Tuesday 9th February, 2010
Singles' heaven: Beijing's "I'm Looking For You" supermarket!
Beijing News.NetNew Delhi, Feb 9 : A Beijing supermarket may become a popular hangout for couples and singles looking for love this Valentine's Day.
China jails Sichuan quake activist for subversion
Beijing News.NetBeijing, Feb.9 : China has jailed Sichuan quake activist for five years after investigating him for shoddy construction that contributed to the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in 2008.
China jails quake activist for five years on subversion charges
Beijing News.NetBeijing, Feb 9 (DPA) China on Tuesday sentenced a rights activist to five years in prison after convicting him of subversion for compiling documents, including a list of children who died in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, supporters said.
Lawyer in China mob trial gets 1 1/2 years on appeal
Sign on San DiegoBEIJING — The lawyer for an alleged mob boss in southwest China was given a reduced 1 1/2-year prison term Tuesday during his appeal on charges that he helped his client falsely claim torture by...
Lawyer in China mob trial sentenced
Sign on San DiegoBEIJING — The lawyer for an alleged mob boss in southwest China was given a reduced 1.5-year prison term Tuesday during his appeal on charges that he helped his client falsely claim torture by p...
NKorea's Kim Jong Il sends nuclear envoy to China
Sign on San DiegoIn this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, meets with senior Chinese Communist Party envoy Wang Jiarui, unseen, in Py...
China jails earthquake activist
West AustralianA Chinese activist who was investigating whether shoddy construction caused school collapses in the massive 2008 Sichuan earthquake has been jailed five years for subversion, his lawyer says.Environme...
Germany loses trade crown to China as exports plunge
New Straits TimesFRANKFURT: China overtook Germany last year to become the world’s leading exporter as German trade suffered its sharpest slump since 1950, figures from Germany’s national statistics office...
China court to rule on Liu Xiaobo appeal Thursday: lawyer
New Straits TimesBEIJING: A court in Beijing is due later this week to announce its verdict in the appeal of leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was jailed for 11 years on subversion charges, his lawyer said Tue...
Lawyer in China mob trial sentenced
The Miami HeraldA Chinese court has concluded the trial of a former police chief accused of protecting gangs, accepting bribes and rape in a southwestern China megacity with a long history of corruption. The trial o...
NKorea's Kim Jong Il sends nuclear envoy to China
The Miami HeraldNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Il assured a high-level envoy visiting from Beijing that Pyongyang is committed to a nuclear-free Korean peninsula, China's state news agency reported Tuesday. Kim report...
China urges more talks on Iran nuclear plans
The Miami HeraldThe announcement and confirmation Friday that Iran has built a secret underground plant to enrich uranium raises the prospects that the U.N. Security Council will propose new international sanctions i...
NKorea's Kim Jong Il sends nuclear envoy to China
KTNVBy HYUNG-JIN KIMAssociated Press Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea's Kim Jong Il reportedly dispatched his top nuclear envoy to Beijing on Tuesday to discuss restarting nuclear disarma...
China jails investigator into Sichuan earthquake schools
The GuardianA protester holds up a sign, saying: 'Where is Tan Zuoren?' during a speech by the Chinese vice-president, Xi Jinping, in Frankfurt. Photograph: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images A Chinese activist w...
China sentences quake activist to 5 years' jail
ExaminerA Chinese court Tuesday sentenced an activist who investigated the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in the country's massive 2008 earthquake to five years in jail for inciting subversion of state...
German exports up in December; China emerges as world's top trader
Earth TimesBerlin - German exports increased in December by a surprise 3 per cent, to record their fourth consecutive monthly gain and their first annual rise since October, the statistics office said Tuesday. S...
China jails quake activist for five years for subversion - Summary
Earth TimesBeijing - China on Tuesday sentenced a rights activist to five years in prison after convicting him on subversion charges that supporters said were a pretext to punish him for investigating the death ...
China quake activist jailed
ABC AustraliaA Chinese activist who tried to document the poor construction of buildings that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake has been sentenced to five years in jail. Tan Zuoren has been convicted of trying ...
NKorea's Kim Jong Il sends nuclear envoy to China
SifyNorth Korea's Kim Jong Il reportedly dispatched his top nuclear envoy to Beijing on Tuesday to discuss restarting nuclear disarmament talks, a day after pledging Pyongyang's commitment to a nuclear-fr...
China urges more talks on Iran nuclear plans
Seattle Post-IntelligencerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING -- China has called for more talks in the wake of calls by other world powers for possible sanctions on Iran if it goes through with its intention to enrich uranium to ...
China Property Drop Signals Stock Sell-Off: Technical Analysis
Business WeekFeb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The Shanghai Composite Index may retreat another 8.6 percent, almost doubling its losses so far this year, after a gauge of property stocks sank to a nine-month low, according to...
China Becomes Oil ETF’s No. 4 Holder, Buys SPDR Gold
Business WeekFeb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- China Investment Corp., the nation’s sovereign wealth fund, invested for the first time in the U.S. Oil Fund, an exchange-traded crude-futures fund, joining Morgan Stanley ...
China January Passenger-Car Sales Surge on Stimulus
Business WeekFeb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- China’s passenger-car sales more than doubled in January after the government extended economic stimulus measures, helping boost demand for General Motors Co. minivans and ...
Disney and Google eye stake in China bus media firm
The IndependentA consortium led by Walt Disney Co is in advanced talks to buy into China's largest in-bus digital media and advertising company, a deal that could offer the U.S. entertainment giant a new platform ...
China Lists $9.6 Billion in Shares of U.S. Companies
International Herald TribuneChina Investment Corporation , the government’s $300 billion investment fund, now owns stock in some of the best-known American brands, including Apple,
China urges more talks on Iran nuclear plans
Associated PressBEIJING (AP) -- China has called for more talks in the wake of calls by other world powers for possible sanctions on Iran if it goes through with its intention to enrich uranium to higher levels.
China releases first national pollution census
Associated PressBEIJING (AP) -- China said Tuesday that its first national pollution census has mapped more than 5 million sources of industrial, residential and agricultural waste throughout the country, but that th...
Mining magnate corrects China boast
News.com.auMINING millionaire Clive Palmer has corrected his announcement of a $US60 billion ($69.5bn) coal-supply deal with China, after a Chinese company official said price talks had not yet started.
China says it shut down online academy for hackers
Los Angeles TimesBlack Hawk Safety Net was shut down in November and its founders later arrested, state media report. The school took tuition from tens of thousands who wanted to learn 'successful attack tools.'
China earthquake activist sentenced
Los Angeles TimesBeijing - A Chinese activist who sought to document shoddy construction that contributed to deaths in China's devastating 2008 earthquake has been sentenced to five years in prison for subversion, hi...
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