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Beijing - China will launch its second moon orbiter next October, state media reported on Friday, as it powers ahead with a space programme that has sparked concerns abroad.

China's government will continue the proactive fiscal policy and moderately easy monetary policy next year, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee agreed Friday.

Recent reports about China's likely target have generated fears that a climate deal could be hindered by cautious initial bid The Chinese president Hu Jintao at the UN summit on climate change, September 2009.

Chinese President Hu Jintao pledged to mobilize the society to improve AIDS/HIV control, when taking part in a gathering of AIDS prevention volunteers here Monday, a day before the 22nd World AIDS Day.

He met with Chinese President Hu Jintao to discuss a laundry list of issues ranging from climate change to trade protectionism.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has waited four years to make what many believe will be his most important foreign visit, and it couldn't come at a more disadvantageous time.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is in the United States for the first officialA state visit by any foreign leader since President Barack Obama took office this year.

Chinese President Hu Jintao has urged unswerving efforts to improve the building of the Communist Party of China to secure the Party's role as the steel core of the country's leadership.

WASHINGTON: US experts Thursday welcomed China's new goals to reduce the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP in 2020 by 40 to 45 percent compared with the level of 2005.

The unusually lengthy 4,228-word joint statement issued on November 17, at the conclusion of US President Barack Obamaa TMs four-day visit to the Peoplea TMs Republic of China, reflects the changing global geopolitical balance of power.

China said Friday that restored political contacts at the highest level with France means economic relations, which some feared could be hurt by recent diplomatic tensions, can improve.

WASHINGTON, DC , November 25, 2009 - President Barack Obama will travel to Copenhagen on December 9 to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the White House announced today.

The United States, under pressure from other nations as one of the world's largest greenhouse-gas polluters, will present a target for reducing carbon dioxide emissions at next month's climate conference in Copenhagen, Obama administration officials said Monday.

Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month's Copenhagen climate summit, insisting America is ready to tackle global warming despite intense disagreement in Congress.

Despite the ethnic link to China, most Malaysian Chinese tend to favour the motherland merely for the opportunities it affords as a new economic giant.

Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday sent a message to Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy to congratulate him on his election as full-time president of the European Union .

President Obama meets with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a G-20 summit in London on April 2, 2009.

China has announced its first firm target to cut carbon dioxide emissions, ahead of climate talks in Copenhagen next month China pledged it would cut its carbon intensity by 40 per cent to 45 per cent compared to 2005 levels Photo: REUTERS Officials announced Wen Jiabao, the prime minister, would personally take the offer to the summit a day after ...

As environment ministers filed into their afternoon press conference, climate activists held banners and demanded the rich countries to pay their climate debt outside the Tycho Brahe Planetarium, in Copenhagen, Nov.

Kim: Friendship with China 'unbreakable' 2009-11-26 10:17 BJT PYONGYANG: Visiting Defense Minister Liang Guanglie yesterday met Kim Jong-il, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea .

When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met in Washington this week with President Barack Obama, the White House lavished attention on the unassuming, bookish Indian leader.

A senior Chinese media official said in Singapore Tuesday that media in China and Singapore need to enhance cooperation and shoulder the social responsibilities for the economic development and social progress of the two countries.

U.S. ambassador to China hit out at negative U.S. media coverage of American President Barack Obama's recent visit to Shanghai and Beijing, saying it failed to take into account significant progress on many important issues.

An awarding ceremony was held here Wednesday to honor 214 outstanding demobilized soldiers in the country.

The US will announce a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions before next month's UN climate summit, according to a White House official.

Defence Minister Liang Guanglie will visit North Korea soon, state media said on Friday, amid efforts to draw Pyongyang back to nuclear disarmament talks.

Firmly ruling out mediation between India and Pakistan, Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke has said the US would support the two countries if they decide to resume the talks but was not willing to play the "role of a midwife". He also said Pakistan should not see Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the US as ...

Regulations on the development of "new energy" vehicles have been submitted to China's State Council for approval and are expected to be officially in effect in March 2010, according to a report in Gasgoo citing the National Development and Reform Commission .

The United States has moved quickly to reassure Taiwan, less than a week after President Barack Obama's visit to China, by sending a senior diplomat to Taipei to allay fears that the island's interests have been compromised.

China-Brazil relations have entered a new stage of development in various fields and they maintain a favorable momentum for the future, the Chinese ambassador says.

China will send two giant pandas to an Australian zoo this Friday as part of a joint research program.

Cooperation between China and the United States in clean energy field is expected to reach a higher level as the two countries reached more agreements during U.S. President Barack Obama's China visit.

India has watched with wariness as President Barack Obama's administration has lavished attention on rivals Pakistan and China.

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UNITED NATIONS: Chinese UN ambassador said here on Thursday that China hopes to see positive outcome from the upcoming UN Conference on Climate Change scheduled for December 7 in Copenhagen.

China's markets are doing phenomenally well. China experienced 16.1% increase in retail spending in October, and consumer discretionary stocks within China's CSI 300 Index have gained 123% year-to-date - the best of any industry.

Tibetan exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama greets attendees at an inauguration ceremony of a new unit at Max Heart and Vascular Institute hospital in New Delhi yesterday Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama yesterday praised US President Barack Obama for taking up the issue of Tibet "very seriously" with Chinese leaders on his recent trip to ...

Beijing has communicated to New Delhi that it respects its stance that there was no role for any third party in mediation of Indo-Pak affairs, Indian government sources said.

Collaboration and partnership between China and the United Sates are absolutely critical to a meaningful, substantive and programmatic climate solution, a U.S. environment expert has said.

China's top political advisor, Jia Qinglin, met with French High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia Adolphe Colrat on Friday.

China's top political adviser Jia Qinglin met Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo here on Friday, pledging further efforts to bolster bilateral ties.

SRINAGAR: Scheduled to visit China, Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq stoked further controversy saying Beijing has a "stake" in regional peace as certain parts of Kashmir are under its control.

China and Sudan have agreed to further enhance cooperation on agriculture during the visit to Khartoum by Zhou Yongkang, a senior leader of the Communist Party of China , said sources with the International Department of the CPC Central Committee on Thursday.

An explosion at a coal mine in northeast China early on Saturday killed 31 workers and left 82 trapped, state-run China Central Television said, the latest deadly incident to hit the industry.

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama told visiting Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi that he would attend the World Expo in Shanghai next year and invited Premier Wen Jiabao to visit Tokyo before that.

Chinese President Hu Jintao met here Saturday morning with Chief Executive Donald Tsang of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China.

President Barack Obama went to Beijing with a broad array of issues to put before China's leaders.

EFFORTS to craft a comprehensive climate treaty in Copenhagen next month will certainly "yield a success", the UN's top climate official has pledged.

Two senators who authored legislation aimed at pressuring China to lift the value of its yuan said on Thursday they asked the Commerce Department to investigate alleged Chinese currency "manipulation." Sen.

THE Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Singapore last week succeeded in becoming an extension of the G-20. It embraced a new economic paradigm based on re-balancing global growth, inclusiveness of prosperity and sustainable growth.

What is it about climate change that political leaders around the world fail to understand? Huge international hopes were placed on the summit in Copenhagen next month.

President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao recently announced a far-reaching package of measures to strengthen cooperation between the United States and China on clean energy.

Presidents of China and Russia Wednesday sent congratulatory messages to the China-Russia Friendship Committee for Peace and Development on the opening of its eighth plenary meeting in Beijing.

The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century, leading scientists said Tuesday.

Something got lost in transit in US President Barack Obama's visit to China -- the charismatic rhetoric and dominance of mass communication that took him from nowhere to the White House.

WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said on Wednesday that he would not meet the Dalai Lama when he visits the country next month.

Spot gold rose as high as $1,143.95 per ounce in early Asia trade, settling later just above $1,140, with expectations for a continued weakness in the US currency also providing a support.

Ramos> STAN GRANT, CNN INT'L. ANCHOR, PRISM : It's a high- stakes visit to Beijing.

President Obama said Wednesday he is "very close to a decision" on a troop increase for the war in Afghanistan , and will make his case to the American people for his Afghan strategy in the next "several weeks." "I am very confident that when I announce the decision, the American people will have a lot of clarity about what we're doing, how we're ...

The Ordos region of Inner Mongolia, home to one of Chinaa s biggest deserts, is being transformed into the site of a pine forest that will stretch across its low hills as far as the eye can see.

Pollution typically declines during a recession. Not this time. Despite a global economic slump, worldwide carbon dioxide pollution jumped 2 percent last year, most of the increase coming from China, according to a study published online Tuesday.

President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao promised a determined, joint effort to tackle climate change, nuclear disarmament and other global troubles but emerged from their first full-blown summit with scant progress beyond goodwill.

BEIJING a ' President Barack Obama played tourist Tuesday on his first visit ever to China, spending nearly an hour touring the Forbidden City and its maze of red buildings and cobblestone courtyards.

Asian stocks rose to more than 15-month highs on Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke repeated the central bank was likely to keep interest rates at very low levels for some time, keeping the dollar pinned near 15-month lows and gold close to record highs.

With top US experts on climate change and several prominent scholars on China, such as Orville Schell, Jerome Cohen, Barbara Finamore and Andrew Nathan in attendance, I was expecting an onslaught on China.

Chinese President Hu Jintao brings his condolences to a relative of the late former Chinese Vice Premier Gu Mu in Beijing, capital of China, Nov.

Chinese President Hu Jintao has met former Chinese Taipei vice-president Lien Chan in Singapore on the sidelines of the APEC summit to call for formal talks with Chinese Taipei by the end of the year.

Against the backdrop of a tentative global recovery, President Obama and China's leaders will meet in Beijing next week to discuss how to improve relations between the world's reigning economic superpower and its greatest challenger.

Nov. 15 - African's keen to explore business opportunities in the East are moving to China to live and work.

SINGAPORE: Some members of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation grouping, which includes the US and China, expressed concerns over unstable currency movements at a summit, host Singapore said yesterday.

The US and Russian presidents meet at an Asia-Pacific summit here Sunday with Barack Obama eager to secure Moscow's backing to break the stand-off over Iran's nuclear ambitions.

PARIS a ' France and Brazil adopted a common policy Saturday ahead of key UN global warming talks and vowed to launch a worldwide push to convince other powers to back their "climate bible". A joint text was unveiled after talks between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, which gave an outline ...

President Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese leader Hu Jintao positively evaluate the development of Russia-China relations and intend to continue regular contacts on the summit level.

Chinese President Hu Jintao met here Saturday morning with Chief Executive Donald Tsang of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China.

Chinese President Hu Jintao ended his two-day state visit to Malaysia on Wednesday.

Leaders attending the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Singapore had expressed concerns that the U.S., the world's biggest economy, might turn inward as it grapples with high unemployment and other urgent domestic priorities.

As the Copenhagen climate summit approaches, Barack Obama will try to make a deal by meeting the leaders of China and India.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il ranked 24th on a list of the world's 67 most powerful people released by Forbes magazine on Wednesday.

Low-lying and impoverished Asian coastal cities such as Dhaka, Manila and Jakarta are vulnerable to "brutal" damage from climate change without global action, environmental group WWF warned Thursday.

SINGAPORE: China on Friday vowed to vigorously boost domestic demands and voiced its strong opposition to protectionism, saying both are key to bolstering the fledging global recovery.

China's national government tolerates an extensive network of secret jails in Beijing operated by provincial and municipal governments to prevent citizens from complaining to national officials, according to a report released here Thursday by Human Rights Watch.

Nov. 12 -- Kenneth Lieberthal, director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution, talks with Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton and Lori Rothman about the outlook for U.S. President Barack Obama's meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing.

MALACCA: It was a moment of historical significance for China's President Hu Jintao when he viewed the Straits of Malacca.

President Obama, the most powerful man in the world according to Forbes latest list, and the No.

WASHINGTON: Barack Obama leaves on his debut presidential tour of Asia on Thursday seeking to revive America's prestige as a regional power, on a trip much heavier on symbolism than diplomatic substance.

China should aim to reduce its carbon intensity by 4 or 5 percent year-on-year if it is to achieve its goal of low-carbon development by 2050, says a leading environmental think tank.

Chinese President Hu Jintao meets with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Singapore, Nov.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown is deemed to be the 29th most powerful person in a world, according to a list of 67 which fails to include the Queen.

The dollar touched a 15-month low against the currencies of major U.S. trading partners as signs of a global recovery and bets that the Federal Reserve will keep borrowing costs low spurred demand for higher-yielding assets.

In just over a week, US President Barack Obama will begin his first visit to mainland China as head of state.

CHINESE President Hu Jintao left Beijing today to pay state visits to Malaysia and Singapore and attend an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

DATUK Abdul Majid Khan was Malaysia's ambassador to China from 1999 to 2005 and the retired diplomat is still a regular visitor there.

SEPANG: Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived at the KL International Airport here today for a two-day visit.

President Barack Obama said Monday that he'd be willing to attend an international climate summit in Copenhagen next month if it appears a deal is in the offing and his presence there would help clinch it.

SINGAPORE: The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation may be a non-binding trade forum but being a member of the group is comparable to being part of a free trade agreement, according to an analysis by economists released Monday.

TAIPEI, Taiwan a ' Taiwan's representative to the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit said Monday he will discuss a trade agreement with the Chinese delegation a ' but not politics.

CHINESE Premier Hu Jintao will tour the historic enclave of Malacca during an official trip to Malaysia this week, the first by a Chinese leader in 15 years, officials said on Monday.

SINGAPORE: The 20th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum kicked off in Singapore with a meeting of senior officials on Sunday.

WASHINGTON: For Zhou Wenzhong, who has spent almost three decades as a career diplomat focused on Sino-US relations, the two countries have never before shared so many common interests.

China and Japan enhanced cooperation in environment protection with dozens of new contracts signed Sunday.

Delivering a speech at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, capital of Egypt, on Saturday, visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao described the world as full of colors and with different civilizations which constitute cultural diversity.

Chinese President Hu Jintao's upcoming state visits to Malaysia and Singapore would comprehensively push forward China's ties with the two nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations , said an official with the Foreign Ministry here Friday.

Foreign air force chiefs attending a Beijing forum Friday called for more cooperation and dialogue in maintaining airspace security.

FOUR years ago, a Hong Kong magazine displayed the photos of 14 Chinese human rights defenders on its cover.

Chinese President Hu Jintao said Friday that China will continue to adhere to peaceful exploitation and use of airspace.

There are just over four weeks to go before the Copenhagen conference intended to agree a new international framework for controlling greenhouse gas emissions.

About 10,000 people gathered at the Beijing Babaoshan Cemetery to say farewell to Chinese space scientist Qian Xuesen Friday morning.

The fourth ministerial meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation will be held in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Nov.

Thousands of people will send letters to President Barack Obama this year. Few besides Yang Zili are likely to risk jail by doing so.

BEIJING: China on Thursday said developed countries should take the lead in quantitative and massive emissions reduction, and provide support for developing countries in tackling climate change.

Chinese President Hu Jintao Tuesday sent a message to Afghan President Hamid Karzai congratulating him on his reelection.

SINGAPORE: The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit in Singapore will see the largest number of participants in attendance since its inception in 1996, the organizing committee said on Wednesday.

NAIROBI: China wants to address the imbalance in its trade with Kenya by encouraging Chinese firms to import more from east Africa's largest economy, its envoy to Nairobi said on Monday.

As China's actions to curb gas emissions garnered praise at U.N. climate talks, the United States came under renewed pressure to come up with a plan to cut pollution blamed for hastening global warming.

BEIJING, Nov.3 -- A number of far-reaching plans to help the livelihood of Africans will be announced by Premier Wen Jiabao next week at a summit between Beijing officials and African leaders.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso exchanged views on climate change and China-EU cooperation on Monday during a telephone conversation.

Barely a month goes by without some new energy or mineral deal being struck between China and an African nation.

Talks ... the US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell meets the chief nuclear envoy of South Korea, Wi Sung Lac.

Chinese President Hu Jintao has been invited to keep the role of honorary chairman of the Red Cross Society of China , according to a RCSC conference.