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N.Korean leader continues secretive visit to ChinaBeijing (AFP) May 4, 2010 North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il was to continue his highly secretive visit to China on Tuesday, at a time of tensions over the sinking of a South Korean warship and his regime's nuclear ambitions. The rare trip to North Korea's sole major ally has been seen by some analysts as a sign that stalled six-nation talks on dismantling Kim's nuclear programme could be reinvigorated. But others say mystery over the warship's destruction in March - an incident in which 46 sailors were killed - clouds a ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) April 29, 2010China has agreed to build two new civilian nuclear reactors in Pakistan, a report said Thursday, amid persistent concerns about the safety of nuclear materials in the restive south Asian state. Chinese companies will build at least two new 650-megawatt reactors at Chashma in Punjab province, the Financial Times said. China began building a reactor at Chashma in 1991 and broke ground on a ... more  
Panama City (UPI) Apr 29, 2010 Agricultural exports from Latin America and the Caribbean to mostly East Asian markets are behind a strong recovery under way in the region, the Food and Agriculture Organization said. Meanwhile, AsiaInspection.com, which represents the quality-control industry, said in a news release that Chinese imports specifically were behind recovery trends witnessed worldwide. The FAO repor ... more  
Beijing (UPI) Apr 29, 2010 Blue jeans are partly to blame for the pollution of China's Pearl River. Xintang, situated in the northeastern part of the Pearl River Delta, is known as the "jeans capital" of the world. Some 200 million pairs of jeans are made there each year for 1,000 different labels, as one of its manufacturer's Web site claims. But the typical jean dyeing process involves the release of ton ... more |
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China tightens state secrets lawBeijing (AFP) April 29, 2010 China tightened a controversial state secrets law on Thursday so that Internet and mobile phone operators now have to to inform on their customers. The law, which has in the past been used to jail high-profile dissidents, was passed by the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, China's top law-making body. "Operators and service providers must cooperate with demands made by police, state security and prosecution agencies in pursuing criminals, and cooperate with investigations," co ... read more |
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