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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 25, 2009 
President Hu Jintao vowed on Tuesday that "separatist forces" which China blames for recent deadly unrest in its heavily Muslim Xinjiang region would fail, state media said. "The separatist forces do not have popular support and are doomed to fail," Hu was quoted saying by state-run China Central Television (CCTV). CCTV said Hu's comments were made to Xinjiang officials in the regional ... read more 
Seoul (AFP) Aug 25, 2009The arrest of two US TV journalists who crossed illegally from China into North Korea heightened the risks for groups which help refugees from the North, an activist said Tuesday. Laura Ling and Euna Lee were reporting on the plight of North Korean women who had fled or were trafficked across the border into northeast China. They were arrested by North Korean border guards on March 17 ... more
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Taipei (AFP) Aug 25, 2009Taiwan on Tuesday confirmed that 461 people were killed while 192 were missing after Typhoon Morakot struck two weeks ago causing the worst flooding in the island's history. The latest figures included 318 confirmed deaths from the worst-hit southern village of Hsiaolin, where 106 others were still unaccounted for, the National Fire Agency said. Previously the death toll from the typhoon ... more  
Sydney (AFP) Aug 26, 2009Australia Wednesday approved a massive energy project that will supply natural gas worth tens of billions of dollars to China and India, but laid down extra environmental conditions. Environment Minister Peter Garrett said he saw no reason to block the Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant off Western Australia, allowing it to clear the final regulatory hurdle. The project is a joint ... more  
Beijing (UPI) Aug 25, 2009 Chinese solar industry companies have already played a major role in lowering the cost of solar panels by almost half over the last year, The New York Times reports. In an effort to boost market share, China's largest solar panel manufacturer, Suntech, is selling solar panels in the United States at below the cost of materials, assembly and shipping, Shi Zhengrong, the company's chief ... more |
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Taipei (AFP) Aug 24, 2009Taiwan's government on Monday confirmed that 292 people were killed and 385 missing after Typhoon Morakot struck the island and caused its worst flooding in half a century earlier this month. Those still unaccounted for include 311 from the southern village of Hsiaolin, the National Fire Agency said. With the hope of finding bodies fading, an increasing number of people still hunting for ... more  
Brussels (AFP) Aug 24, 2009The world of Belgian homing pigeons is in a flap over fears that Chinese criminal gangs are bumping off their prized racers, after a gruesome discovery in the northern town of Antwerp. Last week a passerby spotted two men of Asian appearance dumping rubbish bags in a wood in Mol, near the Dutch border. The two men were driving a car with French plates, according to the witness, who took ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 24, 2009China has settled nearly 50,000 Tibetan nomads into sedentary communities in a drive to protect the remote alpine region's fragile ecology from their herds, state media said Monday. Xinhua news agency said 49,631 people from nomadic families were settled over the past four years under a policy that Tibetan activists decry as destructive blow to the Buddhist region's ancient culture under ... more |
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