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Xi, Duterte agree to further improve ties, boost cooperation during Peru meeting
CHINESE President Xi Jinping and his Philippine counterpart, Rodrigo Duterte, met in Peruvian capital Lima Saturday and pledged to further promote bilateral ties and strive for more fruitful cooperation. Talking on the sidelines of the 2016 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting, Xi praised Duterte’s visit to China last month, saying it achieved full improvement of China-Philippines relations, opened a new chapter for bilateral ties and injected positive energy into regional peace and […]
China, U.S. look past tensions with joint relief drill
By Ben Blanchard KUNMING, China, Nov 18 (Reuters) – China and the United States wrapped up a three-day humanitarian relief military drill on Friday, looking past simmering tensions over the disputed South China Sea and the deployment of an advanced U.S. anti-missile system in South Korea. The exercises, held in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming, come a month after a U.S. navy destroyer sailed near islands claimed by China in the South […]
JP Morgan Chase in $264 mn US settlement over China bribes
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Banking giant JP Morgan Chase has agreed to pay more than $264 million to resolve allegations it bribed officials in China by giving prized jobs and internships to friends and relatives, officials announced. “Awarding prestigious employment opportunities to unqualified individuals in order to influence government officials is corruption, plain and simple,” Leslie Caldwell, chief of the US Justice Department’s criminal division, said in a statement. Over a seven-year period, between […]
North Korea to top US agenda at final Obama-Xi meeting
by Andrew BEATTY LIMA, Peru (AFP) — President Barack Obama will use his final meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping Saturday to press for an increase in the pace and severity of sanctions against North Korea. With Pyongyang launching test after provocative test to develop a miniaturized nuclear warhead and a missile capable of delivering that deadly payload to the United States, Obama’s White House wants to ratchet up the pressure before he leaves office […]
China’s Xi, Trump agree to meet ‘at an early date’: CCTV
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and the US president-elect Donald Trump agreed in a telephone call Monday to meet “at an early date” to discuss the relationship between their two powers, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said Monday. Xi told Trump — who frequently savaged China on the campaign trail and threatened to impose a 45 percent tariff on Chinese exports — that the world’s top two economies “need cooperation and there are a […]
China retail sales up 10.0% on-year in October: govt
Beijing, China (AFP) — China’s retail sales growth slowed to 10.0 percent on-year in October, government data showed Monday, missing expectations in a worrying sign for domestic demand in the world’s second-largest economy. October’s industrial output growth matched the previous month’s figure at 6.1 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said, also slightly below forecasts in a Bloomberg News survey of economists. As growth slows, Beijing is seeking to make a difficult transition away from dependence […]
First woman to fly China’s J-10 fighter killed in crash
BEIJING, China (AFP) — The first woman to fly China’s J-10 fighter plane was killed in a crash during an aerobatics training exercise, state-run media reported Monday. Yu Xu, 30, a member of the Chinese air force’s “August 1st” aerobatic display team, ejected from her aircraft during a training exercise in the northern province of Hebei at the weekend, the China Daily newspaper said. She hit the wing of another jet and was killed, it […]
Climate change challenges authoritarian China: experts
by Matthew KNIGHT SHANGHAI, China (AFP) — The gleaming towers of Shanghai belie the Chinese commercial hub’s vulnerability to climate change, and the city is spending billions to try to protect itself, but experts say the country’s authoritarian system is a hidden weakness. According to a report last year by Climate Central, a US-based research group, the low-lying megacity is, in population terms, the world’s most at risk from rising sea levels. A two degree […]
Twin pandas meet each other for first time in Shanghai
THE giant panda twins born in Shanghai Wildlife Park met each other for the first time on Friday after they were born one month ago. The cubs have grown black fur on their ears as well as the unmistakable “panda eyes”. Upon receiving a physical examination, the baby boy weighed in at 1,350 grams while his younger sister weighed 1,168 grams. They weighed just 131.5 grams and 113.2 grams, roughly equivalent to the weight […]
Duterte says PHL can buy arms from China, Russia
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday (November 3) said the Philippines can buy arms from Russia and China following reports that United States would cancel the sale of 26,000 rifles to be used by the country’s national police force. In send-off ceremonies for the 17 Vietnamese fishermen in Pangasinan, Duterte said that the Philippines might even buy missiles from Russia. He said he had directed the Armed Forces of the Philippines Eastern Mindanao […]
Toll in China mine blast rises to 33
BEIJING, China (AFP) — All 33 miners missing after a colliery explosion in China earlier this week have been confirmed dead, state media reported Wednesday, in the country’s latest mining accident. The bodies of the last 15 were retrieved from the Jinshangou mine in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing in the early hours, the official Xinhua news agency said. Only two workers escaped Monday’s blast alive. Though the cause of the explosion was still unknown, […]
