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China mulls defence industry subsidies: state mediaBeijing (AFP) Feb 24, 2010 China would give subsidies and preferred treatment to companies that manufacture products for national defence under a draft law now under review, state-run Xinhua news agency said Wednesday. The report comes amid a major expansion and modernisation of the nation's massive armed forces in recent years that has raised concern overseas over China's military intentions. Xinhua said the subsidies were part of a national defence mobilisation bill under consideration this week by a committee of the Na ... read more |
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Los Angeles (AFP) Feb 22, 2010Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said he feels love in his heart for China but believes hardliners in Beijing are in denial over their cultural "suppression" of his homeland. "Sometimes you see some of these hardliners' sort of policy, brutalist policy, sometimes I got some irritation for short moment," the Buddhist monk told CNN talk-show host Larry King on a visit to Los Ange ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 24, 2010China on Tuesday demanded the United States "undo the damage done" by a meeting between President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama, while lashing out anew over US arms sales to Taiwan. The latest angry barrage indicated tensions had not abated between Beijing and Washington - an unwelcome sign for negotiators working on the thorny North Korea and Iran nuclear dossiers, who need the world pow ... more  
Washington (AFP) Feb 23, 2010A coalition of human rights campaigners on Tuesday urged the US government to fund efforts led by the Falungong spiritual movement to circumvent Internet censorship in China and other nations. Congress approved 30 million dollars in the 2010 budget to combat cyber censorship in China, Iran and elsewhere. But lawmakers have voiced concern that the funding since 2008 has been used ineffectivel ... more |
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China to release 20 million pollution-fighting fish in lakeShanghai (AFP) Feb 23, 2010 Authorities in eastern China have said they will release 20 million algae-eating fish into one of the nation's most scenic lakes that has been ravaged by pollution. Taihu Lake, which straddles Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces, has been severely polluted by sewage as well as industrial and agricultural waste, triggering a blue-green algae plague. Authorities started using fish to try to clean up the lake in February last year when they released 10 million mostly green and silver carp into the water ... read more |
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