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Dubai's debt crisis could be China's opportunity to snap up gold and oil assets, a senior Chinese official said in remarks published on Monday.

The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange gained 508.20 points, or 4. 07 percent, to close at 12,980.33 on Monday.

The MV Sirius Star was hijacked by Somali pirates a year ago. Photograph: Fred Vloo/AP Somali pirates have seized a supertanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the US.

SHANGHAI'S key stock index advanced more than 3 percent today, lifted by auto makers and banking shares, among expectation that government's stimulus measures will be maintained next year.

A state news agency says 10 people were killed when a bus plunged off a steep slope into a valley in China's southern Guangdong province.

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.

The number of Chinese visitor arrivals has been drastically soared up in Nepal since August, showed the figure released by Nepal's Immigration Office, Tribhuvan International Airport.

Earth filling work in attempt to rescue 16 trapped miners in a flooded coal mine has been suspended in northeastern China's Jilin province, as the site was in danger with a possible new cave-in, rescuers said Sunday.

Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday restated China's long-standing position that the yuan's exchange rate should be kept at a reasonable, balanced level.

A Zimbabwe-registered cargo plane crashed in flames during takeoff from Shanghai's main airport Saturday, killing three American crew members and injuring four others on board.

An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale jolted southwest China's Sichuan Province at 00:04 a.m. Saturday, the national seismological network said.

Justin Franchi Solondz, an environmental activist from New Jersey who spent years evading charges of ecoterrorism in the United States by hiding out in China , was sentenced to three years in prison by a local court on Friday on charges of manufacturing drugs in this backpacker haven.

TEN passengers died when a bus caught caught fire in China's northeastern province of Heilongjiang, the Xinhua news agency says.

The United Nations nuclear watchdog demanded Friday that Iran immediately freeze operations at a once secret uranium enrichment plant, a sharp rebuke that bore added weight because it was endorsed by Russia and China.

Even after the U.S. and China set targets this week for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the world's combined pledges ahead of next month's climate summit fall far short of what experts say is needed to avert dangerous global warming.

A Zimbabwe cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off Saturday from Shanghai's main international airport, killing three crew members, a government official said.

Staff members transport giant panda Fu Ni at China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Ya'an, city of southwest China's Sichuan Province, Nov.

In another coal mine blast accident in Xingren County of southwest China's Guizhou Province, rescuers work at the accident site yesterday.

If you want to get rich in China , the way to do it this year is to buy and sell garlic.

Company officials shovel earth during a ground breaking ceremony yesterday for a 5-billion-yuan passenger car plant, equally owned by Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group and Italy's Fiat SpA, in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province.

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

China and Brazil should and will strengthen parliamentary cooperation to further the development of bilateral ties, top Chinese political adviser Jia Qinglin said Wednesday at a meeting with the president of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies, Michel Temer.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has changed course and will attend a United Nations conference next month with some 65 other world leaders after all, despite asserting no global deal on climate change is imminently achievable.

A market vendor, wearing a face mask, stands in front of a large pile of sacks containing garlic at an outdoor food market in Beijing November 25, 2009.[Agencies] The price of garlic in China has nearly quadrupled since March, propelled by its very pungency to rank ahead of gold and stocks as the country's best-performing asset this year.

A court in northern China has sentenced five leaders of an unauthorised Protestant church to prison terms of up to seven years on charges including illegal assembly, rights groups reported on Thursday.

The number of dead in China's worst mining accident in two years rose to 107 Wednesday after three more bodies were pulled out of the coal mine, state media said.

It read like a muckraking expose: A magazine revealed a system of secret detention centers in Beijing where Chinese citizens are forcibly held and sometimes beaten to prevent them from lodging formal complaints with the central government.

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.

The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of progress in containing it, a United Nations report said.

China has detected eight cases of swine flu mutation, a health official said Wednesday, amid longstanding concerns among scientists that the virus could change into a more dangerous form.

More than a decade after Disney made a blockbuster animated film out of a folk tale about a young woman in ancient China who takes her father's place on the battlefield, a Hong Kong director is taking on the story of Hua Mulan with real actors.

Chinese cities are grappling for a second week with the most serious natural gas shortage in nearly a decade, triggered by unusually early winter weather, and the nation's top economic planner is urging suppliers to meet maximum distribution rates to meet the demand.

China will keep the yuan's exchange rate basically stable at a reasonable and balanced level, Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun said on Tuesday.

Renowned Chinese literature translator Yang Xianyi has died, China's official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday.

Customers shop for Walt Disney Co. products at a shopping mall in Shanghai, China earlier this month.

Official news agency says death sentences carried out on pair who added industrial chemical to infant formula Associated Press in Beijing guardian.co.uk , Tuesday 24 November 2009 08.59 GMT Zhang Yujun, second right, seen here before the trial last December, was executed for endangering public safety.

Hundreds of residents worried about property values and health risks protested Monday against the planned construction of a trash incinerator in the southern boomtown of Guangzhou.

Today is Monday, Nov. 23, the 327th day of 2009. There are 38 days left in the year.

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

The annual report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission to lawmakers said last week that American officials believe Chinese spying is "growing in scale, intensity and sophistication" and urges Congress to review the U.S. ability to meet the "rising challenge" of Beijing's espionage.

China's anti-virus authority on Sunday warned computer users to guard against new mutation of worm virus, which could infect various documents in system.

A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a veteran dissident convicted of spying to three years in prison.

Up to 600 New Zealanders could land jobs when a $400 million "little New Zealand" opens in China next year.

The death toll from a coalmine blast in northeast China has climbed to 92 as rescuers hunt for 16 workers still trapped deep underground in the nation's deadliest mine disaster in two years.

The Dalai Lama defended President Barack Obama from criticism that he has been too soft on China, saying today that the US leader just has a different approach to dealing with the Asian giant.

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

China has allayed concerns of India over the US-China joint statement, saying that it advocated direct negotiations between India and Pakistan to resolve their bilateral issues.

A photo exhibition displaying achievements of the People's Republic of China since its founding 60 years ago was held in Moscow Saturday.

Chinese soldiers from the southern boomtown of Guangzhou who are newly assigned to Tibet will get a "special allowance" of up to 160,000 yuan for serving there, a local newspaper reported on Saturday.

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 Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday congratulated the European Union for creating the new posts of president and foreign policy chief, calling it a 'step forward' for EU integration.

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

A gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 23 people and trapping another 90 nearly a third of a mile under ground, central government authorities said.

Palestinian officials announced Friday that a new date for parliamentary and presidential elections will be set next month now that President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone the January vote, though the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers maintain they will boycott the voting.

When China launched a Web site for its defense ministry in August, the whole world took notice.

A prominent mainland Chinese director banned by Beijing from making movies brought his new gay romance film to Hong Kong on Friday for what is likely the last of a handful of screenings on his home soil.

After allegedly stealing trade secrets valued at $32 million and attempting to sell them to Chinese competitors, Xiang Dong Yu was arraigned today in a US District Court.

The 11th China International Travel Mart has opened in the southwestern city of Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province.

Mukesh Ambani has emerged the wealthiest person in India with a net worth of $32 billion, as the number of Indian billionaires in Forbes' 'India Rich List' this year has nearly doubled to 52, thanks to the rebound in stock markets.

An exiled former leader of the 1989 student pro-democracy movement went on trial in southwestern China on Thursday on financial fraud charges after being extradited from Hong Kong, a human rights group reported.

Sometime into his long detention by China's feared state security agents, American geologist Xue Feng had something to show U.S. consular officials on their monthly visit.

In this May 13, 2009 file photo, a security guard wears a protective mask as a precaution against swine flu, cordons the entrance of a the Home Inn Hotel, where China's second confirmed swine flu patient is believed to have been lodged in Beijing, China.

AUSTRALIAN regulators have approved a Chinese state-owned company's $40 million stake deal in a South Australian magnetite joint venture.

Indian troops stand guard near the Line of Control, the de facto India-Pakistan border earlier this year.

CHINA'S last surviving veteran from the D-Day landings of Allied troops in northern France has died at the age of 91, state media reported today.

A 2-year-old panda who charmed his way into the hearts of Austrians is headed to China.

Looking for a new project after finishing a comedy, Zhang Yimou is considering adaptations of novels set against China's Cultural Revolution and the Japanese invasion in World War II, his assistant said Wednesday.

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, walks with Chinese President Hu Jintao during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009.

ABOUT 200 police officers are combing a mountainous area in central China's Hunan Province for a prisoner who tunneled out of a local jail.

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.

China and the United States on Tuesday pledged to strengthen bilateral ties and expand cooperation on key global issues in a joint statement issued after talks between Chinese President Hu Jintao and visiting U.S. President Barack Obama.

An investor reacts as he looks at a stock price monitor at a private securities company in Shanghai, China.

The story of a Chinese Communist Party official who moves to a community of boat people after his revolutionary lineage is refuted has won the Man Asian Literary Prize, organizers said.

Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu on Monday proposed a four-point action plan aimed at eradicating world hunger in his address to a world summit on food security.

President Ma Ying-jeou and his rightist Chinese Nationalist Party government must soon decide whether to accept a gauntlet for "political negotiations" with the People's Republic of China on the conditions imposed by the latter's ruling Chinese Communist Party, namely prior and explicit acceptance of unification under Beijing's "one China ...

Chinese factory workers are working in prison-like conditions for 41 cents an hour to make computer parts for IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Dell, a report claims.

Parts of southern China are now suffering low temperatures and snow, while almost all of northwestern China can expect continuing low temperatures and gales.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Monday called for expansion of economic cooperation between Asian and European countries to fight against the financial crisis at the 2009 Euro-Asia Economic Forum.

Dalian---with the best tourism facilities Dalian is the governing sub-provincial city in the eastern Liaoning Province of Northeast China, facing Shandong to the south and the Yellow Sea to the east and the Bohai Sea to the west and south.

Plans to raise the water level behind China's massive Three Gorges dam to full capacity this month - which would mark the symbolic culmination of the decades-old project - have stalled amid a worsening drought and reports of increased landslide risks.

One of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion.

The Palestinians plan to take their quest for independence to the U.N. Security Council, aiming to secure international support for a state, Palestinian officials said on Sunday.

At least six people died and 14 others were injured Sunday after a truck broke through the division guardrail and collided head-on with a bus on an expressway in east China's Fujian Province, according to local authorities.

China's Tibet Autonomous Region received a record number of 5.27 million tourists in the first 10 months of this year, according to a tourist official.

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 ...

In this file photo taken Jan. 12, 2004, Chen Liangyu , former secretary of Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party, looks on during the second session of 12th Shanghai People's Congress at Shanghai Expo Center in Shanghai, China .

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

CHINA'S robust economic recovery has assured oil supplies and investment from Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer, Chief Executive Officer Khalid Al-Falih said yesterday.

China's Zhou Haiyan won the crown of the women's 800 meters at the 18th Asian athletics championships on Friday.

China urged the European Union to do more beneficial deeds for the healthy development of bilateral relations, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang on Friday.

Nothing like a dandy evening's apocalypse to take the edge off recession, unemployment, Afghanistan and Glenn Beck.

The Chinese have learned English from his speeches and celebrated the way he rolls up his sleeves.

A 5-month old baby died in hospital while the doctor was playing a game online, an investigation has found.

A woman shovels snow on the road in Taiyuan, in north China's Shanxi province, Thursday, Nov.

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.

FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2009 file photo, a 20-year-old petitioner from Anhui province waits to speak... FILE - In this Aug.

Hanna Nasser, chairman of the Palestinian election commission, speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Nov.

During U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to China next week, the two countries need to operationalize what they have reached in the past months on developing a positive, cooperative and comprehensive relationship, a U.S. analyst said.

Nov. 11, 2009 / 24 Mar-Cheshvan 5770 When abortion isn't a choice By Kathleen Parker One of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion.

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

CHINA will launch a scientific research satellite into space in the near future from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern Gansu Province, a spokesman with the center said today.

CHINESE scientists have artificially induced the second major snowstorm to wreak havoc in Beijing this season, state media said today, reigniting debate over the practice of tinkering with Mother Nature.

A Chinese gold mining company is being investigated for causing serious damage to one of the oldest sections of the Great Wall of China.

Thousands of Fatah supporters gathered in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.

Barack Obama this week makes his first trip to Asia as president, leaving behind a host of domestic problems with a visit that recognizes the region's economic and diplomatic importance to the United States.

America's Northwood University and China's Jilin University are collaborating on a program to train car dealers for China, the globe's biggest vehicle market.

Chinese President Hu Jintao is greeted upon his arrival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Nov.

A leaf covered with snow is seen at the Xixia Park in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Nov.

NEARLY 70 flights were cancelled and more than 30 delayed at Beijing's airport on Tuesday after the second major snow storm of the season blanketed the Chinese capital, airport officials said.

BEIJING: Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang on Monday called on health authorities to ensure safety in the production, storage, transportation, and inoculation process of the vaccines against A/H1N1 influenza, for the health of the public.

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.

Li Changchun, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, meets with outstanding reporters in Beijing, capital of China, on Nov.

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

Nine Uighurs have been executed for taking part in ethnic rioting that left nearly 200 people dead in July, the first suspects put to death in the unrest, the official China News Service reported Monday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il - known for shunning air travel - has six luxurious special trains equipped with conference rooms, bedrooms and high-tech communication facilities, a South Korean newspaper reported Monday.

Chinese President Hu Jintao meets with heroes of the Chinese Air Force on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of China Air Force in Beijing, China, Nov.

The northern and eastern parts of China are to be shrouded in thick fog Saturday morning, the National Meteorological Center said Friday, warning of increasing safety risk on road and in airports.

China on Saturday shrugged off international pressure to appreciate its currency, saying developed countries should focus on the quality of their own economic policy-making. Chinese Finance Minister Xie Xuren, speaking after finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of 20 nations met in Scotland, said countries with global reserve ...

A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday: ___ LONDON - Government-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC reported a quarterly loss of 1.8 billion pounds despite an improvement in underlying profits and said lending to small- and medium-sized companies increased 5 percent.

There have been no reports of casualties and building collapses after a moderate earthquake hit Xigaze Prefecture of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region early Sunday morning, local government sources said.

Taking candy from a baby: A consortium of Chinese and American companies goes to Washington and announces plans to build a $1.5 billion windmill farm in West Texas using $450 million in U.S. Stimulus funds, which will create 2,330 jobs - " 2,000 of them in China.A The baby - " Washington -- doesn't cry or whine or spit in the consortium's face.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday met Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa and expressed China's willingness to further its cooperation with the Arab countries by enriching the contents of the China-Arab friendly cooperation.

Senior public security officials from China and Russia met here Friday, vowing to enhance cooperation and jointly safeguard regional peace and stability.

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

China Minmetals Corporation, the country's largest state-owned metals trader, had said it was conducting research on a London Mining iron ore project in Sierra Leone and has not signed any cooperation deal for the same, China Daily reported on Saturday.

Chinese semiconductor company Actions Semiconductor Co. said Thursday it has promoted Niccolo Chen to be its new CEO.

A former gang leader who was the son of a high-ranking politician was executed this week in northern China after being convicted of murder, kidnapping, and extortion, state media reported.

President Hu Jintao greets Jiang Ying, widow of Qian Xuesen, known as the country's "father of space technology," at a ceremony at the Babaoshan Cemetery in Beijing yesterday.

The robust trade and growing economic cooperation between China and Africa have created a "win-win" situation for both sides, which are complementary in a wide range of aspects.

Buyers pass a exhibiting stand of clothes during the 106th China Export and Import Trade Fair, or Canton Fair, in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, Nov.

China's foreign ministry insisted on Thursday that the country's intentions in space were peaceful, after comments from top air force brass preparing to celebrate a 60th anniversary worried analysts in the United States.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization's executive committee on Thursday.

Senator Charles E. Schumer , the New York Democrat, is calling on the Obama administration to block the use of stimulus funds for a utility-scale wind farm in West Texas that would make use of turbines manufactured largely in China.

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

Eight-percent growth was no longer a problem for China's economy this year, but the real challenge was to push forward structural adjustments, a senior economist said Thursday.

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang meets with Papua New Guinean Deputy Prime Minister Puka Temu in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Nov.

Police in the mainland grab a person s hair in the process of law enforcement and forcefully take naked photos by violent means.

The top Chinese negotiator for the United Nations climate change talks being held here said Tuesday that the Kyoto Protocol must be followed.

A grand niece of the 14th Dalai Lama told Xinhua on Tuesday that she had joined the Communist Party of China .

Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse at the grand opening of Hong Kong Disneyland in 2005.

South Korean soldiers take part in an anti-terrorism drill against possible attacks from North Korea in Seoul North Korea announced yesterday it has produced more plutonium for its atomic weapons programme, putting further pressure on the US to start direct talks.

President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel - the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.

Xie Caiping, left, and other gangster suspects stand trial at the Chongqing No.5 Intermediate People's Court in Chongqing, China , Tuesday, Nov.

Wary of China's rapid advancements in space programs over the last decade, military commanders said Tuesday that the U.S. needs to improve its satellite presence in the Southern Hemisphere to better track launches from Asia, even as officials work to improve relations with Beijing.

An associate professor of Kashmir University, who has been bestowed the prestigious Kasumigaura International Award for his research work on Himalayan lakes, was stopped from travelling to China to receive the honour by immigration authorities in New Delhi, Shakil A. Romshoo, who was chosen for the award for his research work on Pollution Modelling ...

The Chinese Ministry of Health has refuted an online rumor that the recent A/H1N1 flu outbreak in Beijing was caused by vaccinating students for the National Day celebrations.

Chinese forces have launched a "strike hard" security campaign in the restless far western region of Xinjiang, vowing to wipe out lawlessness and "change the face" of the public security situation there.

WUHAN: Local government is working on plans to contain and retrieve industrial chemicals sunken on a section of the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei Province after two cargo ships collided early Sunday, local officials said.

TOKYO: Ahead of his proposed visit to Arunachal Pradesh, the Dalai Lama today hit out at China for opposing his trip to the state saying it was "politicising too much" the issue as he was going there solely for teaching.

China will announce further measures to promote substantial cooperation with Africa at the upcoming meeting between China and African nations, Vice Minister of Commerce Chen Jian said on Monday.

China's armed forces started its annual nationwide recruitment on Sunday, and college graduates are preferred candidates for the People's Liberation Army 's two-year compulsory service.

China is to maintain basic stability and continuity in the economic policies and RMB exchange rate to ensure a foreseeable prospect for its businesses.

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang on Sunday visited Canterbury University to open the second Confucius Institute in New Zealand.

Holding an umbrella, a biker protects himself from the falling snow as he rides by after a snow storm hit Beijing Photo: EPA The unusually early snow blanketed the capital from Sunday morning and kept falling for half the day, helped by temperatures as low as minus 2 Celsius and strong winds from the north, Xinhua news agency reported.

China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and Nolana Ta Ama , representative of the African diplomatic missions to China and Togo's ambassador, attend the theme open-day of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held by the Foreign Affairs Ministry of China in Beijing, China, Oct.

The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, said Saturday that China was overpoliticizing his travels and claimed his decisions on where to go were spiritual in nature, not political.

China's top legislature closed Saturday its five-day bimonthly meeting, adopted a law on diplomatic personnel and appointed a new minister of education.