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World TT Holder Zhang to face Wang in all-Chinese final
In a rematch of last year's Olympic final, defending champion Zhang Jike will fight for the men's singles title against Wang Hao at the World Table Tennis Championships here Monday. Zhang, the fourth seed, crushed top seed and teammate Xu Xin 11-8, 11-2, 11-9, 12-10 while Wang beat second seed Ma Long in the other all-Chinese semifinal 11-9, 11-7, 11-3, 7-11, 12-14, 11-3 Sunday night, Xinhua ...
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India-China consensus big stride forward Li
Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Monday described the consensus reached on various issues between China and India as "a big stride forward" and called for conducting dialogue in a "mature and sensible way". It was fair to say that the two sides had "arrived at multiple, significant outcomes", Li said in his statement to the media alongside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Both countries had ...
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Chinese Taipei win mens doubles TT title
Chinese Taipei's Chen Chien-An and Chuang Chih-Yuan upset Hao Shuai and Ma Lin from China to win the men's doubles title at the World Table Tennis Championships here. Chen and Chuang fought back from one game down to win three in a row but Ma, former Olympic Champion, and Hao Shuai took the fifth before the Chinese Taipei tandem sealed the victory Sunday by taking the sixth 11-8, reports ...
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India China border experts will meet soon
Special representatives of India and China will meet soon to discuss their disputed border where Chinese incursion sparked tensions recently, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday. Speaking to the media jointly with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Manmohan Singh said that while India and China have had differences, relations had been built steadily in the more recent times. He said both ...
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Tibetans protest in Delhi hold Chinese premier responsible for self-immolations
Tibetan organisations are staging protests in different parts of Delhi against the three-day state visit to India of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. Shouting slogans against the visiting Chinese dignitary, the Tibetans said they held Keqiang responsible for the spate of self immolations in their homeland. "Li Keqiang is responsible for the killings in Tibet. 117 self immolations have happened and ...
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Have good manners Chinese official to tourists
If you are a tourist in China, you better have "healthy and civilised" manners. Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang Sunday stressed that efforts should be made to advocate "healthy and civilized" manners among tourists. Wang made the remarks during an inspection tour to central China's Henan province, just days after he advocated polite tourist behavior and stressed that a good image of Chinese ...
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Chinese PM vows to open up markets to India
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang pledged on Tuesday to open up domestic markets to Indian businesses and narrow a gaping trade deficit between the two countries."As for Indian concerns over the trade deficit, the Chinese side is willing to provide facilitations for more Indian products to access the Chinese market," Li said during a speech to Indian business ...
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Chinese ‘spy’ busts at NYU
Three Chinese citizens engaged in industrial espionage while conducting federally funded research at NYU Langone Medical Center, authorities charged yesterday.The men - one of whom was called an "innovator" in MRI technology" - allegedly funneled "nonpublic information" financed by taxpayers to a rival university in China and a company backed by the Chinese ...
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Taiwan networkingcommunication device makers see decreasing profit-to-RD spending ratio
Seven main Taiwan-based networking/communication device makers saw the average ratio of pre-tax profit to R&D expenditure continually decline from 0.87 for 2010 to 0.45 for first-quarter 2013, their financial reports have ...
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Taiwan attracts January-April foreign direct investment of over US$1.5 billion
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) approved 960 foreign direct investment projects (except from China) totaling US$1.558 billion in January-April 2013. The number of projects increased 34.08% on year but the value decreased ...
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Taiwan April export order value slightly down on month year says MOEA
Taiwan received export orders worth US$35.69 billion in total in April 2013, decreasing by 0.4% on month and by 1.1% on year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on May ...
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Taiwan makers expected to benefit from Lenovo targeting smartphones in 2013
China-based Lenovo jumped into the world's 10 largest smartphone vendors for the first quarter and has set an ambitious goal of shipping 60 million smartphones in fiscal year 2013 (April 2013-March 2014), which is expected to benefit Lenovo's existing Taiwan-based ODMs and EMS providers Compal Communications, Foxconn International Holdings, Wistron NeWeb and Qisda, according to ...
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Digitimes Research Taiwan LCD driver IC shipments rise 22 in 1Q13
Shipments of LCD driver ICs by Taiwan-based IC design houses for the first quarter of 2013 grew 21.6% from a year ago to NT$20.18 billion (US$673.8 million) in value, according to Digitimes Research. Shipments for small-size panel applications, such as smartphones, continued to register strong ...
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Taiwan panel makers lower pricing for Ultra HD TV panels
Taiwan-based panel makers are continuing to see increased orders from China-based TV vendors for Ultra HD TV panels as the makers' pricing for the technology is continuing to ...
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Grade-A office rent in Beijing unchanged
Beijing remained unchanged in the first quarter while the vacancy rate edged up for two straight quarters, a report from international real estate specialists Knight Frank showed. The average monthly rent for Beijing's grade-A offices remained unchanged at 396 yuan ($63.9) per sq meter in the first quarter. The market vacancy rate increased by 1 percentage point to 4.8 percent. The small ...
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First-tier Chinese cities barely livable report says
Most first-tier cities in China are barely suitable for living due to their poor ecological environment, despite rapid economic development and preferential regulations for investment, said a newly released report by a top Chinese think tank on Sunday. First-tier cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, failed to make the list of habitable cities even though they are in the top 10 in ...
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India China MoUs to address trade deficit mark a good beginning
India and China today signed three Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) on buffalo meat, fisheries and pharmaceuticals; and one agreement on feed and feed ingredients. The MoUs will address trade deficit between the two countries. The trade deficit has increased from US$1.08 billion in 2001-02 to $40.77 billion in 2012-13. The MoUs were signed during the visit of the Premier of the State Council ...
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Premier Li to visit sister of Indian doctor who cared for Chinese
(30 mins ago) China’s premier will pay his respects today to the family of an Indian doctor who died treating Chinese troops more than 70 years ago, a rare symbol of friendship between the two nations. Li Keqiang, like Chinese leaders before him, will take time out of his India visit to meet relatives of Dwarkanath Kotnis, who provided emergency medical aid for four years during the ...
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China hackers got spy info from Google report
-0.07% databases accessed valuable information about U.S. knowledge of Chinese espionage activities, the Washington Post reported late Monday. The cyber-intrusions, which Google reported in 2010, included information on U.S. court orders to conduct surveillance of Gmail accounts, the report said. This, in turn, likely tipped off China as to which of its operatives had drawn the suspicion of U.S. ...
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N Korea releases China sailors
North Korea has released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat, Chinese state-run media said on Tuesday, after reports that armed assailants had taken the sailors hostage and demanded a ransom. "All the fishermen with the boat are safe on their way back," China's Xinhua news agency said, citing a Chinese embassy official in Pyongyang it said had heard the news from the ship's ...
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China insurer PICC PC plans $938 mn rights offer
Casualty Co Ltd (PICC P&C) is raising 5.76 billion yuan ($938 million) to bolster capital, expecting strong growth and amid signs that profitability of Chinese insurers are coming under pressure. China's property and casualty insurance market is expanding between 10-15 per cent annually, making it the fastest growing in the world. That growth also makes it imperative for the insurers to ...
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Washington’s hacking charges escalate pressure on China
Yesterday, top US officials and media made unsubstantiated allegations of hacking of US computer systems by a military unit in Shanghai, escalating tensions with China. ...
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Detained Chinese Fishermen Boat Released by North Korea
The official Xinhua news agency reported the development Tuesday, quoting a Chinese consular official in Pyongyang who spoke with the owner of the fishing boat. The official said the men were safe and on their way home, but he gave no other details. The owner of the boat says North Korea was demanding nearly $100,000 for the return of the boat and crew, which were taken May 6 in the waters ...
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Chinese climber Xiaoshi Li 58 dies from sickness while ascending Lhotse
A Chinese climber, Xiaoshi Li, 58, died in wee hours of Monday while attempting to climb Lhotse mountain in Sagarmatha region, expedition organizer said. "Li died due to sickness on his way to Lhotse peak," Nivesh Karki, manager of Seven Summit Treks Pvt Ltd., the expedition organizer said. Li had fallen sick two days ago. "Mr Xiaoshi Li, citizen of Republic of China got ...
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Annual fishing ban on South China Sea begins today
An annual fishing ban on the northern part of the South China Sea will begin on Thursday, aiming to further protect marine resources and promote environmental awareness among ...
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Chinese shipping industry is not the only one causing environmental incidents
The recent highly publicized grounding of a Chinese bulk carrier on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia attracted the scrutiny of the world on the Chinese shipping industry with some commentators saying that the accident was indicative of a dysfunctional health and safety record throughout the industry in China.
China’s shipping industry is primarily made up of the state-owned and run COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company), and it is this company to whom the Shen Neng 1 belongs. The Shen Neng 1 is not the only COSCO ship to be involved in a notable maritime accident. Read more
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