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China's recent moves to ease curbs on the real estate sector have sent prices soaring recently, stoking fears that new property bubbles are forming, state media reported Friday. Residential property prices in Beijing's Central Business District rose 6.5 percent in the past week and demand for second-hand houses in some other areas is four times the supply, said the China Daily, citing ... read more 
Hanoi (AFP) July 4, 2009A Vietnamese legal adviser said Saturday he had filed a new lawsuit against his country's prime minister for violating environmental laws with a controversial bauxite mining plan. Cu Huy Ha Vu first filed legal action against the communist leader Nguyen Tan Dung on June 11 but a Hanoi court rejected it, saying it had no legal basis. However, Vu, who is trying to overturn a 2007 decision ... more
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Washington (AFP) July 3, 2009US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday welcomed the appointment of Japan's Yukiya Amano as the new head of the Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog. "I would like to offer my congratulations to Yukiya Amano of Japan on his appointment as the next director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)," Clinton said in a statement. The IAEA, she added, "represents the premier ... more 
Hamburg, Germany (AFP) July 4, 2009Hundreds of traffic lights in the German city of Hamburg stopped working Saturday after a power cut caused by an incident at a nuclear power station, an energy company said. Around 1,500 of the 1,800 traffic signals in Germany's second biggest city suddenly blacked out and lights at shopping centres also failed. An incident at a transformer of the Kruemmel power station triggered the ... more  
Taipei (AFP) July 5, 2009Taiwan has benefited from its giant neighbour's measures to stimulate its economy by offering subsidies to consumers, the island's government said in a report Sunday. Taiwan exported 4.65 billion US dollars worth of goods to China in April, down 33.8 percent from a year ago, the Board of Foreign Trade said. The figure indicated, however, that the sharp decline of the island's export to ... more 
Belgrade (AFP) July 3, 2009Serbia, home to a reactor once deemed the world's most dangerous, reached an agreement Friday on nuclear energy cooperation with the United Nations atomic agency, a report said. Signed by visiting International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei and Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic, the memorandum is in addition to an existing agreement on inspections of nuclear ... more |
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Berlin (AFP) July 5, 2009Chinese carmaker BAIC has proposed taking a majority stake in GM's European arm Opel with a bid worth 660 million euros, a move that could boost negotiations for the unit, reports said Sunday. BAIC submitted a non-binding offer for GM's German-based unit Opel late Thursday, just before a deadline for prospective buyers, according to China's Guangzhou Daily newspaper, the Financial Times and ... more 
Beijing (UPI) Jul 3, 2009 China, sitting on the world's largest foreign exchange reserves of about $2 trillion earned from burgeoning trade surpluses, has been on a spree to invest its money overseas while attracting inward foreign direct investments. As China's overseas direct investments skyrocket, some estimates say they could soon overtake China's FDIs. "ODI is one way to relieve the growing pressure ... more 
Riyadh (AFP) July 5, 2009China is still undecided about imposing an anti-dumping charge on Saudi petrochemical exports, its embassy in Riyadh said Sunday, after Saudi exporters called for retaliatory duties on Chinese exports. "The judgement is preliminary" and a punitive tariff has not been levied on Saudi methanol and butanediol (BDO) exports, embassy spokesman Yuan Yuan told AFP. "We take great consideration ... more 
Hong Kong (AFP) July 3, 2009Rampant piracy and a crumbling market for CDs has put the music industry in Asia under immense pressure, but experts are hoping that technology and social media will help fill the gap. While demand for music continues to rise across the region, the global economic downturn has accelerated the Internet-fueled fall in sales of physical music. "Consumers are enjoying more hours of music ... more |
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