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Deadly warehouse blasts that killed 165 people in a Chinese port city in August were triggered when a chemical stored in an unlicensed facility became too dry and caught fire, investigators announced Friday.

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President Aquino’s special envoy to China brought works of Chinese artists and calligraphers from Shandong, China for a three-day exhibit at the Yuchengco Museum in RCBC Plaza in Makati last Wednesday.

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Operations formally kicked off yesterday at a new free trade zone in Shanghai that China's government has billed as a major step for financial reforms and economic experimentation, but significant changes look to be years away.

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The South China Morning Post reported Aug. 5 that in its recently approved National Highway Network Plan for 2013-2030, the State Council included two highway projects linking Taiwan to the mainland. One involves the long-proposed Beijing-Taipei Expressway, which would start in Beijing and pass through Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang and Fujian's Fuzhou before crossing the strait and reaching Taipei.

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China's Cabinet has announced measures to curb the country's notorious air pollution, one of the many environmental challenges facing the country that are increasingly angering the public.

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China slammed the human rights record of the United States in response to Washington's report on rights around the world, saying that US military operations have infringed on rights abroad and that political donations at home have thwarted the country's democracy.

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A senior mainland official confirmed Sunday that the consultation of the long-awaited cross-Strait investment protection agreement has almost finished.

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China's 3G mobile phone users reached 102 million by the end of September, 43.16 million of which used the country's self-developed TD-SCDMA standard, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

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 A government spokeswoman on Wednesday refuted claims that the Chinese mainland poses a military threat to Taiwan, saying that such claims are "inconsistent with the facts."

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 An investigation into a deadly bullet train crash in China has found that faulty signaling systems and mismanagement were mainly to blame, reports said Friday, though the accident was triggered by a lightning strike.

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President Aquino’s special envoy to China brought works of Chinese artists and calligraphers from Shandong, China for a three-day exhibit at the Yuchengco Museum in RCBC Plaza in Makati last Wednesday.

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Operations formally kicked off yesterday at a new free trade zone in Shanghai that China's government has billed as a major step for financial reforms and economic experimentation, but significant changes look to be years away.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-30 03:03:37 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1475338 [AuthorName] => Louise Watt and Kelvin Chan [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1084371 [Title] => Cross-Strait infrastructure between China and Taiwan [Summary] =>

The South China Morning Post reported Aug. 5 that in its recently approved National Highway Network Plan for 2013-2030, the State Council included two highway projects linking Taiwan to the mainland. One involves the long-proposed Beijing-Taipei Expressway, which would start in Beijing and pass through Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang and Fujian's Fuzhou before crossing the strait and reaching Taipei.

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China's Cabinet has announced measures to curb the country's notorious air pollution, one of the many environmental challenges facing the country that are increasingly angering the public.

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China slammed the human rights record of the United States in response to Washington's report on rights around the world, saying that US military operations have infringed on rights abroad and that political donations at home have thwarted the country's democracy.

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A senior mainland official confirmed Sunday that the consultation of the long-awaited cross-Strait investment protection agreement has almost finished.

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China's 3G mobile phone users reached 102 million by the end of September, 43.16 million of which used the country's self-developed TD-SCDMA standard, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

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 A government spokeswoman on Wednesday refuted claims that the Chinese mainland poses a military threat to Taiwan, saying that such claims are "inconsistent with the facts."

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 An investigation into a deadly bullet train crash in China has found that faulty signaling systems and mismanagement were mainly to blame, reports said Friday, though the accident was triggered by a lightning strike.

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