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Nordic countries team up in Chinas tech trade
/enpproperty--> Nordic countries have joined an international race to team up with China in exploring science and technology opportunities. "Countries with a tradition of innovation gradually take the lead in social and economic development, which in turn make them internationally competitive," said Huang Xing, China's ambassador to Finland. Information and communication ...
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China Daily Special Beyond Boundaries
Editor's note: China Daily begins a series of human interest stories representing neighboring countries in an effort to shed insight on topics relevant to China. Myanmar, which is in transition, is the first ...
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Cisco denies China monitoring accusations
/enpproperty--> Cisco Systems Inc, the giant network equipment supplier, has denied accusations of conducting illegal monitoring activities in China, as well as participating in the US surveillance program that whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed. In a statement sent to China Daily on Tuesday, Cisco said, "PRISM is not a Cisco program and Cisco networks did not participate ...
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Vietnam China to enhance ties
/enpproperty--> HANOI -- Vietnam and China "have huge potentials for further speeding up cooperation in the future," Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang, who will start his three-day state visit to China from Wednesday at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, said in an interview with Xinhua and other Chinese media on Tuesday. "Vietnam and China are close ...
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Cathay Pacific to revamp first class BOSE headphones more personal space
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Japan stocks jump on weaker yen Fed hopes
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japanese stocks jumped on Wednesday as a weaker yen and expectations that the Federal Reserve may not signal a tapering of its bond purchases pulled in buyers and spurred gains across sectors. The Nikkei Stock ...
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Japans May exports surge more than 10
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Japan's exports surged in May, as the yen traded at its weakest levels of the year, with the result leading to a smaller-than-expected trade deficit. Japanese exports rose 10.1% from a year earlier, the Finance Ministry reported Wednesday, with the results beating a 6.5% rise forecast in a Reuters survey, and a 5% increase tipped in a separate Dow Jones ...
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Sanya among Chinas top 5 most popular destinations for the Post-90s
According to a report from Taobao.com, the Post-90s (people born between the years 1990 to 1999 in China) is becoming the main force of the tourism market, and Sanya has been named the fifth most popular tourism destination in China for the Post-90s. Lijiang in Yunnan Province has taken the top spot on the list for the most popular domestic destinations, followed by Chengdu, Hangzhou, Beijing ...
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Pentagon to Allow Women in Key Combat Roles by 2016
PENTAGON -- The U.S. military says that within the next three years, it will put women in key combat roles from which they were previously excluded. American women have been serving in combat roles and hundreds have been killed on the front lines for years, but they have been excluded from key positions in areas including Special Operations and infantry. In January, then-Defense Secretary ...
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China’s growing glut of unemployed graduates
My maid and her husband, a driver, have scrimped and saved and crammed themselves into a tiny flat in Shanghai for decades with one goal in mind: to give their only son a crack at the "Chinese dream."Now those decades of deprivation have reached their climax as the cherished child of these hard-working people graduates from university and takes his first job: as a construction worker. ...
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Australia v Iraq what we learned from the World Cup qualifier
For 48 hours before the game, a major Sydney road was rechristened as the Tim Cahill Expressway. This was a man who had scored his country's first ever World Cup goal and at times had dragged the team through qualification. For years, he has been the source of goals when all others had run dry. Yet with 13 minutes remaining ...
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Goldman Bets on Cheapest Asia Market After China
Asia's emerging markets have been among the worst hit amid the recent rout in global stocks, but Goldman Sachs advocates accumulating South Korean equities now, on the basis that the market will fare well in a rising rate environment. "In a rising rate environment...more cyclical markets like Korea may benefit given their higher sensitivity to global growth than rates," ...
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In China Blackmail Is the Name of the Game
How to Succeed Through Blackmail ) The extortion boom comes at a time when many Communist Party members are begrudgingly enduring a government austerity campaign, pushed by President Xi Jinping himself, that has denied them the expensive, taxpayer-financed banquets and chauffeured sedans once considered the birthright of Chinese officialdom. More than 2,000 officials have been investigated and ...
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Fiji offers more than 500 troops to Golan force
Fiji has offered more than 500 soldiers to the UN Golan Heights peacekeeping force after several countries withdrew because of the spillover from the Syria conflict, diplomats said on ...
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Blast Apparently Aimed at an Afghan Politician Kills 3 in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan ...
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A year on Julian Assange stays put in Ecuadorean embassy in London
Julian Assange skipped out on a date with Swedish justice. Rather than comply with a British order that he go to the Scandinavian country for questioning about sex crimes allegations, ...
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Coin bearing cross hits European Union hurdle
European Commission (EC), the union's executive arm, had ordered it to remove halos and crosses from special commemorative euro coins due to be minted this summer. The coins were intended to celebrate the 1,150th anniversary of Christianity's arrival in Slovak lands but have instead become tokens of the faith's retreat from contemporary Europe. "There is a movement in the EU ...
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China to raise Snowden issue with Ban Ki-Moon
Edward Snowden , a contractor for NSA, who is now hiding in Hong Kong. He has been described as a traitor by some senators in the US, who raised questions on whether he escaped to a city within China. Chinese foreign ministry continued to hedge questions on whether it would extradite Snowden if the US government made the request. Beijing does not want to be seen as giving orders to the Hong Kong ...
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Chinas fastest-growing cities for multi-millionaires
The population of multi-millionaires in no-name Chinese cities is growing at a breakneck pace. Case in point: Chongqing's multi-millionaire population grew by nearly 80% between 2007 and ...
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Cyber experts say calling out China may be
After years of quiet and largely unsuccessful diplomacy, the US has brought its persistent computer-hacking problems with China into the open, delivering a steady drumbeat of reports accusing Beijing's government and military of computer-based attacks against America. Officials say the new strategy may be having some impact. In recent private meetings with US officials, Chinese leaders ...
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PAL Cebu Pacific eye direct flights between Iloilo Korea
ILOILO CITY, Philippines--Direct flights between Iloilo and Korea are being eyed by airlines in the country, according to the Department of Tourism. DOT Western Visayas director Helen Catalbas said the Philippine Airlines and Cebu Pacific have been conducting market studies on flights between Incheon in South Korea and Iloilo. "This is a feasible venture because of the significant volume ...
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Mali and Tuareg rebels sign peace accord
OUAGADOUGOU: The nation of Mali, which lost half its territory last year to rebels, signed an accord Tuesday with Tuareg separatists who still control the country's northernmost province, paving the way for ...
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Jolie stunt double sues Murdoch firm in US over phone hacking
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has become the first of six people to formally launch legal proceedings against Rupert Murdoch's media empire in America over alleged phone hacking. Eunice Huthart, a former star of the Gladiators television show who went on to become a stunt specialist in the US film industry, has lodged a damages claim in California. While previous hacking civil actions have ...
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Turkey Police crackdown on protestersOvernight riot police in the capital Ankara briefly fired tear gas and used water cannons on protesters who hurled back stones and hid behind makeshift barricades but there were no other reports of confrontations.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday claimed victory over anti-government protesters after a heavy crackdown on the movement, as police raided homes and arrested dozens of demonstrators to stamp out nearly three weeks of ...
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Rising civilian casualties a pointer to future threat
President Hamid Karzai and the Nato secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen. There are about 98,000 troops from 50 countries currently operating in Afghanistan led by General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. of the US. Of these, over 68,000 are Americans. President Obama had announced earlier this year that the troops will be withdrawn from combat duty by 2014, leaving only a residual force of up to 9,000 ...
North Korea Digest
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North Korea's navy integral to sea border security
The North Korean Navy is an integral part of the country’s armed forces and the 46,000 men and woman that man it are the part of the defense force most often in international and North Korean news media.
The North Korean Navy is part of the Korean People’s Army Naval Force and makes up the country’s maritime defense capability. Because the navy is primarily concerned with defense, it operates as a ‘green water’ rather than a ‘blue water’ navy, which means it is capable of carrying out missions and activities offshore but not at extended ranges such as the Chinese Navy, which is much larger and includes air craft carriers, battle ships and destroyers. Read more
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