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the second hyperpower |
 Urumqi, China (AFP) July 8, 2009 
Authorities said the restive Chinese city of Urumqi was "under control" Wednesday following sporadic violence as mobs wielding makeshift weapons roamed despite a massive security presence. President Hu Jintao abandoned a Group of Eight summit in Italy, in what observers said was an unprecedented move, to tackle one of China's worst spikes in ethnic tensions in decades. In Urumqi, the ... read more 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Jul 09, 2009Freshwater fish are an important part of the diet of many peoples around the world, but it has been unclear when fish became an important part of the year-round diet for early humans. A new study by an international team of researchers, including Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, shows it may have happened in China ... more
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L'Aquila, Italy (AFP) July 8, 2009Major polluting nations watered down their ambitions to tackle global warming at a G8 summit in Italy on Wednesday despite growing pressure to set tough targets to cut pollution. The Group of Eight leading industrialised nations and other major economies -- including China and India -- dropped a pledge to halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a European Union official said. ... more  
L'Aquila, Italy (AFP) July 8, 2009The world's most powerful leaders warned Wednesday the global economy is still in peril, at a summit marred by Russia's renunciation of climate change targets and splits over Iran. The build-up to the Group of Eight gathering in L'Aquila, which was devastated by an earthquake less than 100 days ago, was also overshadowed by turmoil in China which prompted President Hu Jintao to hurry back to ... more  
Beijing (UPI) Jul 8, 2009 China's leading oil companies have boosted overseas acquisitions during the first half of 2009 because of increased domestic demand and falling prices, a Shanghai Securities News report stated Tuesday. China, the world's second-largest consumer of energy, depends on imported oil for nearly half of its needs. China's oil consumption has grown approximately 5 percent annually in ... more  
Manila (AFP) July 7, 2009The Asian Development Bank is helping to finance a pioneering private-sector wind farm in China's Inner Mongolia that will help the fast-growing nation fight climate change, officials said Tuesday. The Manila-based ADB is lending about 24 million dollars towards the overall cost of 73 million dollars for the facility, China's first wind farm to be built as a joint venture between Chinese and ... more |
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Paris (UPI) Jul 6, 2009 This week's G8 summit looks like the last of its kind, as its role as a forum for world governance is overtaken by the newer G20 grouping, which claims greater legitimacy by including the main emerging economies like China, India and Brazil. Indeed, the second day of this year's G8 meeting in Italy, amid the symbolic but only half-repaired ruins of the earthquake that hit the small town ... more  
Taipei (AFP) July 6, 2009Taiwan on Monday rejected China's call for the opening of restricted air space over the Taiwan Strait to help meet rising passenger demand between the island and the mainland. Flights currently have to make a detour around the restricted air space -- "the median line" -- between China and Taiwan. Wang Yi, chief of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Chinese State Council, last week said an ... more  
Berlin (AFP) July 6, 2009Chinese automaker BAIC has written to German officials regarding Opel, but an economy ministry spokesman refused Monday to reveal the contents. "A letter effectively exists," the spokesman told a regular news conference, without providing details. On Sunday, a press report said BAIC had offered to take 51 percent of Opel, a troubled unit of US automaker General Motors, with a public ... more 
Rome (AFP) July 6, 2009Italian auto maker Fiat was Monday to sign an agreement on the construction of a factory in China with the Chinese firm Guangzhu Automobile Industry Group (GAC), an industrial source said. The signing was to take place alongside a meeting here between Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao. The new plant was expected to begin turning out vehicle ... more |
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