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• Quarter of Chinese adults are overweight, obese: US study

  - 2008-07-08

  WASHINGTON AFP — Declining physical activity and a shift towards a Western diet are driving up obesity rates in China, with more than 25 percent of adults now considered overweight or obese, a study warned Tuesday. Researchers writing in the July/August issue of the journal Health Affairs predicted these...

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• Japan, US and EU car manufacturing shifting to emerging nations: study

  - 2008-03-27

  OTTAWA AFP — Automobile production in Brazil, Russia, India and China will surpass that of North America, traditionally the world's largest car market, for the first time in 2008, a Canadian bank said Thursday. The falloff in North America reflects plant closures by the traditional US automakers, said the...

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• GM recalls China-made sedans over brake problems

  - 2007-12-30

  BEIJING AFP — US auto giant General Motors' China joint venture has recalled 7,056 Buick cars sold in China due to problems with their front brakes, state media reported on Monday. Shanghai GM, a joint venture between GM and China's biggest carmaker Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., will make repairs...

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• China's Chery may delay entry to US, Europe market: exec

  - 2007-11-15

  DETROIT, United States AFP — China's Chery Automobile may delay its planned entry into the US and European markets because of problems meeting tougher regulations, a senior executive said Thursday. "We can't enter these markets without meeting the safety and emissions standards," Lin Zhang, general manager of Chery's international...

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• China's Brilliance to assemble cars in Russia

  - 2007-11-02

  BEIJING AFP — China's Brilliance Auto has signed an agreement to assemble more than 100,000 cars in Russia over the next five years, as it steps up its global expansion plans, state media said Friday. The Chinese automaker will export its 1.6 to 1.8 litre Junjie compact sedan in...

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• China to hold first-ever 'no car day' on Saturday

  - 2007-09-16

  BEIJING, AFP — China will initiate its first-ever nationwide "no car day" this weekend in an effort to promote environmental health and alleviate increasingly gridlocked urban roads, state press said Monday. Residents in 108 cities will be urged to take public transport, ride bikes or walk on the nation's...

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• Young Chinese worried about global warming, but want cars

  - 2007-08-20

  BEIJING AFP — Most of China's urban youth are concerned about global warming, but not enough to forsake the luxury of owning a car or other perks of being rich, state media said Monday, citing a survey. According to the survey of 2,500 people aged on average 30 years...

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• Nanjing Auto launches Britain's MG series in China

  - 2007-03-27

  SHANGHAI AFP — China's Nanjing Automobile Group revived Britain's MG with its first models of the historic marque rolling off the line at its new multi-million dollar plant on Tuesday, a company official said. "Today we have started production of the MG7 series and the MGTF sports car," Huang...

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• Chinese boomtown ponders car toll to cut gridlock

  - 2007-02-22

  BEIJING AFP — China's southern boomtown of Shenzhen is considering slapping a road toll on cars entering central areas of the city in an attempt to reduce traffic congestion, media reports said Thursday. Vice mayor Zhang Enping said steps needed to be taken to avert gridlock over the next...

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• China's intrepid carmakers head west

  - 2007-01-09

  DETROIT, United States AFP — Doubts about the quality and reliability of their belching vehicles are not deterring Chinese carmakers from dreaming big with plans to take on the US market. At the 2007 Detroit auto show, the Changfeng Group said Monday it plans to start selling its sport-utility vehicles...

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