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  • Blast at firecracker workshop kills three Chinese

    An explosion at an unlicensed firecracker workshop in central China killed three people and left three others injured Sunday, officials said. The blast occurred around 9.50 a.m. in Yangzhai village in Henan province, Xinhua reported. Police suspect it was caused by illegally stored gunpowder. The workshop owner's wife and daughter and a neighbour were killed. The three injured include the ...

  • 4G to debut in Shanghai next month

    4G services, which provide mobile users with internet access up to 50 times faster than the current 3G network, will be launched in Shanghai next month when the China Mobile company begins large-scale trials. The fourth generation of mobile phone mobile communication technology standards orm 4G provides users with high-speed internet access on devices such as phones, data cards and MiFi ...

  • China thrash India 5-0 in Sudirman Cup

    Indian shuttlers were thrashed 0-5 by their Chinese counterparts on the first day of the Sudirman Cup here at the Putra Stadium Sunday. India lost their Group A matches in all the five categories of the biennial world mixed team badminton championships, winning only one game out of 11. In the first match, Tarun Kona and Ashwini Ponnappa expectedly lost their mixed doubles tie against World ...

  • China ready to act as arbiter in Kashmir dispute

    The Chinese ambassador to Pakistan has said that China is ready to act as an arbiter in Kashmir dispute but any such arrangement is subject to India's consent. Envoy Liu Jian affirmed that the India and Pakistan could see rapprochement over Kashmir issue through China, reports The Nation. Jian, at a farewell reception, said that Pakistan and China would sign a wide range of trade and economy ...

  • Deadly rains affect 200000 in China

    Continuous rainfall has claimed one life and affecting some 200,000 people in southwest China, authorities said Sunday. The rains started Thursday and had battered 14 counties in Guangxi region, Xinhua reported. The downpour damaged or destroyed 561 houses and ruined 12,120 hectares of crops, resulting in direct economic losses of about $24 ...


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Australia is Baz Luhrmanns first film since 2001s postmodern musical pastiche Moulin Rouge!, and I am genuinely surprised that he opted not to put an exclamation point at the end of his magnum opus title given the passion with which he tears into this outback romantic epic. ... ...

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  • Beckham retirement plans may hurt China

    David Beckham has always prompted overreactions.At the 1998 World Cup, an overreaction from Argentina's Diego Simeone to a tap on the leg saw Beckham sent off; England lost the game and Beckham was subsequently hated by the majority of English soccer fans for at least a year.Just last week, Beckham's announcement that he is retiring saw the news widely described as "stunning" ...

  • China and India downplay problems on borderlands

    The peaceful resolution of the "tent confrontation" points to the maturing of India-China relations, and that both sides have the will and confidence to dissolve the crisis bilaterally and prevent it from acquiring dangerous proportions. But it also shows that India-China relations remains "fragile" and the hyper sensitive nature of the border issue remains at the core of ...

  • No case to answer for Beijing before arbitral tribunal in South China Sea

    In January, the Philippines instituted arbitration proceedings against China under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) with regard to disputes between the two countries in the South China Sea. China has chosen not to take part in these proceedings, claiming that the compulsory dispute settlement procedures under UNCLOS do not apply. Does China's rejection of the ...

  • China’s expanding house presses rest of global village

    It's true that we cannot predict the future. Yet when we know how much snow has fallen on the Himalaya Mountains, we can predict flood levels six months later as the snow creates the floods. Similarly, a lot of snow has fallen on the global order, and we can see some of the flood of challenges to come.One prediction in my new book, The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One ...

  • China Rains Kill 55 Alert Issued as Further Storms Predicted

    A journalist (R) records a video on a raft as a man paddles along flooded street after heavy downpours hit Jianghua Yao Autonomous County, Hunan province May 16, 2013. One person died and 270,000 others were affected by a new round of rain in central China's Hunan Province, authorities said. China rains have killed 55 people this week, as devastating storms hit the southern regions of the ...

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