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Earthquake-hit cable link 'restored' |
2007-1-30 |
| Mainland telephone operators have almost restored communications disrupted by an earthquake off the southern coast of Taiwan last month that severed undersea cables.
China Telecom, the country's largest fixed-line carrier, said in a statement issued at 4pm yesterday that it had "basically" restored all its international call and Internet services over the weekend after repairing the main cable. ...... |
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Japan's defence minister chides US again |
2007-1-29 |
| TOKYO - Japan's defence minister has criticised Washington's handling of the relocation of an American base in Japan in his second attack on US decision-making inside a week, Kyodo news agency said on Sunday.
Fumio Kyuma irked the Bush administration on Wednesday by saying the United States was wrong to start the war in Iraq.
Kyodo reported that his remarks on Iraq had prompted James Zumwalt, ...... |
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Anti-war protesters demand Iraq pullout |
2007-1-29 |
| WASHINGTON - Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq.
Celebrities, a half-dozen lawmakers and protesters from distant states rallied in the capital under a sunny sky, seizing an opportunity to press their cause with a...... |
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Report: N.Korea nuclear talks to resume Feb.8 |
2007-1-29 |
| TOKYO - Japan's foreign minister said he expected an announcement on a resumption of six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program to be made Monday, a news report said.
"North Korea has been saying (they want to resume talks) on February 8. If the United States accepts it, it will be the eighth. Tomorrow, it will be announced conclusively," Kyodo News agency quoted Foreign Minister Tar...... |
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China, Japan vow to tighten ties |
2007-1-29 |
| China and Japan vowed to build "strategic, mutually beneficial" ties on Saturday at the conclusion of the seventh round of strategic talks between the two countries' top diplomats in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province.
Vice-Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo and Japanese Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Yachi Shotaro led the two delegations at the meetings, which began in Beijing las...... |
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Largest Winter Asiad starts |
2007-1-29 |
| CHANGCHUN, Jilin Province: Two men's ice hockey teams and an alpine skier from the Middle East were among those making their debut as the curtain rose at the Sixth Asian Winter Games yesterday in the capital of Northeast China's Jilin Province.
President Hu Jintao declared open the largest-ever Winter Asiad which has attracted all the 45 members of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) at Changchun ...... |
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Industrialization on track: report |
2007-1-29 |
| China may complete the transformation from an agricultural economy into an industrial one by 2015, but the country still has a long way to go toward protecting its environment, according to a report by China's top scientific institutions.
China's Modernization Report 2007 found that the level of ecological protection in the country had failed to progress when compared with other nations over the...... |
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Migrant workers 'have 20m' kids back home |
2007-1-29 |
| The number of migrant workers was more than 140 million in 2005, according to Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' figures.
And many of these parents' children suffer from loneliness, perform poorly at school and are prone to juvenile delinquency, it said.
The local media often reports their tragedy. One such case was the death of a 12-year-old in Suzhou of Anhui. The boy killed himself by drin...... |
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Audit office says funds misused |
2007-1-27 |
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The Three Gorges Dam, China's gigantic hydro energy project, is located on the Yangtze River. Click to see the slideshow about Three Gorges Dam.
The National Audit Office (CNAO) has found that 272 million yuan ($34.8 million) of the funds allocated to the resettlement of residents displaced by the Three Gorges Project in 2004 and 2005 was misappropriated by local authorities.
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Program to help AIDS prevention |
2007-1-27 |
| China on Friday launched a national program on HIV/AIDS prevention and care in the workplace.
The $3.5 million HIV/AIDS Workplace Education Program, funded by the United States Department of Labor, will be overseen by the International Labour Organization (ILO), and implemented in the provinces of Anhui, Guangdong and Yunnan.
"China is now at a critical stage in fighting HIV/AIDS," said Hu Xia...... |
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