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Trafficking in Persons Report U.S. downgrades Russia China
Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. The TIP report ranks governments, including the United States, on their efforts to combat and prevent human trafficking. While Tier 1 is the highest ranking, it does not mean that a country has no human trafficking problem. The TIP report ranks countries into one of three tiers based on their level of compliance with the minimum standards for the elimination ...
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GM investing billions in China to tap lucrative luxury car market
Chinese officials and GM executives, including CEO Dan Akerson, lay a foundation stone at Shanghai GM's new Cadillac plant on June 19, 2013. General Motors has chosen the world’s second-largest luxury car market - China - to pit itself against automakers from Japan and Germany, despite the industry's lagging fortunes there. The US-based carmaker said on Wednesday that it would ...
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Foreign Firms Hesitant On China
A little less money coming into China these days, as May FDI data suggests. Multinationals are hesitant on investing in China, foreign direct investment data shows. Despite overall long term growth trends and a general bullishness on the richer Chinese consumer, the multinationals increased their investments in May by just 0.29% in a sign of cooling in the world's second biggest ...
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AAM recognized by Beijing Benz Automotive Company as Outstanding Supplier
DETROIT, June 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A commitment to managing quality and cost through operational excellence has earned AAM a 2012 Supplier Award for Best Powertrain by Beijing Benz Automotive Company (BBAC), a joint venture between Beijing Automotive ...
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President Xi announces campaign for Communist Party of China
Xi Jinping says the Communist Party of China needs to clean up its act to keep public support. Xi announced Tuesday that the party is launching a campaign to instill good habits in its members and officials, Xinhua, the official government news agency, reported. He said the party must be dedicated to "serving the people, being down-to-earth, upright and corruption-free" China remains ...
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Taiwan and China look to create unified LED light technical standard
TAIPEI -- The Taiwan LED Lighting Industry Association (TLLIA) signed a letter of intent with its Chinese counterpart in Guandong province on a proposal to jointly promote a unified technical standard for LED lighting ...
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Automotive giant GM plans to invest US$11 bil. in China
SHANGHAI--General Motors will invest US$11 billion in China through 2016, executives said Wednesday, as the U.S. car giant broke ground on a plant to produce luxury Cadillacs for the world's biggest auto ...
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HK forum to propose Taiwan China solution DPP ex-head
TAIPEI -- A forum highlighting the development of cross-straits relations and creativity will propose solutions to narrow the political differences between Taiwan and China, an official of opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said on ...
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Chinas Huawei to launch new smartphone for high-end market
SHANGHAI -- Chinese telecoms giant Huawei will launch a new smartphone on Tuesday to better compete with high-end rivals like Apple and Samsung overseas, a company official ...
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Ex-Communist Party of China official executed for child rapes state media reports
The case of Li Xingpong, the former deputy Communist Party chief of Yongcheng city, caused an uproar online after police said he had raped 11 girls, all under age 18, since the latter half of 2011. Abuse of power by Communist Party officials has long been a central cause of online activists, and Li's case was seen by some as emblematic of the problem. In response, the government has ...
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Skeptics on China might be right but timing is a hurdle too
Take a banking system that is opaque at best. Add a global financial community well-versed in signs of stress following the 2008 meltdown in the West - and one that is on the lookout for them. Thus each twitch in a system - say, the spike in China's interbank rates - is a fresh fill-in-the-blank opportunity for China Cassandras to press their favourite theory of ...
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Anti-Pervert Tights Become Internet Sensation in China
These days, girls in China can keep perverts away by wearing "full-leg-of-hair stockings" in public. At least that's what an advertisement says on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. When a girl dons a pair of these tights, her legs look as hairy as a man's – or hairier. Netizens passed around images of these furry stockings, which became one of the most ...
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Cancer top killer in Beijing for sixth straight year 8550 diagnosed daily nationwide
Cancer was the major cause of death for Beijing residents for the sixth consecutive year, according to a white paper issued by Beijing Municipal Health Bureau Tuesday. The white paper on Beijing residents' health conditions in 2012 also showed the second and third killers are heart and cerebrovascular diseases, which, along with cancer, caused 73.3 percent of total deaths. Lung cancer, the ...
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Chinas Hunger For Pork Will Impact The U.S. Meat Industry
Smithfield Foods Inc., the world's largest pork producer by sales volume, has agreed to be acquired by Shuanghui International Holdings, a privately owned meat processing company headquartered in China, for $7.1 billion including debt, valuing the company's equity at $34 per share. Although the deal still needs to receive shareholder and regulatory approvals, we believe it can have a ...
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UN chief hails Chinas peacekeepers
The courage and solidarity of Chinese troops on UN peacekeeping missions around the world has been praised by the organization's chief. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for his sixth visit to China. He said xie xie -- thank you in Chinese -- many times at the peacekeeping center of the Ministry of National Defense, noting that China has made great ...
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Coal-spewing Hebei factories are killing 40 Beijing babies a year
Beijing, Tianjin and six cities from Hebei province (link in Chinese). Theconcentrationof PMI 2.5, the toxic particles that are largely caused by coal smoke, rose 19% compared with the previous month in Beijing and Tianjin. Despite public outrage about the air's inescapable foulness, there isn't much evidence out there about its health impact. The data that does exist isn't ...
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Paul B. Farrell New China billionaires blowing massive bubbles
Billionaires have mastered this rule passed down from the great Chinese Buddhist masters: To be truly happy, they focus on money, block everything outside that Eternal Now, at least till you become a billionaire and can sign ...
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China Vietnam agree to set up hotline to resolve fishing incidents in South China Sea
BEIJING, China - China and Vietnam agreed on Wednesday to set up a hotline to resolve fishing incidents in disputed South China Sea waters that have been a frequent source of tensions between the two ideological allies. The two countries' agriculture ministers signed the agreement in Beijing. No details were immediately available. China claims virtually the entire South China Sea and its ...
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Why China hates its mens national soccer team
Referee Chris Beath shows a yellow card to China's Zhang Linpeng, right, during a friendly soccer match between China and Netherlands held at the Worker's Stadium in Beijing, China, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Netherlands won 2-0. (Alexander Yuan, Associated Press) How much does soccer-loving China hate its men's national team? The mostly empty hotel lobby that greeted the team on ...
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At start of visit to China UN chief highlights partnership for peace stability
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon discussed a range topics central to the agenda of the United Nations regarding peace and security, human rights and development, as well as the situation in Syria and the Korean peninsula. In talks with President Xi Jinping, Mr. ...
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China has 570000 orphans most outside govt welfare system
China had some 570,000 orphans by the end of 2012, an increase of 11 percent on the same period of last year, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said Wednesday in an annual report. Only 95,000 of all orphans were being raised by government-funded welfare agencies, while the remainder was taken care of either by relatives or by privately owned orphanages."The government has put a stop to ...
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China orders transparent handling of major accidents
China's central government has ordered increased transparency in the handling of major accidents and other items of public concern following a fatal high-speed train crash last month. The general offices of the State Council, or China's Cabinet, and the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee said in a circular issued on Tuesday that information on major emergencies and items ...
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UPDATE 1-China ships Ukraine grain under loanexport programme
Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:32pm EDT * Ukraine uses Chinese loan to buy grain for exports * State company wants to export wheat to China * Ukraine firm sees high flour exports to Middle East (Adds quotes, details, background) By Pavel Polityuk KIEV, June 19 (Reuters) - A Chinese state company has started a programme of purchasing grain from Ukraine's state-run grain corporation for export to ...
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China’s Naval Ambitions and America’s Asia Problem
, entails plans for new economic and political bonds and a reinvigorated alliance system in the region. But China's territorial ambitions, if unchecked, could eventually create realities on the ground in Asia which will provide it with the legal basis to truly deny America strategic access. If that happens, we might find that - for all of our plans for a pivot toward Asia - Beijing ...
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Morris reaches last 16 in China
David Morris has reached the last-16 a ranking event for the first time after defeating Gerard Greene 5-2 in the Wuxi Classic in China. Breaks of 77, 51 and 103 proved crucial for the Irishman will play Ali Carter in the next round. Neil Robertson and John Higgins safely negotiated their passages into the last 16. World number one Robertson reeled off the last three frames to ease out Martin ...
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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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