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China auto sales hit record high in MarchShanghai (AFP) April 9, 2010 China's auto sales jumped 55.8 percent year-on-year in March to 1.74 million units, setting a new monthly record, according to figures released by an industry group Friday. Vehicle sales in the first quarter rose 71.8 percent from the same period last year to 4.61 million, Dow Jones Newswires reported, citing the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. The March sales surpassed the previous record set in January, when auto makers sold more than 1.66 million vehicles. Sales of passenge ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) April 6, 2010US President Barack Obama will meet President Hu Jintao of China next week on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit, as both sides take steps to tone down weeks of irascible exchanges. Since Obama visited Hu in Beijing in November, the United States and China have sparred at a distance over trade, currency disputes, Taiwan and Tibet, but both sides have taken recent steps to de-emphasiz ... more  
Washington (AFP) April 5, 2010The United States on Monday dismissed Iran's plans to hold a nuclear disarmament conference, saying it needed only to "look in the mirror" if it was serious about the issue. Iran announced Sunday it would hold a disarmament conference days after next week's nuclear security summit in Washington and said China, which has resisted new sanctions against the Islamic regime, would attend. "If ... more  
Xiangning, China (AFP) April 6, 2010Rescuers were searching Tuesday for 33 workers still trapped in a flooded Chinese coal mine, as the joy of seeing over 100 others pulled out alive was tempered by the first news of fatalities. Five bodies were found during overnight searches at the Wangjialing mine in Shanxi province, China's coal-producing heartland in the north, but authorities say there is still hope the rest will be foun ... more |
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China executes Japanese drug smuggler: state mediaBeijing (AFP) April 6, 2010 China executed a convicted Japanese drug smuggler on Tuesday, making him the first Japanese citizen to be put to death in the country since diplomatic ties were re-established in 1972. Mitsunobu Akano, 65, was executed in the northeastern province of Liaoning, Xinhua news agency reported, quoting an announcement from China's top court, the Supreme People's Court. Akano was arrested in September 2006 at an airport in the northeastern city of Dalian while reportedly trying to smuggle 2.5 kilograms ... read more |
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