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 Beijing (AFP) June 29, 2009 
China has unveiled the country's first national fund aimed at investing in aerospace, state media reported, as the country tries to compete with the industry's heavyweights. Investors in the fund, which expects to raise 30 billion yuan (4.4 billion dollars), include state-run operations such as Xi'an Yanliang National Aviation Hi-Tech Industrial Base, the Xinhua news agency said Sunday. ... read more 
Moscow (AFP) June 29, 2009Russia and China will hold joint military exercises next month, a top Russian military official said Monday, as the giant neighbours work towards tighter cooperation. "The head of the Russian and Chinese military delegations agreed that 1,300 soliders from each side would participate," said the deputy army chief, Lieutenant General Sergei Antonov, adding that 20 Russian war planes would ... more
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Shanghai (AFP) June 29, 2009Animal activists in Shanghai rescued 300 cats from a dealer who was planning to sell the allegedly stolen pets to restaurants in southern China, a participant said Monday. The activists, acting on a tip-off from a cat lover, found 22 bamboo cages full of cats in a freight yard, from where they were to be shipped to Guangdong province, Lai Xiaoyu, 34, who was part of Friday night's rescue, to ... more 
Beijing (UPI) Jun 29, 2009 China's wheat harvest is set to grow for the sixth year in a row despite an earlier drought and recent torrential rains, the Ministry of Agriculture said. Around 90 percent of the estimated 122.5 million tons has been harvested, the ministry told national media outlets. Harvesting has finished in the provinces of Yunan, Sichuan, Hubei, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui and the city of ... more  
Beijing (AFP) June 29, 2009At least three people were killed and over 60 injured when two passenger trains collided early Monday in central China, a local government official said. The accident happened at 2:34 am (1834 GMT Sunday) at the railway station in Chenzhou city, Hunan province, an official at the provincial work safety bureau, who refused to be named, told AFP. Seven carriages were derailed in the ... more 
Shanghai (AFP) June 29, 2009Shanghai authorities were investigating nine people after a nearly completed 13-storey apartment building toppled over almost intact, killing one worker, an official said Monday. The building collapse Saturday highlighted the poor quality of Chinese construction standards just as Shanghai undergoes a massive building boom in preparation for next year's World Expo. Those under ... more |
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Tokyo (AFP) June 29, 2009Japan will start issuing visas to individual Chinese tourists from Wednesday in response to growing demand for non-group travel between the two countries, the foreign ministry here said Monday. The tourist visas will be issued to individuals and accompanying family members if they have "good references in terms of occupation, financial resources and other factors," the ministry said in a ... more  
Beijing (AFP) June 29, 2009Luxury hotels in Beijing have been forced to lay off staff and cut costs as the number of guests has plummeted due to the economic crisis and the swine flu outbreak, state media said Monday. The average occupancy rate at the capital's star-rated hotels was 44.5 percent during the first quarter of the year, down from 54.6 percent in the same period a year ago, the China Daily said, citing ... more  
Tokyo (AFP) June 28, 2009South Korea and Japan "will never tolerate" a nuclear-armed North Korea, South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said Sunday after talks in Tokyo with Prime Minister Taro Aso. Lee and Aso agreed to press North Korea to abandon its nuclear programme amid Pyongyang's continued sabre-rattling, and called for China to play a greater role in persuading its ally to disarm, they said in a news ... more  
Taipei (AFP) June 28, 2009Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou is scheduled to leave for Central America Monday, his second visit to the region in a month, to shore up ties with allies there, his spokesman said Sunday. Ma will attend Panama's presidential inauguration of Ricardo Martinelli Wednesday, and then travel on to Nicaragua and Honduras, Ma's spokesman Wang Yu-chi told AFP. However, Chinese officials last week ... more |
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