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Chinas Xi to meet Obama months earlier than expected
BEIJING--China's new leader Xi Jinping will confer with U.S. President Barack Obama next month in California, months earlier than their expected first meeting, as both sides seek to stem a drift in relations, troubled by issues from cyberspying to North ...
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13 arrested in Beijing for rumormongering
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - Police in Beijing said Tuesday that 13 people have been arrested for allegedly spreading rumors and disrupting public order by inciting a protest after a young woman's death earlier this month. A statement from the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau said the woman surnamed Yuan, who fell to death from a clothing market building in Fengtai District on May ...
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China India in talks on trade strategy Li
Li Keqiang said on Tuesday in Mumbai. "There are solutions to helping the two countries maintain rapid growth in bilateral trade and investment," Li said during an evening banquet at the China-India Commercial ...
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China-Japan trade will pick up report
/enpproperty--> 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 Tuesday. The row over ...
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China rallies poultry industry as bird flu fears wane
/enpproperty--> WUHAN - Agricultural officials ate poultry products at an ongoing national animal husbandry expo in order to boost public confidence in the poultry industry, as bird flu concerns are starting to disappear. Several officials, including Li Xirong, head of the China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Station and Wang Zongli, deputy head of the animal husbandry department of the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Li Keqiang hails Pakistan as Chinas iron brother
Candid’ is not a good word in the understated lexicon of diplomatese. Manmohan Singh and Li Keqiang seem to have had a lot of candid ...
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WRAPUP 1-EU and U.S. not coordinating on China solar dispute
By Daniel Bases and Doug Palmer Tue May 21, 2013 1:37pm EDT May 21 (Reuters)- NEW YORK/WASHINGTON - Europe and the United States both said on Tuesday they were not holding coordinated talks to negotiate an end to a trade dispute with China over the dumping of solar panels onto their respective markets. The European Union has until June 5 to decide whether to impose duties averaging 47 percent on ...
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China to face Indonesia again in badminton quarters
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Luck was not on Indonesia's side on Tuesday as hours after suffering a crushing 5-0 defeat to China, they were drawn to meet the eight-time Sudirman Cup champions again, this time in the quarter-finals.Germany, who stunned hosts Malaysia 3-2, were matched against South Korea, while Taiwan will meet Denmark, and Thailand will face Japan in the other quarter-finals on ...
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China vice-premier arrives in Zimbabwe
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 ...
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EVs available for rent in Beijing
The E150EV manufactured by Chinese automaker BAIC Group began trial rental services in Beijing, meaning that Beijing has stepped into the era of private consumption on EVs.It is the first time that Beijing has allowed the public to rent electric vehicles. Costs include 99 yuan ($16.12) per day to 1,999 yuan per month. The costs of using EV are much lower than that of gasoline-powered cars. An EV ...
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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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