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Population surge outstrips efforts to eradicate slumsParis (AFP) March 18, 2010 Nearly a quarter of a billion people escaped slums in the past decade, but the housing effort was outstripped by population growth and rural exodus to the cities, the United Nations said. A total of 227 million people rose out of slum conditions from 2000 to 2010, thanks especially to hard work in China and India, according to the UN Human Settlements Programme, also called UN-Habitat. It means that the United Nations has already scored a rare success in its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). ... read more |
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Bordeaux, France (AFP) March 16, 2010Hong Kong has emerged as the fastest growing wine hub while China's seemingly unquenchable thirst for wine has ousted the United States as Bordeaux's number one client outside Europe. "Bordeaux holds a special place in China," said Don St. Pierre Jr., chief executive at ASC Greater China, the largest importer of premium wine in China, in an email to AFP. "I do not think there is any regi ... more  
Doha (AFP) March 16, 2010Demand in China is stoking a black market in neighbouring Myanmar in tiger-bone wine, leopard skins, bear bile and other products made from endangered species, a report released on Tuesday said. "China's border areas have long been considered a hotbed for illegal trade, with remote locations often making surveillance difficult in sparsely populated areas," Xu Hongfa, top China investigator f ... more  
Beijing (AFP) March 16, 2010A group of artists who held a daring protest in Beijing over the razing of their studio district have received one million dollars in compensation from developers, their spokeswoman said Tuesday. The group, from the "008" art district in eastern Beijing, had stood up to companies that want to demolish the area to make way for a property development and who had earlier refused to provide comp ... more |
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China sacks government officials after deadly mine fireBeijing (AFP) March 16, 2010 China sacked four government officials on Tuesday after 25 people were killed in a coal mine fire, state media reported, in the latest deadly incident to hit the nation's hazardous mining industry. Local authorities said the blaze in a mine in Zhengzhou, capital of central Henan province, was sparked when cables caught fire late Monday in one of the main pits. Six miners were saved, but the rest died. The governor of the township where the mine is located, an official in charge of work safety in ... read more |
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