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the second hyperpower |
 Washington (AFP) June 11, 2009 
Uighur exiles voiced relief after Palau offered to take 17 men of the Chinese minority jailed at Guantanamo Bay, but China condemned the move and called for them to be sent back to Beijing. In an unlikely twist to the men's inter-continental odyssey, the tiny Pacific island with a population of 20,000 agreed to US requests to accommodate the men who were detained during US-led military opera ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) June 9, 2009The impact of China's new requirement that PCs sold in the country must come with Internet filtering software remains unclear due to questions over how it will be carried out and enforced, analysts said Tuesday. Computer makers have been told by the government that all personal computers sold from July 1 must be shipped with anti-pornography software, a move that a US trade group called a ... more
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Beijing (AFP) June 11, 2009China will not accept binding cuts in its greenhouse gas emissions, an official said Thursday, after the United States said it made progress with Beijing in talks here on a global climate pact. The comments came after a visit by US climate change envoy Todd Stern aimed at pressing the Asian giant to commit to hard numbers on emissions reductions ahead of December talks in Copenhagen on a new ... more  
London, UK (SPX) Jun 12, 2009A species of bacteria, isolated from sediments deep under the Pacific Ocean, could provide a powerful clean-up tool for heavy metal pollution. Writing in the current issue of the journal, Microbiology, Professor Gejiao Wang and his colleagues from Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, PR China describe how a particular strain of Brachybacterium, strain Mn32, proved to be highly effect ... more 
Beijing (AFP) June 11, 2009Beijing faces a "garbage crisis" as an increasing volume of rubbish threatens to overwhelm the capital's existing landfills, state media reported on Thursday. The volume of waste produced in the city is growing at eight percent per year and is expected to exceed the capacity of Beijing's 13 landfill sites within five years, the China Daily reported, citing the city government. It quoted ... more  
Sydney (AFP) June 11, 2009Australia's OZ Minerals overwhelmingly backed an improved 1.396 billion US dollar offer from China's Minmetals Thursday, just days after mining giant Rio Tinto walked away from a separate Chinese deal. Minmetals' last-minute decision to sweeten its offer with an extra 180 million US dollars proved decisive in winning over OZ Minerals shareholders, securing 92 percent of votes at the ... more |
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Koror (AFP) June 10, 2009The tiny Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed to temporarily resettle up to 17 Chinese Uighurs from the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, in an unlikely resolution to years of legal limbo. Uighur activists welcomed the deal but voiced concern for the future of the men, whose new home would be distant both geographically and culturally from the mountains and deserts of their native ... more  
Beijing (AFP) June 9, 2009China said Tuesday that President Hu Jintao would attend the first official BRIC summit in Russia, during which the reform of international financial institutions would be high on the agenda. Hu will leave China on Sunday for a five-day trip to Yekaterinburg in western Russia, high level officials at the foreign ministry told reporters. The trip will also incorporate a meeting on June 15 ... more  
Paris (AFP) June 10, 2009Surprised scientists say that typhoons which hit Taiwan unleash long, slow earthquakes, a phenomenon that may save the island from devastating temblors. Seismologists installed movement sensors in boreholes at depths of 200-270 metres (650-870 feet) in eastern Taiwan, monitoring a spot where two mighty plates, the Philippine Sea Plate and the Eurasian plate, bump and jostle in an oblique ... more 
Beijing (AFP) June 10, 2009Torrential rains pummelling south China have left 16 dead or missing this week, destroyed thousands of houses and forced the evacuation of more than 172,000 people, the government said Wednesday. The government ordered flood prevention measures amid mounting fatalities and economic losses resulting from heavy downpours. "The southern region of our nation has entered the flood season ... more |
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