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 Geneva (AFP) Aug 20, 2009 
Pakistan came under severe pressure from the major nuclear powers on Thursday to end its defiance of 64 other countries in blocking international disarmament talks. Despite warnings that the blockage could discredit the world's principal disarmament forum, Pakistan's ambassador Zamir Akram held firm against an unusual joint offensive by Britain, China, Russia and the United States. ... read more 
Taipei (AFP) Aug 19, 2009Warming relations between Beijing and Taipei have made it easier for the US and other countries to offer aid to typhoon-hit Taiwan, but the shadow cast by China remains highly sensitive, analysts said. When news broke this week that US military helicopters were coming to reinforce rescue efforts after Typhoon Morakot, it offered a rare ray of hope amid images of flattened villages and angry ... more
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What we know ahead of Jimmy Lai's national security verdicts
Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media 'troublemaker' in Beijing's crosshairs Hong Kong court to deliver verdicts on media mogul Jimmy Lai Hong Kong's oldest pro-democracy party announces dissolution China's smaller manufacturers look to catch the automation wave CORRECTED: Exhibition of Franco-Chinese print master Zao Wou-Ki opens in Hong Kong Philippines says fishermen injured in China Coast Guard encounter Exhibition of Franco-Chinese print master Zao Wou-Ki opens in Hong Kong EU agrees three-euro small parcel tax to tackle China flood Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai verdict set for Monday 
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Taipei (AFP) Aug 19, 2009Taiwan's political storm surrounding Typhoon Morakot gained force Wednesday as the defence minister and cabinet secretary offered to resign over the government's slow emergency response. A new poll suggested 46 percent of people had no confidence in the government's ability to handle reconstruction efforts as President Ma Ying-jeou's approval rating dropped to a near record low of 29 percent ... more  
Richland WA (SPX) Aug 21, 2009New research shows that air pollution in eastern China has reduced the amount of light rainfall over the past 50 years and decreased by 23 percent the number of days of light rain in the eastern half of the country. The results suggest that bad air quality might be affecting the country's ability to raise crops as well as contributing to health and environmental problems. The study links ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 21, 2009New research about what triggers earthquakes, authored by Michael Strasser of Bremen University, Germany, with colleagues from the USA, Japan, China, France, and Germany, will appear in the Aug. 16 2009 issue of Nature Geoscience (online version). The research article, titled "Origin and evolution of a splay-fault in the Nankai accretionary wedge" is drawn from the ... more |
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Beijing (UPI) Aug 20, 2009 Going by all the developments since China's huge deal with the Anglo-Australian mining conglomerate Rio Tinto fell through and Beijing's subsequent detention of four company employees, it appears the Communist economic giant will not let anything interfere when an attractive international deal is to be made to satisfy its enormous appetite for resources. Developments especially in the ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 20, 2009China backed down Thursday on accusations that US soft drink giants PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are major water polluters after the companies rejected their inclusion on an environmental watch list. The companies' Beijing bottling plants were included on a list of the top 12 factories causing water pollution issued by the Beijing Development and Reform Commission, the capital's economic planning ... more 
Chishan, Taiwan (AFP) Aug 18, 2009Danhu Pasavi's Bunun tribe has lived in the mountains here in southern Taiwan for more than three centuries, but now he fears Typhoon Morakot could tear them from the land of their ancestors. Like most of the typhoon's victims, he is a member of Taiwan's indigenous tribes who lived here for thousands of years before the Han Chinese came in the 17th century -- and whose spiritual attachment ... more |
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