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  • 55 dead as hailstorms lash south China

    A total of 50 people have died while 14 reported missing due to latest rain and hailstorms that have hit south China, the government statistics said Friday. The worst-hit Guangdong province reported 36 deaths and 10 missing people, reported Xinhua citing authorities related to disaster reduction. In the evening, the National Committee for Disaster Reduction and the Ministry of Civil Affairs ...

  • China opposes EUs aviation emissions levy

    China has opposed the European Union's (EU) unilateral decision to incorporate international flights originating from countries outside of the EU into its carbon trading scheme, reported Xinhua. On Thursday, the European Commission, an executive body of the EU, said eight Chinese carriers could face fines totalling 2.4 million euros, or about $3 million, and the two Indian airlines could face ...

  • India China to be biggest investors by 2030 World Bank

    India and China will be the biggest investors by 2030, accounting for 38 percent of the global gross investment and almost half of all the world manufacturing investment, says the World Bank. "In the gradual convergence scenario, in 2030, China will save far more than any other developing country - $9 trillion in 2010 dollar terms - with India a distant second at $1.7 trillion, surpassing the ...

  • Carbon aerogel worlds lightest material made by scientists

    A team of scientists in China has produced the lightest material ever made. Zhejiang University in China announced in a statement that the ultra-light substance, called carbon aerogel, has a density of 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimetre, CBS News reported. The substance, which is made of granite and carbon nanotubes, can absorb up to 900 times its own body weight. "Carbon aerogel is similar ...

  • Mexican Foreign Minister to Pay Official Visit to China

    Beijing, May 18 (Prensa Latina) The Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Jose Antonio Meade, will start Sunday a two-day official visit to China, said the Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei. Meade meets an invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Those nations last year celebrated four decades of the establishment of diplomatic relations, which rose to strategic partnership in 2003. ...


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  • 5.1-magnitude quake hits Chinas Yellow Sea CENC

    A 5.1-magnitude quake jolted China's Yellow Sea at 6:02 am Saturday Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.The epicenter, with a depth of 8 km, was monitored at 37.7 degrees north latitude and 124.7 degrees east longitude, the center ...

  • China wealth management sector shrinks

    Chinese authorities' recent tightening over banks' wealth management products has led to a decrease in the number of new products and their yields.Chinese banks and financial institutions in April issued 2,439 wealth management products, a kind of high-interest deposits. The figure was 12.8 percent lower than in March, according to Bankrate.com.cn.In the first week of May, 35 Chinese ...

  • 55 killed 14 missing in S. China storms

    Fifty-five people have died and 14 others were reported missing in the latest round of rain and hailstorms that have swept south China, according to official statistics collected as of 8 p.m. ...

  • Officials scramble to lift block on NZ meat in China

    China steps up inspection of meat trade after fake lamb scandal Government officials are working "around the clock" to resolve an issue which has seen New Zealand meat products stopped at the border in China. The problem is understood to be around documentation and while the Government will not say how much meat has been prevented from entering China, Labour claims it is ...

  • Cannes 2013 A Touch Of Sin the boldest work to emerge from China in years

    Disgusted by corrupt local leaders, an angry miner picks up a shotgun. A migrant worker returning home looks to armed robbery to escape a life of relentless bleakness. A pretty receptionist at a sauna is driven to the limit when a gangster tries to rape her. And a young man drifts nightmarishly from job to job to try to make ends meet. These tableaux would not be out of place in a gritty ...

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