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• Coal mine blast entraps Chinese miners
At least 10 people have been killed and eight are still missing in a coal mine gas blast in southwest China's Sichuan province.
• Beijing promises grand opening of Paralympics
Beijing, Sep 5 (Xinhua) Beijing has braced itself for the opening of the largest Paralympics Saturday, promising to re-enact the dazzle of the recently concluded Olympic ceremony.
• Beijing Olympics gold medal for auction on Taiwan website
A Beijing Olympics gold medal was put up for auction on a Taiwan website, but the seller or the website later removed the posting, a newspaper said Friday.
• Mine gas blast kills 10 in southwest China
Chengdu, Sep 5 (Xinhua) At least 10 people have been killed and eight are still missing in a coal mine gas blast in southwest China's Sichuan province early Friday, rescue operators said.
• China, Singapore agree on free trade accord
China and Singapore concluded negotiations on a free trade agreement, China's first with another Asian country, news reports said Friday.
• After assuming Presidency, Zardari
Islamabad, Sept 5 : PPP Co-chairman and presidential hopeful Asif Ali Zardari, who is expected to win tomorrow's presidential poll, will embark on his first ever visit as the head of the state to China on September 9.
• Echolocation might have evolved more than once in bats
Washington, September 5 : A collaborative study conducted by English and Chinese researchers suggests that echolocation might have evolved more than once in bats.
• US frustrated over China
Washington, Sept.5 : Pentagon officials have claimed that China continues to resist disclosing details of its strategic nuclear weapons programs despite both governments having had several exchanges and discussions in the past two years.
• Poor design led to schools collapse in quake-hit South West China
New Delhi, Sept.5 : Poor design, the use of substandard materials and other defects are being blamed for the collapse of several school buildings during the May 12 earthquake in China's south-west Sichuan Province.
• London taxis are now made in China
London, Sept.5 : Another British icon has gone the Chinese way. We are talking about taxis.
• Taiwan shares open sharply lower
Taipei, Sept. 5 (CNA) The Taiwan Stock Exchange's main index opened sharply lower Friday. The weighted price index was down 185.56 points at 6,227.07 on a turnover of NT$4.02 billion (US$126.57 millio...
• Kwok seeks to close down China property unit
(54 mins ago) Ahead of an interim result announcement this coming Thursday, Sun Hung Kai Properties (0016) former chairman Walter Kwong Ping-sheung applied to cancel the registration of China Luck Pr...
• US envoy in Beijing for North Korea nuclear talks
(1 hr 56 mins ago) US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill has arrived in Beijing for talks with his Asian counterparts, an official said, in an effort to determine whether North Korea had begun rebuilding...
• Protest outside factory in east China
(2 hrs 7 mins ago) Rioters clashed with police at a garment factory in eastern China after protesting to find out why a teenager jumped from a fourth-floor window in the factory, a human rights group...
• More banks interested in trust firms
Commercial banks in China are involved in an acquisition race for trust companies to prepare themselves for future competition, and many succeeded getting what they wanted after long talks, the Shangh...
• Coke takeover of Huiyuan may face double reviews by authorities
The Coca-Cola Company's $2.4 billion offer to buy Huiyuan Juice, one of China's major domestic juice makers, has sparked hot debates in recent days, with more than 80 percent of netizens concerned abo...
• Tainted Chinese rice sold for making
Japan+ (AP) - TOKYO, Sept. 5 (Kyodo)(EDS: UPDATING WITH PRESS CONFERENCE, MORE INFO) A rice products company in Osaka sold imported rice from China and other countries that was tainted with high...
• China to float US$3.8 billion in one-year T-bonds
BEIJING - The Ministry of Finance said on Friday that it would float 25.99 billion yuan (US$3.8 billion) worth of book-entry treasury bonds, the 16th batch of its kind this year. This issue will brin...
• Sharp Aims To Sell 5 Million Handset Units In China Per Year
and plans to differentiate itself in the market by going after top-end customers with high-end models, Masami Ohbatake, Sharp's general manager of overseas sales, said Friday. Ohbatake said Sharp ho...
• Chinese Premier meets Polish, Singaporean vice PMs
Premier Wen Jiabao met in Beijing on Friday with Polish Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Waldemar Pawlak, who came here to attend the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games. Wen said the ...
• China Police Quell 2 Large Protests - Rights Group
dispatched large numbers of soldiers and armed riot police to quell two major protests, officials and a rights group said Friday, in the latest public discontent to rock the communist nation.
• China provides cash aid to hurricane-hit Cuba, Jamaica, US
BEIJING - The Chinese government announced on Friday that it is providing cash assistance to the governments of Cuba, Jamaica and the United States, the three countries hit by Hurricane Gustav. Accor...
• Mine gas outburst toll rises to 12 in SW China
CHENGDU - The death toll from a coal mine gas outburst in southwest China's Sichuan Province has risen to 12 with six still missing, rescuers said. The incident occurred at 2:52 a.m. Friday in a mine...
• Subscribers in Taiwan care about content in mobile entertainment
In Taiwan, consumers care much more about content richness than screen size when using cellphones to enjoy mobile entertainment information, according to a recent survey by Market Intelligence Center ...
• Chinese spy infiltrated H.K. media, Shanghai petitioner claims+
HONG KONG, Sept. 5 (AP) - (Kyodo)Shen Ting, a Shanghai-born woman who has been barred from returning to China claimed Friday a Chinese intelligence agent working in Hong Kong as a journalist has...
• Pastor Bike Mingxuan and Wife Released from Detention but Prohibited from Returning to Beijing
HENEN, China, (christiansunite.com) -- CAA has learned that House Church President Bike Zhang Mingxuan and his wife were released by PSB officials on August 29. In a direct phone call from pastor Bike...
• Young Chinese American Women, Sexually Vulnerable
Trapped between barricades and cops young protesters got a surprise concert from Rage Against the Machine and tear gassed. St. Paul has never seen anything like this before.
• Chinese Central Bank May Need Government Bailout
(Dow Jones) -- The People's Bank of China, China's central bank, has begun discussions with the finance ministry on ways to shore up its capital, The New York Times reported, citing three people fam...
• Main Bank of China Is in Need of Capital
It has been on a buying binge in the United States over the last seven years, snapping up roughly $1 trillion worth of Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed debt issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Th...
• China organizes officials to learn, implement Scientific Outlook on Development
The Communist Party of China (CPC) will launch a 1.5-year campaign from this month to learn and implement the Scientific Outlook on Development, the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau said here on...
• Beijing awaits Paralympic launch
Four thousand disabled athletes are making last-minute preparations in Beijing for the Paralympics, two weeks after the end of the Olympic Games. The Paralympic torch reached Beijing on Friday ahead ...
• China’s steel mills shrug off iron ore rise
Big steelmakers in China on Tuesday shrugged off the impact of Monday’s record rise in iron ore prices, but the higher prices could increase cost pressures on smaller mills and hasten consolidation ...
• Sabotage ruled out in gas cylinder explosion in northwest China
An investigation has ruled out the possibility of deliberate sabotage in the gas cylinder explosion that injured 10 in northwest China on Thursday. Police and work safety authorities confirmed the bla...
• First direct flight linking Chinese, German capitals launched
The first direct flight linking the capitals of China and Germany launched in Beijing at 2:30 p.m. on Friday. Each Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, Hainan Airlines takes off from Beijing at 2:30 ...
• Vale wants China to pay more for iron ore
Vale wants China to pay more for iron ore By Patti Waldmeir in Shanghai, Javier Blas in London and Song Jung-a in Seoul Published: September 5 2008 13:41 | Last updated: September 5 2008 13:41
• Beijing apologizes for stinking garbage plant
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing has made a rare public apology for a stinking garbage processing plant that prompted scores of angry residents to stage a street protest, local media reported on Friday.
• China to invest $3.1 bln in Tibet projects - Xinhua
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will invest 21.17 billion yuan ($3.1 billion) by 2013 in a series of industrial projects to promote development in the restive and remote Himalayan region of Tibet, the offic...
• More Macau food poisoning
(59 mins ago) Thirteen more Hong Kong people have come down with symptoms of food poisoning after having a buffet dinner in a Macau hotel. The eight men and five women, aged 20 to 31, developed ga...
• Prosecutors summon ex-Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian over money laundering
Prosecutors on Friday summoned former Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian and former director of Taiwan's "Investigation Bureau" Yeh Sheng-mao for interrogation over missing documents allegedly imp...
• HSBC taps China rural market
(2 hrs 9 mins ago) HSBC will continue to tap into China's growing agricultural market by opening two more rural branches by the end of this year. Peter Wong Tung-shun, executive director of HSBC s...
• China Understands Need To Seek Gas Price Hike
. Kalla told reporters after meeting Chinese officials Friday that "there was no exchanging of threats over the Tangguh negotiations." "Their energy requirements are very high. They need us and we ne...
• Monsanto gets OK to export soybeans to China
has received regulatory approval in China for the importation of its Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans, the company said Thursday. This is welcome news to farmers, who say that as the standard of living...
• Rising oil price could lead to China industrial restructuring
CHANGCHUN - Concerns of a surging oil price could mean the industrial restructuring and upgrading of China's industries, according to a United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) offi...
• China still on-side with Russia
substance. With the looming confrontation between Washington and Moscow over South Ossetia, the West itself seems to be getting lost in its tireless effort to renew the "Western civil war", which wa...
• Hong Kong stocks slump to a 17-month low - Summary
Hong Kong - Hong Kong stocks fell by 2.24 per cent Friday to dip below the psychologically-important 20,000 point barrier and finish at their lowest level for 17 months. The Hang Seng Index lost 456.2...
• China ready to dazzle again at Paralympics - Feature
Beijing - The Olympic atmosphere is suddenly back in Beijing: "Two Games with equal splendour" have been promised by the organizers when the 13th Paralympics begin on Saturday evening with what promis...
• Fed sets limits on ICBC loans to China fund-owned firms
(1 hr 19 mins ago) The Federal Reserve told China's sovereign wealth fund it cannot subsidize loans for its companies through the New York branch being opened by government-controlled Industrial &...
• Chinese aluminium giant sets up in Tibet
Tibet Mining Co Ltd, formally launched in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa on Wednesday, has a registered capital of 250 million yuan ($A45 million), said a statement on Chinalco's website.The new com...
• Chinese vigilantes go online for justice
Her family posted details of Wang Fei’s affair on the Internet, angrily blaming him for his wife’s suicide. Soon, tens of thousands of Chinese Web users knew about Wang Fei.
• Day-by-day guide to Great Britain
Great Britain have their sights firmly set on success at the Beijing Paralympics, which begin with the opening ceremony on Saturday 6 September. Team GB take part in 18 of the 20 sports on the Paraly...
• China tightens control over exporting livestock, poultry genetic resources
China has moved to tighten the control over the export of genetic resources of livestock and poultry with the promulgation of a new ordinance that will take effect on October 1. The government will b...
• AOL Chief Plots Return to China
Posted on: Friday, 5 September 2008, 03:00 CDT By Davis, Anita Norman Koo is convinced the portal giant can crack the world's biggest web market by targeting new users. By Anita Davis PROFILE Mention...
• President Ahmadinejad due in China tonight
President President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due in Beijing, China, on Friday night to attend inaugural of the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. Besides attending the Paralympic Games' inaugural ceremony, ...
• London cabs roll off Chinese line
London Taxis are as British as bowler hats and Big Ben. But the latest models coming off a new assembly line are unlikely to ever touch an English road.At a sprawling factory in the lush green suburbs...
• Japan defense report warns of China
space+ (AP) - TOKYO, Sept. 5 (Kyodo)(EDS: RECASTING) In an annual defense review released Friday, Japan remains vigilant of China's growing military power, including its development of an anti- ...
• Shares fall at week
Chinese equities tumbled on Friday following a heavy slump overnight on the Wall Street as concerns about US economic slump worsened. The Shanghai Composite Index sank 3.29 percent, or 74.97 points, ...
• China cuts Sept fuel imports on ample supply
SINGAPORE - China is slashing auto fuel imports in September after the Olympics as recent record purchases and high refinery runs filled domestic tanks to the brim, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.
• Railway cargo transport up 6.8%
China's railway system transported 1.93 tons of cargo nationwide in the first seven months of this year, up 6.8 percent from the same period last year, said the National Development and Reform Commiss...
• Investors start to trickle back
China's A shares, after plunging nearly 60 percent this year, are sparking renewed interest from value investors known for buying low and selling high. "There's more interest in investing in the A-...
• Chinese Web Usage Surges As Netizens Take Global Lead
Posted on: Friday, 5 September 2008, 03:00 CDT By Tiltman, David BEIJING The Chinese web population has grown to 253 million, having expanded by 91 million in the past year. The figures - which confi...
• China imposes Ramadan security crackdown in Muslim northwest
(26 mins ago) Authorities in China's Muslim-populated far northwest are seeking to prevent mass prayers and the distribution of religious material as part of a security crackdown for Ramadan, governm...
• PYI sets capex at 250m yuan
(24 mins ago) Dry-bulk terminal operator PYI (0498) said its capital expenditure for the current financial year ending March 2009 would be 250 million yuan (HK$286 million). PYI announced Thursday...
• Chinese Scientists Build Big Pharma Back Home
In a reverse migration, U.S.-trained scientists are setting up biotech startups, contract-research companies, and university labs on the mainland
• China bans mass prayers during Ramadan in restive province
Beijing, September 5: Authorities in China's Muslim-populated far northwest province of Xinjiang are seeking to prevent mass prayers and the distribution of religious material as part of a security c...
• Cambodian Senate president returns home from China visit
Cambodian Senate President Chea Sim arrived in Phnom Penh on Friday after paying an official visit to China. Chea Sim was welcomed by some Cambodian senior officials and Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia...
• Chinese court turns down first anti-monopoly case
The No. 1 Intermediate People's Court of Beijing on Thursday rejected an anti-monopoly case considered the first of its kind in China, the Beijing Times reported. In a first-instance trial ruling, the...
• Chinese rice with high pesticide levels sold for edible use in Japan+
Japan+ (AP) - TOKYO, Sept. 5 (Kyodo)(EDS: ADDING INFO, 2ND LEAD TO FOLLOW) A rice products company in Osaka sold imported rice from China containing higher-than-allowed levels of pesticide resid...
• 3,259 legal aid agencies established in China
By the end of 2007, China had established 3,259 legal aid agencies in the vast majority of the counties and regions, according to a statement by Minister of Justice Wu Aiying on the fifth anniversary ...
• Linc looks to & #36;1.5b China coal deal
Linc Energy Ltd says it is selling its Bowen Basin exploration tenements in Queensland to China's state-owned Xinwen Mining Group for $1.5 billion.Linc said it had signed a heads of agreement with...
• Commeoritive stamps for Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games to be issued
The State Post Bureau will issue a set of two stamps for the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games on September 6.The face value of each being 1.2 yuan, the stamps portray the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games em...
• AIDS rampant among Beijing gays
BEIJING -- The transmission of HIV/AIDS among gays in the Chinese capital was even worse than through sex workers, the city's disease control center said on Friday. Up to 5 percent of homosexuals in ...
• BOC to issue bonds in Hong Kong
Bank of China Limited (BOC) announced in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Thursday that it will issue 3 billion RMB-denominated bonds in Hong Kong from September 5 to 16. This is the second ti...
• Hong Kong stock index closes below key 20,000 level after sharp declines on Wall Street
September 5, 2008 - 05:22 a.m. HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong's key stock index tumbled below the key 20,000 level Friday for the first time in more than a year as investors sold shares across the ...
• Chinese shares slump 2.40% in morning session
Chinese shares plummeted 2.40 percent on Friday morning, dragged down by an overnight Wall Street fall and a dampened investor confidence. The Shanghai Composite Index dived 2.40 percent, or 54.73 poi...
• Chinese shares follow Wall Street with 3 per cent slump
Beijing - China's two stock markets on Friday lost about 3 per cent of their value, following an overnight fall on Wall Street. The key Shanghai Composite Index, which tracks shares traded in foreign ...
• Alibaba Group merges online auction, ad units
China's largest e-commerce company, the Alibaba Group, said on Thursday it was combining the operations of two of its major units. The combination of Taobao, an auction site, and Alimama, an online a...
• China shortens IPO lock-up period
(1 hr 23 mins ago) China shortened the trading moratorium for investors who buy stakes in initial public offers to one year from three years, a move that may encourage strategic investors deterred by...
• Taiwan stocks fall 1.64 pct to lowest level in 2 years
Taiwan stocks continued to fall on Friday over Wall Street's steep drops overnight, hitting the lowest level in two years, according to media reports reaching here Friday from Taipei. The benchmark we...
• China expected to become world
China is expected to become the world's largest economy in 2050, said Nobel laureate in economics, "the father of Euro" Robert Mundell in a speech entitled "Construction of Northeast As...
• China mine blast kills 10
A GAS explosion at a coal mine in southwest China killed 10 people and left eight missing, state media reported. The blast occurred early in the morning at a mine in Jiuqing, Sichuan province, when 4...
• Ten killed, eight missing in China mine explosion
BEIJING: A coal mine gas blast in southwest China's Sichuan province early Friday killed 10 people, and left eight others missing, state media reported. The explosion occurred at 2:52 am in a mi...
• China Life investor lawsuit dismissed
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- A New York court has dismissed a class-action lawsuit against China Life Insurance Co. by its U.S. investors, who had argued the firm failed to disclose sensitive informatio...
• Paralympic boon to China
The Israeli basketball team practices at Beijing's National Indoor Stadium for the 2008 Paralympic Games. The 13th Paralympic Games will take place from Sept. 6 to Sept. 17.
• ISS Urges China Unicom Holders To OK China Netcom Merger
HONG KONG -(Dow Jones)- Institutional Shareholder Services, a U.S. independent proxy advisory firm, has recommended that China Unicom Ltd.'s (CHU) shareholders vote in favor of the proposed merger wit...
• Yang Jia may be guilty, but so is Chinese justice
Yang Jia , aged 28, was sentenced to death on September 1 for murdering six policemen and injuring another four. His case has raised widespread controversy in China,
• China tipped to cement No.1 trade spot
China last financial year.Four decades ago Japan, then an emerging industrial power, supplanted the United Kingdom as the nation's top importer and exporter.In the past four years,
• Expert blames shoddy buildings for China quake school collapse
A Chinese government scientist said a rush to build schools in recent years probably led to building flaws that caused many of them to collapse in May’s devastating earthquake.It was the first offic...
• Shanghai new property prices slump in July
(1 hr 56 mins ago) Sales volume and prices for new residential properties in Shanghai fell sharply in July, the official Shanghai Securities News said, as the outlook for the country's once high-flyi...
• A Report on the Marine-Bred Aquatics Industry in China is Now Available: Including Market Characteristics, Industry Conditions & Key Competitors
Posted on: Friday, 5 September 2008, 00:00 CDT Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/fdc83f/marinebred_aquati) has announced the addition of the "Marine-Bred Aquatics in Ch...
• Euro, Pound declines; Yen, US dollar, Yuan rises
(Figures in Rupees) Currencies Buy Sell US Dollar 41.95 46.7 Sterling Pound 74.05 81.65 Euro 59.75 66.3 Australian Dollar 34.7 38.1 Bahrain Dinar 110.35 125.1 Canadian Dollar 38.75 43.4 Danish Kroner ...
• China tested nukes for Pakistan, gave design
WASHINGTON: While an assortment of non-proliferation hardliners and hi-tech suppliers treat India with immense suspicion in the matter of nuclear trade predicated on tests, it turns out that the Un...
• China stocks sink over 2pc on Wall Street
(1 hr 57 mins ago) China's main stock index slid more than 2 percent to its lowest level in 20 months after a tumble on Wall Street fuelled fears of a global economic slowdown, and on news of an IPO ...
• 23 killed in China coal mine blast
The blast occurred at a mine in the city of Fuxin in Liaoning province, one of China's main coal producing areas, Li, an official at the Fuxin local work safety bureau, said. Rescuers were searching f...
• Elephant kicks heroin habit at China rehab
AN ELEPHANT has kicked his heroin habit after a three-year stint on an island rehab in southern China, an official and state media said yesterday.The four-year-old Asian elephant, called Xiguang, is n...
• 2 officials sacked after China farmers riot+
BEIJING, Sept. 5 (AP) - (Kyodo)Two local officials have been sacked after two people were killed in clashes between police and farmers in southwest China earlier this year, state-run media repor...
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