A plan to build a nuclear fuel processing plant in south China's Guangdong province has been cancelled following opposition from locals, authorities said Saturday. The planned Longwan Industrial Park project, located in Zhishan township in the city of Heshan, has been cancelled, reported Xinhua citing the municipal government of Jiangmen, which administers Heshan, and sources from the China ...
China evacuations as Typhoon hits
Some 300,000 people in eastern China have fled their homes as Typhoon Soulik moves inland amid warnings of floods and landslides, state media ...
China Taiwan lashed by typhoon 1 dead
A powerful typhoon surged across northern Taiwan on Saturday, killing at least one person before moving to southeast China and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people from a coastal province. Typhoon Soulik disrupted transportation and commerce across Taiwan, with emergency crews around Taipei and in its environs struggling to restore power to the 520,000 homes where it had ...
Jonathan?s timely visit to China
It all started in the late 1978; the year Deng Xiaoping was handed his battered Maoist China, an almost failed state in need of a rescuer. And that rescuer, Deng, wasted no time in becoming when he decided -- notwithstanding all the odds -- to take his beloved China on an unheard-of tempestuous socialist market economic ...
The great firewall of China gets metaphorical
begged to differ , on the grounds that metaphors are the way that most of us make sense of the world, and if you want to monitor what people are thinking (or plotting), then understanding how metaphorical language works in different cultures might be really useful.What brings this to mind is ...
Japan may press China on slowdown sh...
Japan may press China at a global meeting next week for more information about a slowdown in the world's No. 2 economy and risks posed by its "shadow" banking system, Tokyo's top financial diplomat said on Thursday. Global financial markets have been gripped by concern over faltering growth and financial stability in China, in addition to worries over capital outflows from ...
14 of China shrouded by haze affect...
By Yu Runze, Sina English The incessant haze, which occurred in the first half of 2013, shrouded nearly 1/4 of China and affected about 600 million people living there, revealed a government report publicized on the website of National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on Thursday The energy conservation and emission reduction report listed haze as one of the major problems to deal with ...
Thousands Evacuated as Powerful Typhoon Hits China
A powerful typhoon hit southeast China on Saturday, forcing the evacuation of about 300,000 people. China's meteorology center says Typhoon Soulik made landfall in the heavily populated Chinese coastal province of Fujian Saturday, with winds of about 120 kilometers per hour. The typhoon had slowed since it made landfall on Taiwan's northeastern coast earlier in the day, ...
Continuous rain kills 20 in NW China
/enpproperty--> XI'AN-- Twenty people have been killed in rainstorms that have battered the city of Yan'an in northwest China's Shaanxi province since Sunday, said local authorities on Friday. As of 7 pm, rain-triggered landslides and house collapses have led to casualties in Baota District of Yan'an, Yanchuan and Ansai Counties, according to the municipal flood control ...
Leaving the Land Pitfalls Abound in China?s Push From Farm to City
The push has the support of the highest reaches of the government, with the new prime minister, Li Keqiang, a strong proponent of accelerated urbanization. The campaign to depopulate the countryside is seen as the best way to maintain China's spectacular run of fast economic growth, with new city dwellers driving demand for decades to ...
Asian beach soccer final UAE up for intimidating reception from China
The UAE missed out on a few scoring chances but managed to beat Australia in their final group game yesterday in China. Courtesy Beach Soccer World ...
World Peace eyes China football -- but not NBA
After being waived by the Lakers, Metta World Peace is seriously considering playing in China next season. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) One day after officially being waived by the Lakers via the amnesty clause, Metta World Peace told reporters in Los Angeles that he doesn?t ';really want to play for anybody.'; ';I don?t want to go anywhere. I want to go to China, or ...
UAE Embassy in Beijing oversees Iftar banquets for Chinese Muslims
WAM BEIJING, July 13th, 2013 (WAM) -- The UAE Embassy in Beijing has overseen Iftar banquets hosted by UAE humanitarian agencies in the Chinese capital during Ramadan, and the distribution of Ramadan assistance to Chinese Muslims. Omar Ahmed Adi Al Bitar, UAE Ambassador to China, praised UAE agencies, Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation, Dar Al Ber Society, Red Crescent Authority and ...
Study Air pollution cut northern China lifespans
BEIJING (AP) -- A new study links heavy air pollution from coal burning to shorter lives in northern China. Researchers estimate that the half-billion people alive there in the 1990s will live an average of 5 1/2 years less than their southern counterparts because they breathed dirtier ...
Heres Some Good News About China the Environment and California
OK, there is plenty of bad news on all three of those fronts, and this development goes only so far. But it's positive, and it's creative -- and, from my parochial perspective, it also ties together a variety of strands I've been following for a long time. So, here ...
86 dead and more than hundred tourists trapped in northwest China
More than 100 tourists became trapped in Wenxian County in northwest China's Gansu Province Friday night after a rain-triggered landslide and mudslide cut off traffic, local authorities said Saturday. The tourists, including 38 Vietnamese nationals, became trapped in Wenxian's Yulei Township at about 9 p.m. while en route to Jiuzhaigou, a renowned nature reserve in neighboring ...
Soulik hits China with 73 mph winds after deadly pass over Taiwan
At least one person was killed and 21 were injured Saturday when Typhoon Soulik hit Taiwan, before making landfall in China's Fujian Province, officials said. The storm had winds as high as 73 mph when it came ashore in mainland China about 4 p.m. local time, with waves more than 30 feet high, China's official Xinhua news agency reported. Soulik was moving northwest at 12-15 mph and ...
The Credit Crisis May Not Be Chinas Biggest Problem
The best investment ideas rarely come from the latest news item or brokerage research report. They're often found on the fringes of finance or outside the field altogether. Right now, everyone is focused on China's poor economic data and the potential for a hard landing in future. This is fair enough given the possible fallout. But despite what some think, China's credit crisis ...
VIDEO Typhoon Soulik creates huge waves in China
Strong winds have been whipping up waves over 20 meters high in the coastal city of Wenling and Dongkou County since Saturday ...
China Successful Police Operation against Drug Trafficking
Beijing, Jul 13 (Prensa Latina) The police in the autonomous region of Guangxi Zhuang arrested nine suspects and seized 109.3 kilograms of heroin on Saturday, as part of the largest operation against drug trafficking in southern China. According to statistics provided by authorities, nearly 8.15 million yuans in cash (equivalent to 1.3 million USD), plus ten vehicles, two weapons and ammunition, ...
Protesters in China celebrate as nuclear plant is scrapped
07/01/2013 14:35 CET Protesters celebrated in a southern Chinese city after the government scrapped plans for a nuclear processing plant. The complex in Guangdong province was planned for uranium conversion and enrichment. The proposed 230-hectare complex in the heart of China?s Pearl River delta industrial heartland had also sparked unease in neighbouring Hong Kong and Macau. One ...
Chinas growth rate expected to fall below 7 percent admits finance minister
London, July 13 : China's finance minister has signaled that economic growth in the country may fall even further below 7 percent during the second half of the year, with the official target figure placed at 7.5 ...
Source: http://www.beijingnews.net/index.php/sid/215813024/scat/55582c89cb296d4c
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