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Chinese investors have approached a Canadian pension fund about a possible rival bid for the fertiliser giant Potash Corporation.
Alberta Investment Management said it was not interested in a rival bid and did not name the investors involved.
Potash Corporation is currently the subject of a $40bn (£25.8bn) hostile takeover bid from Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton.
The firm is based in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
Potash-or potassium carbonate-is mined in the province and used for fertiliser production worldwide.
Beijing and Kiev signed 13 agreements on Thursday, the first day of the Ukrainian president's state visit to China,in what analysts are predicting could be the beginning of a new "Silk Road".
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych spent the opening day of his four-day state visit meeting with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao.Both leaders agreed to lift their ties in a comprehensive way.
Farmers in East China's Zhejiang province are maintaining a 24-hour alert on the 150,000 wild boars that have been ravaging crops and injuring villagers.
Wild boars are widely found in suburban areas of Hangzhou, Quzhou,Wenzhou and Zhoushan cities in Zhejiang.
In a village in the suburb of Hangzhou's Chun'an county, this year's corn yield is expected to be reduced by one third,or 7,500 kg,due to wild boars having trampled on crops, according to local media reports.
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China Manufacturing Eases Fears
China's manufacturing sector rebounded in August,calming some fears about the pace of that country's growth.
"China's latest [manufacturing numbers] provide tentative evidence that the economic slowdown is bottoming out,"said Mark Williams,senior China economist at Capital Economics, in a research note.
China's Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said its reading in August rose to 51.7,up half a percentage point from July. HSBC's reading hit a three-month high of 51.9 in August. Any figure above 50 indicates expansion.
Beijing is predicted to have 4.5 million automotive vehicles this week as some 2,000 new vehicles edge into the already crowded road each day,reported the Legal Evening News.
Statistics from the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau show about 13,000 more motor vehicles hit the road last week, from Aug 23 to Aug 30.
Compared to last week, seven more streets became severely congested,with the traffic speed decreased to less than 20 kilometers an hour.
S Korean Cargo Ship Sinks Boat
All crew members went missing after a Chinese fishing boat was sunk by a South Korean cargo ship in waters off west coast of South Korea later Wednesday,the consulate office of the Chinese Embassy to South Korea told Xinhua.
Seoul's Coast Guard informed the embassy that the Chinese fishing boat, whose name and detailed conditions remain unknown,was sunk by the 1,250-ton cargo ship Ocean Ace No.6, owned by South Korea's HC freight company, in waters about 68 sea miles ( about 126 km) west off west-Gyengnyelbi islet,South ChungCheong Province,at around 14:25 p.m. local time (0525 GMT) Wednesday, the consulate office said.
Less than 2 percent of public venues inspected by local health authorities have had problems implementing the citywide smoking ban that took effect on March 1.
That is a sign the law has seen initial success,health authorities said on Tuesday.
Shanghai's health authorities inspected more than 73,000 public venues in the first four months of the ban,and 1,345 places had various problems and were ordered to make changes.
Meanwhile,66 venues have either been warned or fined for their failure to comply with changes,health authorities said.
An alarm over massive environmental damage along the Yangtze River and its Three Gorges reservoir has been raised by officials as authorities plan to spend billions of yuan treating sewage and planting forests in a major clean-up campaign.
"Generally speaking, the ecological state (of the river) is still far from what the people are demanding,"said Jia Zhibang,director of the State Forestry Administration at a press conference organized by the State Council Information Office on Tuesday.
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Mobile phone customers will have to present ID when purchasing a phone number from Wednesday,in the latest campaign by the government to curb the global scourge of spam, pornographic messages and fraud on cellular phones.
Foreigners will also need to register with their passports or other ID in order to subscribe to mobile phone carriers.
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China and Russia have agreed to set up the first cross-border protection zone for Siberian tigers,as they try to boost efforts to save the endangered species, state media reported Monday.
The zone will straddle China's northeastern province of Jilin and Russia's Primorsky Krai region,and authorities in both countries will launch an anti-poaching campaign along the border, the China Daily newspaper said.
They will also adopt identical monitoring systems for Siberian tigers and their prey,conduct joint ecological surveys and step up the amount of information they share,the report said.
Chinese President Hu Jintao held talks last Friday with top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Il in Changchun,capital city of northeast China's Jilin Province.
Kim, general secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the DPRK National Defense Commission, paid an unofficial visit to China from August 26 to 30 at the invitation of Hu, also general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Chinese rescuers on Monday declared a victory in draining stagnant water in a mudslide-blocked river course,which had submerged the mudslide-flattened county of Zhouqu in northwest China's Gansu Province for 23 days.
The devastating avalanche of rocks and mud on August 7 has left more than 1,700 people dead or missing.
China’s government ran an enormous help-wanted advertisement on Monday seeking professional managers for some of its biggest state-controlled companies a novel but not unprecedented move that apparently reflected unhappiness with the companiescurrent performance.
The advertisement,two broadsheet-newspaper pages of small type, sought applicants for 20 senior management jobs in industries such as nuclear power,automaking and textiles.While some of the positions were restricted to Chinese nationals,many of the posts were open to foreign applicants,and several required proficiency in foreign languages like English and French.
Tens of thousands of people joined a rally in Hong Kong on Sunday afternoon to demand justice for victims of the Manila hostage bloodbath,as the city's Filipino community staged its own memorials for the dead.
Demonstrators voiced their anger over the Philippine government's handling of the siege in the heart of Manila last Monday,which left eight Hong Kong tourists dead.
"It's too late for the governments to do anything,but we hope that,at the very least,the Philippine authorities could tell us the truth," said Daisy Kwong, a telecoms firm project manager.
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Forum to Boost China-Japan Ties
Recalling efforts to establish a communication channel between Beijing and Tokyo six years ago to revive relations damaged after a former Japanese prime minister visited Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine,Japan's chief Cabinet secretary on Sunday assured Chinese elites he would help ensure successful cooperation between Japan and China.
"Such cooperation should help China realize its grand target,a real green economy that makes sure of development of both the economy and environment,"Yoshito Sengoku told Chinese and Japanese representatives attending a reception for a major forum on China-Japan relations.
The Beihai Fleet of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy will conduct a live-ammunition drill in the Yellow Sea from September 1 to 4,China's Ministry of National Defense announced Sunday.
The exercises will be held in the fleet's routine training sea area off the southeast coast of Qingdao city,where the Fleet is headquartered,said the ministry in a statement.
This is an annual routine training,mainly involving the shooting of shipboard artillery,said the statement.
At least 14 people were injured and more than 7,300 houses damaged in an earthquake that jolted Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in southwest China Sunday.
The earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale occurred at 8:53 am,hitting an area bordering the two provinces.
The epicenter,with a depth of about 10 kilometers,was located at 27.1 degrees north latitude and 102.9 degrees longitude, according to the earthquake network center in Sichuan.
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China-Japan Climate Talks Move On
China and Japan are willing to push forward international climate change talks,based on respective responsibilities and capabilities of both countries,a senior Chinese official said at the sideline of the third China-Japan high-level economic dialogue.
Zhang Ping, minister of the National Development and Reform Commission,told China Daily that he believed the forthcoming talks of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to be held in Cancun, Mexico in November and December should stick to the principle of common but differentiated responsibility. The talks also need to be open and transparent,led by participating countries and achieved through consultation and consensus.
S. China High-Speed Trains to Top 5,000km
China will complete building 5,000 kilometers of high-speed railways in the mainland's southern region by 2012 to accelerate its economic integration with the business vibrant Hong Kong and Macao,a senior industry official said Saturday.
The rail tracks, to be laid in the sprawling pan-Pearl Delta region which includes eight provinces and an ethnic autonomous region of the mainland, will account for nearly 40 percent of the country' total in the coming three years.
Another 5,000 kilometers will be completed in the region from 2012 to 2015, said Lu Dongfu, vice minister of the Ministry of Railways.
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The Chinese State Food and Drug Administration has drafted a plan to monitor the safety of cosmetics and beauty products,an official said Friday.
The official,who did not want his name used, told Xinhua,the official government news agency, the SFDA presented the plan at a conference in Yiwu. He said the administration plans to set up a safety commission and is considering the qualifications of agencies involved with the industry to regulate the safety of skin-care products and cosmetics.
China's central Henan province on Friday ordered the commercial carrier whose plane crashed in northeast China Tuesday not to use "Henan" in its name in a bid to protect the province's image.
The Henan Administration for Industry and Commerce announced late Friday that it had revoked the name change of the airline from Kunpeng Airlines to Henan Airlines,which was approved in September 2009,because the name misled the public and tarnished the province's image.
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South African President Jacob Zuma defended China's investments in Africa against Western claims of "colonization" on Wednesday, saying Africa enjoys an equal trade relationship with Beijing.
With the most prosperous economy in all of Africa,South Africa is also pursuing a stronger global role through membership in the internationally dominant BRIC group (Brazil, Russia, India and China),an option BRIC leaders are now considering,according to Zuma.
National Cable Network Planned
China on Tuesday said it intends to consolidate radio and television networks under a single national cable television network company.
The State Administration of Radio,Film and Television (SARFT) said the new company will come up by the end of the year and will further expand into new businesses like mobile TV and online videos.
"The nation's radio and television networks need to be consolidated under one roof as currently they are individually run and have not developed into large-scale entities," said Tao Shiming,director of the SARFT's society administration bureau.
China's trade deficit with Southeast Asian nations ballooned to a record since the bilateral free trade agreement was put into force this year, sparking concerns that the agreement has become a catalyst for the trade deficit.
Beijing doesn't seek a trade surplus with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN),Sun Yuanjiang, deputy director general of the Department of International Trade and Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Commerce,said at a press conference on Wednesday.
A China-made manned submersible designed to dive to a depth of 7,000 meters has successfully reached 3,759 meters beneath the waves during a manned test,the Ministry of Science and Technology and the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) announced Thursday.
It makes China the fifth country,following the United States,France,Russia and Japan,to have the technologies for a manned dive to more than 3,500 meters below sea level, the two authorities announced at a press conference.
The submersible, dubbed "Jiaolong,"completed 17 dives in the South China Sea from May 31 to July 18,with the deepest reaching 3,759 meters and with three crew on board,the SOA said in a report.
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The Chinese central government has spent 2.43 billion yuan ($357 million) on flood control and drought relief as of August 23 this year, and the country's flood-fighting efforts would continue, government officials said here Wednesday.
In a breakdown, 1.22 billion yuan was spent on flood prevention, while material storage,drought relief and flood defense cost the government 100 million yuan, 315 million yuan and 793 million yuan,respectively,said Hu Jinglin, spokesman with the Ministry of Finance (MOF).
China has suffered from repeated natural calamities due to extreme weather this year,with flooding and other rain-triggered disasters leaving more than 2,300 people dead and 1,200 missing nationwide by mid-August.
A 100-kilometer-long traffic jam in China's Heibei Province has left thousands of truck drivers stuck on the interstate heading towards Beijing since August 14. What's worse, officials are saying that the jam could continue for up to a month!
The original jam was caused by roadside construction work,but has been made worse by minor car accidents and breakdowns.
The traffic jam has sparked some entrepreneurial spirit for local residents, which has added to traffic-hostages' annoyance.One truck driver complained that vendors were selling instant noodles for “four times the original price while I wait in the congestion.”
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At least 42 people have been killed after a passenger plane crash-landed in the north-eastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang,state media report.
The Henan Airlines aircraft, with 91 people on board, burst into flames after overshooting the runway at Yichun City's airport at 2136 (1336 GMT).
Police in Heilongjiang told Chinese state TV that three of the 49 survivors were in a critical condition.
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The Embraer ERJ-190 had taken off from the provincial capital Harbin at 2051.
Henan Airlines earlier told Xinhua that the plane was carrying 96 people.
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South Africa President visits China
South African President Jacob Zuma has flown into China for a three-day visit aimed at strengthening business ties.
Mr Zuma is expected to sign a series of trade agreements with his country's largest trading partner.
His trip comes as he faces mounting problems at home,with more than a million public sector workers striking.
Mr Zuma is due to hold talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao during his mission to Beijing,the capital,and Shanghai.
A delegation of no fewer than 300 businessmen and ministers is accompanying Mr Zuma as he looks for tips from the Chinese on how to boost his country's growth rate.
Mr Zuma will also meet Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and tour the World Expo site in Shanghai.
Three decades ago, China's Cultural Revolution saw some of the most dramatic restrictions on the practice of religion ever seen in the modern world.
But today's communist rulers have radically altered their views about religion and have granted substantial freedom to Christians prepared to worship within state-sanctioned churches.
Within these boundaries,Christianity is growing in China as never before - and doing so supported by millions of dollars of government funding.
The BBC has been given unprecedented access to China's state-sanctioned Protestant and Catholic churches,to examine why the government seems so keen to invest in religion.
China said Monday it may eliminate more than a dozen crimes that currently carry the death penalty,state-run media reported.
A draft amendment has been submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress,China's top legislature,for a first reading. Draft laws are typically read two to three times before being voted on.
If adopted, it would be the eighth amendment to the country's Criminal Law,which was implemented in 1997.
China has been under fire from human rights groups for the number of executions it carries out each year.
Think you had a hellish commute this morning? Just be thankful you're not in China,where a traffic jam stretching more than 100 km (62 miles) has forced drivers to keep their feet planted on brake pedals for nine days.
The gridlock, which started August 14, involves thousands of trucks between the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the Chinese capital of Beijing, according to state media.
Fender-benders and broken-down vehicles are adding to the chaos,state media reported.
Some drivers played cards to pass the time,while others fumed about nearby vendors taking advantage of their predicament by gouging food prices.
Still, some opted to not take detours to avoid farther travel and toll costs.
Hong Kong urged its residents to cut short or cancel planned trips to the Philippines on Tuesday in the aftermath of a bloodbath that left eight dead on a Manila tour bus.
Hong Kong's regional government issued its highest level of travel warnings in the aftermath of the killings,urging all residents to avoid traveling to the Philippines.
Manila police said Rolando Mendoza,a former police officer upset at having lost his job,took hostage a busload of tourists from Hong Kong on Sunday and killed eight of them before being shot dead. One passenger was critically wounded and six others hospitalized with less serious injuries after the 10-hour standoff erupted into gunfire,Donald Tsang,the chief executive of Hong Kong's semi-autonomous government, told reporters.
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Nearly 260,000 people in northeastern China and North Korea have fled their homes as heavy rains caused the Yalu River to swell over its banks,state news outlets in those countries reported Sunday.
Most of those evacuated were in China,where the state news agency Xinhua said 253,500 people had to evacuate.China's flood control authorities said later Sunday that the river had dropped below warning levels -- but more rain was forecast,which was expected to hamper flood control work,Xinhua said.Authorities warned the danger had not yet passed.
At least four people have died in the region since Thursday and 48 townships flooded in Dandong,Liaoning province,Xinhua said.One person was missing.No new casualties were reported Sunday,Xinhua said.
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China pushes talks with North Korea
China's foreign ministry has said the resumption of six-party talks about North Korea's nuclear programmes was discussed in Pyongyang this week.
Wu Dawei, China's special envoy on nuclear affairs,has just visited the North Korean capital.
South Korea says the North must apologise for its alleged torpedoing of a South Korean warship before any talks can resume.
North Korea dropped out of the six-party talks last year.
Mr Wu met senior North Korean officials including Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun and top nuclear envoy Kim Kye-gwan,China's foreign ministry said.
He "exchanged views with North Korea about maintaining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and restarting the process of the six-party talks",it said.
Officials in northeastern China have evacuated more than 50,000 people as floodwaters collapse houses and cut off transportation in some areas,state media reported Saturday.
Heavy rains caused flooding along the Yalu River, which separates China and North Korea,the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
At least 230 houses collapsed and at least three people were missing in Dandong City, Xinhua said.The news agency said transportation,communication and power were also cut off in some areas.
Officials suspended train service as floodwaters rushed over railroad tracks, a railway spokesman told Xinhua.
China's National Meteorological Center warned Saturday morning that heavy rains would continue for the next 24 hours in the southeastern parts of Liaoning and Jilin provinces,where the river is located.
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Seven people have been killed and 14 injured in a bomb blast in China's Xinjiang region.
The explosion happened in Aksu city in the west of the remote western region.
A local government spokeswoman,Hou Hanmin,said a Uighur man drove a three-wheeled vehicle carrying an explosive device into a crowd.
The man was arrested at the scene and investigations were ongoing,Ms Hou said.
The motive behind what appears to be a bomb blast in China's western Xinjiang region is not yet clear.But many will suspect it is linked to the region's ongoing ethnic tension.
There have not been many major incidents over recent months since last year's riots that left nearly 200 dead.But few people suspect the underlying ethnic problems have been solved.
A visitor to Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, can instantly see the distrust between these two ethnic groups; they mostly live in separate areas.
Many of Xinjiang's mostly Muslim Uighurs complain that Han Chinese migrants are changing the nature of the region - as well as taking all the best jobs.
Xinjiang's governor, speaking on Thursday before the explosion was known about,was reported to have said that the government faced a long, fierce struggle against separatism.
The death toll from an explosion at a coal mine in northern China has risen to 17,state media reported Saturday.
The head of the Peoples'Hospital in Yicheng County told the Xinhua News Agency that 104 people were injured in the blast,seven of them seriously.
It happened at Liugou coal mine in Shanxi province about 3:40 a.m.(3:40 p.m. ET Friday),Xinhua said.
Rescue crews were scouring the area for survivors.An investigation is under way.
A senior official with Yangquan Coal Industry,which owns the Liugou mine,said that a preliminary investigation has revealed that the blast was possibly caused by explosives hidden illegally in the area, according to Xinhua. The official said a suspect is in police custody, Xinhua reported.
Mine accidents are common in China.In 2009,2,631 people were killed in such accidents.The figure,while high,is down from 2002, when 6,995 people died.
In April, the country launched a campaign to inspect safety regulations in mines and other industries that have had serious accidents.
Blast at a tax office that left four dead and 19 injured in central China was a deliberate attack,state media reported Saturday.
The explosion Friday struck a local tax office near a downtown residential block in Changsha city,Xinhua news agency reported.
It left the third-floor windows shattered. A preliminary probe shows the Friday attack was planned,police said.
An investigation is underway.
A separate series of explosions at a barbershop in northeast China killed one person and injured 20, Xinhua said.
The barbershop attacks were in Jilin province.
An explosion at a fireworks factory in northeast China killed at least 19 people Monday,the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Five people remained missing Tuesday as searchers combed through the smoldering debris of the building,photos showed.
Another 153 people were injured in the blast, according to Xinhua.
The explosion occurred Monday morning in Yichun City in Heilongjiang Province,Xinhua reported.
Two carriages from a passenger train have been swept into a river in southern China after floods destroyed a bridge,state media says.
The accident happened in Guanghan,in Sichuan province.
A firefighter told Xinhua news agency that the carriages had been swept 200m (220 yards) downstream.
All passengers were said to be safe as emergency workers had evacuated the carriages before the bridge collapsed,state television said.
The long-distance train was traveling from Xi'an to Kunming.
China has been devastated by flooding caused by unusually heavy summer rains in recent weeks.
In Yunnan province,rescuers are still searching for 90 people feared trapped under a mudslide that hit the town of Puladi early on Wednesday.
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China Mobile sees profits rise 4%
The world's biggest mobile operator,China Mobile,has reported a 4% rise in first-half profits.
Net profit for the first six months of the year rose to 57.64bn yuan ($8.5bn; £5.45bn) from 55.33bn yuan a year ago.
But China Mobile boss Wang Jianzhou warned of challenges including "high and increasing mobile penetration rates and intensifying industry competition".
Separately,the company said that vice-president Li Yue would replace Mr Wang as chief executive from Thursday.
Mr Wang will keep his executive director and chairman titles.
The first-half results were slightly ahead of analysts'expectations of a 56.29bn yuan profit.
Revenue rose 8% to 229.8bn yuan.
Shares in China Mobile,which is listed in Hong Kong, have risen about 16% so far this year,compared with a 3% decline in the Hang Seng index.
The company has more than 500 million users.
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