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China warns against US-S.Korea war gamesBeijing (AFP) July 8, 2010 China warned the United States and South Korea Thursday against holding joint war games near its waters and urged the two nations to guard against exacerbating festering tensions with North Korea. The joint military exercises were scheduled after the March sinking of a South Korean warship that Seoul has blamed on a North Korean torpedo attack and which killed 46 sailors and sent regional tensions soaring. "China has expressed its serious concerns with relevant parties," foreign ministry spokesm ... read more |
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Paris (AFP) July 7, 2010French auto giant PSA Peugeot Citroen on Wednesday reported record sales and said it would form a new joint venture in China, the world's largest and fastest growing auto market. The company, ranked second in Europe behind Germany's Volkswagen, said it sold 1.86 million vehicles in the six months to June, up 16.9 percent from a year earlier to outpace global market growth of 13 percent. ... more  
Sao Paulo (UPI) Jul 7, 2010 Brazil's Embraer announced expansion of its aviation business into China with the opening of a subsidiary company that will provide technical services for aircraft already on the Chinese inventory and many more on order. The aircraft maker said it is investing $18 million into the new operation that supplements previous activities of Embraer in China and is seen by analysts as part of B ... more  
Beijing (UPI) Jul 6, 2010 Thousands of recently fitted surveillance cameras monitored the people of Urumqi as Chinese riot police checked shoppers' bags on the anniversary of deadly ethnic riots. The Beijing government has been careful to be ready for any incidents after nearly 200 people died last year in clashes that rocked Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. More than 1,700 pe ... more |
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Celebrations and sadness as Dalai Lama turns 75Dharamshala, India (AFP) July 7, 2010 The Dalai Lama turned 75 on Tuesday, a milestone marked by celebrations in his hometown-in-exile but tinged by sadness that his compatriots in Tibet were unable to honour the occasion. Under relentless rain, the Tibetan spiritual leader addressed a packed crowd of 5,000 followers at his temple in McLeod Ganj, a hill station in the Indian Himalayas where he has lived since fleeing Tibet in 1959. In a reminder of the situation in his homeland, where China views him as a dangerous separatist, he ex ... read more |
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