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TOKYO Feb 27, 2010 Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama may be visiting China in early May to meet President Hu Jintao, the Nikkei business daily reported on Saturday.
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TOKYO Feb 14, 2010 Forward Qu Bo struck twice to give China a 2-0 win over Hong Kong on Sunday at the East Asian championship. They now have and an excellent chance of capturing the title.
Qu put China in front with a clinical finish just before the end of a uneventful first half. He then doubled their score from the penalty spot in the 74th minute.
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BEIJING Feb 11, 2010 China surprisingly defeated South Korea 3-0 at the East Asian championship on Wednesday. The win was China’s first over tournament champions South Korea since 1978.
It was hailed by state media as a much-needed break from a series of match-fixing scandals. Chinese soccer has long been seen as a national disgrace, riddled with corruption, violence, low playing standards and dwindling crowds.
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BEIJING Feb 11, 2010 A Chinese court on Thursday upheld an 11-year prison sentence for leading dissident Liu Xiaobo for writings that called for multi-party democracy. The Beijing Intermediate People’s Court had handed down the sentence in December last year.
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BEIJING Feb 8, 2010 Chinese inspectors have shut dairy firms in the northwest after they found contaminated milk powder there. They seized 72 tonnes of milk powder tainted with melamine.
Melamine is a compound commonly used in plastics or fertilizer. But it can also be added to foods to show high protein levels in tests.
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TAIPEI Feb 05, 2010 Taiwan has cleared the first direct flight by a private aircraft to China, continuing a thaw in ties between the two countries.
The aircraft belongs to Terry Gou, one of Taiwan’s richest people and chairman of the Hon Hai group, which is involved in electronics.
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BEIJING Feb 03, 2010 Charles Zhang said that China could not produce global media giants as long as the government had strict controls over the media and film industry.
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BEIJING Feb 02, 2010 China’s Olympic and world Badminton champion Lin "Super" Dan will make his first appearance of the season at next month’s All-England Championships.
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BEIJING Feb 2, 2010 China’s Foreign Ministry warned on Tuesday against giving a Nobel Peace Prize to leading dissident Liu Xiaobo.
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