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• Japan to set up special task force to patrol Diaoyutai
• China Deals Represent Half of Facebook Backer’s Recent Investments
• Sichuan Airlines to launch Chengdu-Melbourne route
• Wang Anshun promoted to Beijing mayor
• 3.2m vehicles recalled for faults in China in 2012
• China admits lack of quality environmental assessment agencies
• Urbanization brings concerns for grain supply in China
• Guangdong official expelled from party for bribery
• Bitch is so bitch: Translating a Chinese TV drama for US audiences
• Tencent announces restructuring, top exec to retire
• China's demographic dividend disappearing: expert
• CNOOC, Nexen extend takeover closing date
• Officials in Guangdong county to disclose assets to each other
• Nanjing sees worst air pollution in city's history
• Heavy metal pollution costs China over US$3bn a year
• China accounts for nearly half of world's new money supply
• Chinese novelist dumped over US$32 train ticket buys house
• Chinese banks' 2012 assets up 17.7%
• Protest March to Seek Justice
• AutoNavi aspires to create the 'Taobao of maps'

Japan to set up special task force to patrol Diaoyutai Posted: 30 Jan 2013 05:27 AM PST Responding to the challenge to its administration over the diputed Diaoyutai (Diaoyu or Senkaku) islands from Chinese patrol vessels, Japan's coast guard on Jan. 29 announced it will establish a 600-m...

China Deals Represent Half of Facebook Backer’s Recent Investments Posted: 29 Jan 2013 08:42 PM PST China's doors may be closed to social network company Facebook, but for its pre-IPO investor DST Global, the gates are wide open.

Sichuan Airlines to launch Chengdu-Melbourne route Posted: 30 Jan 2013 04:19 AM PST Sichuan Airlines will offer direct flights between Chengdu and Melbourne starting from Feb. 28. It will be the first non-stop flights connecting western China with Australia, the airline said in a st...

Wang Anshun promoted to Beijing mayor Posted: 30 Jan 2013 04:19 AM PST Beijing's acting mayor Wang Anshun was promoted to mayor of the Chinese capital at a session of the municipal legislature on Monday. Wang's election was announced at the close of the first session of...

3.2m vehicles recalled for faults in China in 2012 Posted: 30 Jan 2013 04:19 AM PST As many as 3.2 million vehicles were recalled in 2012 for being faulty, up 75% from a year earlier, the country's top quality supervisor said Monday. The General Administration of Quality Supervis...

China admits lack of quality environmental assessment agencies Posted: 30 Jan 2013 04:19 AM PST China lacks quality environmental assessment agencies, according to a government report issued on Monday. The country's Ministry of Environmental Protection published a report after a three-year surv...

Urbanization brings concerns for grain supply in China Posted: 30 Jan 2013 04:19 AM PST Concerns have been expressed by a senior Chinese official about the country's grain security as rapid urbanization is squeezing room for a further increase in output. In an interview with Xinhua on...

Guangdong official expelled from party for bribery Posted: 30 Jan 2013 04:19 AM PST An official in south China's Guangdong province has been expelled from the Communist Party for violating party discipline and accepting large bribes. Lu Yingming, deputy director of the provincial ...

Bitch is so bitch: Translating a Chinese TV drama for US audiences Posted: 30 Jan 2013 03:35 AM PST The sale of a popular Chinese TV series to a US network has left many internet users wondering how some of the more difficult Chinese names and phrases in the historical drama Empresses in the Palace ...

Tencent announces restructuring, top exec to retire Posted: 30 Jan 2013 03:31 AM PST Chinese internet giant Tencent recently announced changes in its company structure, including the retirement of a top executive who had helped build the company's first business to generate income, we...

China's demographic dividend disappearing: expert Posted: 30 Jan 2013 03:07 AM PST China's demographic dividend has been disappearing since 2012, which will have significant impact on economic growth, the People's Daily quoted an expert as saying in a Monday report. "We should be...

CNOOC, Nexen extend takeover closing date Posted: 30 Jan 2013 03:03 AM PST The deadline for the takeover of Nexen by China's largest offshore oil producer has been extended by 30 days, it was announced on Monday. The China National Offshore Oil Corporation has received ap...

Officials in Guangdong county to disclose assets to each other Posted: 30 Jan 2013 03:03 AM PST More officials in south China's Guangdong province have been required to disclose their financial status as part of trials of a scheme combating corruption, though the disclosures will only be made av...

Nanjing sees worst air pollution in city's history Posted: 30 Jan 2013 03:03 AM PST Nanjing, the capital of China's eastern Jiangsu province, has been shrouded in noxious smog for much of January as residents witness the historic city's worst ever air quality, reports the local Yangt...

Heavy metal pollution costs China over US$3bn a year Posted: 30 Jan 2013 03:03 AM PST The Chinese government has postponed the setting up of a national supervisory and management system for soil pollution prevention and control to 2020 from 2015, due to a failure to keep the soil pollu...

China accounts for nearly half of world's new money supply Posted: 30 Jan 2013 03:03 AM PST China has seen its money supply surpass that of developed countries since 2009 and has emerged as the world's biggest "money printing machine." In 2008, the country added 7.1 trillion yuan (US$1.13 t...

Chinese novelist dumped over US$32 train ticket buys house Posted: 30 Jan 2013 02:27 AM PST A young novelist in China wrote an article about how he grew from a farm village boy — dumped by his ex-girl friend because he was too poor to afford a train ticket — to a wealthy novelist who was a...

Chinese banks' 2012 assets up 17.7% Posted: 30 Jan 2013 02:03 AM PST Chinese banks saw their total assets rise 17.7% year on year to 131.27 trillion yuan (US$20.9 trillion) at the end of 2012, the latest official data shows. The growth was slightly slower than the ...

Protest March to Seek Justice Posted: 29 Jan 2013 04:55 PM PST About 2,000 villagers staged protests Tuesday calling for action against those who staged a bloody crackdown exactly two months ago on demonstrators demanding the closure of a controversial Chinese-backed copper mine in northwestern Burma. They also demanded that the authorities drop charges against several activists who were arrested by police in the Nov. 29 crackdown on protesters at the site of the Letpadaung Copper Mine project at Sarlingyi township in Sagaing division. About 100 monks and 11 others, according to authorities, were injured in the raid, the toughest crackdown on demonstrators since President Thein Sein's reformist government came to power in March 2011. "Today marks the second month of the crackdown and the authorities haven't taken any action against those responsible for the raid but people who protested have been arrested and charged," student leader Thaung Htike told RFA's Burmese Service. Anti-mining protesters who were arrested had been charged with sedition, inciting unrest, and disturbing the peace, according to rights groups. Inquiries "The authorities haven't also made any inquiries into the crackdown," Thaung Htike said. "We are holding this demonstration today to let the public know that we will continue to protest against the Letpadaung copper mine if the inquiry commission decides to continue with the project." Following the crackdown, the government set up a commission led by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to investigate the feasibility of the mine project located near Monywa city. But there has been no major probe on the crackdown itself.   Photos of burns sustained by monks in the crackdown, reminiscent of the violent suppression of the 2007 monk-led Saffron Revolution movement by the previous military junta, prompted a public outcry in the Buddhist-majority country. While the government has issued a public apology for the crackdown, protesters say it has not gone far enough and called for legal action against authorities responsible for using violence in the raid. Pollution On Tuesday, about 1,000 villagers began the march from Ton village before others joined them along the way to the site of the offices of Wan Bao Co.—a subsidiary of state-owned Chinese arms manufacturer North China Industries Corp. (Norinco), which jointly owns the project with the Burmese military's Union of Myanmar Economic Holding Ltd. Letpadaung villagers have said that they do not want pollution from the mine to destroy the area and that authorities had confiscated some 8,000 acres (3,000 hectares) of farmland from 26 villages to make way for the mine. "The main reason for the demonstration is to stop the Letpadaung copper mine project," Thaung Htike said. Police were on standby during the protest but no action was taken against the participants, he said. "We will continue to hold demonstrations until we get what we want."   Reported by Ei Ei Khaine for RFA's Burmese Service. Translated by Khet Mar. Written in English by Parameswaran Ponnudurai.

AutoNavi aspires to create the 'Taobao of maps' Posted: 30 Jan 2013 12:51 AM PST Since April last year, Baidu Maps, Google Maps and Apple have all provided a built-in voice navigational service, with Baidu even directly offering an offline version. As a result, AutoNavi — a domes...

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