A pair of giant pandas on loan from China will make their debut at the Toronto Zoo for some invitation-only visitors today, before they go on public display tomorrow.
Reported by CTV 3 hours ago.
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Panda pair on loan from China to make invitation-only debut today
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Giant pandas from China to make their debut at Toronto Zoo today
A pair of giant pandas on loan from China will make their debut at the Toronto Zoo for some invitation-only visitors today, before they go on public display tomorrow.
Reported by CTV 5 hours ago.
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Free to Practice and Believe Everywhere—Except China
They come from all corners of the world, and from all walks of life. On May 17 close to 8,000 practitioners of Falun Dafa will arrive in New York City for a conference and a weekend of events.The post Free to Practice and Believe Everywhere—Except China appeared first on The Epoch Times. Reported by Epoch Times 5 hours ago.
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China Says Yuan Strength Hurting Export Sector
PEKING (dpa-AFX) - China has indicated that the recent appreciation of yuan is hurting exporters' profit margins despite improved global demand conditions. 'Yuan appreciation is having a big negat...
Reported by FinanzNachrichten.de 6 hours ago.
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China eyes Arctic oil options
The decision to grant permanent observer status to China and five other nations by the Arctic Council meeting in Sweden Wednesday reflects the heightened interest by some of the world's most powerful economies in an area rich in oil, gas, minerals, fish and new transport possibilities.
Reported by CNN.com 5 hours ago.
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Global and China Tire Mold Industry Report, 2012-2015
NEW YORK, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global and China Tire Mold Industry Report, 2012-2015...
Reported by PR Newswire 5 hours ago.
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China Pesticide Industry Report, 2012-2015
NEW YORK, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: China Pesticide Industry Report,...
Reported by PR Newswire 5 hours ago.
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Stories Of Families Who Decided To Have More Children, Despite China's Policy
China's one-child policy is showing signs of easing, and many families are now choosing to have more children.
Reported by IBTimes 5 hours ago.
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Residents shout 'Protest!' over refinery in China
More than 2,000 people in southern China unfurled banners and shouted "Protest! Protest!" on Thursday to oppose plans for a petroleum refinery, in a large environmental rally that local authorities allowed to go forward in order to let the public vent frustration.
Reported by Seattle Times 5 hours ago.
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China warns EU against escalating trade disputes
China has urged the EU to stop raising new trade barriers or face consequences. This comes in response to EU punitive tariffs on Chinese solar exports and EU efforts to launch a probe into the country's telecom products.
Reported by Deutsche Welle 4 hours ago.
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CHINA DAIRY GROUP LTD: ANNOUNCEMENT OF APPOINTMENT OF NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Announce of Appointment of Non-Executive Director* Asterisks denote mandatory informationName of Announcer *CHINA DAIRY GROUP LTDCompany Registration No.199703080ZAnnouncement submitted on behalf o...
Reported by FinanzNachrichten.de 5 hours ago.
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China Logistics Group, Inc. Reports Financial Results for the Full Year of 2012 Ended December 31, 2012
SHANGHAI, CHINA--(Marketwired - May 16, 2013) - China Logistics Group, Inc. (OTCQB: CHLO), an international freight forwarder and logistics management company, announced today our financial results for the full year of 2012 ended December 31, 2012.
Reported by Marketwired 2 hours ago.
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China Blogger Who Appealed to Obama Now 'Scared'
A blogger in China who goes by the initials "B.Y." says she is scared after being interrogated by police because she appealed to President Obama to help save China's environment. B.Y. posted an online petition on the White House website "We the People" asking for support against the state-owned corporation PetroChina's plans to build a new chemical plant. Her fight is the latest attempt by Chinese civilians to take on the government online.
Reported by ABCNews.com 2 hours ago.
Reported by ABCNews.com 2 hours ago.
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Australian gold companies likely to attract more investment from China
Yesterday's announcement by *Aphrodite Gold* (ASX:AQQ) that it had received approaches from major mining and investment companies, from mainland China, Hong Kong and Singapore demonstrates a growing trend that should benefit investors.
The recent fall in the gold price looks to have ignited interest from Asian gold producers and companies looking to pick up assets at a lower entry prices in ASX listed gold companies than were generally prevailing over the past 18 months.
While early stage gold explorers may find interest, the focus is likely to centre on listed gold companies past feasibility study stage, into pre-production or gold production.
Recent examples support the premise including *Norton Gold Fields* (ASX:NGF), 89 per cent owned by Zijin Mining Group Co evaluating acquiring gold assets in Australia.
This follows Norton's earlier offer to acquire *Kalgoorlie Mining Co*. (ASX:KMC) for $14.9 million in April.
Qixing Group Company Ltd.'s Shenzhen-listed subsidiary *Shandong Qixing Iron Co*.(002359.SZ) offered US$140 million to acquire the assets of ASX listed *Stonewall Resources* (ASX:SWJ).
Hong Kong-listed iron ore miner *China Hanking Holdings Ltd*. (3788.HK) agreed to acquire *St. Barbara's *(ASX:SBM) Southern Cross mining operations for $22.5 million in January.
A rush for gold bullion and jewellery surged in mainland China and Hong Kong as consumers sought to take advantage of lower gold prices.
The interest in Australian gold assets and projects owned by ASX listed companies should have investors running a ruler through gold companies. Reported by Proactive Investors 22 minutes ago.
The recent fall in the gold price looks to have ignited interest from Asian gold producers and companies looking to pick up assets at a lower entry prices in ASX listed gold companies than were generally prevailing over the past 18 months.
While early stage gold explorers may find interest, the focus is likely to centre on listed gold companies past feasibility study stage, into pre-production or gold production.
Recent examples support the premise including *Norton Gold Fields* (ASX:NGF), 89 per cent owned by Zijin Mining Group Co evaluating acquiring gold assets in Australia.
This follows Norton's earlier offer to acquire *Kalgoorlie Mining Co*. (ASX:KMC) for $14.9 million in April.
Qixing Group Company Ltd.'s Shenzhen-listed subsidiary *Shandong Qixing Iron Co*.(002359.SZ) offered US$140 million to acquire the assets of ASX listed *Stonewall Resources* (ASX:SWJ).
Hong Kong-listed iron ore miner *China Hanking Holdings Ltd*. (3788.HK) agreed to acquire *St. Barbara's *(ASX:SBM) Southern Cross mining operations for $22.5 million in January.
A rush for gold bullion and jewellery surged in mainland China and Hong Kong as consumers sought to take advantage of lower gold prices.
The interest in Australian gold assets and projects owned by ASX listed companies should have investors running a ruler through gold companies. Reported by Proactive Investors 22 minutes ago.
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The EU and US must promote human rights worldwide – that includes China | Edward McMillan-Scott and Chen Guangcheng
It often appears there is one rule for small, insignificant countries and another for rising superpowers seen as 'strategic partners'
"Open your newspaper any day of the week and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government." Those words were written 52 years ago in an Observer article by Peter Benenson, who would go on to found Amnesty International.
Since then, the world has undergone profound changes. The iron curtain has fallen, democracy has taken root in eastern Europe, Latin America and much of Africa, and rapid advances in technology have made us more globally interconnected than ever before. Nonetheless, arbitrary imprisonment, torture and execution on political grounds remain commonplace. China, the world's rising superpower, continues to systematically engage in the political repression and torture of its citizens, with an estimated 7 to 8 million Chinese currently being held in prison or labour camps. From Cameroon to Cuba, Belarus to Bahrain, governments go on torturing and imprisoning those who dare to question their authority. For too many people around the world, the basic freedoms that are taken for granted in the west continue to be nothing but a distant dream.
On Wednesday, at the European parliament, we launched a transatlantic pact between the EU and US to highlight human rights abuses around the world. The Defending Freedoms Project, in association with Amnesty International and ChinaAid, calls on members of the European parliament and US congressmen and women to adopt and advocate on behalf of prisoners of conscience from around the world. Examples include Gao Zhisheng, the prominent Chinese human rights activist who has been repeatedly imprisoned and severely tortured for the last seven years. Or Nabeel Rajab, the Bahraini pro-democracy campaigner who has been beaten, jailed and denied medical treatment. By generating attention and support to these individual cases, it is hoped that combined pressure from the US and EU will help to secure their release.
Some regimes, including the Chinese government, defend oppression arguing that their societies place greater emphasis on political stability or economic growth than on individual freedoms. Yet this claim does not hold up to scrutiny. Chinese leaders have tried to bolster their waning legitimacy by pointing to the ancient ideals of Confucianism, as evidenced by the ubiquitous presence of state-sponsored Confucius Institutes around the world. But the ancient Confucian concept of minben asserted that "the people are the root of the state", and that their concerns should always come before the desires of those who rule them. Confucianism stresses the moral obligations and rights of the individual, and thus rejects a blind obedience to the state that reduces us all to mere cogs in the machine. Moreover, China's government is failing to respect its own laws and the rights that are enshrined in the Chinese constitution.
As we saw most recently during the Arab spring, all people around the world instinctively crave the same basic freedoms: the right to speak your mind without fear of torture or imprisonment, to be free from extra-judicial execution and disappearance and to criticise your government without putting yourself or your loved ones in danger. These fundamental rights are indisputably universal, and should be upheld at any cost. Benjamin Franklin once famously stated: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither."
For too long, western governments have stood by as authoritarian regimes around the world engage in systematic repression with impunity. The EU-China human rights dialogue, established 14 years ago, has yielded no tangible results, serving instead as a fig leaf for European leaders' general reluctance to challenge China robustly on its human rights record. The US, while historically more outspoken in its criticism of the Chinese government, has been increasingly cowed in recent years by China's growing economic and military might.
Likewise, European leaders have tended to mute their concerns over Moscow's deteriorating human rights record, largely as a result of their dependence on Russian oil and gas. Last month, in a welcome step, the US administration published a blacklist of 18 Russian human rights abusers who will now be subject to financial and travel sanctions. But until relatively recently, overt criticism was overshadowed by Obama's desire to "reset" relations with Russia and promote strategic and economic co-operation. Too often, it has appeared that there is one rule for small, insignificant countries such as Zimbabwe or Myanmar, and another for those rising superpowers deemed to be "strategic partners."
Together, the EU and US account for around half of global GDP and almost two-thirds of global military spending. A co-ordinated, transatlantic approach to human rights would mean the world's rising authoritarian powers could no longer act with impunity. Much has been made of the proposed EU-US trade agreement, and how this could counter China's growing power by allowing the EU and US to jointly set global trading rules. By using their combined economic and political clout, the EU and US could equally be promoting global standards on fundamental human rights.
In recent weeks, the heated debate over Britain's EU membership has largely revolved around economic costs and benefits. But international co-operation is not just about promoting trade and economic prosperity. It is about giving Britain the ability to project its influence around the globe.
Throughout history, there has been no authoritarian regime that has not eventually crumbled. None have been able to indefinitely repress the inherent human desire for justice and freedom from tyranny and subjugation. However, in showing solidarity with those who have the courage to challenge their oppressors, we can help to speed up the process of reform. And by co-operating with its allies, both in the EU and beyond, Britain can uphold its values and principles in a rapidly changing world. Reported by guardian.co.uk 10 minutes ago.
"Open your newspaper any day of the week and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government." Those words were written 52 years ago in an Observer article by Peter Benenson, who would go on to found Amnesty International.
Since then, the world has undergone profound changes. The iron curtain has fallen, democracy has taken root in eastern Europe, Latin America and much of Africa, and rapid advances in technology have made us more globally interconnected than ever before. Nonetheless, arbitrary imprisonment, torture and execution on political grounds remain commonplace. China, the world's rising superpower, continues to systematically engage in the political repression and torture of its citizens, with an estimated 7 to 8 million Chinese currently being held in prison or labour camps. From Cameroon to Cuba, Belarus to Bahrain, governments go on torturing and imprisoning those who dare to question their authority. For too many people around the world, the basic freedoms that are taken for granted in the west continue to be nothing but a distant dream.
On Wednesday, at the European parliament, we launched a transatlantic pact between the EU and US to highlight human rights abuses around the world. The Defending Freedoms Project, in association with Amnesty International and ChinaAid, calls on members of the European parliament and US congressmen and women to adopt and advocate on behalf of prisoners of conscience from around the world. Examples include Gao Zhisheng, the prominent Chinese human rights activist who has been repeatedly imprisoned and severely tortured for the last seven years. Or Nabeel Rajab, the Bahraini pro-democracy campaigner who has been beaten, jailed and denied medical treatment. By generating attention and support to these individual cases, it is hoped that combined pressure from the US and EU will help to secure their release.
Some regimes, including the Chinese government, defend oppression arguing that their societies place greater emphasis on political stability or economic growth than on individual freedoms. Yet this claim does not hold up to scrutiny. Chinese leaders have tried to bolster their waning legitimacy by pointing to the ancient ideals of Confucianism, as evidenced by the ubiquitous presence of state-sponsored Confucius Institutes around the world. But the ancient Confucian concept of minben asserted that "the people are the root of the state", and that their concerns should always come before the desires of those who rule them. Confucianism stresses the moral obligations and rights of the individual, and thus rejects a blind obedience to the state that reduces us all to mere cogs in the machine. Moreover, China's government is failing to respect its own laws and the rights that are enshrined in the Chinese constitution.
As we saw most recently during the Arab spring, all people around the world instinctively crave the same basic freedoms: the right to speak your mind without fear of torture or imprisonment, to be free from extra-judicial execution and disappearance and to criticise your government without putting yourself or your loved ones in danger. These fundamental rights are indisputably universal, and should be upheld at any cost. Benjamin Franklin once famously stated: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither."
For too long, western governments have stood by as authoritarian regimes around the world engage in systematic repression with impunity. The EU-China human rights dialogue, established 14 years ago, has yielded no tangible results, serving instead as a fig leaf for European leaders' general reluctance to challenge China robustly on its human rights record. The US, while historically more outspoken in its criticism of the Chinese government, has been increasingly cowed in recent years by China's growing economic and military might.
Likewise, European leaders have tended to mute their concerns over Moscow's deteriorating human rights record, largely as a result of their dependence on Russian oil and gas. Last month, in a welcome step, the US administration published a blacklist of 18 Russian human rights abusers who will now be subject to financial and travel sanctions. But until relatively recently, overt criticism was overshadowed by Obama's desire to "reset" relations with Russia and promote strategic and economic co-operation. Too often, it has appeared that there is one rule for small, insignificant countries such as Zimbabwe or Myanmar, and another for those rising superpowers deemed to be "strategic partners."
Together, the EU and US account for around half of global GDP and almost two-thirds of global military spending. A co-ordinated, transatlantic approach to human rights would mean the world's rising authoritarian powers could no longer act with impunity. Much has been made of the proposed EU-US trade agreement, and how this could counter China's growing power by allowing the EU and US to jointly set global trading rules. By using their combined economic and political clout, the EU and US could equally be promoting global standards on fundamental human rights.
In recent weeks, the heated debate over Britain's EU membership has largely revolved around economic costs and benefits. But international co-operation is not just about promoting trade and economic prosperity. It is about giving Britain the ability to project its influence around the globe.
Throughout history, there has been no authoritarian regime that has not eventually crumbled. None have been able to indefinitely repress the inherent human desire for justice and freedom from tyranny and subjugation. However, in showing solidarity with those who have the courage to challenge their oppressors, we can help to speed up the process of reform. And by co-operating with its allies, both in the EU and beyond, Britain can uphold its values and principles in a rapidly changing world. Reported by guardian.co.uk 10 minutes ago.
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Parents in China’s Hainan Province Accuse School Principal of Molesting Daughters
Parents of six primary school girls in China’s Hainan Province, say their daughters were drugged and sexually molested at a hotel by their school principal and another official. This is the latest of several recent reports implicating Party or state officials in the sexual abuse of minors.The post Parents in China’s Hainan Province Accuse School Principal of Molesting Daughters appeared first on The Epoch Times. Reported by Epoch Times 6 hours ago.
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FIDELITY CHINA SPECIAL SITUATIONS PLC - Net Asset Value(s)
Daily NAV Announcement Fidelity China Special Situations PLC The net asset value (unaudited) for the above company as at close of business on 16-05-2013 was: 99.44p The above net asset value was c...
Reported by FinanzNachrichten.de 6 hours ago.
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Chinese blogger 'scared' after appealing to Obama to help save China's environment
A Chinese blogger aged nearly 20 has attracted the regime attention for appealing to President Barack Obama to help save China's environment.
Reported by IndiaVision 6 hours ago.
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China State Grid to buy stake in Australia network
China’s State Grid Corp. is buying a stake in an Australian electricity network company for about $800 million.
Reported by IndiaVision 5 hours ago.
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China's Environment Ministry Approves Huge Hydro Dam
China's environment ministry has given the go-ahead for the construction of what will become the country's tallest hydroelectric dam despite acknowledging it will have an impact on plants and rare fish. The dam, with a height of 314 meters (1,030 feet), will serve the Shuangjiangkou hydropower project on the Dadu River in southwestern Sichuan province. To be built over 10 years by a subsidiary of state power firm Guodian Group, it is expected to cost 24.68 billion yuan ($4.02 ...
Reported by VOA News 5 hours ago.
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