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- Higher fines for stars breaking China's one-child rule: state media
- BEIJING AFP — Beijing plans to make an example of celebrities who flout China's one-child policy by dramatically raising fines to prevent them buying their way past the rule, state media said Monday. "Celebrities and wealthy people will be more heavily fined for giving birth to more than one...
- Research articles 2008-01-21
- General Electric to build power stations in Turkmenistan: state media
- ASHGABAT AFP — US company General Electric has been asked to build two power stations in Turkmenistan, state media said Sunday, in the latest sign the reclusive Central Asian state is opening up to Western firms. "President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has given the American partners a concrete task: build two...
- Research articles 2007-11-18
- Rescuers became victims in China mine blast: state media
- BEIJING AFP — At least 50 miners untrained in rescue work rushed into a Chinese coal mine in a futile bid to save colleagues stricken by a gas explosion, doubling the death toll, state media said Saturday. The accident in Hongtong county in northern Shanxi province has claimed at...
- Research articles 2007-12-07
- China to launch pollution survey in February: state media
- BEIJING AFP — China, which is facing serious environmental problems due to its booming economic growth, will next month launch its first nationwide survey to identify pollution sources, state media said Saturday. The survey, to be completed in the first half of 2008, will assess the sources of industrial,...
- Research articles 2008-01-04
- At least 43 dead in China train collision: state media
- BEIJING AFP — At least 43 people were killed and nearly 250 injured early Monday when a passenger train from Beijing careered off the rails and slammed into another train in eastern China, state media reported. The train was travelling to Qingdao -- the coastal city that will host...
- Research articles 2008-04-27
- China defends oil price controls: state media
- SHANGHAI AFP — The Chinese government defended itself against corporate criticism of oil price controls, saying they were good for the national economy, state media reported on Tuesday. Ensuring social and economic stability required moving slowly on oil product price reform, the China Securities Journal reported, citing Zhang Guobao,...
- Research articles 2008-06-09
- China in anti-monopoly probe of Microsoft: state media
- BEIJING AFP — China has begun an anti-monopoly investigation into US software giant Microsoft and lawsuits by local companies could follow, state media reported on Wednesday. China's State Intellectual Property Office and some research institutions have targeted Microsoft and several other global software firms over suspected monopoly activities, the...
- Research articles 2008-06-18
- China's largest oil and gas producer cuts jobs: state media
- BEIJING AFP — China National Petroleum Corp CNPC, the country's largest oil and gas producer, is to cut 5 percent of its workforce as it seeks to control costs after a fall in profits, state media said Saturday. The parent company of PetroChina employed 1.67 million people last year,...
- Research articles 2008-07-26
- China expects to set new box-office record this year: state media
- BEIJING AFP — China is expected to set a record for box office receipts in 2008, boosted by John Woo's epic "Red Cliff," Jet Li's "The Warlords" and the animated hit "Kung-Fu Panda," state media reported Wednesday. Film ticket sales are expected to top four billion yuan (590 million...
- Research articles 2008-08-06
- Mao's successor Hua Guofeng dead at 87: state media
- BEIJING AFP — Hua Guofeng, who succeeded Mao Zedong as chairman of China's ruling Communist Party and briefly ruled the country, died Wednesday at the age of 87, state media reported. State television CCTV and the official Xinhua news agency said Hua -- one of the last of the...
- Research articles 2008-08-20
- Livestock infected with foot and mouth disease in Vietnam: state media
- HANOI AFP ? Around 1,200 buffalos, cows and pigs have been infected with foot and mouth disease in Vietnam's central province of Quang Nam, state media said. Provincial government head Nguyen Xuan Phuc said the disease had been detected in 26 communes following an initial outbreak in December last...
- Research articles 2004-02-08
- Seven Chinese kidnapped in Iraq: state media
- HONG KONG AFP ? Seven Chinese citizens became the latest foreigners to be kidnapped in Iraq when they were abducted by an armed group, state media quoted a Chinese diplomat in Baghdad as saying. The seven entered Iraq from Jordan early Sunday and were most probably abducted in the...
- Research articles 2004-04-11
- Saudi king orders cabinet reshuffle: state media
- RIYADH AFP — Saudi Arabia's ruling King Fahd has sacked his education and social affairs ministers as part of a cabinet rehuffle and swapped round his pilgrimage and cultural ministers, state media reported. A royal decree "dismissed" education minister Mohammad al-Rashid and replaced him with Abdullah bin Saleh al-Obeid,...
- Research articles 2005-02-08
- China will not be a scapegoat for US domestic problems: state media
- BEIJING AFP — China will never accept being a scapegoat for US domestic problems, state media said after Washington urged Beijing to understand the pressure it is under over booming exports of Chinese textiles. During talks in Beijing on Saturday, US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez explained that the US...
- Research articles 2005-06-05
- Chinese spacecraft to return Monday morning: state media
- BEIJING AFP — The Shenzhou VI spacecraft will return to Earth on Monday after five days in space, state media reported. The craft would land early in the morning "as scheduled", the Xinhua news agency said on Sunday. Earlier in the day, Chinese authorities said that weather conditions...
- Research articles 2005-10-16
- Vietnam hospital waste turned into utensils: state media
- HANOI AFP — Environmental officers in Vietnam have found that nearly 300 tonnes of medical waste from a Hanoi hospital was illegally processed into household plastic utensils, state media said Wednesday. A staff member at the Vietnam-Germany Hospital sold the used plastic items -- including IV transmission lines and...
- Research articles 2007-08-29
- State media says China's vast sovereign wealth fund 'stabilising force'
- BEIJING AFP — China Investment Corp., a company established recently to handle 200 billion dollars of forex reserves, has vowed to play a "stabilising role" in global financial markets, state media said Friday. Lou Jiwei, the former vice finance minister in charge of the company, said no similar sovereign...
- Research articles 2007-11-30
- State media sees Ford eying new China car plant
- BEIJING AFP — Ford Motor Co, which is selling off parts of its automotive empire and closing plants in North America, is mulling a new car plant in China to meet growing demand, state media said Tuesday. "We are gauging the need for further expansion of our manufacturing capacity,"...
- Research articles 2007-12-03
- N Korean leader even fixes TVs for beloved troops: state media
- SEOUL AFP — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has such "paternal love" for his troops that he even checks the TV reception and room temperature in their barracks, state media said Monday. "Today, the soldiers of the Korean People's Army revere and follow leader Kim Jong-Il rather as their...
- Research articles 2007-12-24
- Myanmar junta makes rare fuel price pledge: state media
- YANGON AFP — Myanmar's military regime has promised to hold fuel prices at current levels, state media reported Tuesday, amid rumours of a hike similar to that which sparked last year's unprecedented mass protests. "The sales of fuel to petrol and diesel vehicles will remain as usual," the official...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
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