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US envoy visits China on fence-mending missionBeijing (AFP) March 2, 2010 A senior US diplomat arrived in China Tuesday for talks aimed at putting 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 drive. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said Beijing and Washington need ... read more |
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Taipei (AFP) March 1, 2010Global warming is raising the danger from typhoons, Taiwan experts warned Monday, saying the island may be hit in a year or two by a powerful storm like the one which killed more than 700 last August. Typhoon Morakot dumped a record 3,000 millimetres (120 inches) of rainfall and caused massive mudslides in the south of the island, and the government should be prepared for similar disasters i ... more  
Shanghai (AFP) March 1, 2010After three months in legal limbo in Japan, Chinese rights campaigner Feng Zhenghu says he is not wasting any more time. Feng was forced to camp out near an immigration counter at Tokyo's Narita airport after the Chinese government refused on several occasions to let him come home, in a case reminiscent of the Tom Hanks film "The Terminal". In the two weeks since his ordeal ended, he has ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2010The high command of China's communist leadership emerged enhanced from the global economic crisis, unencumbered by the political constraints in recession-plagued Western democracies. But while the Chinese model of top-down central planning can take credit for maintaining blistering rates of economic growth, analysts warn that leaders are walking a policy tight-rope as they head into the annu ... more |
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China to expand rural subsidies for home appliances, autosBeijing (AFP) Feb 25, 2010 China plans to expand subsidies to help the country's vast rural poor buy home appliances and vehicles, as the government steps up efforts to boost domestic consumption. The range of products eligible for government subsidies will be widened and support will be given to increase sales of "new energy" vehicles, the State Council said late Wednesday after a meeting chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao. "We will continue to implement policies to encourage home appliance sales in the countryside, the repla ... read more |
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