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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 28, 2009 
A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 struck northwest China on Friday, the US Geological Survey reported, but state media said there were no immediate reports of casualties. The epicentre of the quake, which struck at 9:52 am (0152 GMT), was located 165 kilometres (100 miles) northeast of the city of Golmud in Qinghai province, the USGS said. The quake hit at a relatively shallow ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 27, 2009China on Thursday passed a law officially tasking the country's main domestic security force with putting down often violent incidents of social unrest, state media reported. The People's Armed Police, whose units are stationed nationwide, had already acted in that capacity for years, but the new legislation is being seen as an overdue clarification prompted by mounting internal security ... more
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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 Asian markets track Wall St record after Fed cut 
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Taipei (AFP) Aug 27, 2009Taiwan on Thursday confirmed that 543 people were killed and 117 were missing after Typhoon Morakot struck more than two weeks ago, causing the worst flooding in the island's history. The National Fire Agency said that the latest figures included 397 confirmed deaths from the worst-hit southern village of Hsiaolin, where another 53 people were still unaccounted for. Previously, the death ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 26, 2009More than 65 percent of all transplanted organs in China come from executed prisoners, a situation that a senior health official has condemned as improper, state media reported Wednesday. The report in the English-language China Daily, which attributed the figure to health experts, was a rare acknowledgement of the role played by death row prisoners in the country's transplant industry. ... more 
Bangkok (AFP) Aug 27, 2009Fighting between Myanmar's junta and ethnic rebel groups in northeastern Myanmar was expected to escalate after thousands of refugees fled to the Chinese border, activists said Thursday. The exodus from Kokang in Shan state began on August 8 after Myanmar's junta deployed troops in the mainly ethnic Chinese region, said the US Campaign for Burma (USCB), which uses Myanmar's former name. ... more |
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Sydney (AFP) Aug 27, 2009Australia has admitted a huge new energy project to supply Asian markets could raise national greenhouse gas emissions by up to one percent if ambitious efforts to capture them fail. Environment Minister Peter Garrett made the comments just hours after approving the Gorgon field, which will provide China and India with tens of billions of dollars of liquefied natural gas. He said plans ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 25, 2009President 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 ... 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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