Taipei, (CNA) A group of activists set off from Hong Kong Sunday evening to rendezvous with Taiwanese activists off northeastern Taiwan before sailing to the disputed Tiaoyutai Islands Aug. 14 to make separate territorial claims, an activist said Sunday. The Hong Kong group left Tsim Sha Tsui Pier at noon Sunday and arrived in...
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Daily Archives: August 13, 2012
Taiwan, Hong Kong activists team up on trip to Tiaoyutais
Nation’s Investments into ASEAN to Surge
Folk dancers at the 8th China-ASEAN Expo, held in Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, in October, 2011. The annual expo was initiated by Premier Wen Jiabao in 2003 as a platform to promote trade ties and good-neighborly relations. During the first half of the year, Chinese companies invested as much as $1.49...
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Fugitive Gunman Kills Police Officer in SW China
Zhou Kehua, 42-year-old male, was suspected of having committed several murders and robberies in Jiangsu and Hunan provinces and Chongqing Municipality since 2004. Police in southwest China’s Chongqing municipality are continuing to hunt for a fugitive armed robber who is suspected of killing nine people since 2004, including a police officer who was allegedly...
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Hsiao Bi-khim to attend Shanghai talk
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) yesterday left for Shanghai to participate in a seminar on cross-strait relations, but emphasized that she was doing so in a private capacity. Hsiao said she was invited to the seminar on the peaceful development of cross-strait -relations, organized by the Shanghai Institute for East Asia...
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Strong earthquake reported in far-western China
BEIJING — Chinese officials say a strong earthquake has struck a remote area of the country’s far-western Xinjiang region. The government earthquake monitoring center said the quake registered magnitude 6.2 and hit Sunday evening. It said it was centered 282 kilometers (175 miles) southeast of the oasis city of Hotan. The area is deep...
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Ford Affiliate to Buy China Heavy Truck Maker
SHANGHAI–China’sJiangling Motors Corp. (000550.SZ), which is 30%-owned by Ford Motor Co. (F), will acquire Taiyuan Changan Heavy Truck Co., marking the U.S. car maker’s first entry into the world’s largest heavy truck market. Ford said in a statement Wednesday its Chinese affiliate will acquire the local heavy truck maker from China Changan Automobile Group...
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Kaifeng to restore historical image
The local government in Kaifeng, an ancient city in Central China’s Henan province, plans to restore the city’s historical appearance of its downtown. The city was the capital of seven dynasties, including the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), when China’s economy boomed and society thrived. To restore the city’s historical outlook of its peak period...
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Hong Kong people share joy of China’s manned space program
Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung said Friday that Hong Kong people shared the joy of the nation’s remarkable achievements in its manned space mission, which has made all Chinese people proud. At the welcoming dinner for the 40-member space delegation, Leung said the 13-day Tiangong-1/Shenzhou-9 space mission was the longest in China’s aerospace...
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Hong Kong: Google Search Engine Sued for Defamation
Albert Yeung Sau-shing, the Chairman of Emperor Group in Hong Kong is suing Google Inc for defamation. He claimed that when searching his name, both in Chinese and English, in Google’s search engine, there are listed items that defame him. He demanded the court to issue injunction to Google for further distribution of the...
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Real estate curbs effective
Officials from the State Council are generally satisfied with the implementation of real estate curbs in most of the 16 major provinces and cities after two to three weeks’ investigation since last month, and only one city, Jiangmen in Guangdong Province, was criticized for slack implementation as of Sunday, according to local media reports....
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