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Taiwan missile defence shield ready next year: reportTaipei (AFP) Sept 6, 2010 Taiwan expects a much-anticipated missile defence shield to be ready next year after buying advanced weapons at a cost of about 300 billion Taiwan dollars (9.4 billion US), local media reported Monday. Six batteries of Patriot III missiles forming the backbone of the system will account for roughly half the costs associated with the project, the China Times newspaper said. A long-range early warning radar system, priced at about 40 billion Taiwan dollars, will allow the military to detect and tr ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 5, 2010China should end preferential policies for automotive companies in order to curb over-capacity in an industry where sales jumped 55 percent in August, a government official said. Chen Bin, a top official at China's economic planning agency, said booming auto sales were leading to blind investment in the industry, which could result in annual production capacity of over 31 million units by 20 ... more  
Oslo (AFP) Sept 3, 2010Shipowners are showing growing interest in a fabled trade route to Asia which climate change is beginning to open up at last as polar ice recedes. On Saturday the first non-Russian vessel to make an intercontinental commercial voyage through the Arctic Northeast passage will set sail from Norway for China. The route is thousands of kilometres (miles) shorter than traditional passages, pr ... more  
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 5, 2010Ichiro Ozawa, one of two men vying for the role of Japanese prime minister in a party leadership race, said Sunday Tokyo must bluntly fend off Beijing's claim to disputed islets in the East China Sea. Ozawa is facing off against incumbent Prime Minister Naoto Kan in a September 14 election for leadership of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). If Ozawa wins, he will become the nation' ... more |
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China urges restart to N.Korea nuclear talksBeijing (AFP) Sept 2, 2010 China on Thursday urged its fellow parties to six-nation North Korean nuclear talks to "meet halfway" as Beijing continues to try to drum up support for a resumption of the stalled negotiations. The talks - which are hosted by Beijing - had previously secured North Korean pledges to give up its nuclear programmes, only to see Pyongyang reverse course and storm out of the discussions last year. "The current situation on the Korean peninsula is complicated and sensitive," foreign ministry spokes ... read more |
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