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China fines firms over ineffective rabies shots: state mediaBeijing (AFP) May 17, 2010 Chinese authorities have fined two drug companies, including one authorised to make swine flu vaccines, for producing substandard rabies shots, state media said Monday. Ealong Biotech Company was fined 25 million yuan (3.6 million dollars) and Bioforwell Company was told to pay five million yuan for producing 210,000 units of a rabies vaccine in 2008, the Global Times newspaper reported. The companies had reduced the level of a key ingredient to cut costs, rendering the jabs ineffective, it quot ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) May 13, 2010The "three represents" could some day be lumped in with "the four olds" if China's jargon-obsessed Communist Party heeds a call from the top for clearer communication. Xi Jinping, the vice president and heir apparent to China's leadership, made the plea in a speech to Communist cadres, saying that jargon walled the ruling party off from the country's more plain-spoken citizens. Xi gave n ... more 
Washington (AFP) May 13, 2010The United States and China were Friday holding talks on human rights for the first time in two years, with a feud brewing over US support for efforts to crack through China's Internet firewall. Senior officials on Thursday opened the two-day talks, which offer the Obama administration a chance to show it also cares about human rights as it seeks a wide-ranging partnership with China on issu ... more  
Beijing (AFP) May 13, 2010A top Chinese commerce official has defended Beijing's investment policies in Africa as a giant deal was announced Thursday for a cement plant in South Africa. "China's presence in Africa is becoming more and more market driven, the actors operating there are diverse, there are many models, and the areas they are in are broad," Vice Commerce Minister Fu Ziying told the Wall Street Journal. ... more |
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Africans talk tough over foreign minersNairobi, Kenya (UPI) May 13, 2010 As China, Brazil, India and other scramble to lock down Africa's mineral wealth to fuel their expanding economies, some African states are talking about forming a cartel similar to OPEC to control prices and secure more foreign investment. One of the leading advocates is President Abdoulaye Wade of uranium-rich Senegal, who favors a pan-African body that could influence the price of metals such as cobalt. Some 90 percent of that comes from Africa. ABC News reported that at a mining confe ... read more |
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