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- Taiwanese students display architectural designs in London
- Attempted plane hijacking foiled in Xinjiang; 10 injured
- Taiwan's manufacturing continues to show signs of recession
- Hong Kongers ambivalent on 15th anniversary of return to China
- Fake Hermes bags sold as real using Hong Kong receipts
- 9 swimmers poisoned by chemical at Shanghai pool
- U.S. Reaches Out to China, but Not for Naval Maneuvers
- Tanker explosion kills 20 in Guangzhou
- KPMG survey suggests China may be the next Silicon Valley
- Shanghai teacher sacked after victims of sex abuse come forward
- Donations to charity in China down nearly 20% for 2011
- Renminbi bonds successfully issued in Hong Kong
- Google's new tablet half the price of iPad
- Citigroup cuts forecast for Taiwan GDP growth to 2.8%
- Bank of China predicts country's economy to rebound in Q3
- Ten ded, hundreds injured in Zhongshan riots: Molihua
- Another forced abortion case surfaces in Hubei
- Soros Fund Management denies plans to withdraw from Hong Kong
- Tea oil or snake oil? Guangdong Xindadi accused of fraud
- Suu Kyi Warned Over Country Name
| Taiwanese students display architectural designs in London Posted: 30 Jun 2012 05:03 AM PDT Students from National Cheng Kung University in Tainan and Chinese Culture University in Taipei presented innovative artworks Friday at the preliminary opening of an architecture design event being he... |
| Attempted plane hijacking foiled in Xinjiang; 10 injured Posted: 30 Jun 2012 04:55 AM PDT Air crew and passengers on Friday foiled the attempted hijacking of a plane carrying 100 people in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, according to local police. At least 10 people wer... |
| Taiwan's manufacturing continues to show signs of recession Posted: 30 Jun 2012 04:43 AM PDT Taiwan's manufacturing sector continued to show signs of recession in May due to the lingering eurozone debt crisis, the economic slowdown in China and sluggish domestic demand, according to a report ... |
| Hong Kongers ambivalent on 15th anniversary of return to China Posted: 30 Jun 2012 04:39 AM PDT Hong Kong on July 1 will mark the 15th anniversary of its return to China after 150 years of British rule. Although China's president, Hu Jintao, will visit Hong Kong from June 29 to July 1 to attend ... |
| Fake Hermes bags sold as real using Hong Kong receipts Posted: 30 Jun 2012 04:39 AM PDT Unscrupulous traders in China have used receipts from Hermes stores in Hong Kong to sell their fake products as genuine designer bags over the internet. Over 80% of the Hermes bags bought online were... |
| 9 swimmers poisoned by chemical at Shanghai pool Posted: 30 Jun 2012 04:23 AM PDT Nine swimmers experienced vomiting and a burning sensation when breathing after swimming in a gym pool in which a bucket of undiluted TCCA (trichloroisocyanuric acid) had been used as a disinfectant o... |
| U.S. Reaches Out to China, but Not for Naval Maneuvers Posted: 28 Jun 2012 10:00 PM PDT Chinese analysts said that cooperation was not the main American goal, as a 22-nation war exercise began off Hawaii. |
| Tanker explosion kills 20 in Guangzhou Posted: 30 Jun 2012 04:03 AM PDT A blast caused by gasoline that leaked from a tank truck killed 20 people and injured 14 others early Friday in south China's Guangdong province, local authorities have said. The tanker, carrying 40 ... |
| KPMG survey suggests China may be the next Silicon Valley Posted: 30 Jun 2012 02:39 AM PDT China may become the next Silicon Valley to drive technological innovation, according to a survey by the US-based audit and tax advisory firm KPMG. KPMG polled 668 business executives around the wor... |
| Shanghai teacher sacked after victims of sex abuse come forward Posted: 30 Jun 2012 02:39 AM PDT A vice principal has been fired from a Shanghai middle school after a group of his former students took to the internet to break their 15-year silence regarding his alleged acts of sexual misconduct. ... |
| Donations to charity in China down nearly 20% for 2011 Posted: 30 Jun 2012 02:39 AM PDT People in China donated a total of 84.5 billion yuan (US$13.37 billion) to charity in 2011, nearly 20% less than the previous year, reports the Chinese-language Beijing News. That figure is 0.18% ... |
| Renminbi bonds successfully issued in Hong Kong Posted: 30 Jun 2012 02:39 AM PDT China's Ministry of Finance has announced that part of the country's national bonds, 15.5 billion yuan (US$2.4 billion), was successfully issued in Hong Kong on June 28, reports Shanghai's First Finan... |
| Google's new tablet half the price of iPad Posted: 30 Jun 2012 02:39 AM PDT Google is launching its first tablet computer — the 7-inch Nexus 7 — with a 4-core processor, running on the Android operating system. The new gadget's price is set to US$199, less than half of Appl... |
| Citigroup cuts forecast for Taiwan GDP growth to 2.8% Posted: 30 Jun 2012 02:39 AM PDT Due to the effect of the European debt crisis and the slowdown of Chinese economic growth, Citigroup Global Markets has revised its forecast growth for the global economy downward to 2.6% for this ye... |
| Bank of China predicts country's economy to rebound in Q3 Posted: 30 Jun 2012 02:39 AM PDT China's GDP growth is expected to rebound to 8.2% in the third quarter of this year, while its consumer price index could dip to 2%, according to a prediction from Bank of China. In its forecast fo... |
| Ten ded, hundreds injured in Zhongshan riots: Molihua Posted: 30 Jun 2012 02:39 AM PDT Ten people have been killed and hundreds injured or arrested in clashes between thousands of Sichuan migrant workers and local residents and police in Zhongshan in southern China's Guangdong province.... |
| Another forced abortion case surfaces in Hubei Posted: 30 Jun 2012 02:39 AM PDT Hubei government officials allegedly forced a pregnant woman to abort her baby for violating the one child policy, New Tang Dynasty TV reported June 29. There is no confirmation on the story but it h... |
| Soros Fund Management denies plans to withdraw from Hong Kong Posted: 30 Jun 2012 02:39 AM PDT A fresh round of personnel changes at Soros Fund Management's Hong Kong subsidiary SFM HK Management on June 26 has rocked the Hong Kong market, with many market observers speculating that the Soros F... |
| Tea oil or snake oil? Guangdong Xindadi accused of fraud Posted: 30 Jun 2012 02:39 AM PDT Guangdong Xindadi Biotechnology, which specializes in refining tea oil products, has successfully listed its shares on China's growth enterprise market. The Chinese-language National Business Daily ho... |
| Suu Kyi Warned Over Country Name Posted: 29 Jun 2012 04:30 PM PDT As Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi heads home from her landmark European tour, authorities back home have warned her not to use the name 'Burma' to refer to the country. Senior NLD leader Win Tin told RFA in an interview that the party objected to the admonishment, saying that it was important to use the term foreign countries had always been familiar with when referring to the country in English. "We at the NLD don't accept this, because when we say it in Burmese we say 'Myanmar,' and in English, we use the term 'Burma' as it is known to the world," he said in an interview. The name of the country has long had two forms in the Burmese language: 'Myanmar' is the formal name while 'Burma' has traditionally been used in informal conversation. In 1989 the then-ruling junta deemed that the country should be officially known in English as Myanmar. But opponents of the military, including pro-democracy parties like the NLD, continued to use the old form of the name, saying the name had been changed without the people's consent. "The world calls Japan 'Japan' while it calls itself Nippon, and it's like that for China. There was no meaning behind this. It is used as known to the world," Win Tin said. When the military regime instituted the switch in 1989, it said it was to appease minority non-Burman ethnic groups. "They said 'Myanmar' is an inclusive word for all tribes, but it is just not true. Only the word 'Burma' is inclusive," Win Tin said. He said he did not know if the NLD would consider changing its stance on the issue. "I don't know what the NLD will decide. This has to be discussed with scholars," he said. NLD spokesman Nyan Win said the election commission's complaint was a non-issue. "Referring to the country as Burma does not amount to disrespecting the constitution," he said. Official term In April, the NLD won historic by-elections by a landslide, putting Aung San Suu Kyi into office for the first time, after she had spent most of the past two decades under house arrest. Since joining parliament in May, the Nobel laureate has pushed for further reforms as the country undertakes a process of national reconciliation. Htay Oo, chairman of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party, the successor to the military regime's mass organization, said that all members of parliament (MPs) must use the official term. "All MPs have to follow the constitution. They become MPs according to that constitution, right? So it is better to use the term from the constitution," he said in an interview. "Elected parliamentary members especially should abide by it, and I myself do," he said. He said the people's consent was unnecessary to change the country's name. "I don't think they failed because it is unnecessary," he said. "Many agreed on the change. Since the constitution is voted on by the people, it also means the term Myanmar is confirmed." He refused to say what kind of legal action could be taken against people, whether citizens or members of parliament, who use the wrong term. The U.S., Canada, and the UK still use 'Burma,' but many other countries and the UN use 'Myanmar.' 'Ready to lead' During her five-nation European tour, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is fluent in English, urged foreign countries to support Burma's democratic transition. On her visits to Switzerland, Norway, Ireland, Britain, and France, she was welcomed as an international democracy icon and received awards, including the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize that she was unable to receive in person while under house arrest. Before preparing to head home on Friday, she said she would be willing to govern Burma one day if asked. "I think all party leaders have to prepare themselves for the possibility, if they truly believe in the democratic process," she told Agence-France Presse in an interview. "But it's not something that I think of all the time. In fact, I think one has to concentrate on present work, of course preparing for the future. The present has to be linked to one's hopes for the future." Aung San Suu Kyi's high-profile trip to speak at an international economic summit in Bangkok in May, her first trip abroad in over two decades, was believed to have strained her relations with President Thein Sein, who abruptly cancelled his own state visit to Thailand. Her return to Burma Saturday comes in time for the next parliamentary session that opens in July. |
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