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Clinton faces tough Latin security talksLima (UPI) Jun 8, 2010 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton launched a new initiative to seek consensus on limiting large-scale arms procurement in Latin America and cementing security alliances recently strained by Russian, Chinese and Iranian overtures and Venezuela's rhetoric of U.S. military expansion in the region. Clinton's second trip to the continent this year began with participation in the two-day general assembly of the Organization of American States, which is meeting in the Peruvian capital to conside ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) June 7, 2010Six miners have been pulled alive from a Chinese mine three days after it flooded, state media said Monday. Two people died and three others are still missing after the flood in the coal-producing heartland of Shanxi province, in the north of the country. The six survivors, all apparently in good health, were brought out of the mine on Sunday to the applause of rescue teams, Xinhua news ... more  
Shanghai (AFP) June 7, 2010Shares in Bank of Communications fell Monday after the lender cut a planned rights issue by a fifth amid weak market sentiment and a rush by other Chinese banks to raise money. The bank, China's fifth biggest lender in terms of assets, said it aimed to raise 33.1 billion yuan (4.85 billion dollars) from the rights issue, according to statements filed with the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exc ... more  
Taipei (AFP) June 7, 2010Taiwanese IT giant Foxconn, hit by a series of suicides, said Monday it would hike wages at its plants in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, a move observers said could trigger industry-wide pay rises. Foxconn, which assembles products for US-based Apple, will increase the monthly salary for its assembly line workers in Shenzhen by nearly 70 percent to 2,000 yuan (290 dollars) from Octob ... more |
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US still studying fighter jet sales to Taiwan: envoyTaipei (AFP) June 4, 2010 Washington is still evaluating Taiwan's bid to acquire US fighter jets, a US envoy said Friday, amid growing concern in Taipei that China now has an edge in air power. "It's an issue we are studying. There has been no decision made saying we are not going to sell ... We are carefully looking at the aerial defence needs of Taiwan," Raymond Burghardt told reporters in Taipei. Burghardt, the Washington-based chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), made the remarks after meeting Presiden ... read more |
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