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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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Chinese president extends condolences to Obama over massive tornado
Chinese president to visit three Latin American nations and US Chinese president Xi Jinping has extended condolences to his US counterpart Barack Obama for the casualties and losses caused by a massive tornado.In a message sent on Tuesday, Xi expressed his deep sympathy with the US government and people for the great life and property losses resulted from the powerful tornado.Chinese State ...
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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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Yuan climbs to record high
The yuan strengthened to a record high against the US dollar yesterday, after the central bank set the official fixing rate at the strongest in 19 years, signaling the government's intention to allow the currency to rise ...
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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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Taiwan tourists start canceling travel plans in Boracay
Taiwanese tourists to Boracay, a world-renowned resort in central Philippines, have started canceling hotel reservations since Taiwan issued an advisory against traveling to the country after Philippine Coast Guards killed a Taiwan ...
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Japan uses sound waves against Chinese sub
A Maritime Self-Defence Force patrol plane used sound waves emitted from a sonobuoy against a submarine detected in the contiguous zone around Minami-Daitojima island in Okinawa Prefecture on Sunday, according to government sources. The action against the submarine, which is believed to belong to the Chinese Navy, is an apparent demonstration that the MSDF is steadily monitoring the movement of ...
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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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Profit-taking weighs on Shanghai
(49 mins ago) Stocks in Shanghai were down slightly in early trade due to profit-taking, dealers said. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.13 percent, or 3.05 points, to ...
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Profit-taking weighs on Shanghai
(49 mins ago) Stocks in Shanghai were down slightly in early trade due to profit-taking, dealers said. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.13 percent, or 3.05 points, to ...
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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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Hong Kong to open for afternoon as rains ease
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Hong Kong's stock market was due to open at 1 p.m. local time for the afternoon session after the Hong Kong Observatory dowgraded its rain warning to "amber" from "black," indicating easing rains. The morning session was cancelled due to the ...
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Beijing police arrest 13 for spreading alleged rumours that led to protest over migrants death
BEIJING, China - Police in Beijing say they have arrested 13 people for allegedly spreading rumours and disrupting public order following a protest over a migrant worker's death. The Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau says the woman surnamed Yuan committed suicide when she fell to her death from a clothing market building in the capital on May 3. The 22-year-old's death sparked ...
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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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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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