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 Beijing, China (RIA Novosti) Sep 22, 2009 
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 
New York (AFP) Sept 22, 2009Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama made his global debut Monday with a message of reconciliation to China, asking President Hu Jintao to work together for an EU-style East Asian community. Less than a week in office, Japan's new center-left leader flew to New York for the UN General Assembly. He plans to meet world leaders here and at the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh. ... more
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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 What we know of Jimmy Lai's national security verdicts Jimmy Lai convicted of national security charges in Hong Kong 
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New York (UPI) Sep 22, 2009 As the U.N. summit on climate change was set to open today in New York -- the largest gathering of world leaders on the issue -- India and China were still standing firm against setting binding targets on emissions. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has characterized the summit as "the defining challenge of our time." It leads up to the December climate change conference in Copenhagen ... more 
United Nations (AFP) Sept 22, 2009The leaders of China and Japan pledged Tuesday to take stronger action to fight climate change, but US President Barack Obama warned prospects for a global warming deal faced tough political realities. Leaders of some 100 nations huddled at the largest-ever climate summit, as the clock ticks to a high-stakes December conference in Copenhagen meant to draft a successor to the landmark Kyoto ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Sept 22, 2009Chinese archaeologists have discovered a new section of the Great Wall, showing that it stretched at least 11 kilometres further east than previously thought, state media said on Tuesday. The newly discovered section, built during the Qin (221-206 BC) and Han (206 BC to 220 AD) dynasties, was found in northeastern Jilin province, Xinhua news agency said. A state-sponsored study team ... more |
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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  
Nantou, Taiwan (AFP) Sept 20, 2009Crumpled temples and buckled running tracks are among the scattered visible scars left from the earthquake that devastated Taiwan a decade ago on Monday. And the emotional aftershocks from the 7.6-magnitude tremor that killed 2,415 people are still being felt today. "Two of my granddaughters were crushed to death in the quake," said Lin Yu-bi, an 82-year-old woman from Guoshing township ... more |
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