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China minister unusually upbeat on climate talks

HONG KONG, Dec 2 (Reuters) - China's foreign minister was unusually upbeat on Tuesday about prospects for agreement on a new pact to tackle global warming by an ambitious 2009 deadline, as top negotiators gathered in Poland for...

China reports huge increase in children sickened by tainted milk (AFP)

by Karl Malakunas Karl Malakunas – 24 mins ago AFP/File – A toddler drinking from a bottle. China said Monday that a total of 294,000 children had fallen ill from … BEIJING (AFP) – China has dramatically raised the tally of...

Back up stimulus with clean norms

Some Chinese local governments are in danger of speeding up environmental degradation in the name of maintaining stable economic growth while they have been urged to quickly launch investment projects to keep the economy...

Global Economy: No Help from China's Consumers (BusinessWeek Online)

BusinessWeek Online - Jack Tan was a Western marketer's dream. The 24-year-old bank manager from the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen regularly spent a big chunk of his $1,200 monthly salary at Pizza Hut , McDonald's , and TGI...

Rwanda: Frw 800 Million Chinese Grant for New Hospital

Posted to the web 1 December 2008 Timothy Kisambira Rwanda and China last week signed a Yuan 10 million (Frw 800m) grant on economic and technical cooperation, as agreed during the Beijing summit of the forum on China-Africa...

Purged leader urges openness

THE most senior surviving Chinese leader to have been purged in the wake the Tiananmen massacre will today call for the Communist Party to return to "open and democratic decision making" as personified by two other purged...

AIDS epicenter villagers fight prejudice as they seek work

ZHENGZHOU, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Kong Chunyi, 35, is in the prime of his working life, but he's given up hope of finding a city job like so many of his rural peers, because of the scary name of his disease: AIDS. "The name of my...

China shifts gears on AIDS

Health authorities launch campaign to fight discrimination Chinese health authorities and the U.N. AIDS agency pledged to fight discrimination against people with the disease in China with the unveiling of a huge red ribbon...

China Can Do the Most Good for the World by Putting Its Own House in Order

This should be China's time to shine. The country is sitting on almost $2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves and may post a 9 percent growth rate this year, probably the highest of any nation. In the midst of a global...

SMEs scouting for ways to remain in business

BEIJING, Dec. 1 -- Amid the coupling effects of shrinking global demand and rising operating costs, it has been a dramatic upheaval this year for domestic small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) after China started its...

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