Category: China
China ready for Taiwan talks
The doors yesterday started to open for talks between the new government of Taiwan and China, far quicker than most experts had imagined possible. China said yesterday it was [...]
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Foreigners feel the heat as China tightens controls ahead of Olympics
Business people in China, especially in Beijing where about 250,000 foreigners live, are facing ever tightening controls as the Olympic Games approach on August 8. The [...]
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China imposes new visa restrictions
China has imposed further curbs on visitors, just weeks after it stopped issuing multiple-entry visas, Hong Kong travel agents said Friday, sparking concern among the [...]
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Arroyo’s fling with China
Lost in the din of protests over alleged bribery and corruption in the $329-million NBN-ZTE deal were two stories in the Malaya newspaper last Friday that could explain why [...]
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China untouchable by UN rights council: activists
China remains untouchable by the UN Human Rights Council, with Beijing to emerge unscathed from the current session despite widespread criticism of its crackdown in Tibet, [...]
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Bush confronts China on Tibet crackdown
President Bush sharply confronted China’s President Hu Jintao on Wednesday about Beijing’s harsh crackdown in Tibet, joining an international chorus of alarm just [...]
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US, Russia, China in fierce battle to sell fighter jets in Asia
The United States is bracing for tough competition from Russia and China as cash-flush Asian economies look up to the trio for a new breed of fighter jets to beef up their [...]
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China Terrorizes Tibet
It was impossible not to notice that the United States removed China from its list of top 10 human rights violators just as the biggest anti-China protests in 20 years [...]
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China closes its side of Everest to climbers
China is denying mountaineers permission to climb its side of Mount Everest this spring, a move that reflects concerns by the communist government that Tibet activists may [...]
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Beijing opens world’s largest airport terminal
It’s a huge building, much bigger than the Pentagon and a whole lot less clunky. It’s expected to handle more passengers than any other air terminal in the world. [...]
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China approves food safety law, WHO lauds efforts
The Chinese government approved in principle Wednesday a new food safety law aimed at raising standards at every level of production, a senior official said. The quality of [...]
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EU steel makers duties on China, others
EU steel makers were set to fire the first shot in what could be a major trade battle yesterday by asking Brussels to hit steel from China and other Asian exporters with [...]
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Asia’s space race heats up as China heads for moon
Asia’s space race heated up on Wednesday October 24 as China launched its first lunar orbiter, an event hailed by the world’s most populous nation as a milestone [...]
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China ratchets up web closures
At first, Liu Xiaoyuan just fumed when his online journal postings disappeared with no explanation. Then he decided to do something few if any of China’s censored [...]
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Bush to hold talks with China’s Hu at Apec meet
US President George W. Bush will hold bilateral talks with Chinese leader Hu Jintao and possibly meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin privately during the Apec meeting next [...]
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