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Taiwan firm put on watch list after sales to IranTaipei (AFP) Jan 6, 2010 Taiwan has placed a local company on a watch list after the firm sold specialised equipment to Iran, an official said on Wednesday. "The company is on an observation list, which means it must obtain prior export permits, after it imported 108 pressure sensors from Europe and sold them to Iran in March 2008," said an official at the Bureau of Foreign Trade. Pressure sensors can measure al ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 6, 2010A Chinese court has handed a six-year prison term to a Tibetan film-maker who made an internationally watched documentary in which ordinary people aired grievances, his family said Wednesday. Dhondup Wangchen, 35, had trekked across the Himalayan territory for five months asking about topics including Chinese rule, the exiled Dalai Lama and the Olympics which Beijing was preparing to hold ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 7, 2010China's drug detention centres are rife with human rights violations including forced labour and other abusive treatment despite a new law meant to fix the system, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. The New York-based rights group said in a report that the 2008 Anti-Drug Law actually made addicts' suffering even worse by failing to ensure that adequate treatment -- or even basic medical care ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Jan 6, 2010A frigid Siberian cold front gripping northern and central China has caused coal and power shortages as residents scramble to keep warm, state press reported Wednesday. Temperatures early Wednesday in Beijing fell to minus 16.7 degrees Celsius (two degrees Fahrenheit) -- the lowest in the capital since 1971 -- as rare snows fell in central and eastern China, the state weather bureau said. ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Jan 6, 2010Electricity consumption in China rose nearly six percent in 2009, the government said Wednesday, as the economic recovery gathered pace and unusually early cold weather struck parts of the country. Overall consumption rose 5.96 percent to 3.6 billion megawatt hours from a year earlier, the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic planning agency, said in a statement ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Jan 6, 2010China's central bank said Wednesday it aimed to keep inflation in check in 2010 while maintaining its pro-growth monetary policy as the world's third-largest economy recovers from the financial crisis. In a statement outlining its tasks for this year, the People's Bank of China said it would adjust its policies "at appropriate times and by appropriate levels" based on economic and financial ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Jan 6, 2010A fire in a coal mine in central China has killed 18 miners, authorities said Wednesday, as rescuers searched for 12 others still missing. The accident occurred on Tuesday at the Lisheng mine in the city of Xiangtan in Hunan province, the local government said in a statement on its website. Nine bodies were recovered late Tuesday, and the rest on Wednesday. The government had earlier ... more |
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