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English subtitles missing in Hong Kong's 'Avatar'Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 27, 2009 It may boast ground-breaking 3D effects, but English-speaking viewers of "Avatar" have been left in the dark by the film's alien dialogue after Hong Kong cinemas offered only a Chinese translation. The computer graphics-laden production by "Titanic" director James Cameron, which follows the exploits of a paraplegic army veteran in the alien world of the Na'vis, has raked in more than 2 mill ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 25, 2009Liu Xiaobo, who on Friday was jailed for 11 years by a Beijing court for subversion, is a leading intellectual and social critic who has sought to bring political change and democracy to China. The 53-year-old writer, who was previously jailed for his involvement in the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy protests, was arrested a year ago after co-writing Charter 08, a widely circulated petition th ... more 
Geneva (AFP) Dec 25, 2009The 11-year prison term given Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo throws "an ominous shadow" over Beijing's commitments on human rights, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Friday. "The conviction and extremely harsh sentencing of Liu Xiabo mark a further severe restriction on the scope of freedom of expression in China," said Pillay in a statement issued in Geneva. "I have n ... more  
Taichung, Taiwan (AFP) Dec 25, 2009A top Chinese envoy left Taiwan on Friday after a five-day trip that attracted a string of protests and saw a policeman injured in a scuffle. Chen Yunlin, the head of a semi-official Chinese agency handling Taiwan ties in the absence of formal relations, took off from Taichung airport in the centre of the island, airport officials said. He had arrived in Taiwan Monday on a much-anticipat ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 26, 2009China's national assembly Saturday signalled the country's commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by adopting a law supporting its renewable energy industry. The new law, an amendment to one on renewable energy adopted by the National People's Congress standing committee, obliges electricity grid companies to buy all the power produced by renewable sources. It also empowers the ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Dec 25, 2009China announced on Friday that the country's economy grew by 9.6 percent in 2008, up from a previously announced figure of nine percent. The latest national economic census found the economy was worth 31.4 trillion yuan in 2008, head of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Ma Jiantang said at a briefing, or around 4.6 billion dollars based on the current exchange rate. That meant grow ... more
Taipei (AFP) Dec 23, 2009Taiwan has unveiled what it calls Asia's biggest solar power plant as the island, which imports almost all its energy, seeks to tap into clean renewable resources, the government said Wednesday. The two-hectare (4.9-acre) plant in south Taiwan's Kaohsiung county, an area that enjoys year-round sunshine, is equipped with 141 huge solar panels that can generate one megawatt in total, said the ... more |
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