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China will build and launch a communications satellite for Laos, Chinese media reported Saturday, following similar ventures for Nigeria and Venezuela. China would also build a satellite control centre for Laos, according to an agreement signed Friday, reports said, citing an official at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT). The Dongfang Hong (The East is Red) model ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 27, 2009China on Sunday denied charges that migration by the dominant Han ethnic group threatened indigenous cultures in minority regions and said its system for ruling such regions would not change. The comments by top officials from the State Ethnic Affairs Commission came during a press conference during which they fielded questions on the causes and impact of recent deadly unrest in Xinjiang ... 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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Taipei (AFP) Sept 25, 2009Taiwan said Friday it will bar a visit by exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer while indirectly linking her organisation to terrorism, a move observers predicted will please China. "We have decided not to allow Kadeer entry considering that her visit could affect national interest and social order," Interior Minister Jiang Yi-huah said, according to an official with the Government Information ... more  
Paris (AFP) Sept 27, 2009People who were killed, injured or bereaved in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake had the cruel misfortune to be victims of an event that probably occurs just once in four millennia, seismologists said on Sunday. In a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, Shen Zhengkang of the China Earthquake Administration and colleagues said the May 12, 2008 quake comprised a strong seismic wave ... more  
Shanghai (AFP) Sept 27, 2009Charlie Chaplin traipsed through its halls, Noel Coward finished his play "Private Lives" there and owner Victor Sassoon threw lavish parties for Shanghai's high-rollers. The Peace Hotel burned bright in the 1930s, but war, revolution and ill-conceived renovations battered the Bund institution and what was once the most luxurious hotel in the Far East faded into a shadow of its former self. ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 26, 2009Nearly all the migrant Chinese workers laid off last year during the global economic crisis have returned to jobs in the cities due to an improvement in the employment situation, an official said Saturday. "Currently, 96 percent rural workers who went back to the countryside have already returned to the cities to work or do business," vice agriculture minister Chen Xiaohua told reporters ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Sept 27, 2009China vowed Sunday to crack down on heavy metal polluters after officials confirmed a new major lead poisoning outbreak had left 121 children with excessive levels of the metal in their blood. Zhang Lijun, vice minister for environmental protection, told a news conference in Beijing that the government would identify and shut down polluters responsible for such outbreaks across the country. ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Sept 25, 2009China has started building the first strategic oil reserve in the far western Xinjiang region, a senior official said Friday, as part of the Asian giant's efforts to secure its energy supply. "We started building the oil reserve at Dushanzi in Xinjiang yesterday ... marking the start of the Phase-II oil reserve base," said Zhang Guobao, head of the National Energy Administration, at a news ... more |
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