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 Prague (AFP) May 20, 2009 
China warned the European Union against meddling in its internal affairs on Wednesday at a summit in Prague, where the European side had hoped to move on from past tensions over the Dalai Lama. The summit was originally set for December last year but China called it off to protest against a meeting between the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who then hea ... read more 
Shanghai (AFP) May 20, 2009China has lost its position as the world's lowest-cost components manufacturer to India and Mexico, a study indicated Wednesday, in a blow for the Asian giant as it fights the financial crisis. The United States has also significantly closed the gap to the degree that China's total manufacturing costs are now only six percent below those of American factories, the study by AlixPartners busi ... more
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Prague (AFP) May 20, 2009EU and Chinese leaders are to focus on tackling the economic crisis at a summit on Wednesday, but lingering tensions over the Dalai Lama will cast a long shadow over the meeting in Prague. The summit was originally set for last December but China called it off in protest at a meeting between Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Poland. France ... more  
Beijing (AFP) May 19, 2009China on Tuesday confirmed its fourth case of swine flu and announced a new suspected case, an Italian woman who had arrived in Tibet as a tourist. The confirmed case was a 59-year-old man who was stopped when he tried to enter south China with a fever on Friday on a train from Hong Kong, the health ministry said on its website. The man, a resident of southern Guangdong province, had sta ... more  
Beijing (AFP) May 19, 2009Beijing said it was eager Tuesday to take part in a meeting next month of foreign ministers of the four so-called emerging BRIC nations, Brazil, Russia, India and China. "China has a positive attitude towards taking part in the meeting," foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told reporters. "We believe China, Russia, India and Brazil are major emerging powers and are major forces in promo ... more  
Colombo (AFP) May 18, 2009Sri Lanka's war against Tamil Tiger rebels has "ended successfully," the island's defence secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapakse, told the island's president Monday in a nationally televised ceremony. "We have successfully ended the war," he told President Mahinda Rajapakse, who is his brother and commander-in-chief of the Sri Lankan armed forces. Sri Lankan military commanders also lined up and ... more |
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Dhaka (AFP) May 13, 2009Bangladesh and Russia signed a deal Wednesday which could lead to construction of the first civilian nuclear power plant in the electricity-starved South Asian nation, an official said. The two sides signed a memorandum of understanding on peaceful use of nuclear energy, which officials said was the first step toward construction of a plant. "We've had approaches from other countries. We ... more  
Hyderabad, India (PTI) May 12, 2009Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) is working on a plan to launch re-usable rockets within next 10 to 15 years that will take off from the ground to orbit and return just like any aircraft carrying people and payload, said G Madhvan Nair, Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO). "ISRO will launch these re-usable rockets within next 10 to 15 years," Nair told reporters on ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) May 11, 2009India is expected to acquire its first Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) next week, officials said Monday, crowning its drive to achieve air dominance over rival Pakistan. The delivery by Israel of the sophisticated Phalcon early warning radar surveillance system, set for May 20, will also mark another milestone in growing military ties with the Jewish state. The AWACS "will be ... more |
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