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the second hyperpower |
 Beijing (AFP) May 26, 2009 
The Chinese air force will show off new high-tech equipment at a grand military parade planned for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Communist state, local media said Tuesday.
The People's Liberation Army Air Force will put on display new aeroplanes and surface-to-air missiles, the Beijing News reported, citing Wei Gang, the head of the air force armament department.
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Shanghai (AFP) May 25, 2009US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi, a tough critic of China's human rights record, visited Shanghai's financial centre Monday, after meeting a leading Chinese Catholic priest. Pelosi, who has been outspoken on Beijing's rule over Tibet, arrived in China Sunday with a delegation from the US Congress and was due to meet national leaders in the nation's capital later. At the ... more
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Kinshasa (AFP) May 25, 2009The Democratic Republic of Congo needs debt relief and deals with China to help ease the war-torn country out of poverty, the director general of the International Monetary Fund said Monday. Speaking to reporters at the end of a two-day visit to Kinshasa, Dominique Strauss-Kahn mentioned a contract signed between the two countries involving a Chinese loan of nine billion dollars. Six bil ... more  
Beijing (AFP) May 25, 2009China on Monday confirmed two more cases of swine flu, bringing the total number of people diagnosed with A(H1N1) to 11. The cases reported by the Chinese health ministry, a 19-year-old man in Zhejiang province in the nation's east and a 30-year-old man in Shanghai, had previously been announced as suspected carriers of the virus. China has yet to report a fatal case of swine flu. ... more  
Wellington (AFP) May 25, 2009New Zealand police said Monday they will ask China's government for help in returning a couple who fled to Hong Kong with millions of dollars mistakenly transferred to their bank account. Police also confirmed the names of the couple as Leo Gao, 29, and Kara Hurring (also known by the surname Yang), 30, and appealed to the couple to return to New Zealand. Police believe the couple, from ... more  
Berlin (AFP) May 25, 2009Europe's biggest carmaker Volkswagen said on Monday that it was considering a tie-up with Chinese company BYD on hybrid or electric cars. VW said its head Martin Winterkorn and BYD chief Wang Chuanfu signed a letter of intent last week, citing possible cooperation on electric cars using lithium-ion battery technology. "Especially for the Chinese market, potential partners such as BYD cou ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) May 25, 2009China on Monday voiced its "resolute opposition" to North Korea's nuclear test and urged its ally to cease actions that could further aggravate tensions over its atomic programme. "Disregarding the common objections of the international community, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has again tested a nuclear device," the foreign ministry said, referring to North Korea by its official ... more  
Paris (AFP) May 24, 2009Domestic politics will not allow the United States to deepen it commitment for cutting carbon pollution over the next decade despite growing international pressure, Washington's top climate negotiator said Sunday. "We are jumping as high as the political system will tolerate," Todd Stern said, rejecting China's call this week for rich nations to slash greenhouse gases by 40 percent before 20 ... more 
Washington (AFP) May 22, 2009US special envoy Scott Gration is due over the next week to visit China, Qatar, Britain and France to revive efforts to bring peace to Sudan's western Darfur region, a US official said Friday. The United States sees China as a key to ending the six-year war between the Arab government in Khartoum and ethnic minority rebels in Darfur because it is a government ally, military supplier and impo ... more  
Siziwangqi, China (AFP) May 25, 2009Scanning the vast northern China steppe surrounding him, Delger leans on a wooden staff that is his herd's only protection against a lethal enemy that is out there, somewhere. "They come at night, but you never hear them. When you do hear something, it is the sheep crying out, and by then it's too late," he said. Delger, 44, has lost six of his 40 sheep in the past two years to stealthy ... more |
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