chin-chuan told reporters. ... more China has 'canceled US credit card': lawmaker 
Washington (AFP) April 30, 2009China, wary of the troubled US economy, has already "canceled America's credit card" by cutting down purchases of debt, a US congressman said Thursday. China has the world's largest foreign reserves, believed to be mostly in dollars, along with around 800 billion dollars in US Treasury bonds, more than any other country. But Treasury Department data shows that investors in China have sha ... more
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