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China cleans up after flooding by N.Korea borderBeijing (AFP) Aug 23, 2010 Workers in northeast China on Monday toiled to clean up the mess left by severe flooding that killed four people, forced 250,000 out of their homes and left parts of a city in North Korea under water. Heavy downpours last week swelled the Yalu river, which forms part of the border between China and North Korea, to dangerously high levels, sending water spilling over its banks on both sides, inundating homes, roads and farmland. In North Korea, state media has said leader Kim Jong-Il ordered an e ... read more |
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Beijing, China (XNA) Aug 20, 2010China has finished construction of its first unmanned space module, Tiangong-1, and it is testing the module's electronic, mechanical and thermal properties, a military source said here Tuesday. The 8.5-tonne Tiangong-1 will be put into preset orbit in 2011, the source added. The space module is expected to carry out China's first space docking, with the Shenzhou-8 spacecraft, which ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 19, 2010Seven people were killed Thursday when a man drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into a crowd and it blew up in China's Xinjiang region, the scene of deadly ethnic unrest last year, an official said. Police detained the injured suspect - a member of Xinjiang's Uighur minority - at the site of the blast in the outskirts of Aksu, a city near the border with Kyrgyzstan, regional government ... more  
Seoul (AFP) Aug 19, 2010North Korea has been smuggling banned materials which could be used for rocket and missile launches, often using forged documents to disguise their destination, local media reported Thursday. South Korea has secured evidence that materials related to the weapons of mass destruction were exported to the North through China and other countries, Munhwa Ilbo newspaper reported, quoting unnamed g ... more |
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China's current account surplus surges in second quarterBeijing (AFP) Aug 19, 2010 China's current account surplus surged by 30 percent in the second quarter of 2010 from the same period last year, official data showed Thursday, amid strong demand for Chinese-made goods. The current account surplus - the broadest measure of trade with the world - reached 70.5 billion dollars in the April-June period, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said in a statement on its website. Net inflow of direct investment into China totalled 21 billion dollars in the second quarter, th ... read more |
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