December 29, 2011, 1:32 AM EST By Bloomberg News Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) — Protesters in the Southern Chinese village of Wukan have organized to distribute food to the poor as a nine-day police blockade left people short of supplies. People in the village in Guangdong province have not been allowed to get food from...
BEIJING, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) — Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hong Lei said Thursday that China welcomes the Arab League (AL) observer mission to conduct objective investigations in Syria. China hopes to see concerted efforts from all relevant sides in the substantial implementation of the observers protocol, so as to create conditions for the proper...
“We and the Chinese need each other,” said Nikolai Tokarev, the head of Transneft, a state company responsible for the Russian portion of the pipeline. “They need oil, and we need a market,” added the Russian, a longtime associate of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. When it came time to settle accounts for the first...
Google Inc. and Intel Corp. were logical targets for China-based hackers, given the solid-gold intellectual property data stored in their computers. An attack by cyber spies on iBahn, a provider of Internet services to hotels, takes some explaining. iBahn provides broadband business and entertainment access to guests of Marriott International Inc. and other hotel...
ISLAMABAD, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) — CEO of CMPak , China Mobile’s wholely owned subsidiary in Pakistan, Fan Yunjun Thursday said that CMPak has made a cumulative investment of 1.5 billion U.S. dollars in Pakistan in 4 years and it has deposited 26 billion rupees (289 million US dollars) as taxes during the same period....
BEIJING — China said Thursday a police operation to free hostages in the restive Xinjiang region had left seven “terrorists” dead, but an exile group described the incident as a desperate protest by local Uighurs. The incident is the latest reported violent confrontation in the region — home to roughly nine million Turkic-speaking Uighurs...
In a little-noticed ruling made public Dec. 14, the council approved changes to the boundaries of a Yangtze River preserve that is home to many of the river’s rare and endangered fish species. The effect of the decision is to clear the way for construction of the Xiaonanhai Dam, a 23.9 billion renminbi, or...
Beijing (CNN) — Chinese officials said they killed seven members of the Uighur ethnic group in the restive western region of Xinjiang in order to free two hostages — an account the Uighurs disputed. The hostages — local villagers looking for their lost sheep in the rural county of Pishan outside of Hotan city–...
Beijing – China said Thursday police killed seven “terroristsâ€� who took hostages in the nation’s restive Xinjiang region during a rescue operation that left one police officer dead. The incident is the latest reported violent confrontation in the region — home to roughly nine million Turkic-speaking Uighurs who have long bristled under Chinese rule...
China’s independent Beidou satellite navigation system has been operating since 2000, but consisting of just three satellites (and one backup), that first generation system offered only limited coverage to customers in China and neighboring regions. Now, to end any reliance on the US-maintained Global Positioning System (GPS), the second generation of the Beidou system...
