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Subway opens in SW Chinas Kunming
A subway line opened Monday in Kunming, capital of Southwest China's Yunnan Province, the first to be built in the area.The 22-km-long line will eventually act as an overlapping section for two planned subway lines, a manager from subway operator Kunming Subway Co., Ltd. said.The subway's trains will run at an average speed of 39.3 km per hour, taking 34 minutes for each one-way trip, ...
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5 dead 20 missing in E. China plant blast
Five people have been confirmed dead in a blast that ripped through an explosives manufacturing plant in East China's Shandong Province Monday morning. The explosion occurred at 10:50 a.m. at the plant owned by the Poly Explosives (Jinan) Co., Ltd. at Caofan Township, Zhangqiu City. Thirty-four workers were working in the workshop at the time of the accident, according to local fire ...
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2013 China Intl Architecture Exposition kicks off
A man walks past an architecture model during the 2013 China (Shenyang) International Architecture Exposition in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning Province, May 20, 2013. The three-day expo kicked off on Monday, with 615 enterprises from home and abroad participated. (Xinhua/Yao ...
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China’s premier seeks better ties with India
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (left) shakes hands with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a photo opportunity ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on ...
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Vietnam plans to produce H1N1 flu vaccine in late 2014
Vietnam is stepping up preparations for production of a vaccine against H1N1 flu virus in late 2014 or early 2015, local Tuoi Tre newspaper reported on Monday, quoting sources from the Vietnamese Ministry of Health (MOH) as saying.Specifically, MOH's Institute for Vaccines and Medical Biologicals conducted the first trial of the vaccine, A/H1N1/09, on 48 healthy people in Ben Luc District, ...
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3 soldiers killed in clash with leftist rebels in N. Philippines
Three soldiers died while another was injured following an encounter with members of the leftist rebel group New People's Army (NPA) in the northern Philippine province of Albay on Monday morning.Maj. Angelo Guzman, spokesman of the Philippine Army's 9th Infantry Division, said soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Batallion fought with 40 NPAs at Manilala village, Camalig town in Albay ...
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China India to push for closer links between both markets
Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh agreed Monday to jointly develop large-scale cooperation projects, and called for establishing an economic corridor among China, India, Myanmar and Bangladesh so as to push for closer links between the two major ...
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China Communists must slash membership academic
BEIJING:China's ruling Communist Party should cut its more than 80 million members by nearly half to avoid the bloat that felled the Soviet Union, a political scientist has written in a party magazine.The Communist Party of China is the world's largest political party, having recruited a wide swathe of citizens in recent years in an effort to broaden support as its original ideological ...
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Pacific trade talks waste of time PNG
Papua New Guinea Officials from Papua New Guinea say they are considering withdrawing from free trade negotiations between Pacific Island countries and Australia and New Zealand.PNG's Trade Minister, Richard Maru, on Monday told a meeting of trade ministers from the Melanesian Spearhead Group that his country was considering withdrawing from Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations ...
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India and China must preserve peace along border says PM
Special representatives of India and China will meet soon to discuss their disputed border where Chinese incursion sparked tensions recently, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday.Speaking to the media jointly with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Manmohan Singh said that while India and China have had differences, relations had been built steadily in the more recent times.He said both ...
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NKorea fires missiles into Sea of Japan
(14 mins ago) North Korea fired a short-range missile on Monday into the Sea of Japan, local media reported. The nation launched the missile off its east coast into the sea of Japan between 11 a.m. and 12 a.m. local time on Monday, Xinhua news agency reports. "North Korea fired one KN-02 short-range missile today. South Korean military will closely monitor the North Korean military in ...
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India China explore framework for border dispute
(34 mins ago) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he had agreed with his Chinese counterpart to make a new push to settle a long-running border dispute, pledging his commitment to ';peace and tranquility.’’ ';We agreed that our special representatives will meet soon to continue discussions seeking an early agreement on a framework for a fair, reasonable and mutually ...
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China India agree on roadmap to balance trade ties premier
China and India have agreed on a roadmap to reach a "dynamic balance" in bilateral trade between the two nations, China's Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday, following Indian complaints about the size of the trade deficit with its neighbor. (Reporting by Rajesh Kumar Singh; Writing by Matthias Williams; Editing by Frank Jack ...
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India Pak serve vital roles in Chinas diplomatic ties
India will mandate that all firms offering internet telephony, including popular online phone service provider Skype owned by software giant Microsoft, must set up a server in the country if they want to continue offering this facility ...
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Japans lost decades finally over
Honda Amaze diesel vs Maruti DZire diesel: Comparison Honda has finally gone the diesel way and the Amaze is the big H's first ever oil burning ...
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Time for Chindia JV to combine China-India strengths
"China-India cooperation can also be conducted in many sector, including new energy, new materials, resource conservation and environmental protection," he ...
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Bird flu costs China industry $6.5 bln state media
BEIJING (AFP) - China's human H7N9 bird flu outbreak has cost the country's poultry industry more than 40 billion yuan ($6.5 billion) as consumers shun chicken, government officials said, according to state media.The sector has been losing an average of one billion yuan a day since the end of March, the Beijing Times said on Monday, citing Li Xirong, head of the National Animal ...
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Irish market opens up to China
The Irish funds market has opened its doors to Chinese investors in a move by the Irish Funds Industry Association (IFIA). The Irish financial regulator, IFSRA, signed a Memorandum of Understanding one Thursday 23 October with the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) and the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), its Chinese counterparts. This will enable Chinese investors ...
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The Real News Network Chinas Top 1 Control 70 of Wealth
China's growing economic problems and dark political history left out of the Olympic spotlights August 15 - Minqi Li spoke with Paul Jay, Senior Editor at The Real News about the grim reality of China's economic situation in contrast to the spectacular display of the country's rich cultural history at the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony. The ceremony promoted a falsely ...
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Despite injuries inexperience China in second
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Another night like this, and the American men are golden. Rebounding from a rocky start, the United States finished with one dazzling routine after another. Not since the gold-rush days of the 1984 Olympics has the team looked this good, and the Arrowhead Pond was rocking with catcalls and chants of "U-S-A!, U-S-A!" The United States finished with ...
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Japan leads at mens World Gymnastics Cships
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Russia's Evgeni Krylov fell on his opening tumbling pass and was injured at the World Gymnastics Championships, putting the perennial powerhouse's medal hopes in question. It wasn't immediately clear what Krylov's injury was or whether he'd be able to continue. He was unable to put any weight on his left foot and had to crawl off the podium. ...
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Final dress rehearsal before Cup for Australia NZ
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (Reuters) -- World champion Australia and World Cup favorite New Zealand stages its final dress rehearsal ahead of rugby union's showcase event in the last match of the Tri-nations series Saturday. While the All Blacks have already won the Tri-nations, after three successive victories, much is at stake in Auckland with the Bledisloe Cup still up for grabs while a ...
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Send money to India
For NRIs, one of the key concerns while living abroad is sending money back to their loved ones in India. Plagued by inordinate delays, huge fees to wire the money or to be paid to the agent etc, sending money was often tougher than earning money!! But that's where the online remittance came into the picture. Doing away with all the inefficiencies of traditional options of sending money, ...
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Rugby Three Australia forwards in doubt
MELBOURNE (Reuters) -- Australia forwards Toutai Kefu, Patricio Noriega and Glenn Panoho are doubtful for Saturday's Tri-nations test against New Zealand after failing to join in full training Tuesday because of leg injuries. Wallabies vice-captain Kefu, who suffered spinal concussion in Australia's 29-9 Tri-nations win over South Africa in Brisbane on August 2, is struggling to ...
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China releases two more captive-bred giant pandas into the wild
Researchers at a giant panda breeding base in southwest China's Sichuan Province released two pregnant giant pandas into a semi-wild environment near the base on Thursday, as part of the base's efforts to help more captive-bred pandas adapt to the wild.The pandas, nicknamed "Ying Ying" and "Su Lin," were the second and third captive-bred pregnant pandas to be ...
South Korea Focus
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South Korea's tool for northern diplomacy
A 66 square kilometre industrial complex just over the border is an important part of reconciliatory efforts between South Korea and the North. It is important to the economy as well, but its diplomatic significance runs far deeper.
The Kaesong Industrial Complex is the only industrial special administrative region that still exists as a joint agreement between North and South Korea. Following the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan, relations between the two countries deteriorated significantly, with South Korea accusing the North of the attack and the North subsequently denying involvement. Read more
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