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Global economy in danger zone: World Bank chief

The world economy is stepping into a ‘new danger zone,’ World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Saturday, as growth slows and investor confidence weakens.

Speaking in Beijing, Zoellick urged Eur

China tycoon makes Iceland environment pledge

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A Chinese property tycoon who is trying to buy a huge swathe of Iceland for a luxury resort said on Friday he had been attracted by the country's wilderness and pledged to respect the local environmen

China rejects report on n-deployment

Dismissing the recent Pentagon report that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has deployed nuclear capable missiles against India as “unfounded” and “contrary to facts”, China on Wednesday said the claims were made with “ulterior motives”.

Chinese buying 300 sq km of land in Iceland

A super-rich Chinese is purchasing a mind-boggling 300 sq km of land in Iceland for a tourism project.

Huang Nubo, ranked 114th on Forbes' 2009 list and chairman of Beijing-based Zhongkun Investment,

Death for 'corrupt' China Mobile man: report

China on Tuesday sentenced to death the former chairman of a branch of state-owned telecom giant China Mobile for accepting $2.6 million-worth of bribes, state media reported.

Li Hua, chairman and ge

Chinese general's spy talk leaked onto YouTube

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Footage of a Chinese general discussing sensitive spying cases has been leaked onto Google Inc.'s video sharing site YouTube, in what appears to be an embarrassing failure of secrecy for the usually t

Indian turns yoga into million dollar business in China

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When Manmohan Singh Bhandari, who has turned yoga into a multi million dollar business in China, visited the country in 2003 to conduct yoga classes he was shocked to hear questions like how the spiri

China denounces U.S. report, defend military upgrade

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China denounced on Friday a Pentagon report that warned its military modernisation could destabilise the region, saying the U.S. military's annual assessment of Beijing's armed forces indulged in exag

Pak FM to hold talks with Chinese counterpart

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Pakistan foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar, who arrived here on Tuesday night, will be holding talks with her Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi on Wednesday on a host of issues including bilateral, regional and international.

China fights rats with stray cats

More than 100 stray cats that used to roam the streets in a Chinese province have now been collected and organised into a team to fight rodents that are destroying crops.

The ‘cat army’ has been form

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

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