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A top Chinese general Monday defended Beijing's rapid military modernization, including the development of advanced weapons that threaten US forces in the Pacific, as aimed at meeting its minimum defense requirements. General Xu Caihou, vice chairman of China's military commission, sought to allay US suspicions over the growing might of the Asian superpower by insisting that Beijing harbored ... read more 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 22, 2009China is turning a blind eye to the thriving illegal trade in tiger parts, a campaign group said Thursday following an undercover investigation in western China and Tibet. The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a British-based organisation, showed photos it said were taken by a spy camera revealing the "rampant" sale of tiger and white leopard skins, bones and claws in retail stores. ... more
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Beijing (AFP) Oct 26, 2009More than half of all Chinese do not plan to be vaccinated against swine flu because they are unsure about the safety of the shot, according to a survey by state media published Monday. The poll by the China Daily and popular web portal sohu.com said more than 54 percent of the 2,000 respondents said they did not want the A(H1N1) vaccine -- a huge turnaround from two months ago, when 76 ... more  
Abuja (AFP) Oct 26, 2009Nigeria on Monday signed a deal worth almost a billion dollars with a state-owned Chinese engineering firm to resuscitate part of its dilapidated railway system, the transport minister said. The 875-million-dollar (588-million-euro) contract was signed by Transport Minister Ibrahim Isa Bio and the managing director of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), Zhou Tianxia ... more  
Shanghai (AFP) Oct 26, 2009The world's leading luxury hotels are rushing to expand in Shanghai ahead of next year's World Expo, with hopes high for the upscale travel sector in the Chinese financial hub despite the global downturn. The opulent Peninsula, the only new building on the main part of Shanghai's historic Bund in 60 years, just opened, embracing the city's Jazz Age heyday with a chauffeur-driven 1934 Rolls ... more |
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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  
Beijing (AFP) Oct 22, 2009The Chinese cargo ship hijacked in the Indian Ocean this week has enough fuel for a month and plenty of food and water to meet the needs of the 25 crew being held hostage, state media said Thursday. China's navy has convened an emergency meeting on the hijacking of the "De Xin Hai" but no orders have been issued to dispatch rescue ships on patrol near the Gulf of Aden to the stricken vessel ... more  
Paris (AFP) Oct 23, 2009The surge in China's steel production has brought the global output level close to what it was before the start of the global economic crisis, the World Steel Association said on Friday. Production in the 66 members of the association, which includes the main metal producers in the world, has been growing since April and was 0.6 percent lower in September than in September 2008 at 107 ... more |
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