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the second hyperpower |
 Beijing (AFP) July 6, 2009 
At least 20 people have died and more than 670,000 had to be evacuated in China after torrential rain and floods destroyed houses, damaged roads and caused rivers to overflow, state media said Sunday. The fatalities occurred over several days of relentless heavy rain in the centre and south of the country, also leaving another five people missing, according to Xinhua news agency. ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) July 6, 2009Three people were killed and more than 20 others injured as rioters swept through the capital of China's mainly Muslim Xinjiang region on Sunday, state media reported. The dead were from China's majority Han Chinese ethnic group, according to the official Xinhua news agency, with activist groups and a witness saying the violence in Urumqi city pitted thousands of Muslim Uighurs against ... more
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Washington (AFP) July 5, 2009An exiled leader of China's Uighur minority said Sunday that Chinese police fired indiscriminately on Uighur protesters in the country's Xinjiang province. Alim Seytoff, general secretary of the Uighur American Association, added that he feared the toll was more than the three dead reported by Beijing. Seytoff strongly disputed Beijing's assertion that rioters attacked members of the ... more  
Beijing (AFP) July 3, 2009China's recent moves to ease curbs on the real estate sector have sent prices soaring recently, stoking fears that new property bubbles are forming, state media reported Friday. Residential property prices in Beijing's Central Business District rose 6.5 percent in the past week and demand for second-hand houses in some other areas is four times the supply, said the China Daily, citing ... more  
Taipei (AFP) July 5, 2009Taiwan has benefited from its giant neighbour's measures to stimulate its economy by offering subsidies to consumers, the island's government said in a report Sunday. Taiwan exported 4.65 billion US dollars worth of goods to China in April, down 33.8 percent from a year ago, the Board of Foreign Trade said. The figure indicated, however, that the sharp decline of the island's export to ... more  
Berlin (AFP) July 5, 2009Chinese carmaker BAIC has proposed taking a majority stake in GM's European arm Opel with a bid worth 660 million euros, a move that could boost negotiations for the unit, reports said Sunday. BAIC submitted a non-binding offer for GM's German-based unit Opel late Thursday, just before a deadline for prospective buyers, according to China's Guangzhou Daily newspaper, the Financial Times and ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) July 2, 2009Police have identified the man who started a blaze on board a bus in southwest China that killed 27 passengers and left 74 injured last month, state media reported Thursday. Xinhua new agency quoted police in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, saying that they had identified the arsonist as an unemployed 62-year-old man named Zhang Yunliang, a native of Suzhou city, in eastern Jiangsu ... more 
Beijing (AFP) July 2, 2009Three months before the 60th anniversary of the founding of communist China, tensions are simmering, as Beijing has mobilised its huge security and propaganda apparatus to nip trouble in the bud. Mao Zedong appeared triumphantly in front of a crowd of 100,000 in Tiananmen Square on October 1, 1949, proclaiming victory over the Nationalist enemy. Six decades on, observers say the ... more 
Taipei, Taiwan (UPI) Jul 2, 2009 Communist China, ever since its founding in 1949, has never given up its sovereign claim on Taiwan, but the island nation's new president has sought to put relations between the two countries on a more even keel since taking office in May 2008. The impact of Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou's policy was evident again Tuesday when his nation began accepting investments from the mainland ... more 
London (AFP) July 2, 2009Miner Rio Tinto said on Thursday that investors led by Chinese aluminium giant Chinalco had snapped up all its new London-listed shares, as it looks to raise 15.2 billion dollars (10.8 billion euros). The Anglo-Australian group had announced plans on June 5 to raise 11.8 billion dollars from the sale of fresh London-listed stock and 3.4 billion dollars from new shares listed in Sydney. ... more |
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