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Global prosperity not possible without development of India and China Premier Li Keqiang
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who is on a three-day state visit to India, on Monday said that global prosperity would not be possible without the simultaneous development of China and India. Keqiang, who received a ceremonial reception at the Rashtrapati Bhawan here this morning, told media that the combined population of China and India is a third of the world's population, and therefore, both ...
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China-Indias large potential makes West anxious Daily
China and India's combined potential are large enough to make the West anxious but there are "many weaknesses in the bilateral relationship", a state-run Chinese daily has said. Said the Global Times in an editorial Monday, the second day of Premier Li Keqiang's India trip: "As China's new premier, his selection of India for his first overseas trip has widely been interpreted as a sign that ...
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French daredevil climbs 564 ft Bailong Elevator sans safety net
French daredevil Jean-Michel Casanova scaled the 564 feet Bailong Elevator in China with no help from any machinery, safety net or safety equipment. Casanova's green-and-black sticky sneakers were the only help he needed in his dizzying feat. According to officials, Casanova climbed the huge steel tower in 68 minutes and 26 seconds, while spectators looked on in awe, the New York Daily News ...
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Chinese Premier accorded ceremonial reception at Rashtrapati Bhawan
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who is on a three-day state visit to India, was given a ceremonial reception at the Rashtrapati Bhawan here this morning. He was received by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. He inspected the guard of honour and also met members of the Indian Cabinet. Talking to reporters here, Keqiang said: "I have had a good beginning to my trip, I am confident that my full trip ...
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Chinese 14-year-old will tee it up in Memorial
Amateur Guan Tianlang, 14, of China hits off the 15th tee during the first round of the Byron Nelson Championship golf tournament, Thursday, May 16, 2013, in Irving, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony ...
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Myanmar to pump oil and gas to China
Workers prepare to launch the China section of the Myanmar-China oil and gas pipeline in Anning in southwest China's Yunnan province. Ren Dong / Color China Photo / AP ...
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Eriksson in talks with China club
A Chinese football club is in talks to appoint Sven-Goran Eriksson as their next manager, a spokesman said Monday, despite reports linking the former England boss to the Cameroon national side."Eriksson is one of the candidates," said Chen Jie, a spokeswoman for Guangzhou R&F, based in the capital of the boom southern province of Guangdong."The club is currently in talks with ...
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Learning Statecraft from China
At the same event, he also underscored the importance of being more conversant with the Chinese thought process for improving Indo-China relations. His counsel becomes even more relevant in the light of the recent friction between India and China over difference in interpretation of the border, resulting, recently, in a 19-km incursion in the Daulat Beg Oldi sector of the Depsang Valley in ...
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Philippine strategies make it overconfident in confronting China
Tensions over the recent killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine coast guard are still going on. Looking through the history of the Philippines confronting China on maritime disputes, we find that the Phillipines has always held an unscrupulous and reckless attitude. For example, the naval face-off at Huangyan Island last year was triggered by Philippine navy which had attempted to ...
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China India issue joint statement focusing on full-scale cooperation
China and India issued a joint statement Monday highlighting their commitment to expanding common ground in bilateral cooperation and coordination in various fields.The statement, released during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's ongoing visit here, said the two Asian giants "welcome each other's peaceful development and regard it as a mutually reinforcing ...
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China India establish principles of settling border issue PremierLi
Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here Monday that China and India have established principles of settling the border issue that is left over by history."Both sides believe that we need to improve the various border-related mechanisms that we have put into place and make them more efficient, and we need to appropriately manage and resolve our differences," Li added.Li made the ...
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Sohu Seeking Success in Complex Tie-Up With China Internet Search Leader Baidu
(Nasdaq: BIDU), starting with the strong possibility that this latest in a sudden string of rumors about Sogou may be true. Sogou's chief executive has already said publicly the unit was for sale, naming Baidu as one of the leading bidders. The only slight contradiction in the mix comes from comments by Charles Zhang in an interview late last week, which I'll return to shortly. But ...
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Beijing’s first taxi stations completed
/enpproperty--> The Beijing Commission of Transport has announced the city's first 170 taxi stations are ready. The stations, now concentrated in the downtown area, are meant to make it easier for residents to hail a taxi. The stations are near hospitals, institutions, and commercial and residential areas. The commission said it's easier for passengers to hail a taxi at a station ...
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Guangzhou official sacked investigated
/enpproperty--> A senior official from the Guangdong provincial capital has been dismissed from public office and transferred to a procuratorial organ for further investigation for serious violations of Party discipline and State laws. Mei Heqing, a senior official from the Guangzhou Party Commission of Discipline Inspection, said on Monday that Guangzhou's top anti-graft body has ...
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Foxconn reports three possible suicides at factories in China
Three workers at Foxconn factories in China have fallen to their deaths in recent weeks and police are investigating, according to the company. On April 27 and May 14, two workers employed at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China, separately fell to their deaths, according to the Taiwanese manufacturing giant. On May 11, another worker from Foxconn's Chongqing facility was also found ...
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Danone hopes to crack China with new dairy deal
By Donny Kwok and Astrid Wendlandt HONG KONG/PARIS (Reuters) - France's Danone (DANO.PA) is aiming for a bigger slice of one of the world's fastest-growing dairy markets by investing 325 million euros ($417 million) in two deals with China ...
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Employment system for civil servants piloted
Shenzhen province first piloted the employment system in 2007. Starting in 2010, the employment system has been officially implemented and been the only way for new workers to enter administrative positions. A staff member from Shenzhen bureau of human resources and social security said that excluding people enrolled this year, there are more than 3,000 people employed this way, and there have ...
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Chinese diaper maker Hengan launches $550 mln convertible bond-IFR
HONG KONG | Mon May 20, 2013 9:49am EDT HONG KONG May 20 (Reuters) - Hengan International Group , a Chinese diaper and sanitary napkin maker, plans to raise up to $550 million from an issue of five-year convertible bonds, IFR reported on Monday. Initial yield guidance for the offer of zero-coupon bonds was 1.5 percent to 2 percent, IFR, a Thomson Reuters publication, said. The offering ...
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China Resumes Cyber Attacks on US Firm Says
A U.S. computer security firm says the Chinese military has resumed cyber attacks on American companies after a hiatus. Mandiant, which accused China of cyber attacks in a February report, says a Chinese army unit recently broke into the computer systems of more than 100 companies to steal trade secrets. It says the attacks started again just days after Chinese officials told Secretary of ...
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East meets East at the Dubai Chinese Learning Center
Lucy Chuang organised an event in Bastakiya for the local business community, her language students and Chinese officials. Jaime Puebla / The ...
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Underground Lender Gets Death Sentence in China
BEIJING -- A businesswoman in southern China has been sentenced to death on charges of defrauding investors as the government tightens controls on informal financing that is widely used by ...
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China to remain competitive industrially blue book
China's industrial competitiveness will remain strong in 2013 despite it facing increasing production costs and competition from developing nations in labor-intensive sectors, according to a blue book released on Monday.The blue book, published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a government think tank, says China's industrial competitiveness will keep rising, thanks to its ...
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China urges DPRK on detained Chinese fishermens treatment
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei on Monday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to safeguard the health and legitimate rights and interests of a number of Chinese fisherman reportedly detained in the country.According to media reports, private fishing boat "Liaoning Generic Fishing No. 25222" from Dalian City in northeast China's Liaoning Province was ...
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Morning Brief Exposed Chinese hacking unit resumes attacks
has resumed operations after being exposed earlier this year. According to a report by the cybersecurity firm Mandiant commissioned by the New York Times, PLA unit 61398 is operating at about 60 to 70 percent of their previous capacity and after having shut down and removed from servers tools used for espionage, they have now largely rebooted their activities, targeting many of the same ...
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Chinese Hack Attacks Are Back Report
WASHINGTON--Three months after hackers working for a cyberunit of China's People's Liberation Army went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies, they appear to have resumed their attacks using different techniques, according to computer industry security experts and American officials. The Obama administration had bet ...
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Shanghai looking ahead to future
Shanghai is the commercial capital of China and the most populous city in the People’s Republic, with origins as a small fishing village, the city has grown into a global city with fingers that stretch across the world, exerting global influence over international cultural, commercial and political scenes. With major projects and programs underway, the future looks bright for Shanghai.
It was recently reported by international, Chinese and Shanghai news media that China had eclipsed Japan as the second-largest economy in the world. China’s GDP and economic activity has surpassed that of Japan for many decades, but the announcement was made on the back of a range of factors including imports and exports and the human development index within major cities such as Shanghai. Read more
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