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India China border experts will meet soon
Special representatives of India and China will meet soon to discuss their disputed border where Chinese incursion sparked tensions recently, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday. Speaking to the media jointly with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Manmohan Singh said that while India and China have had differences, relations had been built steadily in the more recent times. He said both ...
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Tibetans protest in Delhi hold Chinese premier responsible for self-immolations
Tibetan organisations are staging protests in different parts of Delhi against the three-day state visit to India of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. Shouting slogans against the visiting Chinese dignitary, the Tibetans said they held Keqiang responsible for the spate of self immolations in their homeland. "Li Keqiang is responsible for the killings in Tibet. 117 self immolations have happened and ...
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Have good manners Chinese official to tourists
If you are a tourist in China, you better have "healthy and civilised" manners. Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang Sunday stressed that efforts should be made to advocate "healthy and civilized" manners among tourists. Wang made the remarks during an inspection tour to central China's Henan province, just days after he advocated polite tourist behavior and stressed that a good image of Chinese ...
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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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U.S. Europe ready to settle Chinese solar cases
HONG KONG - The Obama administration and the European Union have each decided to negotiate settlements with China in the world's largest anti-dumping and anti-subsidy trade cases involving China's roughly $30 billion a year in solar panel shipments to the West, officials and trade advisers in Beijing, Brussels and Washington said. The plan that is starting to take shape would ...
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Detained Chinese fishermen in DPRK released official
A Chinese private fishing boat seized by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) side was released early Tuesday, a Chinese consular officer to the DPRK told Xinhua.Yu Xuejun, shipowner of the "Liaoning Generic Fishing No. 25222" from Dalian City in Northeast China's Liaoning Province, "has told us all the fishermen with the boat are safe on their way ...
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Chinese delegates confirm Aus horticultural conference attendance
Horticultural producers from around Australia will share new technologies, ideas and business skills during the AUSVEG National Convention, held at Queensland's sunny Gold Coast in May-June 2013.Delegates representing 11 nations including China, the US, U. K. and the United Arab Emirates are set to attend the event, which is reported to be growing in international ...
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Chinese president to visit three Latin American nations meet Obama in US
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica and Mexico from May 31 to June 6, and meet with US President Barack Obama in the United States on June 7-8, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang announced Tuesday.According to Qin, Xi's visits are at the invitation of President of Trinidad and Tobago Anthony Carmona, President of Costa Rica Laura ...
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Chinese premier calls for more parliamentary inter-party exchanges with India
Visiting Premier Li Keqiang said Monday that China is ready to work with India to promote exchanges between the two countries' parliaments and political parties so as to further consolidate bilateral relations.Li made the remarks during separate meetings with Hamid Ansari, vice president of India, Sonia Gandhi, chief of the ruling Congress party, and Sushma Swaraj, opposition leader in the ...
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Chinas Zhang Jike retains mens singles title at table tennis worlds
Fourth seed Zhang Jike retained his men's singles title at the World Table Tennis Championships by beating third seed Wang Hao in an all-Chinese final here on Monday.Zhang's win was a repeat of the final at the 2011 Rotterdam World Championships and the 2012 London Olympic Games, where he defeated Wang to become the first men's singles world champion to win Olympic men's ...
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EU solar duties against China mistake
solar panel s is a "grave mistake." Roesler told Welt am Sonntag newspaper in an interview on Sunday that punitive duties are the wrong instrument to deal with the dispute, adding that he expects the European Commission to prevent an ...
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China issues rainstorm alert for southern region
The city revived 50 millimeters of rainfalls with three hours on Sunday afternoon. The local meteorological authority raised the rainfall alert from yellow to orange, the second most serious level of the alert system. China has a four-color rainstorm alter system, with red as the most serious, followed by orange, blue and yellow. ...
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Bright Moon partnership reaffirms Chinas green aspirations
The UN Environment Program (UNEP) agency said Monday China is currently a strategic and significant player in the advancement of green transformation and sustainable development ...
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Taiwan moving to end southern fishing line
The Taiwan government is moving toward abolishing Taiwan's southern boundary for fishery protection, an act which would extend the formal operational area of the Navy, the Coast Guard and local fishermen further south within Taiwan's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) toward the Philippines. The boundary is currently set at the latitude of 20 degrees north. In light of the recent fatal ...
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Negative starts for Hang Seng Shanghai
(9 mins ago) Stocks in Hong Kong opened down 0.37 percent after Wall Street closed slightly lower in cautious trade ahead of the Federal Reserve chairman's testimony to Congress on the US economic outlook. The benchmark Hang Seng Index fell 87.80 points to 23,405.23 in the first minutes of trade. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke is due to give testimony to Congress on Wednesday. In Shanghai, ...
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Chinese academics at NYU accused of taking bribes and revealing research to China medical company
(15 mins ago) Three New York University researchers from China divulged results from a US-funded study to Chinese competitors in exchange for tuition, rent and other expenses, US federal prosecutors said yesterday. Professor Zhu Yudong and Yang Xing, a lab engineer, were to appear in court in Manhattan to face commercial bribery and other charges. The third defendant, postdoctoral fellow Li ...
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North Korea releases detained Chinese fishing boat owner says
BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea released a Chinese fishing boat on Tuesday after it was taken from waters between the two countries, the boat's owner said, in an incident that had proved a new irritant in ties between the often uneasy ...
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Wrongly jailed men get State compensation
/enpproperty--> The Zhejiang Provincial High People's Court announced on Monday that it awarded compensation of 2.21 million yuan ($360,000) to two men who were wrongly convicted of murder and imprisoned for 10 years. The announcement was made on its official website. Zhang Gaoping and Zhang Hui, who were acquitted by the court on March 26, will each receive 655,730 yuan for ...
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Over a dozen dead from China explosives factory disaster
The death toll from an explosion at Poly Explosives in Caofan township, in China’s Zhangqiu City, has reached 13. The cause of the blast ...
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China India deepen trust
Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Monday hailed his talks with the Indian leaders as having produced a strategic consensus and deepened strategic trust between the two ...
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China asks for release of 16 fishermen believed held by North Koreans
A North Korean soldier stands guard on the banks of Yalu River, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong. North Korea fired two short-range missiles on Monday. Photograph: ...
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Hong Kong shares to open down 0.3 pct ICBC slides after Goldman exit
HONG KONG | Mon May 20, 2013 9:27pm EDT HONG KONG May 21 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares were poised to start down from a 3-1/2-month high on Tuesday, with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China sliding 1.8 percent after Goldman Sachs launched a sale of their remaining stake in the leading Chinese lender. The Hang Seng Index was set to open down 0.3 percent at 23,425.7, after closing 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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