Friday 18th May, 2012
China jails smuggling king Lai 'for life'
BEIJING (AFP) - A Chinese court on Friday handed a life sentence to Lai Changxing, the head of a vast smuggling operation who spent 12 years on the run in Canada before being deported last year, ...
China allows N.Koreans to leave for Seoul: reports
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File illustration photo shows the Yalu Bridge at the Chinese-North Korean border town of Dandong in December 2011. China has allowed six North Korean refugees to leave for South ...
Wei Wei dominates as China beats Canada in women's basketball exhibition
Six-foot-nine centre Wei Wei was dominant at both ends of the court as China beat host Canada 67-51 in an exhibition women’s basketball game Thursday.Teresa Gabrielle was Canada’s best ...
China says 'ready to work' with new French president
Daily NationAFP PHOTO / FRANCK FIFE Supporters of Socialist Party (PS) candidate for the 2012 French presidential election celebrate at Place de la Bastille in Paris on May 6, 2012 after the announcement of ...
Chinese vice premier calls for macroeconomic policy coordination among SCO members
Global TimesVice Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday called for members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to make greater efforts to coordinate their macroeconomic policies. Li made the remark during a ...
Chinese gov't demands greater transparency
Global TimesThe general office of the State Council, or China's cabinet, on Thursday issued a document calling for greater transparency regarding governmental information disclosures to the public. ...
Chinese Olympic medallist Li Ning eager to participate in Olympic Flame Handover ceremony
Global TimesChinese Olympic medallist Li Ning expressed his eagerness to participate as one of the last torchbearers in the Olympic Flame Handover ceremony for the 2012 London Games to be held in Athens on ...
Beidou navigation system installed on more Chinese fishing boats
Global TimesChina's homegrown Beidou Navigation Satellite System has grown in popularity among fishermen, with nearly 70,000 people using its short message service (SMS), said an official from the ...
US Sets New Tariffs on Chinese Solar Imports
CNBCThe United States hit Chinese solar companies with punitive import tariffs of 30 percent or more on Thursday, ruling they had dumped cut-price solar panels into the U.S. ...
China launches earthquake warning service
Asia News NetworkScientists in China's Sichuan province successfully managed to send an early earthquake warning in Wenchuan county, site of a disastrous earthquake four years ...
Philippines stops protest trip to shoal disputed with China
InquirerNicanor Faeldon. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO MASINLOC, Philippines–Philippine President Benigno Aquino told protesters to abort their plan to sail Friday to a disputed South China Sea shoal also ...
‘Princelings’ in China Use Family Ties to Gain Riches
New York TimesChina ’s tightly protected film industry: a $330 million deal to create a Shanghai animation studio that might one day rival the California shops that turn out hits like "Kung Fu ...
Chinese Fishing Boats Reported Seized by North Korean Gunmen
International Herald TribuneBEIJING - The Chinese state news media said Thursday that North Korean gunmen plying the Yellow Sea had seized three Chinese fishing boats with 29 sailors aboard and were demanding a ransom for ...
China media: Captured fishermen
BBCChina Daily's editorial says if Japan "had looked at the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea it would have realized its bid was absurd and doomed to failure". The dispute ...
China raises rare earth exports
BBCChina has allowed more companies to export rare earths, increasing the quotas set by the government, after they met environment standards. It has increased rare earth export quotas by 10,680 ...
China sentences former fugitive to life in prison
USA TodayThe official Xinhua News Agency reported that Lai Changxing was convicted and sentenced Friday morning by the Intermediate People's Court in Xiamen, the port city which was his base. On top of the ...
China's Most-Wanted Gets Life in Prison
Time(BEIJING) -; The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison Friday for running a large-scale smuggling operation that paid off scores of Chinese government ...
Chinese smuggling king Lai gets life in jail: Xinhua
West AustralianBEIJING (AFP) - A Chinese court Friday handed a sentence of life in jail to the boss of a huge smuggling and bribery scam who was at the centre of a lengthy deportation battle with Canada, state ...
China 'concerned' over Europe woes: Australia
West AustralianSYDNEY (AFP) - Global powerhouse China is "very concerned" about the turmoil in Europe, Australia said, and will push for the world's leading economies to make a commitment to growth ...
Philippines Dispute Used in Chinese Regime’s Power Struggle
The Epoch TimesFishing boats, locally known as 'mother boats' which are used to transport fish caught around Scarborough shoal, north of Manila, facing the South China Sea, on May 10, 2012. For years ...
Dollar Wary China Soon To Be World's Top Gold Buyer
ForbesThe World Gold Council cites China as the main source of gold demand, lending support to gold prices. Maybe it's a love for bling or just uncertainty over the dollar's direction, but ...
China Telecom procures PON equipment in large volume
DigitimesChina Telecom has finished 2012 open-bid procurement of PON equipment, with China-based vendors ZTE and FiberHome Technologies as well as Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell being major suppliers, ...
China market: Baidu to launch cloud computing smartphones, says report
DigitimesBaidu, the largest China-based search engine, will cooperate with three partners to launch smartphones with built-in Baidu Cloud, Baidu's in-house-developed suite of applications based on cloud ...
US levies heavy anti-dumping tariffs on China-made solar cells
DigitimesUS Department of Commerce announced on May 17 the preliminary decision on anti-dumping investigations. The range of punitive tariffs to be imposed on China-based solar firms is from 31-250%, ...
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