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S.Korea, Japan fail to persuade China to censure N.KoreaSeogwipo, South Korea (AFP) May 31, 2010 China resisted pressure Sunday from South Korea and Japan to censure North Korea publicly for the sinking of a warship, calling only for regional tensions over the incident to be defused. Host President Lee Myung-Bak and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama teamed up at the two-day summit to nudge China's Premier Wen Jiabao to declare Pyongyang responsible for the March sinking of the South Korean corvette. But Wen gave no sign that China is ready to back United Nations Security Council action ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) May 26, 2010If Ellen Wu had been living 60 years ago in Maoist China, she would have been encouraged to work and offered free day care for her daughter. Relatives would have eagerly pitched in to help her. In today's China, Wu waited 10 years after her marriage to give birth and spent just five months at home before heading back to work as a translator. A nanny cares for her daughter, now two years old. ... more  
Beijing (UPI) May 26, 2010 China has plans to construct the world's biggest hydroelectric plant in Tibet, officials said. While no plan has yet been drawn up, Zhang Boting, the deputy general secretary of the China Society for Hydropower Engineering, said research has been conducted on the project. But the Web site of a government agency suggests that a 38-gigawatt hydropower plant is under consideration. ... more  
Shenzhen, China (AFP) May 26, 2010Apple manufacturer Foxconn Wednesday urged workers to sign contracts promising not to kill themselves to stem a spate of suicides - hours before the 11th worker this year fell to his death. The apparent suicides have raised questions about the conditions for millions of factory workers in China, especially at Foxconn's southern Chinese plant, where activists say long hours, low pay and high ... more |
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Volcanic Japan could be geothermal energy leader: US expertTokyo (AFP) May 26, 2010 A prominent US environmentalist said Wednesday Japan should focus on developing geothermal energy, saying the volcanic island-nation could become the global leader in the field. "Japan could make geothermal energy the centre of its new energy economy just as the US or China will make wind the centre of theirs," Lester Brown, president of the US-based Earth Policy Institute, told a news conference. "There are no leaders in the world today in this field. There is no industrial country in the world ... read more |
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