China and Switzerland Saturday signed a free trade agreement, capping over two years of negotiations and legal processes. The pact was signed by Chinese Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng and Swiss Federal Councillor Johann ...
6.4-magnitude quake hits Sumatra
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake jolted south Sumatra off Indonesia Saturday, the China Earthquake Networks Centre said. The epicentre, with a depth of 20 km, was determined at 3.2 degrees south latitude and 100.6 degrees east longitude, Xinhua ...
Breast milk drinking by rich adults sparks outrage in China
micro blog users lashing out at this "latest game" of people who came to wealth overnight. The wet nurses are provided by an agency, which scouts for poor women who have recently given birth and would be happy with some financial support. The new mothers offer their services for a few days to weeks in a month with prices varying from $2,000 to $4,000. "Adults (clients) can drink ...
More meaty problems for exports to China
The Government is playing down the latest drama with meat shipments to China. It only found on Thursday about changes to certification rules which came into effect on June 1. Top level meetings have been held since to sort things out, and the new rules will be implemented here tomorrow. The Government says any delays to shipments already sent will only be a matter of days, as the paperwork is ...
Canada falls to China at Four Nations women?s basketball tournament
In this file photo, point guard Kia Nurse of the Canadian womens national basketball team during a practice at the David Braley Centre on the McMaster University campus in Hamilton May 17, 2013. Nurse scored eight points in Canada's 70-44 loss to China at the Four Nations basketball tournament on Saturday. (Moe Doiron/The Globe and ...
Real forward movement on border pact with China Defence Minister AK Antony
Beijing: Setting aside recent acrimony over Chinese incursions in Ladakh, India today said there is "real forward movement" on the Border Defence Cooperation Agreement with China aimed at averting such incidents."There is real forward movement on the Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA)", Defence Minister A K Antony who held hectic talks with both civil and military ...
China India agree to step up border peace efforts Xinhua
BEIJING (AFP) - The Chinese and Indian defence chiefs agreed Saturday to strengthen "peace and tranquility" along their frontier, state media reported, as the countries work to keep tensions in a disputed border area in check."The ministers emphasised the importance of enhancing mutual trust and understanding between the two militaries," General Chang Wanquan of China and ...
Giant panda donated by China gives birth in Taiwan
TAIPEI (AFP) - A female giant panda donated by China to Taiwan four years ago gave birth to a cub on Saturday after being artificially inseminated, the Taipei city government said.Yuan Yuan and her partner Tuan Tuan have become star attractions in Taipei Zoo in the island's capital since their arrival from China in late 2008 amid improving ties between the two sides.But after years of ...
Ecuador says Chinas CNPC joins $12 bln refinery project
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO, July 6 | Sat Jul 6, 2013 2:11pm EDT QUITO, July 6 (Reuters) - China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) has agreed to help finance the construction of a $12 billion refinery project in Ecuador, the South American country's government said on Saturday. Ecuador has been in talks with China's biggest oil producer for a year about funding the 300,000 barrel ...
Soya bean imports revive fearsin China about genetically mo...
The Ministry of Agriculture's recent approval of imports of three new kinds of genetically modified soya bean has sparked concern over safety assessments and reignited debate on the mainland over the safety of GM ...
Chinas Yellow Sea turns green with algal bloom from pollution
London, July 5 : The algal bloom in China has turned the Yellow Sea into green, the cause of which has been attributed to agricultural and industrial ...
River polluted in S China
/enpproperty--> GUANGZHOU - Government authorities of Fengkai County, south China's Guangdong Province, on Saturday warned that water in a section of the Hejiang River has been tainted by pollution upstream. An initial investigation suggests that the pollutants are thallium and cadmium, the county's publicity department said in a statement. According to the department, dead fish ...
?Underground? Christians shun China?s official church
Chinese Christians who shun the state-supported church gather in smaller settings and without fear of government influence on what?s being preached. It comes with a different fear, though: Being an unregistered Christian is ...
North Korea hosts U.N. sports delegation
A United Nations delegation arrived in North Korea Saturday, apparently to discuss nothing more controversial than women's soccer, North Korean media said. The U.N. party was led by Wilfried Lemke, special adviser on sports for the development of peace, the North Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch monitored in Seoul. The announcement gave no details of Lemke's agenda ...
China says river in south used as drinking source tainted by excessive amounts of 2 chemicals
BEIJING, China - Residents and water plants along a river in southern China that is used as a drinking source have been warned not to use the river's water after authorities detected excessive amounts of two dangerous chemicals. Tests by authorities detected the chemicals thallium and cadmium in a section of the Hejiang River in Guangdong province after dead fish turned up in the water, ...
Free trade agreement signed with China
Swiss Economics Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann and the Chinese Minister of Commerce, Gao Hucheng, signed a bilateral free trade agreement on Saturday, July 6, in Beijing. The agreement is expected to go into effect in 2014. The comprehensive agreement, signed after several years of negotiations, will improve Switzerland's ability to export goods and services to the rapidly growing ...
China probes Swiss-based packaging giant Tetra Pak
BEIJING -; China's national market regulatory agency says it is investigating possible abuse of market dominance by Switzerland-based food processing and packaging giant Tetra Pak, in a sign that Beijing is widening its scrutiny of operations by foreign companies in ...
Sierra Leone China sign $8bn deals
Sierra Leone's President Ernest Koroma said on Friday that he had signed deals for a new international airport, a railway and raft of other huge construction projects totalling $8 billion during a recent visit to ...
Kerry U.S. China absolutely united on denuclearization of N. Korea
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that Washington, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo are "absolutely united" in their efforts to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program. Kerry made the remarks after holding bilateral talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of a regional security forum in Brunei. He also held three-way talks with the top ...
In Communist China Shortwave is a Window to the World
Chinese lawyer and human rights activist Chen Guangcheng is pictured visiting the Legislative Yuan on June 25, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan. When under house arrest in mainland China, Chen listened to the short wave radio broadcasts of Sound of Hope, which originate in Taiwan, as making it very easy "for us to understand why China was not a just place." (Ashley Pon/Getty ...
China FA Camacho headed for arbitration over pay
China 's Football Association says arbitration is likely to be required to settle the severance pay for fired national team coach Jose Antonio Camacho.Tian Fengchang told the official Xinhua News Agency on Saturday that financial negotiations between the two sides had reached a standstill.The association fired Camacho last month following a 5-1 loss ...
REFILE-In China Nestle and Danone play it by the book
Sat Jul 6, 2013 4:53am EDT By Kazunori Takada SHANGHAI, July 6 (Reuters) - Swift responses from Swiss food company Nestle and French rival Danone to Beijing's announcement that it was investigating possible price-fixing of instant milk formulas are textbook examples of how firms should deal with such crises in China, executives and consultants say. Just a day after official Chinese media ...
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