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China and North Korea have vowed to strengthen their defense alliance that was first "sealed in blood" when they fought together in the Korean War.
Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie, on an official visit to North Korea, said "no force on Earth can break the unity of the armies and peoples of the two countries, and it will last forever." Liang was speaking at a welcoming ... read more 
Quito (AFP) Nov 24, 2009Ecuador and China signed three cooperation agreements on Tuesday worth 442 million dollars and obtained credit to buy four warplanes, officials here said. The agreements were signed during the visit of Jia Qinglin, chair of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, who met with President Rafael Correa as part of a tour of Latin America. According ... more
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Taipei (AFP) Nov 25, 2009The death and destruction wreaked on Taiwan by Typhoon Morakot was a disaster waiting to happen, aggravated by decades of unrestrained environmental abuse, critics say. Sixty years of intense use of the small island's natural resources left it increasingly fragile and vulnerable to a major blow such as that dealt by Morakot, which left more than 700 people dead or missing in August. ... more  
Sydney (AFP) Nov 25, 2009Two giant pandas due to begin a 10-year stay at an Australian zoo could give the local economy a bigger boost than recent visits by Tiger Woods or Lance Armstrong, officials said Wednesday. Wang Wang, four, and three-year-old Funi are due to arrive at Adelaide Zoo Saturday for a long-term loan from the Panda Protection and Research Centre at Ya'an in China's Sichuan Province. Zoos South ... more  
Shanghai (AFP) Nov 25, 2009The UN AIDS chief said 50 million people are at risk from the disease in China and the government must do more to reach out to civil society and work with vulnerable groups such as homosexuals. China has 319,877 confirmed HIV cases but 740,000 are estimated to be infected, Michel Sidibe told AFP in an interview late Tuesday, citing figures compiled by UNAIDS, the World Health Organisation ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Nov 25, 2009China's Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. (BAIC) told state media Wednesday it will "reassess" its options after a plan to buy Swedish carmaker Saab collapsed, but gave no hint of its plans. Swedish high-performance carmaker Koenigsegg said Tuesday it was abandoning plans to join forces with BAIC to buy Saab from its US parent General Motors due to costly delays, plunging Saab's future ... more  
Quito (AFP) Nov 25, 2009Ecuador and China will form a joint venture to develop an oil bloc in the South American country that has proven reserves of 120 million barrels of crude, an Ecuadoran official said Wednesday. Germanico Pinto, the minister of non-renewable natural resources, announced the creation of a joint venture between Ecuador's state-owned Petroecuador and China's Sinopec International Petroleum at a ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Nov 25, 2009China called on Taiwan to take "earnest" steps to protect mainland envoys visiting the island next month, state media said Wednesday, after protestors trapped a representative in a hotel last year. Yang Yi, spokesman for China's official Taiwan Affairs Office, said he believed the upcoming talks would be "supported and welcomed by Taiwan compatriots" despite threats of new protests, Xinhua ... more |
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