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Fiji Prime Minister to Strengthen Ties with China during Visit
Suva, May 22 (Prensa Latina) The Prime Minister of Fiji, Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, will make a working visit to China from May 27 to 30 in order to discuss issues of common interest, announced the national radio and television. According to the official note Bainimarama will talk with Prime Minister Li Keqiang, on matters of bilateral commercial benefits. During his visit, specify the text, ...
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Top N. Korea military leader visits China—KCNA
In this July 18, 2012 file photo, North Korea’s Vice-Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People’s Army, speaks during a meeting at the April 25 House of Culture announcing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s new title of marshal, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Choe, a ';special envoy'; for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un left ...
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Top 10 relaxing summer destinations in China
Still wondering where to go during this hot summer season? We have selected 10 amazing resorts for your getaway. Afterall, you shouldn't keep yourself trapped in the city all summer long, so pack a bag and ...
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China vows to open domestic markets to Indian businesses
Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang today said that he would open up domestic markets to Indian businesses and narrow a gaping trade deficit between the two countries. "As for Indian concerns over the trade deficit, the Chinese side is willing to provide facilitation for more Indian products to access the Chinese market," Li said in an address to business leaders in the capital. ...
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Arlington Family Speaks Out About Adoption Ordeal In China
Arlington family stuck in China after a scare at the U.S. Consulate General's Immigrant Visa Unit in Guangzhou. "We heard that it was one of these white powder scares and then they told us that the Consulate was closed," Tracy Antonelli said at her home in Arlington. Antonelli and her husband Patrick Mooty were there adopting their second child, 2 year old Rosalie. "There ...
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Beijing Bandung To Promote Cooperation In Tourism
BEIJING, May 22 (Bernama) -- The city administrations of Bandung and Beijing have agreed to expand cooperation between the two cities in tourism promotion, Indonesia's Antara news agency reported. The agreement was marked with the signing of a memorandum of understanding here on Monday night. Dience Herlina Permana, the secretary of the Bandung city tourism and culture service, said ...
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North Korea sends top Kim Jong-un aide to Beijing
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea sent one of its top military officials to Beijing on Wednesday as a "special envoy" of its leader Kim Jong-un, state news agency KCNA ...
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North Koreas Kim Sends Envoy to China
The official Korean Central News Agency said Choe Ryong Hae, the director of the General Political Bureau of the North Korean army, left Pyongyang for China Wednesday. The brief report provided no details about the purpose of the trip. Choe is believed to be the highest-level official Pyongyang has sent to Beijing since Mr. Kim took over leadership of the country following the death of his ...
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Top DPRK leaders envoy leaves for visit to China
A special envoy of Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), left Pyongyang Wednesday for a visit to China, the official KCNA news agency reported.Choe Ryong Hae, director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army, left Pyongyang by air for the visit, the KCNA ...
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China Property Boom Keeps on Chugging
At the end of March, China's newly installed premier Li Keqiang publicly reiterated the government's determination to rein in rising property prices and a resurgent investment binge in the country's real estate market. But by every measure the market continued to boom in April, with prices, sales and investment in new buildings all accelerating from March. New house prices in 70 ...
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Chinas red-hot property market searching for remedy
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - As China's real estate prices continue to rise despite the central government's repeated housing curbs, experts have suggested the cure is to be found in market-oriented measures. China has been fine-tuning its property regulations since 2003, but average housing prices nationwide have more than tripled over the last decade, with some areas seeing prices ...
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China expects co-op with more Indian companies
/enpproperty--> MUMBAI - China welcomes more Indian enterprises to cooperate with their Chinese counterparts to achieve mutually beneficial and win-win results, visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here Tuesday. Li made the remarks when touring India's industrial giant Tata Group in the financial capital of Mumbai. Li said that the group, which opened an office in China's ...
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Li stresses global strategic significance of China-India ties
/enpproperty--> NEW DELHI - Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang stressed the global strategic significance of China-India relations Tuesday during a meeting with Indian President Pranab Mukherjee. "China and India are strategic partners and friendly neighbors, " Li told Mukherjee on the third day of his trip to India, the first leg of his first foreign trip since taking office in ...
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China sweeps Indonesia to reach quarters at Sudirman Cup
/enpproperty--> KUALA LUMPUR - Defending champion China beat Indonesia 5-0 in their second and last group match on Tuesday at the 13th Sudirman Cup team badminton ...
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Strategic thinking on Chinas territory
Reform and Opening Up over the past 30 years, has fundamentally changed the Chinese economy from that of a traditional agricultural economy (that had lasted thousands of years) to a modern industrial economy. China has left its old policies of self-reliance and closed-door to one of opening-up, and actively promoting international trade and investment. It has gradually become the world's ...
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China-Japan trade will pick up
Economic and trade cooperation between China and Japan will get back on track if there is no further deterioration of the countries' already strained ties, leading Chinese think tanks said in an annual report released on ...
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China too strong for Indonesia
Defending champion China trounced arch rival Indonesia 5-0 to top Group A of the Sudirman Cup in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, declaring it is ready to face anyone in tomorrow's ...
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Coach accident kills 4 in NE China
The accident happened at around 3:30 p.m. on the National Expressway 202 near the city of Anshan, according to an official from the city's publicity ...
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China earthquake may force new census of panda population
China may launch a fourth major census of wild giant pandas in 2014 because of the effects of the magnitude-7 earthquake that jolted Sichuan province in April. Yan Xun, the State Forestry Administration's chief engineer for wildlife conservation, said at a news conference on Tuesday that no pandas were killed or injured in the Ya'an earthquake. Sichuan, home to the giant panda, has ...
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Pyongyang military envoy in Beijing
(36 mins ago) North Korea has sent a top military official to China as a special envoy of leader Kim Jong Un, at a time of strained relations between Pyongyang and its allies in Beijing, state media reported. Choe Ryong Hae, the director of the Korean People's Army politburo flew to China today, the Korean Central News Agency said, without detailing the agenda or length of his ...
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World Briefing | Asia China New Bird Flu Virus Is Controlled Officials Say
The H7N9 virus appears under control in China largely through restrictions at bird markets, but it caused some $6.5 billion in losses, United Nations experts said Tuesday. The virus infected at least 130 people in China since March, with 36 deaths, but no cases have been detected since early May, ...
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India China Sign MOUs to Address Trade Imbalance
have signed three memorandums of understanding regarding buffalo meat, fisheries and pharmaceuticals, as well as one agreement on feed and feed ingredients, in order to address the expanding trade imbalance between the two countries.India's trade deficit with China has widened from $1.08 billion in 2001 to 2002, to $40.77 billion in 2012 to 2013. The MOUs were signed during the visit of ...
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5 killed 1 injured in S China road cave-in
Rescuers work at the accident site where a road cave-in occurred in Huamao Industrial Park in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, May 21, 2013. The accident occurred around 9:19 p.m. (1319 GMT) on May 20. As of 4:30 p.m. (0830 GMT) Tuesday, five bodies had been retrieved from a pit measuring three to four meters deep. Search and rescue efforts are under way. ...
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Senior official details Chinas wildlife protection efforts
A top Chinese wildlife official on Tuesday detailed how recent years have seen China intensify efforts to protect animals and promote biodiversity.Speaking at a press conference on the eve of the International Day for Biological Diversity, Yin Hong, deputy director of the State Forestry Administration (SFA), said that the country, among the richest in wildlife species in the world, has attached ...
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Chinese premier urges efforts to carry on China-India traditional friendship
Visiting Chinese premier Li Keqiang Tuesday called for efforts to carry on China-India traditional friendship as he paid tribute to an Indian doctor who died treating Chinese troops more than 70 years ago."Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis is a great friend of the Chinese people, " Li told relatives of the Indian doctor.Kotnis went to China "despite all the hardships and risks" more than ...
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Massive Beijing Subway expansion plans
The Beijing Subway is one of the biggest, most efficient and most used subways in the world. It is constantly undergoing expansion and upgrades, and yet is unable to keep up with the growth of the capital city. With the recently announced plans for the expansion of the subway by over 60%, the city will certainly be hard-pushed to meet the massive task.
The Beijing Subway is one of the largest in the world. It carries over 5 million people every day, and hundreds of trains run on 228kms of track and service 147 stations. It is a feat of engineering, planning and coordination every single day. It is a network that Beijing commuters should be proud of, it represents the forward-thinking and development of the city. Read more
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