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GM sets big China goal
General Motors Co said Wednesday it aims to quadruple its share of China's luxury auto market to 10 percent by 2020 as the US automaker launches new Cadillac models and expands its distribution network in the world's largest car market.GM, which also sells brands including Buick and Chevrolet in China, has prioritized Cadillac sales as it battles for market share with other luxury ...
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Starbucks to move first Chinas store
Starbucks Corp on Wednesday denied media claims that high rental and labor costs had forced the company to close the first Starbucks in the Chinese mainland at China World Trade Center (CWTC) phase I, a building located in downtown Beijing.The company said in an e-mail to the Global Times Wednesday that the store will be moved to a bigger location at CWTC phase III in order to provide customers ...
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Australia fans celebrate with World Cup-qualifying Socceroos – video
Australia's football team, the Socceroos, are given a rapturous greeting when they meet with fans in Sydney after qualifying for the 2014 World Cup with a 1-0 victory over Iraq. Olger Hosieck's team will now be looking to get past the round of 16 stage - their best placing in the World Cup to ...
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TTIP may back China into a corner
US President Barack Obama and top leaders within the European Union (EU) will sit down next month to negotiate the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which could lead to the creation of the world's largest free trade agreement in history.An integrated market between the US and the EU will further elevate the influence of these two already-formidable entities on world ...
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China threatens death penalty for serious polluters
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have given courts the powers to hand down the death penalty in serious pollution cases, state media said, as the government tries to assuage growing public anger at environmental desecration. An increasingly affluent urban population has begun to object to China's policy of growth at all costs, which has fuelled the economy for three decades, with the ...
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China dog meat festival under fire
A FESTIVAL dedicated to dog meat in southern China has been targeted by protesting animal lovers, who have won a minor concession from local officials, an activist ...
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Japan beat Canada in Pacific Nations Cup
Ayumu Goromaru (centre) plays for Japan against the Barbarians in Le Havre, November 25, 2012. The full back scored all the points to lead Asian champions Japan to a 16-13 victory over Canada in the Pacific Nations Cup rugby tournament in Nagoya on ...
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Hoping to engage a cynical public Chinas Communists launch 1-year campaign echoing Mao
In this June 18, 2013 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, China's President Xi Jinping addresses a conference on the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) campaign aimed at boosting ties between CPC members and the public, in Beijing. China’s leadership wants to show a cynical public that it’s modernizing and serious about graft, but it ...
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China and Cuba seek greater cooperation
Xi Jinping said his country would like to work more closely with Cuba on international and regional issues. Xi told Cuba's visiting first vice president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, that China would like to forge a good partnership with Latin American and Caribbean nations, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. The Chinese leader called for stronger cooperation between China and Latin ...
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China eager for Iranian nuclear talks
The Chinese government expects peaceful nuclear negotiations will continue through multilateral dialogue with Iran, a government spokeswoman said. Iranian delegates joined officials from the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany in a second round of nuclear negotiations in Kazakhstan in April but made few breakthroughs. February talks in Kazakhstan included efforts to ...
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China puts up a green wall to US trash
United States exports. Or 60 percent of its scrap paper exports. Or 50 percent of its plastic.But a new Chinese edict, banning "foreign rubbish," has thrown the international scrap and waste trade into turmoil and is posing a major new challenge for US ...
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The Taliban rebels ready for the peace table
religious extremism . The Taliban emerged in the 1990s, garnering support in Afghanistan by bringing order to rural areas wrecked by warlords, before imposing their austere version of Sunni Islamic law after fighting their way to power in 1996. Television, music and cinema were banned, girls were stopped from going to school, woman had to wear the all-covering burqa and men had to grow beards, ...
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President Obama to renew calls for nuclear reductionsPresident Barack Obama on Wednesday will renew his call to reduce the worlds nuclear stockpiles including a proposed one-third reduction in US and Russian arsenals a senior administration offici
Obama will make his case during a speech at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate. His address comes nearly 50 years after John F Kennedy's famous 'Cold War' speech in this once-divided ...
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Hezbollah fighters battle rebels near Syria capital NGO
Damascus on Wednesday, monitors said, as President Bashar al-Assad's regime kept up a push to cut off the insurgents' supply lines. "Army troops and Hezbollah members fought rebels near the Khomeini hospital in Zayabiyeh village," southeast of Damascus, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. ...
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Global warming may cause extreme droughts in India, World Bank warns Global warming could lead to more extreme droughts in large parts of India, resulting in widespread food shortages and hardship in the country, in the next few decades, a new World Bank report warned ...
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Philippines assures it has no plans to build infrastructure on Renai Reef
Philippine Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin assured Chinese Ambassador Ma Keqing on Wednesday that the Philippines is sending ships to the reef only to deliver supplies to its soldiers, and it has no plans to build infrastructure on the reef. China raised the issue during an informal talk between Chinese Ambassador Ma Keqing and Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin at Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City ...
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In Germany Obama Defends US Surveillance Programs
U.S. President Barack Obama listens as German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the media during a press conference at the chancellery in Berlin, June 19, ...
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South Africa to Host Worlds Biggest Telescope
JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa is preparing to host the biggest radio telescope in the world. Along with Australia, the country has been chosen to host ...
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UNs Ban meets Chinas Xi for talks on NKorea Syria
BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese president Xi Jinping and UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday discussed the situation on the Korean peninsula and in Syria, state media reported, as Ban's visit to Beijing was overshadowed by a deadly attack on a UN compound.Ban, who arrived Tuesday, met Xi in Beijing's ornate Great Hall of the People after earlier visiting a centre which trains China's UN ...
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North Korea repeats offer for nuclear talks
Reuters © North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sits with children during his visit at a machine factory run by Huh Chul-yong in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on June 17, 2013. ...
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Asia Pacific - IFJ affiliates in Southeast Asia form new network
Journalists' Unions and Associations in South East Asia, affiliated with the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), have formed a new network aimed at tackling issues affecting journalists' safety, rights and freedoms in the region.The 'Southeast Asian Journalists' Unions Network,' formed during a meeting of the affiliates in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, aims to build ...
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China continues jet exercises from aircraft carrier
China on Wednesday successfully conducted taking-off and landing exercises of J-15 fighter jets on the country's first aircraft, the Liaoning.This is the second time the country has conducted such training after a first jet landing exercise passed successfully on the deck in November last year.The Liaoning, which set sail for a first sea trial this year on June 9, has conducted a series of ...
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CNPC building Chinas first shale gas pipeline
China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), the country's largest oil and gas producer and supplier, said it has started building the country's first dedicated shale gas pipeline in Southwest China's Sichuan Province.The 92.8-km pipeline will link gas wells in the Changning block to an existing gas line that leads to neighboring Yunnan Province, according to a report posted on the ...
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UN chief praises Chinas peacekeeping efforts
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised China's commitment to peacekeeping efforts on Wednesday during a visit to a peacekeeping training base in Beijing. Ban said China has provided more peacekeepers to the United Nations than all the other four permanent members of the UN Security Council. Ban inspected training facilities and communicated with Chinese ...
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UPDATE 1-Gazprom aims to sign basic terms of China gas deal in Sept
Wed Jun 19, 2013 9:52am EDT * Final deal still expected by year-end - Gazprom CEO * Pricing formula is still under discussion - spokesman (Adds detail, quotes) ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 19 (Reuters) - Russia's Gazprom expects to sign an agreement in September on the basic terms of a deal to provide gas supplies to China and aims to conclude the deal by the end of this year, the company ...
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Australia the energy superpower?
A new boom in the extraction of Australia's natural gas reserves will have immense economic benefits for the country and especially the state of Western Australia, but conservationists warn of an environmental impact.
Australia is a country rich in natural resources, because of this its economy is an export driven one, and coal, iron ore, wool, meat, gold, and wheat are some of its main exports. It was in the 1920’s that Australia’s economic potential was underpinned by the gold rush that saw its population triple in size in just ten years. Read more
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