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 Seoul (AFP) Oct 5, 2009 
Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il late Monday amid efforts to bring Pyongyang back to nuclear disarmament talks, Beijing's state media reported. "Premier Wen Jiabao held talks with North Korea's top leader Kim Jong-Il on Monday evening," Xinhua news agency said on its website, without providing further details. Wen's high-profile three-day visit is ... read more 
Bangkok (UPI) Oct 5, 2009 Industrialized nations are trying to "sabotage" a treaty to combat global warming in advance of the December climate summit in Copenhagen, China's chief climate negotiator said Monday. Now in the second and final week of talks in Bangkok on a climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, tensions were running high as negotiators representing 180 countries attempt to whittle down the exh ... 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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Beijing (AFP) Oct 5, 2009"To get rich is glorious" has been the mantra in booming communist China for 30 years, but few have embraced the slogan more vigorously than Wen Qiang, a leading law official in the country's southwest. Wen, a former head of the judiciary and ex-vice police chief in Chongqing, amassed assets valued at over 100 million yuan (14.7 million dollars), but now stands accused of protecting crime bo ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Oct 4, 2009Chinese factories are racing to hire migrant workers laid off during the global crisis as they struggle to meet Christmas orders for Barbie dolls, iPods and designer jeans, say analysts and observers. The surge in demand has caused a labour shortage in some parts of the country as factories ramp up production, but does not necessarily mean that China's key export sector is on the mend, they ... more 
Istanbul (AFP) Oct 3, 2009Group of Seven finance chiefs on Saturday warned against currency volatility, stressing the importance of a strong dollar and a flexible yuan exchange rate for future global economic stability. "We have reaffirmed the necessity for the Chinese currency to appreciate... and we continue to believe that we need a strong dollar," French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said after the talks in ... more |
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Quang Nam, Vietnam (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Millions of flood-hit survivors of devastating Typhoon Ketsana waited desperately for aid and braced for a new super storm on Thursday as the disaster's death toll climbed to 383. One of the most destructive storms in recent years, Ketsana wreaked havoc in the Philippines at the weekend then strengthened over the South China Sea to batter Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. The Philipp ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Tanks rumbled through Beijing early Thursday as China geared up to mark 60 years of communist rule with a choreographed show of mass patriotism glorifying the nation's revival as a global power. Dozens of tanks thundered down locked-down avenues toward positions near Tiananmen Square ahead of a massive military parade and spectacular pageant depicting how the Communist Party has led China fr ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Sept 30, 2009Internet users in China have found more and more online roadblocks and dissidents have reported increased surveillance as the authorities nervously prepare to celebrate 60 years of communist rule. China regularly cracks down on online activity and activists ahead of sensitive events, and this year's National Day on Thursday is no exception as the government plans to showcase its military mig ... more |
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