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Senior US diplomat in China on fence-mending missionBeijing (AFP) March 2, 2010 A senior US diplomat was due in China Tuesday for talks aimed at getting Sino-US relations back on track, with tensions high over US arms sales to Taiwan and a White House visit by the Dalai Lama. US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg will also focus on efforts to bring North Korea back to stalled nuclear disarmament negotiations, and try to persuade Beijing to back new sanctions against Iran over its atomic programme. Steinberg, who will be accompanied by Jeffrey Bader, Obama's top Asia ... read more |
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Hanoi (AFP) Feb 26, 2010Water levels in the northern Mekong River are at record-low levels, posing a threat to water supply, navigation and irrigation along a stretch of water that is home to millions, a regional official said. Northern Thailand, northern Laos and southern China have all been affected, Jeremy Bird, chief executive officer of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) secretariat, told AFP. "The flows ar ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Feb 25, 2010China's top climate change negotiator has said the world's biggest carbon polluter has no intention of capping greenhouse gas emissions for the time being, state media reported Thursday. Su Wei, who led China's negotiating team at the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen in December, said the country's carbon emissions had to increase because the economy was still developing, the China Dail ... more  
Washington (AFP) Feb 25, 2010China, a top owner of US government debt, appears to be secretly buying bonds via third locations to hide its importance as a major creditor to Washington, experts told a congressional forum Thursday. They said China-linked entities may be scooping up US bonds in London, Hong Kong or other locations, pointing out that official data almost certainly understates Beijing's US government debt ho ... more |
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Cathay and Air China form joint cargo ventureHong Kong (AFP) Feb 25, 2010 Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific said Thursday it would form a joint venture with Air China to capture the lucrative air cargo business in two top Chinese manufacturing centres as exports rebound. Cathay said in a statement it would acquire a 49 percent stake in Air China Cargo (ACC), the platform for the joint venture, for 1,669 million yuan (240 million US). ACC is currently wholly owned by Air China, one of the country's largest carriers and the second largest shareholder of Cathay. It will c ... read more |
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