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Bolivia signed a memorandum of understanding Friday with Chinese officials for the construction and launch of a communications satellite. President Evo Morales said the 300-million-dollar satellite, whose design is set to be completed by March 2010, would be named after Tupac Katari, a Bolivian indigenous leader who fought against Spanish colonial rule. A Bolivian delegation will travel ... read more 
Washington (AFP) Oct 24, 2009China's second-highest ranking officer kicks off Saturday a week-long visit to the United States amid signs that testy military relations between the superpowers are thawing. The trip by General Xu Caihou, the most high-profile Chinese military official to travel to the United States in years, is poised to ease tensions that flared earlier this year amid naval standoffs off China's coast. ... more
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China's Xi lands in Moscow to beef up 'no limits' Putin partnership US, Chinese stocks up before trade talks, Fed move Hong Kong loosens rules for harbour reclamation Stocks mixed before Fed decision, China-US trade talks China vows to defend 'justice' in looming trade talks with US Asian stocks rise as China-US trade talks boost optimism China says 'concerned' by India strikes on Pakistan, urges restraint China's Xi heads to Moscow to beef up 'no limits' Putin partnership China's Xi aims to beef up 'no limits' Putin partnership 
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Hua Hin, Thailand (AFP) Oct 24, 2009Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao agreed with his Indian counterpart Saturday to work towards narrowing differences on long-simmering border issues between the two nations, state media reported. Wen reached the agreement with Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of a regional summit in Thailand grouping the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other countries, the official Xinhua ... more  
Dharamshala, India (AFP) Oct 22, 2009Chinese soldiers executed three Tibetans for their role in unrest that shook the region last year, an exiles' organisation said on Thursday citing unnamed sources. The Gu Chu Sum group of former Tibetan political prisoners said the two men and one woman were shot on Wednesday in the capital Lhasa, having been detained after riots broke out in Tibet in March 2008. Fierce anti-China ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Oct 24, 2009China's agriculture ministry has announced that an epidemic of swine disease that killed more than 80,000 pigs in 2007 has emerged in parts of the country. An outbreak of pathogenic blue-eared pig disease, also known as porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, has appeared in five areas of China, the ministry said in a statement posted on the central government website. But the ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) Oct 21, 2009Beijing's "unprecedented" arms buildup has raised concern in the region and underscored the need to promote dialogue between Chinese and US military leaders, a top US officer said on Wednesday. The United States is closely following China's military modernisation programme and wants to expand exchanges between each country's military to avoid possible tensions, Admiral Robert Willard, the ... more  
New Delhi (UPI) Oct 21, 2009 India and China signed an agreement Wednesday to cooperate on ways to fight climate change and pledged to establish a group to exchange views concerning international negotiations on climate change. The agreement emphasizes that the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol are the most appropriate framework for addressing climate change. According to a ... more 
New York (AFP) Oct 20, 2009Dozens of members of China's Uighur minority including children remain unaccounted for more than three months after security forces rounded them up amid ethnic clashes, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. The New York-based rights group said it has documented the disappearances of 43 men and boys in China's Uighur-dominated northwestern Xinjiang region, but that the real number was likely ... more |
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