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China begins moving 330,000 people for water projectBeijing (AFP) Aug 12, 2010 China has begun relocating 330,000 people as part of a massive project to divert water from the Yangtze River to the drought-prone north including the capital Beijing, state media said Thursday. The South-North Water Diversion Project is the country's largest relocation programme since the building of the Three Gorges Dam, which involved the relocation of 1.27 million people, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Authorities began moving the first 500 residents on Wednesday in central Hubei ... read more |
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Suva (AFP) Aug 11, 2010Fiji's military leader Voreqe Bainimarama wants to ditch traditional ties with Australia, New Zealand and the United States, and align his Pacific Island nation with China, it was reported Wednesday. Speaking to Fijivillage News website during a visit to China, the self-appointed prime minister said China was the one country that understands the reforms he is trying to implement. Bainima ... more  
New Delhi (UPI) Aug 10, 2010 India's military has been on a spending spree over the last few years. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's 2009 report noted that for the period 2005-09 India was the world's second-biggest arms buyer, importing 7 percent of the world's arms exports, exceed only by China with 9 percent. New Delhi's attempts to foster an indigenous arms industry haven't been so smooth ... more
Beijing (AFP) Aug 11, 2010China is poised to overtake Japan as the world's second-largest economy, underlining its growing global clout but also highlighting the pressing need for a profound structural overhaul, experts say. Japan has been number two behind the US economy for more than 40 years but China looks on course to supplant it as early as 2010, after claiming the titles of world's biggest exporter, auto marke ... more |
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New Zealand dairy backs product in China hormone scandalWellington (AFP) Aug 11, 2010 New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra said Wednesday it is "100 percent confident" in its milk supplies to a Chinese company under investigation over claims of tainted milk powder. Parents and doctors in China's Hubei province have expressed fears that hormones in milk powder produced by Synutra International have caused young girls to develop breasts prematurely. Synutra said the questionable milk powder was all imported from New Zealand. Fonterra confirmed in a statement that it supplied milk ... read more |
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