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China issues new rules on Internet domain namesBeijing (AFP) Dec 22, 2009 China's Internet watchdog issued a new set of rules on domain name registration this week in a bid to curb pornography and illegal content. According to Liu Jie, an official at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the regulations posted on its website Sunday beef up existing rules on domain name registration. The measures will cut off Internet services to those websites ... read more |
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Taichung, Taiwan (AFP) Dec 22, 2009Top envoys from Taiwan and China signed joint agreements on Tuesday as they met behind rings of barbed wire shielding them from anti-Beijing protesters who set ablaze a Chinese flag. The talks between Chen Yunlin, the mainland's top Taiwan negotiator, and Taiwanese counterpart Chiang Pin-kung, have triggered demonstrations on the island by people angry at closer ties with their giant ... more  
Baghdad (AFP) Dec 22, 2009A consortium led by China's top oil producer initialled a deal with Iraq on Tuesday to develop the southern Halfaya oil field, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad told AFP. "Yes, they signed the contract today," he said of the group made up of China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) and which also includes France's Total and Malaysia's Petronas. The three companies are aiming to increase ... more  
Washington (AFP) Dec 22, 2009Copyright piracy in China remains at "unacceptably high levels," causing "serious harm" to American businesses, the top US trade official said in an annual report to Congress Tuesday. US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in the mandatory report on China's compliance with its World Trade Organization accession obligations that Beijing was not taking adequate steps to enforce intellectual ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 22, 2009China said Tuesday it "regrets" a decision by the World Trade Organization to reject its appeal against a ruling that orders Beijing to free up distribution of US films, music and books. The WTO appeals body on Monday upheld an initial August ruling that China was breaching international trade commitments by blocking foreign-owned companies from acting as importers and wholesalers ... more 
Brussels (AFP) Dec 22, 2009The European Union, the world's biggest market, on Tuesday extended punitive taxes on imports of Chinese and Vietnamese shoes. Ministers from the 27 EU nations "today adopted a regulation extending, by a further period of 15 months, the anti-dumping duty on imports into the EU of footwear with leather uppers originating in China and Vietnam," a statement from the bloc's presidency said. ... more 
Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 22, 2009Hong Kong and several European states are set to begin talks aimed at hammering out a free trade pact, the southern Chinese city said Tuesday. Hong Kong officials will sit down in early 2010 with their counterparts from the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), which comprises Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, according to a government statement. A free-trade agreement ... more |
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