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Senior Chinese and Russian officials pledged to push forward the two countries' energy cooperation during a high-level energy negotiators' meeting here on Sunday. "During this conference... we exchanged views and reached consensus on strengthening bilateral cooperation in oil and gas,
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At least two groups of Chinese officials have canceled plans to visit Taiwan because of violent protests against a Chinese envoy when he visited the island last week, a Taiwanese official said Monday.
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BEIJING (AP) -- The Chinese bureaucrats who spent taxpayers' money on a $700-a-night Las Vegas hotel and visits to Hawaiian beaches and a San Francisco sex show might have gotten away with it if someone hadn't lost a bag on the Shanghai subway....
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The Chinese bureaucrats who spent taxpayers' money on a $700-a-night Las Vegas hotel and visits to Hawaiian beaches and a San Francisco sex show might have gotten away with it if someone hadn't lost a bag on the Shanghai subway.
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Finance officials from the G7 countries have announced a series of measures to try to slow the effects of a financial crisis that is crippling markets around the globe.
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Administrator, finance director cite sloppy bookkeeping
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OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday, but this year the news was as much about who didn't get the award....
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Freed Managing Director of the NigerianAviation Handling Company(NAHCO) Plc, Mr Sule Bates, was yesterday re-arrested by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) at the headquarters of the company yesterday in Ikeja. Three other officials of the organisation
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Chinese shares continued to plummet for five consecutive days on Friday dampened by weak market confidence amid the global turmoil. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index lost 3.57 percent to end at 2,000.57 points. The Shenzhen Component Index closed at 6,385.35
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Analysts predict China's consumer price index (CPI) and the producer price index (PPI) to drop in September. CPI is a key measure of inflation. PPI measures the average change in the selling prices received by producers for their output, Taking
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Chinese shares plummeted 3.81 percent in the morning session on Friday, echoing the heavy losses of global markets, with the Shanghai Composite Index ending at 1995.52 points, down 79.06 points or 3.81 percent from the previous close. The smaller Shenzhen
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China's entrepreneur confidence index plunged to 123.8 points in the third quarter this year. That is down 11 points from the previous quarter. Compared to the same period last year, it is down 19.2, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
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In August, China's top land regulator urged local authorities to safeguard 1.8 billion mu (120million hectares) of the country's farm land fearing a grain shortage. Thursday, local authorities responded to the request. Xu Shaoshi, head of the Ministry of Land
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Finance officials from the G7 countries have announced a series of measures to try to slow the effects of a financial crisis that is crippling markets around the globe.
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The United States is trying to salvage a nuclear disarmament deal before President George W. Bush's term ends in January.
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) -- A suspected U.S. missile strike killed three people late Saturday in a town near the Afghan border, the latest in a series of attacks in a region where top al-Qaida leaders are believed to be living, two intelligence officials said....
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CONCORD, N.C. -- Jeff Burton gambled on his final pit stop and was rewarded with a victory that pushed him into title contention.
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The world's biggest economic powers meet in Washington. CNN's Maggie Lake reports
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Afghan and NATO forces have killed at least 60 militants they say were massing for an attack on Laskar Gah in the southern Helmand province.
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Chinese leaders approved a policy that will in theory allow peasants to buy and sell their land rights, a move that sets in motion the nation's biggest economic reform in many years.
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Gambled on final pit stop rewarded; Edwards falls to 4th in standings
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Jaguars DB Omare Lowe left the game Week 6 against the Broncos with a hamstring injury. He had just one solo tackle before leaving.
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The Vancouver-based immigrant support group SUCCESS is partnering with the British Columbia Securities Commission to educate immigrants about the risks of investment fraud.
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The league, in a joint venture with AEG, says the 17,000-seat facilities will showcase basketball, other sports events, concerts and trade shows. The NBA will announce today plans for a multibillion-dollar real estate venture to design and operate a dozen multipurpose arenas in major Chinese cities for a future affiliated basketball league.
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BEIJING (AP) -- A dairy ensnared in China's chemical-tainting scandal says it was a victim of unscrupulous behavior by the independent providers from whom it buys raw milk....
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The investment in Morgan Stanley by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group could be a crucial step in the strategy for revitalizing the American financial system.
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A wildfire north of Los Angeles was only smoldering early Monday, but worries were rampant as several hours of severe winds were expected to hit the region later in the day.
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New Chinese artists are dealing with two upheavals at one time - the remembered calamities of the Maoist past and the ongoing turmoil of China today.
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Dodgers' Game 4 starter will be pitching on short rest, but he has proved he can handle it in the past and his manager isn't worried. The last time Joe Torre used a pitcher on three days' rest in the playoffs, he sent Chien-Ming Wang to the mound for Game 4 of the 2007 American League division series. Wang was pounded by the Cleveland Indians for four runs in the first two innings, setting the stage for the Yankees' elimination from the postseason and Torre's exit from New York.
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Monday, the week started in Asia with strong trade numbers from China. The Chinese trade surplus increased to a record US$29.3 billion in September, the Customs Bureau said. Economists were expecting a surplus of US$24.5 billion. In August, the trade surplus totaled US$28.7 billion.
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LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- The European Union has temporarily lifted a travel ban on the president of Belarus, a country regarded as Europe's last dictatorship, as relations start to thaw....
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The European Union said Monday it had dropped a travel ban on Uzbek officials imposed after a bloody crackdown on an uprising in 2005, saying the central Asian country had made some progress in improving human rights.
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12 -- At a point in the series where the need to win trumps the need to rest, the Los Angeles Dodgers have decided to start Derek Lowe for Monday's Game 4 on three days' rest.
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As it releases Version 2.0 of Silverlight, Microsoft is turning to the next phase of its strategy: directly wooing developers and designers to the rich Internet platform.
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China may be deeply enmeshed in the global economy, but the country's leaders are unlikely to take a direct role in solving a financial crisis Beijing believes was made in America
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Dodgers SP Derek Lowe didn't factor in the decision Monday in Game 4 of the NLCS against the Phillies. He allowed two runs on six hits in five innings, walking one and striking out four. He was pitching on three days' rest.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Secretary of State Sam Reed is predicting 83 percent voter turnout in November....
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An out-of-work money manager in California loses a fortune and wipes out his family in a murder-suicide. A 90-year-old Ohio widow shoots herself in the chest as authorities arrive to evict her from the modest house she called home for 38 years....
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A tropical depression that formed Monday in the Caribbean Sea is expected to strengthen before turning northeast and making landfall in Puerto Rico on Wednesday.
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