SIGUNIANG MOUNTAINS, China (AFP) - - As mountain climbing booms in China, the first group of guides trained by an expert Frenchman will soon graduate -- part of a government drive to boost safety standards. More »
BEIJING (AFP) - - China unveiled its own jumbo jet maker in Shanghai on Sunday, state press reported, in a move that could eventually rival Airbus and Boeing. More »
BEIJING (AFP) - - Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Japan was a "complete success", Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said on Sunday, in a further sign of the warming relations between the traditional rivals. More »
LONDON (AFP) - - The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games will boost China's rampant demand for energy, threatening to push world oil prices beyond current record heights, according to industry analysts. More »
BEIJING (AFP) - - Six people, including a train driver, have been detained over a train crash in eastern China that killed 72 people in the nation's worst rail accident in over a decade, state press have said. More »
PARIS (AFP) - - Several hundred demonstrators rallied Saturday in Paris in the name of Tibet with a call on the international community to step up pressure on China. More »
BEIJING (AFP) - - Three Chinese construction workers kidnapped on Tuesday in southern Nigeria have been freed, China's foreign ministry said Saturday. More »
NARA, Japan (AFP) - - Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday wound up his five-day visit to Japan, which has seen the traditional rivals commit to closer ties but also met with protests over Beijing's rule in Tibet. More »
NARA, Japan (AFP) - - Chinese President Hu Jintao Saturday said his five-day visit to Japan, which has seen the traditional rivals commit to closer ties but also met protests over Beijing's rule in Tibet, was a success. More »
TOKYO (AFP) - - Japanese lawmakers voted Friday to allow the military use of space, breaking a decades-old taboo in the officially pacifist country which has an increasingly ambitious space programme. More »

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