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North Korea seizes South Korean fishing boatSeoul (AFP) Aug 8, 2010 North Korea has seized a South Korean fishing boat off the peninsula's east coast, Seoul's coastguard said Sunday, amid high tensions between the two sides over a major naval exercise by the South. The boat with four South Korean and three Chinese crewmen was detained while presumably operating near the North's exclusive economic zone in the Sea of Japan (East Sea), the coastguard said in a statement. It was being towed Sunday to the North's northeastern port of Songjin. "We urge North Korea ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 5, 2010A controversial book that criticises China's Premier Wen Jiabao will be published later this month even after police warned its dissident author that he could end up in jail, the publisher said Thursday. "It's coming out on August 16," said Bao Pu, head of the Hong Kong-based New Century Press, which has published politically sensitive books in the past. Yu Jie, the 36-year-old author of ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 5, 2010China's banking regulator has ordered lenders to stress-test their loans to the real estate sector to measure the impact of a 50 percent fall in property prices, a report said Thursday. The request comes amid growing concerns about massive lending to the red-hot property market, which authorities fear could see a fresh crop of bad debts if prices were to fall sharply and derail the world's t ... more  
Melbourne (AFP) Aug 5, 2010Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto on Thursday posted a 260 percent jump in first-half net earnings to a record 5.85 billion US dollars and said China was key to its future. However, despite forecasts of strong global growth this year and next, the company warned that the world economy "will be volatile" for the next year and a half. Chief executive Tom Albanese said in a statement: ... more |
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Nearly 1,700 dead, missing in China floodsBeijing (AFP) Aug 4, 2010 The number of people killed or missing in devastating floods across China so far this year has risen to nearly 1,700, the government said Wednesday, warning the situation could still get worse. Parts of southern, central and northern China have been hit by summer downpours that have caused the worst flooding in a decade, triggered deadly landslides, cut off roads, and left villages inaccessible. "So far this year, 140 million people have been impacted in 28 flood-hit provinces, 1,072 have been k ... read more |
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