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 | Book retailer Maruzen Co and major Chinese information technology firm Peking University Founder Group Corp will launch in early October a business to sell electronic… (Japan Today, 2010-09-03 05:11:00) |
 | Baidu unveiled a platform that lets users run applications through the company's website, beating Google to the punch. Users of the service can run applications similar to those found on Facebook or Apple's App Store. (Wall Street Journal, 2010-09-03 03:51:46) |
| U.S. National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers and Deputy National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon will travel to Beijing this weekend for high-level talks as the U.S. and China work to iron out tensions on issues ranging from currency policy to military ties to Iran. (Wall Street Journal, 2010-09-03 03:35:18) |
 | Why tensions are rising in the South China Sea (BBC NEWS, 2010-09-03 03:14:53) |
 | BEIJING - If all goes according to plan, this fall a girl somewhere in China's Yunnan Province will tell her boyfriend she can't have sex with him. And he'll have an abstinence program from the United States to thank. Sex education - Education - Abstinence-Only - Sexuality - Opposing Views (Washington Post, 2010-09-03 03:00:01) |
 | The death toll from an explosion at a fireworks factory in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province last month has risen to 33.
An explosion ripped through the fireworks factory in the Wumahe District of Yichun City on Aug. 16.
Some 153 were injured in the accident and three people are still missing, Gao Weidong, vice director of Yichun's publicity department, said.
A preliminary investigation showed the plant was illegally producing fireworks, as the local work safety department... (People's Daily, 2010-09-02 23:02:54) |
| China's central government Thursday urged more efforts to boost vegetable output, ensure market supply and to stabilize vegetable prices.
Both the market and the macro-control measures must be used to tackle the problems in big cities of sharp changes in vegetable price, the State Council, China's Cabinet, said Thursday in a statement on the government website www.gov.cn.
City mayors must shoulder the responsibility to ease pressures on vegetable supply, and local governments should take... (People's Daily, 2010-09-02 23:01:32) |
 | Authorities in China introduce new measures to crack down on dissent. (Radio Free Asia, 2010-09-02 23:01:12) |
| China said Thursday it welcomes direct peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine, urging a serious and practical manner from both sides.
"We hope the two parties seize the opportunity of the peace talks to achieve positive results at an early date," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular press conference.
Israel and Palestine are scheduled to resume their direct peace negotiations Thursday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President... (People's Daily, 2010-09-02 22:59:58) |
| China and India said Thursday maintaining continuity and stability in economic policy is important to the global economic recovery.
The two sides achieved the consensus during the fourth round of a financial dialogue between the two nations in Beijing.
The dialogue was co-presided over by Chinese Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao and Indian Finance Secretary Ashok Chawla.
Maintaining the relative stability of major reserve currencies is important to achieving robust, sustainable and... (People's Daily, 2010-09-02 22:59:20) |
| Visiting senior Chinese Communist Party official Liu Yunshan said here Thursday China would like to further expand bilateral cooperation with Kazakhstan in all fields.
While meeting with Kazakhstan's Prime Minister Karim Masimov, Liu, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said China and Kazakhstan had enjoyed a long-lasting friendship and were good neighbors and strategic partners.
"In recent years, high-level exchanges between the two... (People's Daily, 2010-09-02 22:58:44) |
| China's Ministry of Transport Thursday sent two airplanes to search for missing crew members who were aboard a fishing boat, possibly a Chinese boat, sunk following a collision with a Republic of Korea (ROK) cargo ship in waters near the coast of the ROK.
One helicopter and and fixed-wing aircraft took off from Penglai Airport in Yantai, east China's Shandong Province, at 2:20 p.m..
The China Maritime Search and Rescue Center said it had received information that a ROK cargo boat, named... (People's Daily, 2010-09-02 22:58:05) |
 | (BEIJING) China has failed to honour promises to the World Trade Organization to open its oil and phone markets, a European business group said yesterday, adding to complaints of worsening conditions for foreign companies. (Business Times, 2010-09-02 22:30:00) |
| (BEIJING) Ping An Insurance (Group), China's second-largest insurer, will pay 29.1 billion yuan (S$5.75 billion) for a stake that will give it control of Shenzhen Development Bank and bolster its banking operations. (Business Times, 2010-09-02 22:30:00) |
| (BEIJING) China is inviting domestic banks and private and foreign investors to take over the country's most problematic rural credit cooperatives. (Business Times, 2010-09-02 22:30:00) |
| (TAIPEI) One of the potential buyers of AIG's Taiwan Nan Shan Life unit still hoped for a favourable solution to the US$2.2 billion sale even after their bid was rejected by Taiwan regulators, an executive said yesterday. (Business Times, 2010-09-02 22:30:00) |
| (BEIJING) China's economic slowdown will be modest, ruling out the need for fresh stimulus or a major policy initiative, a senior government researcher said yesterday. (Business Times, 2010-09-02 22:30:00) |
CHONGQING, China (Kyodo) Takeshi Niinami, president of Lawson Inc., said Thursday the convenience store chain operator intends to raise the number of its stores in China to as many as 10,000 from some 300 at present over the next 10 years. The company, currently operating in Shanghai and Chongqing, hopes to expand into seven to 10 more cities, he said, citing Beijing, Tianjin and Guangzhou as possibilities. (Japan Times, 2010-09-02 22:27:00) | |
 | A huge traffic jam stretching at least 120 kilometres has reappeared in northern China, with thousands of cargo trucks stuck in a bottleneck, state media said. (ABC News, 2010-09-02 22:26:00) |
BEIJING (Kyodo) Japan has begun destroying chemical weapons abandoned in China by the Imperial Japanese Army at the end of World War II, Hideo Hiraoka, senior vice minister of the Cabinet Office, announced Wednesday in Nanjing. Hiraoka, a Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker, said during a ceremony that the Japanese government will continue taking measures to speed up the destruction of abandoned munitions, the state-controlled Xinhua news agency reported. (Japan Times, 2010-09-02 22:23:00) | |
Book retailer Maruzen Co. and major Chinese information technology firm Peking University Founder Group Corp. will launch in early October a business to sell electronic versions of manga and specialized books in the two countries, Maruzen said Thursday. Maruzen will translate manga into Chinese and provide the comics to its partner so Chinese people can read them on cell phones, while the Chinese firm will supply academic and other e-books to Maruzen. (Japan Times, 2010-09-02 22:20:00) | |
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Chinese President Hu Jintao (3rd L) holds talks with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (3rd R) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, on Sept. 2, 2010. (Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng)
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China and the European Union (EU) here Thursday pledged to promote bilateral ties, as the two sides strive to overcome the negative impact of the international financial and E ... (People's Daily, 2010-09-02 21:12:01) |
| Two warships of the 5th Escort Task group of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA)- Navy left Myanmar Thursday after concluding a five-day friendly call at Yangon's Thilawa Port .
The mission of the two warships — "Guangzhou" and "Caohu", led by Commander of the Chinese escort task group Zhang Wendan, was aimed at promoting friendly relationship between the two armed forces of the two countries and exchange between the two navies.
A grand see-off ceremony was launched for the two... (People's Daily, 2010-09-02 21:05:32) |
| China Thursday called on all relevant parties to make joint efforts to negotiate and discuss the problems of the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular press conference China has always advocated the resolution of international disputes through dialogue and negotiation.
She said the situation on the Korean Peninsula is "sensitive and complicated," expressing the hope that all relevant parties remain calm and exercise restraint.
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| Wang Zhaoguo, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said here Thursday that China was ready to work with Mauritius to push forward bilateral ties.
Wang, also vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, made the remarks when meeting with Mauritian President Anerood Jugnauth.
He said China was willing to make concerted efforts with Mauritius to deepen political mutual trust and cement economic and trade... (People's Daily, 2010-09-02 21:03:59) |
| Former U.S. President James Carter will visit China next week, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Thursday.
Besides Beijing, Carter will also visit China's economic hub, Shanghai, and central China's Hunan Province during his six-day visit that starts Sept. 5, Jiang told a regular press briefing.
Carter is scheduled to attend a conference on international sister cities in Shanghai and the fourth China Zhijiang International Peace and Culture Festival in Hunan, Jiang said. &$ (People's Daily, 2010-09-02 21:03:18) |
| Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, will visit China as a British special representative for international trade and investment from Sept. 2 to Sept. 11, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Thursday.
Prince Andrew will meet with senior Chinese government officials and entrepreneurs to discuss ways to expand bilateral trade, Jiang told a regular press briefing.
Jiang hailed the development of China-Britain trade and economic cooperation in recent years, adding that it has huge... (People's Daily, 2010-09-02 21:01:58) |
| China said Thursday the details concerning a suspected Chinese fishing boat sunk by a Republic of Korea (ROK) cargo ship are still unknown.
"The situation concerning the boat's crew members is unknown," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a regular press conference.
All crew members of the fishing boat are unaccounted for.
The suspected Chinese fishing boat sunk in waters off the ROK coast at around 11:50 a.m. Wednesday.
The boat's name and the exact number of... (People's Daily, 2010-09-02 21:01:05) |
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Experts Say Chinese Filter Would Make PCs Vulnerable to Intrusion (New York Times) The program would let outsiders monitor a computer’s Internet activity, steal personal data or plant viruses, according to those who have examined it.
The Day China's Heart Froze (newmatilda.com) Twenty years ago today, thousands were being killed in the streets around Tiananmen Square. Dan Edwards in Beijing speaks to survivors about a wound that hasn't healed
Founding fathers (BBC NEWS) The French town with an unlikely Chinese past
China: A Threat to or Threatened by Democracy? (Dissent Magazine) How can one know whether China will or will not democratize? In general, as Karl Popper showed in The Poverty of Historicism, political futures in even the middle distance are unknowable because of the inherently uncertain and contingent dynamics of politics. Therefore, an analyst should focus on the multiple factors that make different futures more or less likely.
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