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China will assist Pakistan in building a new communications satellite, Chinese media reported Saturday from Islamabad. An agreement under which China will grant a $200 million loan to Pakistan for satellite construction was signed in Islamabad on Friday. The new PAKSAT-1R is to replace PAKSAT-1, to last until 2011. PAKSAT-1R could be orbited in two or three years' time. It will ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 21, 2009China's military capability has taken a "quantum leap" thanks to a modernisation drive and its weaponry rivals that of Western countries, the nation's defence minister said in an interview Monday. The comments by Liang Guanglie came in an interview published by Xinhua news agency 10 days before China is set to roll out a range of advanced weaponry in a National Day military parade. ... more
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Asian markets retreat ahead of US jobs as tech worries weigh
Trump says has asked Xi to release Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted of national security charges Chinese man who documented alleged Uyghur camps risks removal from US Daughter warns China not to make Jimmy Lai a 'martyr' China sanctions retired Japan general over Taiwan 'collusion' International reaction to Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai verdict Japan's only two pandas to be sent back to China Asian markets drop with Wall St as tech fears revive Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media 'troublemaker' in Beijing's crosshairs 
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Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 21, 2009Former US vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is expected to speak about US foreign policy and China in her first keynote speech outside North America, Hong Kong organisers said on Monday. Palin, mocked during last year's presidential campaign for her lack of experience in foreign affairs and for her verbal gaffes, is due to address hundreds of financial big-hitters at the ... more  
Singapore (AFP) Sept 21, 2009Piracy in the South China Sea has hit a five-year high with tankers and large container ships most prone to attack, an international monitoring agency said Monday. A spokeswoman for the information sharing centre of the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) told AFP there were at least 10 cases of sea attacks reported in 2009 so ... more  
New York (AFP) Sept 21, 2009Chinese President Hu Jintao is set Tuesday to make an "ambitious" statement on global warming that would make Beijing the world leader in the race to seal a new treaty, the UN climate chief said. More than 120 world leaders are converging at the United Nations on Tuesday for a special summit that takes place some 100 days ahead of a meeting in Copenhagen that is meant to approve a successor ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Sept 19, 2009US President Barack Obama geared up Saturday for whirlwind meetings next week with counterparts from China, Japan and Russia, but Iran's firebrand leader looked set to be left out in the cold. As world leaders converge on New York for the annual United Nations general assembly, officials said Obama would kick off a flurry of high-profile bilateral encounters by meeting Chinese President Hu ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Sept 18, 2009China's ruling Communist Party pledged on Friday to crack down on "ethnic separatists", two months after deadly ethnic unrest rocked the restive mainly Muslim region of Xinjiang. The pledge came at the end of a key annual meeting of the party's powerful central committee which also vowed to battle endemic corruption and keep the economy growing, Xinhua news agency reported, citing an ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Sept 18, 2009Sales of new cars in Beijing have spiked to about 2,000 a day, a trend that will put up to four million vehicles on the streets of China's capital by year's end, state media said Friday. About 60,100 cars were sold in the month of August in Beijing -- the largest number of auto purchases this year and nearly double the amount of vehicles sold in the same month in 2008, the China Daily said. ... more |
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