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Massive sinkhole kills five in China
FIVE people have died after a 10-metre wide sinkhole opened up at the gates of an industrial estate in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese boom town neighbouring Hong ...
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China gains observer status on the Arctic Council
, the eyes of many nations are turning north. This week, the eight member states of the Arctic Council decided at their meeting in Kiruna, Sweden, to admit six non-Arctic nations as observers, most notably China. New Scientist examines the ...
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Families endure desperate searches for Chinas missing children
XUZHOU, China - In front of a van plastered with pictures of about 100 children's faces, Xiao Zhaohua and Wu Xinghu pleaded with passersby for help. "Please don't think this is someone else's problem, and never take your eyes off your children!" they shouted. "We don't want more people to feel the same sadness we do." Xiao, 37, and Wu, 33, are on a ...
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UAE-Chinese economic relations discussed
ABU DHABI, 21st May, 2013 (WAM): Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy today stressed that huge potentials and opportunities are still untapped for the advancing of economic relations between the UAE and China as trade between the two countries increased 16 times in the past ten years to reach US$40.4 billion in 2012. China is the world's second largest economy and is among ...
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Dish Sprint-SoftBank deal is a step toward China away from national security
Dish Network Corp. played up a Sprint Nextel Corp. suitors ties to China as new plot points unfolded Tuesday in the Sprint-Dish-SoftBank Corp.-Clearwire Corp. drama. A Tuesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed text from an anti-SoftBank-Sprint merger website paid for by Dish (Nasdaq: DISH), NationalSecurityMatters.com. On the site, Dish provides its take on SoftBanks ...
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One pricey racing pigeon sold for world record $400K to Chinese businessman
Pigeons fly inside their coop at Pigeon Paradise in Knesselare, Belgium. Lightning fast pigeon Bolt with a name and pedigree to match has become the world's most expensive racing bird when his Belgian breeder sold it for $400,000 to a Chinese businessman. BRUSSELS - Flying high above Europe's economic crisis, a local lightning-fast pigeon called Bolt became the world's most ...
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China Builds Museums ... But Will The Visitors Come
One of the highlights of the new China Art Palace in Shanghai is a giant digital rendering of a famous ancient scroll, "Along the River During Qingming Festival," which includes figures that walk and talk. The work was first presented at the 2010 World Expo in ...
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AIG buys stake in Chinese insurer with USD92.5m
(MENAFN) American International Group (AIG) stated that it will invest USD92.5 million in a rights offering from the Chinese insurance company PICC Property and Casualty Company Ltd, reported AP.After AIG went through a financial crisis, it received a multibillion bailout helping the company to pay its debt.The company sold off entities, such as AIA Group Ltd, an Asian insurance company, in ...
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Death Toll from E. China Plant Blast Hits 13
(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) The death toll from a blast that ripped through an explosives manufacturing plant in east China's Shandong Province has climbed to 13, according to China's News Agency (Xinhua). The explosion, which occurred inside a workshop of a plant owned by Poly Explosives (Jinan) Co., Zhangqiu City, also injured 19 people. Thirty-four workers were in the workshop at ...
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China-trained medical doctors doing fine in Nepal
Bhavuk Sharma Bajagain, 30, a medical doctor by profession, is often busy with his patients in the emergency ward of Kathmandu Model Hospital, one of the more reputable hospitals .In the morning, Bajagain also teaches and shares his medical experience with students in two different local medical institutions."I am very happy and satisfied when I see my patients relieved of pain after ...
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Feathers fly as H7N9 hits Chinas down industry
The H7N9 bird flu epidemic, which has inflicted huge losses on China's poultry industry, is also hitting the country's down products manufacturers.The virus, which has so far killed 36 of the 130 people infected nationwide, prompted the culling of birds and the closure of poultry farms and thus cut the output of raw down feathers, sending their prices spiralling upward.As a result, ...
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China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016
The battle against global warming has received a transformational boost after China, the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, proposed to set a cap on its greenhouse gas emissions for the first ...
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Olympic champ Chicherova claims womens high jump title in Beijing World Challenge
Reigning Olympic and world champion Anna Chicherova of Russia cleared 2.02 meters to win the women's high jump title at the 2013 IAAF World Challenge Beijing on Tuesday.The 30-year-old veteran enjoyed a comfortable dominance in the field, securing the title after she leaped over 1.98m. She cleared 2.00m with her second attempt and went to go jump over 2.02m before she failed all the three ...
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Nine-man Beijing knocked out by Seoul
China's Beijing Guoan forward Frederic Kanoute (in green) competes for the ball with South Korea's FC Seoul defender Adilson during their AFC Champions League round of 16 match in Seoul on Tuesday. Photo: AFP FC Seoul recovered from going a goal down and missing a penalty to beat Beijing Guoan 3-1 and reach the Asian Football Confederation Champions League quarterfinals in a dramatic ...
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Shanghai to allow chicken again
/enpproperty--> With no new confirmed cases of the H7N9 virus on the Chinese mainland for more than a week, Shanghai is planning to allow cold-processed poultry meat onto the market by the end of May, giving the heavily hit poultry industry a chance at ...
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Chinese market welcomes Indian companies Li says
/enpproperty--> China's service industry will become more open to the world, which will bring increasing opportunities for foreign companies, including ones from India, Premier Li Keqiang said during a visit on Tuesday to the Tata Group, an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai. "We warmly welcome competitive Indian companies to participate in the Chinese ...
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Chinas trade surplus figures over-inflated
China's trade surplus figures in the first four months of the year were over-inflated by hot money smuggled into the country to profit from interest rate differentials and investments in the real estate and financial sectors amid the yuan's appreciation, according to economists. If the fake transactions, which were disguised as trade payments, are not taken into account, the real ...
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Top Chinese brands increase in value
/enpproperty--> Tencent Holdings Ltd, a major Internet services company in China, has overtaken Facebook Inc in terms of brand value, boosted by its rising revenue and large number of loyal users, according to a survey on the value of the global top brands. The Shenzhen-based company has seen a 52 percent rise in brand value compared with last year. It continued to draw more users to its ...
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China proposes emissions cap for first time
The battle against global warming has received a transformational boost after China, the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide, proposed to set a cap on its greenhouse gas emissions for the first ...
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Early summit date set for US and China
The meeting, set for 7-8 June at a retreat south-east of Los Angeles, underlines the importance of the relationship between the countries as they work out ways to make room for an increasingly powerful China in a US-led world order.President Xi has said that China wants its rise to be peaceful, but that it will not compromise on issues of sovereignty - a stance that has aggravated disputes over ...
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Chinese hostages released as North Korea backs down
Pyongyang has backed down from a potentially damaging confrontation with its closest ally by releasing the crew of a Chinese fishing boat held hostage for over two ...
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Let’s strengthen economic ties Chinese premier tells India’s business leaders
NEW DELHI -- Developing stronger economic ties between China and India will have huge benefits for both sides, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told Indian business leaders Tuesday.Li spoke a day after holding meetings with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during which the two leaders played down a recent border dispute and stressed the aim of forging deeper co-operation.Li told the Federation of ...
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Dr Kotnis symbol of Indo-Chinese friendship Premier Li Keqiang
Mumbai : It was a meeting bereft of any agenda, political or economic, but one steeped in symbolism - a Chinese Premier honouring the memory of an Indian doctor who became a hero in his country.In a small meeting room at the Taj Mahal Palace and Hotel in Mumbai, Premier Li Keqiang spent over half an hour reminiscing about Dr Dwarkanath Kotnis with his family. The Premier spoke about Dr ...
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House Panel Shoves Pentagon-China Satellite Deal Out of the Airlock
A Long March 3B carrier rocket carrying the APSTAR-7 communications satellite lifts off at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province in March 2012. Photo: AP The Pentagon insists that its deal with a Chinese satellite firm to carry U.S. troops’ communications isn’t a security risk. But Congressmen with the ultra-influential House Armed Services Committee don’t ...
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China vice-premier in Zimbabwe for start of trade and development trip before Africa summit
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Chinese vice-premier Wang Yang has arrived in Zimbabwe at the start of an official trip to view his nation's burgeoning trade and development ties in Africa. Officials at the Harare airport said Tuesday that the third ranking of China's four vice-premiers in President Xi Jinping's communist party is scheduled to meet with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on ...
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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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