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China – People's Daily Online » 3,000 chemical-filled barrels washed into major northeast China river: authorities
&$ &$Photo taken on July 28, 2010 shows barrels containing explosive chemicals in the water of the Songhua River in Jilin City of northeast China's Jilin Province. (Xinhua/Chen Guoman)&$&$ About 3,000 barrels filled with chemicals have been swept into a major river in northeast China's Jilin Province, thousands more than originally thought, authorities said Thursday. Another 4,000 empty barrels have … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » 3,000 chemical-filled barrels found in China river
Over 3,000 barrels filled with chemicals have been found in a river in China's Jilin province, authorities said Thursday. [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » 7,000 chemical buckets washed into major northeast China river
&$ &$Photo taken on July 28, 2010 shows barrels containing explosive chemicals in the water of the Songhua River in Jilin City of northeast China's Jilin Province. (Xinhua/Chen Guoman)&$&$ Emergency workers discovered that more than 7,000 chemical buckets had been washed into a major river in northeast China, thousands more than Wednesday's initial findings, authorities said Thursday. But only 3,000 … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Vigil held at dikes as rivers set to peak
More than 30,000 soldiers, emergency workers and residents have stood watch over dikes on Wednesday near Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei province, as the city braced itself for floodwaters to arrive from two swollen rivers. The Changjiang Water Resources Commission said that flood peaks from the Yangtze River and the Hanjiang River, the Yangtze's largest tributary, were expected to … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Seychelles president meets Chinese state councilor on relations
Seychelles President James Michel Wednesday met with visiting Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo, and the two agreed to boost bilateral relations. President James Michel said Seychelles-China ties are a model for bilateral relations in the world. Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to the island country located in the Indian Ocean about 1,500 km east of mainland Africa three years ago … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » China's high-speed rail links to be doubled by 2012
&$ &$Maintenance workers clean and examine a bullet train at a servicing facility on March 3 in Wuhan, Hubei province.(China Daily)&$&$ China will spend 800 billion yuan ($120 billion) as part of an ambitious plan to double its high-speed rail network by 2012, the Ministry of Railways said on Wednesday. The sum will be invested to lay more than 6,000 … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » China to crack down on manufacturers' illegal operation to improve safety
China's work safety authorities will investigate and crack down on manufacturers operating illegally in the coming three months, the Work Safety Committee Office under the State Council, China's Cabinet, said Wednesday. Accidents in manufacturing plants have dropped this year, but illegal operations still pose a grave threat to workplace safety, accounting for about 55 percent of the accidents above "relatively … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Nanjing residents rush to donate blood after blast
After hearing of the deadly pipeline blast and noticing urgent calls on the Internet for blood donors to come forward, Hua Peijuan decided to make a contribution. Hua, 26, a teacher who just returned home from Beijing on Wednesday morning, went to Gulou Hospital straight after lunch. To her disappointment, the hospital did not accept blood donations and suggested that … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » 23 arrested, detained over gang crime in SW China
Twenty three alleged members of a mafia-style ring have been arrested or detained over involvement in gang crimes in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, local police said Wednesday. The ring's head Wang Neng, a former deputy to Chongqing Municipal People's Congress, or the city's legislative body, was arrested over crimes including organizing a mafia-style gang, intentional assault, illegal possession of guns … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Chemical buckets washed into major river in northeast China
More than 1,000 containers containing explosive chemicals were washed into a major river in northeast China's Jilin Province Wednesday, said local authorities. The accident occurred around 10 a.m. in Yongji County, in Jilin City, after rain-triggered flood waters swept the containers into the Songhuajiang River, said the publicity department of Jilin City Committee of the Communist Party of China. Some … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Three confirmed dead, eight still missing in southwest China landslide
Rescuers have recovered bodies of three people who went missing in Monday`s landslide in southwest China's Yunnan Province. The landslide occurred at 00:30 a.m. in Gongshan Drung-Nu Autonomous County. More than 300 rescuers were searching for another eight people still missing, according to a statement from the county publicity department. Two bodies were identified as male citizens of Myanmar but … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Reporter accused of defamation wanted by police in east China
A reporter is wanted by the police in east China's Zhejiang Province on suspicion of defamation after publishing stories accusing a public company of illegal transactions, local police said Wednesday. Qiu Ziming, a reporter of Economic Observer News, a Chinese economic newspaper, is wanted by the police of Suichang County, Lishui City, Zhejiang, after he was accused of defaming Zhejiang … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Italy plays central role in China-EU relations: Chinese ambassador
Italy plays a central role in advancing the ties between China and the European Union, the Chinese ambassador to Italy said Wednesday. "China strongly intends to boost dialogue with Europe and looks at Italy as a strategic bridge for this," said Ambassador Ding Wei. Speaking at a foreign policy forum hosted by the Italian Foreign Affairs Ministry, Ding said "EU-China … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Wage increase in China to be pegged to CPI
China is expected to approve a wage regulation by the end of this year in a major effort to improve workers' lives and narrow the income gap. Yin Chengji, spokesman of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said the regulation has been drafted since 2008 and will soon be submitted to the State Council, China's cabinet, for approval, … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Foreign airlines set for takeoff in China
Foreign airlines can expect to receive more flight slots in the future at the country's busiest airport in the capital, as a result of government efforts to increase transparency and build an international hub, an official said on Wednesday. He Yan, director of slot management for the North China regional administration of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), said … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » 'Softened' IMF tone eases yuan pressure
The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) softened tone toward China's exchange rate regime will ease pressure on the appreciation of the yuan, when the world's third-largest economy faces increasing risks of a slowdown, Chinese economists have said. In a summary of comments by the IMF's 24-member executive board on Chinese policy released on Tuesday, the Washington-based lender welcomed China's recent decision … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » China conducts 2 military drills: Reports
The Chinese military conducted two exercises near the Yellow Sea, while the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) engaged in a joint military drill that concluded on Wednesday, State media said. According to the Xinhua News Agency, an army unit based at an inland province in the Jinan Military Command ferried combat forces and arms to "a coastal … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » CPC vows to strengthen exchanges with South Africa's ANC
&$ &$Liu Qi(R1), a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, meets with chairperson of South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) Baleka Mbete in Beijing, capital of China, July 28, 2010. (Xinhua/Li Tao) &$&$ The Communist Party of China on Wednesday vowed to … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Beijing donates 2 sanitation trucks to Phnom Penh municipality
The two new sanitation trucks donated by Beijing Municipality were handed over to Phnom Penh Municipality on Wednesday. The handover ceremony was held at the Phnom Penh municipal government at the presence of Liang Guangsheng, chairman of Beijing Environment Sanitation Engineering group Co., Ltd and Nuon Someth, deputy governor of Phnom Penh as well as other Phnom Penh municipal officials … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Going against the slippery slope of a pyramid scheme
&$ &$Li Min shows how she used a bank note to save her from a pyramid scheme in Loudi, Guizhou province. Guo Guoquan / for China Daily&$&$ Last month, a Beijing woman surnamed Liu was promised 10 million yuan ($1.5 million) within three years if she joined a scheme that involved enrolling her friends and family. She thought it was … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » China orders curbs on grain price speculation
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China's top economic planner, Wednesday ordered local authorities to take actions to prevent hoarding and price speculation in grain markets and work to maintain market order. The NDRC accused some businesses of blindly buying large amounts of grain, then bidding up grain prices following adverse weather in some regions. "This leads to farmers' … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Reporter 'wanted' after exposing scandal
A Shanghai-based business reporter is wanted by the police in East China's Zhejiang province after he exposed insider trading in a listed firm in the region. Qiu Ziming, an employee of the Beijing-based Economic Observer, a Chinese business weekly, has been on a national online list of wanted criminals by the public security bureau of Suichang county since July 23, … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » High-level executive of China's Zijin detained after toxic spill
Chen Jiahong, vice president of Zijin Mining Group Co., has been detained over accusations that his company has caused serious environmental pollution, said a statement on the Shanghai Stock Exchanges on Wednesday. He was detained on Tuesday. Three executives of the plant which caused the pollution were detained on July 15. China's leading gold producer, Zijin, Tuesday was asked by … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Tangshan mourns quake victims on 34th anniversary amid "Aftershock"
Tangshan, a Chinese city that lost 240,000 lives to a devastating earthquake 34 years ago, relived the pain and sorrow once again Wednesday on another anniversary. Not only Tangshan, the whole nation's memories of the catastrophe also came alive again as a film about the earthquake, "Aftershock", hit the big screen across the country. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the industrial … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » At least 10 killed, hundreds injured in east China plant explosion
A powerful explosion at a factory in eastern China's Nanjing City Wednesday has left at least 10 people dead and hundreds injured, including 14 critically, the city government said. Officials of the government of Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, told a press conference Wednesday evening that 10 people were killed and 14 others suffered serious injuries after the blast at … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Chinese leaders offer condolences over fatal air crash in Pakistan
President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday respectively sent condolence messages to their Pakistani counterparts after a deadly airplane crash that killed all the 152 people on board. In his message, Hu, on behalf of the Chinese government and the people and in his personal name, conveyed to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari his profound condolences for the … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Over 1,000 chemical buckets washed into major river in NE China
More than 1,000 containers containing explosive chemicals were washed into a major river in northeast China's Jilin Province Wednesday, and 350 of them have been recovered, local authorities said late Wednesday night. &$ &$Photo taken on July 28, 2010 shows barrels containing explosive chemicals in the water of the Songhua River in Jilin City of northeast China's Jilin Province. More … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Central China city braces for flood
Thousands of people were evacuated Wednesday as central China's Wuhan city braced for flood waters from two swollen rivers. [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Worst floods in a decade in China; 30,000 trapped
China 's Sichuan province. Rescuers searched for 21 people missing after the landslide, which buried 58 homes and forced the evacuation of about 4,000 villagers. (AP Photo) [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » TI Eyeing $175M Purchase Of China Chip Foundry
New Version of BlueCat's IP Address Management Adds Workflow, User Interface Improvements and Other Changes Reports said a TI representative confirmed that the company is involved in talks… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China's Soft Power Is a Threat to the West
China may have no intentions of using its growing military might, but that is of little comfort for Western countries. From the World Trade Organization to the United Nations, Beijing is happy to use … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Huge blast at China factory kills 12, scores hurt
This photo released by China's Xinhua news agency shows the building debris near the explosion site in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province on Wednesday July 28, 2010. The powerful blast cau… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China BCT Further Expands its Footprint by Opening 12 New Retail Pharmaceutical Stores
/PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ — China BCT Pharmacy Group, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: CNBI), ("China BCT" or the "Company"), a leading pharmaceutical distributor, retail pharmacy, and manufacturer of… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Miners pay the price for accidents globally – but China particularly hit
Mining accidents are costly in terms of lost production, government safety sanctions and higher commodity prices with China by far the most affected. [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Chinese Canadian Times Applies for CCAB/BPA Worldwide Newspaper Membership
SHELTON, CT–(Marketwire – July 28, 2010) – Chinese Canadian Times has applied for membership in CCAB/BPA Worldwide. Chinese Canadian Times is a non-paid weekly Chinese paper distributed in the greate… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Ebdon plays down Shanghai chances
Peter Ebdon, the 2002 world champion, has taken the extremely unusual step of releasing a statement playing down his chances of actually winning a match.Ebdon, who fell out of the world's top 16 at th… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » GEA wins €20m milk line order on surging China dairy demand
GEA Group has won a €20m-order for a milk powder processing plant in New Zealand as companies there boost capacity to meet growing demand for dairy products in China. [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » 'Dalai's tactics to create China- India fissures won't succeed'
BEIJING: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama's recent claim that 'he is a son of India' was aimed at "trapping" New Delhi, the state media reported on Wednesday, adding that his tactics would not w… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » WikiLeaks not to affect China, Pakistan ties
BEIJING: The WikiLeaks expose showing Pakistani military as secret supporter of the Taliban has not caused much concern among Chinese officials, who have otherwise been anxious about Taliban's link… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » A Scholar's Insight Into China's Budding Legal System
International Court of Justice ,”’ Mr. Cohen recalled. “Well, he and the other Chinese officials at the dinner laughed uproariously. They thought I was Jack Benny. Why would Communis… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China trains fur farm foxes to combat rats
Authorities in China's far west have bred and trained "an army" of silver foxes bought from a fur farm to fight a plague of rats threatening a huge expanse of grasslands, state media said on Wednesday… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » IMF gives ground on yuan debate
BEIJING/WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund has chosen not to call the yuan "substantially" undervalued, a move that recognises China's efforts to free up its exchange rate and avoids frict… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Rain in 8 regions all acid in first half of 2010
Acid rain hit 189 Chinese cities in the first half of 2010. The frequency of acid rain in eight areas, including Lishui County of Jiangsu Province, reached 100 percent, meaning that every rainfall in … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Car accident victim donates all her organs
21-year-old Luo Lirong's life came to an end after eight days in a coma in the hospital after she was hit by a high-speed running bus on the morning of July 7. The girl's family made an amazing decisi… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Dollar rises to lower 87 yen range in Tokyo
The U.S. dollar rose to the lower 87 yen level on Tuesday in Tokyo.At 5 p.m., the dollar fetched 87.24-25 yen against 86.83-93 yen in New York and 87.20-23 yen in Tokyo at 5 p.m. Monday. The dollar mo… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Unlike Guangzhou, New Delhi still not prepared for media accreditation of CWG
The 16th Asian Games to be held in the Chinese city of Guangzhou will see July 31 as the close of media accreditation for the Games, but the manner in which media accreditation is being done for the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games (CWG) is disappointing. [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China keen to bid for 2026 Soccer World Cup
Submit your comment China is lining up a bid for the 2026 World Cup after witnessing the success enjoyed by hosts South Africa at this year's tournament, local media reported on Friday. The Chinese… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China orders curbs on grain price speculation
/enpproperty–> BEIJING – The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China's top economic planner, Wednesday ordered local authorities to take actions to prevent hoarding and price specula… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » SW China province raises minimum wages by up to 44%
/enpproperty–> CHENGDU – Southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan will raise its minimum wages by as much as 44.4 percent starting August, local authorities said Wednesday. [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Lihua Starts Refined Copper Anode Production on New Smelter in Chinese Facility
Lihua International, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIWA) ("Lihua" or the "Company"), a leading Chinese developer, designer, and manufacturer of low cost, high quality alternatives to pure copper products, such as ref… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Two Amorphous Alloy Suppliers Help China Power to Expand Product Offering
China Power Equipment, Inc. ("China Power Equipment" or "China Power" or the "Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: CPQQ), the manufacturer of a new generation of energy saving electric transformers and tran… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China pipeline blast leaves 12 dead, over 300 hurt
BEIJING (AFP) – At least 12 people died and more than 300 were injured by a powerful explosion triggered when a chemical pipeline ignited in eastern China on Wednesday, state media said. Foot… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China factory blast kills 10
A powerful explosion at a factory in eastern China Wednesday left 10 people dead and 14 seriously injured, local government said. [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Huge blast at China factory kills 12, scores hurt
BEIJING (AP) – A powerful blast caused by a suspected gas leak rocked a plastics factory in eastern China on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people and seriously injuring more than a dozen others. An i… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Secretary of CPC Beijing Municipal Committee meets with chairperson of South Africa ANC
Liu Qi(L), a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, meets with chairperson of South Africa'… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Chemical buckets washed into major river in NE China
CHANGCHUN, July 28 (Xinhua) — More than 1,000 containers containing explosive chemicals were washed into a major river in northeast China's Jilin Province Wednesday, said local authorities. The acci… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Different generations of transformer toys to be displayed in Shanghai
Workers erect an eight-ton bumblebee model in Shanghai East Asia Exhibition Hall to prepare for the upcoming 2010 Cybertron Annual Meeting in Shanghai, east China, July 28, 2010. The meeting, which wi… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » SW China province raises minimum wages by up to 44%
Southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan will raise its minimum wages by as much as 44.4 percent starting August, local authorities said Wednesday. Around 20 Chinese provinces and region have raised m… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Shanghai's Peace Hotel reopens after 3-year renovation
Shanghai's Peace Hotel reopened Wednesday after a three-year refurbishment to restore its glory as the "Far East's No.1 hotel" in the 1930s.The hotel will be managed by a joint venture betwe… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Death toll from east China factory blast rises to 10
Photo taken on July 28, 2010 shows the damaged buses and buildings near the explosion site in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. A powerful explosion occurred at an abandoned plastics … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China to sell 28 bln yuan of 30-year book-entry T-bonds
China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Wednesday it will sell 28 billion yuan (4.14 billion U.S. dollars) of 30-year book-entry Treasury bonds this week.The bonds have a fixed annual interest rate of … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China shuts down, blocks 19,000 websites in porn crackdown
China has shut down or blocked 19,000 websites found to contain lewd or pornographic content as of Wednesday since it launched a crackdown in December last year.Statistics from the national office aga… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Floods kill 928, cost 26 bln USD in China by July 28 of 2010
China's flood control authorities said on Wednesday that floods this year had left 928 people dead and 477 missing all over China as of 9 a.m. July 28. Floods had affected a total of 134 million peopl… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China orders curbs on grain price speculation
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China's top economic planner, Wednesday ordered local authorities to take actions to prevent hoarding and price speculation in grain markets and … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China issues commemorative coins for 30th anniversary of Shenzhen SEZ
The People's Bank of China, or the central bank, issued on Wednesday a set of gold and silver coins to commemorate the 30th founding anniversary of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone(SEZ).The commemor… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China's Tangshan opens quake museum on anniversary
Tourists visit the Tangshan Earthquake Museum in Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province, July 28, 2010. The Tangshan Earthquake Museum is located inside the Tangshan Earthquake Memorial Park. Opened W… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China Star Diving Series to start on Aug. 7
China Star Diving Series will be held here on Aug. 7, attracting many Olympic champions from the national team.The two-day tournament features four events – 3m springboard and 10m platform for men and… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China mobilizes fox army to keep rats at bay
On a verdant green prairie in west China's Xinjiang, a silver fox launches itself through the air at a rat like a cruise missile, pinning its prey with uncanny accuracy.Local authorities in Xinjiang U… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Five children drown in tank of rainwater in SW China city
Five children were drowned to death in a tank filled with rainwater Tuesday at Guigang City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, according to the city's public security bureau Wednesday.Po… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Two men in China jailed for organizing gay prostitution
Two men in eastern China have been imprisoned for organizing homosexual prostitution, a local court official said Wednesday.The men, surnamed Xiao and Liu, had hired eight young men to offer sexual se… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » No Chinese or foreigners found on passenger name list in plane crash in Islamabad, Pakistan
Location of Margalla Hills in Pakistan's capital Islamabad. (Map Source: Google Maps) No Chinese or foreigners were found on the passenger name list which was released by the local authorities followi… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Worst floods in a decade in China, 30,000 trapped
BEIJING: Floods caused by heavy rains in northeastern China stranded tens of thousands of residents without power Wednesday, as the worst flooding in more than a decade continued to besiege areas of t… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China shipbuilder given approval to issue shares in Taiwan
Taipei, July 28 (CNA) The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) said Wednesday it has given approval for Yangzijiang Shipbuilding (Holdings) Ltd. of China to issue Taiwan depository receipts (TDRs). … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » In one year environmental accidents double in China
Contrast between industry's needs and those for environmental protection increases. People take to the streets in greater numbers against polluting activities. Experts: serious pollution destabilizing… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Zoom Technologies' LEIMONE Brand Continues to Drive Appeal to China Telecom's Young User
ZOOM ), a leading China based manufacturer of mobile phones and related products, today unveiled the LEIMONE E33, its third in a series of 3G "LEIMONE" brand multimedia phones. The E33 phone will be s… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Radient Pharmaceuticals' China-Based Subsidiary Jade Pharmaceuticals Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Shanxi Baotai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.
RPC ) announced today its China-based subsidiary Jade Pharmaceuticals Inc. (JPI) signed a letter of intent (LOI) under which JPI will acquire Shanxi BaoTai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (BaoTai), a private… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China America Holdings in Agreement to Acquire Land Use Rights in Guangzhou Conghua Development Zone
CAAH ), a holding company operating in China that owns 56% of China based subsidiary Shanghai Aohong Chemical Co., Ltd., announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a 100% ownersh… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Trainee Publication Highlights Success Of USA-China Agricultural Injury Research Training Project
As a collaboration of the Colorado Injury Control Research Center, the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital and the School of Public Heath, Tongji Medical College at… [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Different generations of transformer toys to be displayed in Shanghai
&$&$ Workers erect an eight-ton bumblebee model in Shanghai East Asia Exhibition Hall to prepare for the upcoming 2010 Cybertron Annual Meeting in Shanghai, east China, July 28, 2010. The meeting, which will kick off on Friday, will display different generations of transformer toys to Chinese fans. (Xinhua/Pei Xin)( &$ [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » SW China province raises minimum wages by up to 44%
Southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan will raise its minimum wages by as much as 44.4 percent starting August, local authorities said Wednesday. Around 20 Chinese provinces and region have raised minimum wages this year to address labor shortages. The wage hikes also came after workers at main auto parts suppliers of Japanese carmakers Honda and Toyota in China went on … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Shanghai's Peace Hotel reopens after 3-year renovation
Shanghai's Peace Hotel reopened Wednesday after a three-year refurbishment to restore its glory as the "Far East's No.1 hotel" in the 1930s. The hotel will be managed by a joint venture between state-owned Jinjiang Hotels and Fairmont Hotels & Resorts. The hotel's English name has been changed accordingly to the Fairmont Peace Hotel, said a statement from the hotel management. … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Three Gorges Dam proves itself as it holds back flooded Yangtze River
&$&$ Water sluice down at Three Gorges Dam, central China's Hubei Province, July 28, 2010. (Xinhua/Cheng Min) China's Three Gorges Dam was tested for the second time this month when the swiftest water flow of the year hurtled down the swollen Yangtze River on Wednesday morning. Flow rates as high as 56,000 cubic meters per second were recorded at the … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Death toll from east China factory blast rises to 10
&$&$ Photo taken on July 28, 2010 shows the damaged buses and buildings near the explosion site in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. A powerful explosion occurred at an abandoned plastics factory in Nanjing on Wednesday morning, causing five people dead and 28 others seriously injured. (Xinhua/Sun Can) A powerful explosion at a factory in eastern China's Jiangsu … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » China shuts down, blocks 19,000 websites in porn crackdown
China has shut down or blocked 19,000 websites found to contain lewd or pornographic content as of Wednesday since it launched a crackdown in December last year. Statistics from the national office against pornographic and illegal publication found 15,500 out of the 19,000 websites were porn mobile WAP sites. In the meantime, public security authorities cracked more than 1,650 criminal … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » ArcelorMittal warns of slowing steel demand from China
Luxembourg – The world's biggest steelmaker ArcelorMittal said Wednesday it expected weaker earnings during the second half of the year as the pace of demand from [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Floods kill 928, cost 26 bln USD in China by July 28 of 2010
China's flood control authorities said on Wednesday that floods this year had left 928 people dead and 477 missing all over China as of 9 a.m. July 28. Floods had affected a total of 134 million people in 28 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, resulting in direct economic losses of 176.5 billion yuan (26.04 billion U.S. dollars), said the State … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » China issues commemorative coins for 30th anniversary of Shenzhen SEZ
The People's Bank of China, or the central bank, issued on Wednesday a set of gold and silver coins to commemorate the 30th founding anniversary of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone(SEZ). The commemorative coins, consisting of one gold and one silver coins, are legal tender in China, said the central bank in a statement. The gold coin is 22 millimeter … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » RIM opens first BlackBerry retail store in China
IDG News Service – Research In Motion opened its first BlackBerry retail store in China on Wednesday, with the hope of boosting the smartphone's presence in the mainland market. The company calls the … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Chemical buckets washed into major river in NE China
More than 1,000 containers containing explosive chemicals were washed into a major river in northeast China's Jilin Province Wednesday, said local authorities. The accident occurred around 10 a.m. in Yongji County, in Jilin City, after rain-triggered flood waters swept the containers into the Songhuajiang River, said the publicity department of Jilin City Committee of the Communist Party of China. The … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » China's Tangshan opens quake museum on anniversary
&$&$ Tourists visit the Tangshan Earthquake Museum in Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province, July 28, 2010. The Tangshan Earthquake Museum is located inside the Tangshan Earthquake Memorial Park. Opened Wednesday, the museum covers an area of some 4,000 square meters with some 400 pieces of exhibits of photographs and 300 material objects. (Xinhua/Yang Shiyao) A museum comme … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » China mobilizes fox army to keep rats at bay
On a verdant green prairie in west China's Xinjiang, a silver fox launches itself through the air at a rat like a cruise missile, pinning its prey with uncanny accuracy. Local authorities in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have mobilized an army of specially-bred and trained silver foxes to combat a destructive plague of rats. This year, about 5.5 million hectares … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Chinese version of Guinness gets recognition
Now, it's official. 'Chinness', the Chinese version of Guinness, has been recognised by the country's trademark regulator. [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » China denies pressure for technology transfer in rail network: official
A Chinese railway official Wednesday denied claims that China forces foreign companies to transfer technologies when they win contracts for work on the country's high-speed rail network. Ministry of Railways (MOR) chief engineer He Huawu said at press conference that Chinese companies did not press foreign partners to transfer high-speed rail technologies. He was responding to a question by a … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Five children drown in tank of rainwater in SW China city
Five children were drowned to death in a tank filled with rainwater Tuesday at Guigang City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, according to the city's public security bureau Wednesday. Police said six children, including the five dead, two girls and three boys aged between four and 11, had been playing at a construction site around 5 p.m. Tuesday. Five … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » 30,000 trapped after torrential rains hit NE China province
More than 30,000 people are reportedly trapped by floodwaters in a town in northeast China's Jilin Province after torrential downpours. Telecommunications were down in Kouqian Town, where the Yongji County Government is located, and more than 200 rescuers had been sent in, officials with the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters said Wednesday. The train station of Kouqian was … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Blast in E China factory kills at least five
&$&$ Photo taken on July 28, 2010 shows the damaged buses and buildings near the explosion site in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. A powerful explosion occurred at an abandoned plastics factory in Nanjing on Wednesday morning, causing five people dead and 28 others seriously injured. More than 100 others have been taken to hospital. Now the blaze … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Two men in China jailed for organizing gay prostitution
Two men in eastern China have been imprisoned for organizing homosexual prostitution, a local court official said Wednesday. The men, surnamed Xiao and Liu, had hired eight young men to offer sexual services to gay men from October to November 2008 in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, said Sun Xia, a spokeswoman for the Pingjiang District People's Court in Suzhou. Xiao and … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » China denies pressure for technology transfer in rail network: official
A Chinese railway official Wednesday denied claims that China forces foreign companies to transfer technologies when they win contracts for work on the country's high-speed rail network. Ministry of Railways (MOR) chief engineer He Huawu said at press conference that Chinese companies did not press foreign partners to transfer high-speed rail technologies. He was responding to a question by a … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » 928 killed in China floods in seven months
Floods have left at least 928 people dead and 477 missing across China as of July 28 this year, authorities said Wednesday. [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » No Chinese or foreigners found on passenger name list in plane crash in Islamabad, Pakistan
&$&$ Location of Margalla Hills in Pakistan's capital Islamabad. (Map Source: Google Maps) No Chinese or foreigners were found on the passenger name list which was released by the local authorities following a plane crash which took place on Wednesday morning in the Margalla Hills in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, officials with the Airblue airliner told Xinhua in a telephone … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » North Korean Opera Draws Acclaim in China
Kim Jong-il , traveled to China by armored train in early May, his visit was so shrouded in secrecy that domestic and global media were forced to speculate on its duration, its purpose — even if… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China's Tech Policies May Lead to Trade Disputes, Report Warns
China's goal to become a technology giant is being helped by government policies that may force businesses to transfer their technical know-how for access to China's market, a new report finds. [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » World of Warcraft Expansion Gets Approval in China
Months after being caught in a dispute between Chinese regulators, World of Warcraft is having a smoother time clearing government hurdles in China. Last Friday, the expansion pack "Wrath of the Lich … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » NetDragon Launches Open Beta Testing for 'Tian Yuan'
/PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ — NetDragon Websoft Inc. ("NetDragon"; Stock Code: 777), a leading online game developer and innovator in [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » VIASPACE CEO Discusses Giant King Grass at Industrial Biotechnology Congress in China
industry leaders, technical experts, government officials and investors attended from around the world. Industrial Biotechnology is an applied field of biology that includes the use of living materia… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » High-speed rail to benefit China, at a cost – World Bank
Submit your comment China's construction of a vast high-speed rail network will bequeath it one of the world's most advanced rail industries, but it needs to monitor the debts it is running up in the … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » City at center of China's latest flood battle
/enpproperty–> WUHAN – More than 30,000 soldiers, emergency workers and residents are on guard at dikes near Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, as the city on Wednesday braced for floo… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China mobilizes fox army to keep rats at bay
/enpproperty–> URUMQI – On a verdant green prairie in west China's Xinjiang, a silver fox launches itself through the air at a rat like a cruise missile, pinning its prey with uncanny accuracy. Loca… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Danone Sells 22.98% Stake In China Huiyuan Juice For EUR200 Million
. The company sells dairy products, bottled water, baby food and medical nutrition products. The company said the sale of the fruit juice company meets its strategy of focusing on bottled water in [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Danone Sells 22.98% Stake In China Huiyuan Juice For EUR200 Million
. The company sells dairy products, bottled water, baby food and medical nutrition products. The company said the sale of the fruit juice company meets its strategy of focusing on bottled water in [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Worst floods in a decade in China, 30,000 trapped
BEIJING (AP) – Floods caused by heavy rains in northeastern China stranded tens of thousands of residents without power Wednesday, as the worst flooding in more than a decade continued to besiege area… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Hot weather to hit 18 provinces and municipalities in China
Young people jump into a river in Tianjin Municipality, north China, July 27, 2010. China's National Meteorological Center (NMC) issued temperature alert "blue" Wednesday, predicting hot weather will … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China to send pandas to Japan in diplomatic move
(China Photos, Getty Images/file) BEIJING (AP) — China has announced plans to send two of its prized giant pandas to Japan, the latest installment of panda diplomacy aimed at warming the two count… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » 30,000 trapped after rains hit China
More than 30,000 people were trapped by floodwaters in a town in northeast China after torrential rains, officials said Wednesday. [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Stellar Pharmaceuticals Issued Uracyst Patents in the United States and China
Stellar Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OTCBB:SLXCF) ("Stellar" or "the Company"), a Canadian pharmaceutical developer and marketer of high quality, cost-effective products for select health care markets, annou… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Mezabay International Inc. Signs Tripartite Strategic Partnership Agreement to Create Cross Region Resource Integration Platform for China and ASEAN Market
Legend Venture Pte Ltd of Singapore signed a tripartite Strategic Partnership Agreement to create a cross region capital resource integration platform at Westin Hotel, Guangzhou, China. Invited guest… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » UC Berkeley Psychologists Bring Science Of Happiness To China
0 posts The ranks of China's millionaires continue to grow, but the increased wealth has done little to boost the country's gross domestic happiness, according to psychologists at the University of Ca… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China to send 2 pandas to Japan in diplomatic move
BEIJING China has announced plans to send two of its prized giant pandas to Japan, the latest installment of panda diplomacy aimed at warming the two countries' often-strained relations. The o… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Huawei tops equipment suppliers for China Mobile phase 4 TD-SCDMA networks, says report
China Mobile Communications has held an open bid to procure 102,000 base stations to set up its TD-SCDMA networks in the fourth phase, and China-based Huawei Technologies has won the largest contract … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Acer to launch dual-OS netbook
Acer will exhibit a 10.1-inch netbook with Android and Microsoft Windows XP, the Aspire One AOD 255, at a retail price of NT$11,900 (US$370) at the 2010 Taipei Computer Applications Show to take place… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Central China city braces for Yangtze River flood peak
Beijing – Tens of thousands of people were evacuated on Wednesday as central China's biggest city prepared for the arrival of flood peaks along the swollen Yangtze River and one of its main tributarie… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Only 25% of enterprises in Taiwan aware of cloud computing services, says III survey
Although the Taiwan government has set aside a 5-year budget of NT$24 billion (US$745 million) to boost development of cloud computing technologies and applications, only 25.1% of enterprises operatin… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » HTC to keep Dopod brand in China in the short run
Although HTC just officially launched its own brand on July 27 2010, it has been selling its smartphones in China for several years under the brand name of partner Dopod. The Taiwan-based company repo… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China bans 'shame parades' of hookers
Following controversy over cases in which sex workers were paraded in public, China is set to end the public shaming of prostitutes by parading them through the streets. [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China to send 2 pandas to Japan in diplomatic move
China has announced plans to send two of its prized giant pandas to Japan, the latest installment of panda diplomacy aimed at warming the two countries' often-strained relations. [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China's Three Gorges dam close to limit as heavy rains persist
flooding problems that have left more than 1,200 people dead or missing.The dam's water flow reached 56,000 cubic metres per second (1.96 million cubic feet), the biggest peak flow this year, with the… [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Communist Party of China to hold dialogue with US political parties
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is scheduled to hold a high-level dialogue with representatives of the Democratic Party and Republican Party in the United States by the end of this year, a senior CPC official has said. [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » HK guide apologizes for forced shopping debacle
Lee Qiaochun, a Hong Kong tour guide who was reported to have abused Chinese mainland tourists, subjecting them to forced shopping trips, publicly apologized to tourists and Hong Kong citizens on July 28. She said regrets this unpleasant incident. "If I get a chance to contact the tour group from that time, I would like to apologize to them," Lee … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Visitors to Shanghai World Expo exceeds 33 million
The comfortable weather brought more visitors to the Shanghai World Expo on July 27, the 88th day after it opened. The number of visitors at the Shanghai World Expo Park reached 471,300 by 7:30 p.m. on July 27, and the cumulative number of visitors exceeded 33 million. The Expo Park received a total of 126,500 visitors in travel groups from … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Xinjiang to raise living standards in urban, rural areas
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region will fully improve the minimum living standard for urban and rural residents and expand the coverage of eligible recipients of monthly allowances in urban areas, representatives of the People's Government of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region announced on July 26. The new standard was implemented starting on June 1, 2010, and a total of nearly 2.2 … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » China jails Tibetan fugitives deported by Nepal
Seven years after triggering international condemnation by violating a 'gentlemen's agreement' and handing over a group of fleeing Tibetan refugees to China, Nepal has again deported three more fugitives under growing Chinese pressure, a rights organisation said. [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » 40 million affected by floods since July 14
Rainstorms and floods that began on July 14 have affected more than 40 million people across China as of 4 p.m. on July 27. So far, 333 people have been confirmed dead and an additional 300 were reported missing, Xinhua New Agency reported on Wednesday. Furthermore, more than 3.1 million people have been relocated and resettled. Over 25,000 square kilometers … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » India, China share top two position among emerging economies
India is ranked second among 27 emerging economies due to its large consumer market and fast economic growth, according to the Emerging Markets Opportunity Index released by US accounting firm Grant Thornton. [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Rain in 8 regions all acid in first half of 2010
Acid rain hit 189 Chinese cities in the first half of 2010. The frequency of acid rain in eight areas, including Lishui County of Jiangsu Province, reached 100 percent, meaning that every rainfall in those eight areas was acid rain, said Tao Detian, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Environmental Protection, on July 27. Tao's report on the overall environment … [Link]
China News latest RSS headlines – China National News.com » Chinese police told suspect-shaming is rude
The Ministry of Public Security in China has decided criminal suspects will no longer be paraded and shamed in front of the press and public. [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Giant panda pair to go to Japan
Two giant pandas will leave their home in southwest China's Sichuan Province early next year for a 10-year stay in a Japanese zoo. Bi Li and Xian Nu will go to Japan in January or February and live in Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, under an agreement reached between the Tokyo metropolitan government and the China Wildlife Conservation Association Monday, the China … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » Yangtze city at center of China's latest flood battle
&$ &$Water sluice down at Three Gorges Dam, central China's Hubei Province, July 28, 2010. A flood peak with water flux of 56000 cubic meters per second reached the Three Gorges Dam at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning. (Xinhua/Cheng Min) &$&$ More than 9,000 soldiers and emergency workers were mobilized to lay sandbags on dikes and to check for leaks in … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » China confirms senior diplomat's visit to DPRK
A senior Chinese diplomat is visiting the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the foreign ministry confirmed Wednesday. China's Assistant Foreign Minister, Hu Zhengyue, is leading a delegation to the DPRK as a guest of the DPRK's Foreign Ministry, spokeswoman Jiang Yu said after being asked to comment on media reports. "It is a normal exchange between the two foreign … [Link]
China – People's Daily Online » 7th human rights training session kicks off in Beijing
The seventh human rights knowledge training session held by the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China (SCIO) kicked off on July 27 in Beijing. More than 40 trainees, including officials from different administrative organizations and reporters from different media outlets, will receive courses on topics like the basic theories of human rights, the status of human … [Link]
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