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New Asia chief works to end China's dominance
Beijing :: China | 9 minutes ago
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China's Cai Zhenhua was elected president of the Asian Table Tennis Union last week and admits his main priority is to make his own country less dominant. China won all four golds at last year's Beijing Olympics and won 18 of 20 medals, including a sweep...
Tags: South China Morning Post, Asian Table Tennis Union, International Table Tennis Federation, China, Beijing, Table tennis, Chinese Singaporeans, World Table Tennis Championships, Zhang Xueling, Cai, State of Cai, Surnames, allnews
Beijing grapples with growing garbage crisis
Beijing :: China | about 5 hours ago
Credibility Every night, Mrs Wang finds herself shuttered in her northwest Beijing apartment because of the stench from the nearby dump. "For at least one hour, we don't open our windows as the smell from the rubbish tip is horrendous," said the frustrated young...
Tags: Beijing, China, Wang Weiping, rubbish tip, domestic waste, Thermal treatment, Naples waste management issue, Incineration, Electronic waste, Waste container, Waste management, Recyclable materials, Recycling, Environment
Gas explosion traps 139 coal miners in north-east China
Beijing :: China | about 6 hours ago
Credibility Hegang City, Heilongjiang province, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported. Local residents in Hegang, 10 kilometres from the mine site, said they felt the blast. Rescue operations were underway, Xinhua said, and more than 300 miners had been found.
Tags: China, Xinhua, Heilongjiang Longmei, coal mining, heilongjiang province, Hegang City, mining explosion, gas explosion, china mining, safety watchdog, Beijing, Wen Jiabao, Zhang Dejiang, Disaster Accident, Environment, Balhae, Heilongjiang, Hegang, Shanxi mine blast, Coal power in China, Naval mine, Mining accident, Explosive weapons, Firedamp, Coal, Mining
US lawmakers press on Taiwan arms sales
Taipei :: Taiwan | about 6 hours ago
Credibility Supporters of Taiwan in the US Congress on Friday pushed for President Barack Obama to move toward selling arms to the island, a step that would almost certainly anger China. Obama sought warmer relations with China on his maiden visit this week and is...
Tags: Taiwan, United States, Barack Obama, Congress, China, Beijing, Taipei, Republic of China, One-China policy, Ma Ying-jeou, Foreign relations of the People's Republic of China, Political status of Taiwan, Taiwan Relations Act, Politics
iPhone to attract 10 pct of 3G users by 2012, Unicom says
Beijing :: China | about 7 hours ago
Credibility Apple's wireless carrier in China on Friday expressed its high expectations for the iPhone despite the relatively low sales since its debut, hoping the handset to attract 10 percent of China's 3G users in the in the next three years. A senior executive...
Tags: China Unicom, China Daily, 3g users, China, Beijing, 3G, T-Mobile, Unicom, Apple Inc., Business Finance, Multi-touch, Smartphones, IPhone, Technology Internet
Obama Raised Issue of American Held in China
Hong Kong :: China | about 11 hours ago
Credibility The Chinese government has held an American oil geologist on suspicion of stealing state secrets for nearly two years, prompting President Obama to raise the issue during his visit to Beijing this week, the American Embassy in Beijing said Friday. The...
Tags: Dr. Xue, IHS Inc., American Embassy, Beijing, Mr. Cohen, China, Mr. Mattix, Hong Kong, Surnames, Xue, Xue family murder and abandonment
Michael Phelps Targeted In Carrie Prejean Paternity Scheme
Beijing :: China | about 14 hours ago
Credibility The Apple don’t fall too far from the Psycho…. Olympic golden-boy-turned-baddie Michael Phelps narrowly escaped a sinister plot to have him to father a cash cow love child with “Biblically-Correct” former pageant queen Carrie Prejean. Carrie met the...
Tags: Michael Phelps, Carrie Prejean, Francine, China, Beijing, Carrie, Phelps, Prejean, Teen films, Human Interest
New Moon opening night: Chinese women are swept off their feet
Beijing :: China | about 14 hours ago
Credibility Despite a lack of vampire lore in China, young women are snapping up the books and pirated movies. China has no literary tradition of vampires, aside from a few 17th-century short stories about a blood-sucking variety of ghost, but "Twilight" has swept...
Tags: opens night, New Moon, moon opens, China, Beijing, David Wolpe, Jerusalem, Israel, Zionism, Contemporary fantasy, Twilight, Entertainment Culture, Religion Belief, Mishra, PVR Cinemas, The Brothers' War, Robert Pattinson, Johannesburg, Teen films, Twilight series, Horror novels, Edward Cullen, Stephenie Meyer, Romance novels, Fantasy novels
Beijing implicated in US cyber espionage report,
Beijing :: China | about 14 hours ago
Credibility A report to the US Congress accuses Beijing of increasing online espionage, the Prime Minister of Belgium has been appointed President of the European Council, the Bangladesh Supreme Court has condemned the assassins of the country’s first Prime Minister...
Tags: Bangladesh Supreme Court, China, prime minister, British Peer Baroness Ashton, United States, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, European Council, Mujib Rahman, Farah City, sheikh mujib, Beijing, Chiefs of Army Staff Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh Awami League, Bangladesh Liberation War, Politics
Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: "long city/fortress") or (simplified Chinese: traditional Chinese: pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng; literally "The long wall of 10,000 Li) is a series of stone and earthen...
Tags: Qin Shi Huang, Chinese Empire, China, Beijing, Emperor, Inner Mongolia, Qin Dynasty, Li, Great Wall of China, Shanhaiguan, Autonomous regions of the Peoples Republic of China, Han Chinese, Xiongnu, great walls, Hospitality Recreation
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