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At a disarmament conference in Geneva, Russia and China formally presented a plan to ban weapons in space. From the International Herald Tribune: Russia and China have pushed for years for a treaty to prevent an arms race in space,
The Guardian reports on an Internet sex scandal that has made the front pages of the Hong Kong media for 16 days in a row, and has been abundantly covered by ESWN and Shanghaiist. From the Guardian: An unlikely coalition
The horror, violence and cruelty depicted in the audio and video were unfit for children and extremely harmful for their psychological development, the General Administration of Press and Publications (GAPP) said in a circular. It also ordered all publications containing
From Financial Times : China's chief environmental watchdog says local officials are sabotaging a central government edict to restrict loans to heavily polluting industries, despite limited success in withholding credit in some provinces. Pan Yue , the outspoken deputy head
From Los Angeles Times : In the shadow of the $440-million "bird's nest" Olympic stadium , migrant workers toil for a few dollars a day. A few miles away, bulldozers destroy a neighborhood where petitioners gather to seek justice from
From AP via Seattlepi.com : Chinese insurers have paid more than 1.2 billion yuan, or $165 million, for deaths and damage from snowstorms that killed at least 107 people, said officials quoted Wednesday by a state news agency. Millions more
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mohammad Ali Hosseini, who is on a visit to New Delhi said in an unambiguous statement that there is limited time left for India to take a decision on the gas pipeline, the Dawn reported. "Expedite
The government is determined to have a better network of road and water transport and emergency response system in place by 2010 in order to reduce the number of accidents. The system is expected to help cut the death rate
Chinese shares started the first trading day lower on Wednesday after the week-long Spring Festival holiday. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index opened at 4,525.03 points, down 74.67 points, or 1.6 percent from the previous tradi ...
Chinese insurance firms had paid out more than one billion yuan (138.8 million U.S. dollars) on claims stemming from the severe wintry weather in south and central China, but millions more may yet be paid, according to insurance regulator. ...
My little sister, where exactly are you?" Thousands of times Chen Huixiang, an 87-year-old citizen from Nanchang city, in east China's Jiangxi Province, has called this out in tearful dreams. After seeing granny missing her little ...
The extreme weather that hit China in recent weeks has damaged 18.6 million hectares of forest in 19 snow-afflicted provincial regions, the State Forestry Administration announced here Wednesday. The total included 6.83 million ha o ...
Disasters caused by prolonged low temperatures, icy rains and heavy snows in the southern part of China in the past month killed a total of 107 people and left 8 others missing by Tuesday, said Li Xueju, minister of civil
China's Ministry of Public Security has issued a warrant for the arrest of two men who are wanted in connection with 14 robberies, involving more than 230,000 U.S. dollars. Deng Guowu, 22, and Xiang Yong, 34, both from the central
Government of Shanghai has vowed to improve its social insurance system to provide better care for migrant workers. The social insurance scheme, designed for Shanghai's migrant population, especially its farmers-turned-workers, alre ...
Twenty-one people were confirmed dead and 14 injured after a bus plunged into a river in southwest China's mountainous Guizhou Province on Tuesday, the local safety watchdog said. Search and rescue work ended on Wednesday morning, a ...
One person died and 434 were treated in hospital for injuries from fireworks-related accidents in Beijing during the week-long Spring Festival holiday, local authorities said. In the period from the Lunar New Year's eve until the si ...
One worker was killed and five others were injured in an explosion at a chemical plant on Wednesday in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. The explosion took place at an ammonia synthesis facility at about 9:10 a.m. A
