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Beijing (Reuters)-China has become the fifth largest weapons exporters in the world, according to a leading think tank the Institute of Sweden, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), as quoted in Reuters. This Ranking is the highest since the cold war, while Pakistan became the largest recipient of weapons supply to China.The export Volume of China's weapon on the 2008-2012 period increased by 162 percent compared to five years earlier, and this also contributed to the rise in sales volumes of weapons from world 2 percent to 5 percent.China shifts on five of the largest United Kingdom ekportir weapons between 2008 and 2012, while the United States and Russia dominate with their respective 30 percent and 26 percent, according to SIPRI.China has turned out to be a great arms supplier to a number of recipient countries (weapons) is important, "said Paul Holtom, Director of SIPRI Arms Transfers Program as reported Reuters. SIPRI tracks the circulation of weapons the world already since the 1950s and compiling data in the five yearly base."Pakistan receives 55 percent of China's arms exports seem to be the biggest recipient of weapons remain to be China in the coming years, "said SIPRI.Myanmar received 8 percent of China's arms exports, Bangladesh 7 percent, while Algeria, Venezuela and Morocco had purchased a number of frigates, aircraft and other vehicles of war from China in recent years.Germany and France are in order in the third and fourth weapons exporters.  Editor: Jafar M Prints

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China Welcome glitters Gap Go Meh

A boy pointed towards the Lantern, as he took in his arms his grandmother at a market in Nanjing Confucian Temple, Jiangsu Province, China, Friday (22/2). The Lantern Festival, which falls on 24 February this year, the 15th day of the Chinese calendar and marked the end of the Spring Festival.(REUTERS/China Daily)

Beijing (Reuters)-China on Sunday night glitters with light lanterns and Fireworks. The festivities to mark the end of the Chinese new year celebrations 2013 or known as Cap Go Meh di Indonesia.

Fireworks ignited in almost all regions of China, including Beijing to enliven the new year 2013 a new running two weeks according to the Chinese calendar.

Sound of loud Fireworks look and sound bersahut-sahutan since Sunday afternoon. Like the Cap Go Meh, also displayed the attractions of lion dance, dragon dance in some parts of China.

Not only that according to tradition, every Cap Go Meh celebration marked by the Festival of Lanterns, each family also offer dumplings of glutinous rice sweet named Yuanxiao. Therefore, Cap Go Meh celebration also known as celebration of Yuanxiao.

Residents enjoyed a final day of Chinese new year celebrations together with family, relatives, friends, and good friend to enjoy a show, both in shopping centres and tourist attractions.

In Longtan Park Beijing, people enjoy the glitter of a number of lanterns that are in place at a number of points in the Park, complete with interesting attractions.

So too in the city of Jinan, Shandong province. The community gathered in the garden of Baotu Spring. It looks a number of lanterns decorate some buildings and trees in the garden.

A number of lanterns also designed with various shapes and placed along the river which Cascades over the garden.

The arrival of the Chinese new year has always been celebrated for the past two weeks. In 2013, the Chinese new year falls on a Sunday (10/2). After the week-long national holiday, held a week later Cap Go Meh celebration was held to mark the end of the celebration of the arrival of the new year with a variety of attractions, and the tradition inherited by Han Dynasty and Song dynasty.

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Beijing warn Manila regarding the South China Sea

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China also remains committed to maintaining the stability of the region and regional cooperation, "

Beijing (Reuters)-the Chinese Government warned again not to complicate the issue in the Philippines in the South China Sea, while asking the two countries dispute in that region to the International Court of justice.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei of China in Beijing, Tuesday, asserts, China has always been committed to resolving the dispute in the South China Sea through bilateral dialogue with each country who have disputes with China in the area.

"China also remains committed to maintaining the stability of the region and regional cooperation," he said, adding.

Hong Lei said a settlement through dialogue bilaterally with countries that dispute is one of the agreements reached between China and ASEAN in accordance with the agreed behaviour to defuse tension in the South China Sea.

He warned the Philippines not to complicate the situation in the South China Sea and returning calls to resolve the dispute between the two countries through bilateral dialogue.

The dispute between the Philippines and China in the South China Sea had heated up after the two countries clashed briefly patrol last year. In addition to the Philippines, China is also in dispute with Viet Nam, Malaysia, and Brunei in the South China Sea.

The Philippines carrying case dispute in the South China Sea based on the rules contained in the United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). UNCLOS is a Convention in the UNITED NATIONS, one of which set up the territorial waters of countries that became members.

According to the Philippines, the Chinese claims in the South China Sea is contrary to the rules contained in UNCLOS. The Philippines has asked the International Court of Justice to declare the claim that China doesn't match the rule. The Philippines estimated the International Court takes about three to four years before issuing its decision.
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China serukan all parties refrain

Beijing (Reuters)-the Government of the people's Republic of China again calls upon all parties concerned to refrain, the associated increase in ekskalasi in Korea Peninsula, amid a third nuclear test by North Korea early last week.

"The situation on the Korea Peninsula during this very sensitive and complex, we called on all parties not to make moves that will memperkeruh the situation," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei in Beijing China, Monday.

China hoped discussion of North Korea's actions in the UN Security Council should really be able to realize the Elimination of nuclear weapons, non-proliferation in order to create peace and stability on the Korea Peninsula.

Earlier, Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) Ban Ki-moon condemned the actions of North Korea, which staged a nuclear test earlier in the week.

Meanwhile some UN diplomats say that the Security Council has scheduled an emergency meeting to discuss the possibility of the enactment of a series of new sanctions for Pyongyang.

South Korea said the UN mission had urged 15 countries Security Council members to discuss the North Korea nuclear test.

South Korea was the President of the Security Council this month. With that position, South Korea can make sure North Korea's actions become issues of priority for the UN agency that is most powerful at least until the end of February.
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United Kingdom was split over China

The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, while following the Congress in Hamburg, Sunday (9/8). China annexed Tibet in the Himalayan heights after the cultural revolution in the ' 50s decade. Each Party meet and dialogue with the Dalai Lama categorized support him by China. (INTERMEDIATE/REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer)

... the behavior of Beijing to London lately more childish after Cameron met with the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama ... "

London (Reuters)-a split occurred in the United Kingdom Government thought about relations with China, which recently tightened, the daily paper The Sunday Times, citing unnamed sources.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, and his Finance Minister, George Osborne, United Kingdom on the one hand he intends to avoid actions that create relationships with China's increasingly tightened because of worry could damage the trade relations of the two countries.

But on the other hand, the United Kingdom Foreign Secretary, William Hague, being opposite. According to the United Kingdom he should not lower the harsh criticism against human rights abuses in China. Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, United Kingdom also insisted United Kingdom must hold steadfast principle in handling the Tibet issue in the community.

"Hague and Clegg are in the same matter of human rights. They believe the United Kingdom must be voiced louder against China, "said a source from the Government kemenenterian as quoted from The Sunday Times.

"For Clegg, HAM is a principle that can not be negotiated. For Hague, the issue is the United Kingdom should not be too put respect China because if not, the country will insult the United Kingdom, "he said.

"While Cameron and Osborne to focus on the question of trade. They want to maintain the relationship of the two countries, "he added.

United Kingdom is currently trying to attract Chinese investment in infrastructure projects to spur the economy is experiencing a slowdown in growth.

However, relations between London and Beijing have deteriorated in the last nine months as authorities reported a rise of China's spy network in the internet, said The Sunday Times.

But people in the Ministry say, Beijing's behavior to London lately more childish after Cameron met with the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in the past year.

Although the United Kingdom assume Tibet is part of China, Cameron-Dalai Lama gave rise to protests from Beijing, which assess the Buddhist monk as a dangerous separatist.

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Tiga dokter China dibunuh di Nigeria

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Kano, Nigeria (ANTARA News) - Kelompok bersenjata membunuh tiga dokter China dalam serangan sebelum subuh, Minggu, di kota Potiskum, Nigeria timur laut.

"Penyerang itu naik pagar rumah susun di Potiskum, tempat tinggal tiga dokter China tersebut, sekitar pukul 01.00 waktu setempat dan memotong leher mereka. Belum ada penahanan terhadap tersangka," kata kepala kepolisian negara bagian Yobe, Komisaris Sanusi Rufa`i, kepada AFP.

Penduduk mengatakan para dokter China itu bertugas di Kementerian Kesehatan dan telah tinggal di kota itu selama satu tahun.

Rufa`i tidak mengatakan apakah kelompok garis keras Boko Haram yang aktif di Potiskum, sekitar 100km dari ibu kota negara bagian itu Damaturu, bertanggung jawab atas serangan itu.

"Masih terlalu dini untuk menuduh tetapi kami harus melakukan penyelidikan untuk mengungkapkan pembunuhan-pembunuhan itu," katanya.

Seorang penduduk lokal mengatakan mayat-mayat dari tiga dokter China itu ditemukan di kamar mereka Minggu pagi oleh para tetangga yang secara paksa membuka pintu tempat mereka tinggal.

"Pagi ini, ditemukan tiga dokter China dibunuh. Orang menjadi curiga ketika para dokter tidak membuka pintu kamar mereka pada pagi itu," kata seorang penduduk yang tidak bersedia disebutkan namanya, kepada AFP.

Ini adalah peristiwa pembunuhan terbaru terhadap warga China dalam beberapa bulan terakhir di daerah utaraPembunuhan tersebut adalah

Pembunuhan itu adalah kasus terbaru terhadap para warga China dalam bulan-bulan belakangan ini di bagian timur laut negara tersebut.

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Aktivis Hong Kong dipenjara karena bakar bendera China

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Bendera China. Bendera inilah yang dibakar aktivis demokrasi China, Koo Sze-yiu, atas kebijakan China sejak lama membungkam demokrasi dan proses demokratisasi di negara Tirai Bambu itu. (REUTERS)

... tidak senang dengan pemerintahan China Daratan yang kerap membungkam demokrasi... "

Hong Kong (ANTARA News) - Koo Sze-yiu, aktivis politik Hong Kong, dipenjara sembilan tahun karena membakar bendera Hong Kong dan China saat melakukan aksi protes anti-Beijing. Hong Kong secara resmi adalah wilayah semi otonom China sejak 1997.
Koo mengaku, "Aksi pembakaran bendera nasional dan regionalnya itu karena ia tidak senang dengan pemerintahan China Daratan yang kerap membungkam demokrasi di negaranya."

Dia menuding Beijing bertanggung jawab atas kematian Li Wangyang dan penjeblosan peraih nobel Liu Xiaobo ke penjara.

Hukuman bagi Koo (66 tahun) dipicu aksi pembakaran bendera di kantor pemerintahan pada Juni tahun lalu sebagai bentuk peringatan terhadap kematian Li.

Dia juga merusak bendera China dan Hong Kong saat melakukan demonstrasi menentang Pemimpin Otoritas Hong Kong, Leung Chun-ying, pada 1 Januari 2013. Koo menganggap Leung sebagai antek Beijing.

Hong Kong sempat dilanda demonstrasi massa saat ratusan ribu warganya melakukan aksi protes terhadap Presiden China, Hu Jintao, ketika melantik Pemimpin Otoritas Leung Chun-ying.

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Wal-Mart's China woes began with phone call, then snowballed

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Employees stand in front of the gate to a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Chongqing municipality October 24, 2011.

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CHONGQING, China | Fri Oct 28, 2011 3:21am EDT

CHONGQING, China (Reuters) - Wal-Mart's PR nightmare over sales of mislabeled pork in China began with a phone call two months ago from an irate housewife.

By the time the dust had settled, officials in Chongqing in central China had raided and shut the U.S. firm's 13 stores here for violating food standards by selling regular pork as more expensive organic meat.

After an apology and a pledge to set things straight through staff training and more contact with shoppers, Wal-Mart's stores reopened Tuesday after a two-week closure in this vast municipality of 28 million.

The punishment was the toughest ever imposed on a foreign retailer in China, a country that offers rich prospects for store owners but also holds numerous pitfalls, from regulators' determination to improve lax food standards to increased scrutiny of foreign-owned businesses.

The troubles for Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, started with a phone call to a consumer hotline on August 24.

A housewife in her 30s complained that the organic pork she bought was the same as ordinary pork, said Zhao Jia, spokesman for the Administration for Industry and Commerce, or AIC.

The Chongqing administration had already cited Wal-Mart stores 20 times in the past five years for violations ranging from food sold past expiration dates to selling products that were deemed "substandard," including washing machines, television sets and women's clothing.

The administration jumped on the housewife's complaint, Zhao said, recalling how the case unfolded in a conversation in his Chongqing office.

Within 24 hours, the agency sent out investigators who discovered three Walmart stores were selling ordinary pork labeled as organic pork. The meat was priced about 43 percent higher than it should be.

Deciding it had a case, the AIC called in the police and expanded the probe. Authorities found that 12 of Wal-Mart's 13 stores in Chongqing were selling mislabeled organic pork.

To the AIC, that was the last straw.

"Many times we sent our opinions and sent them notices," Zhao said. "They never explained anything to us clearly."

AIC investigators then delved into Wal-Mart's inventory books.

"As the No.1 retailer, their management has been perfected," Zhao said. "They can track anything."

Investigators traced the organic pork to a local meat supplier called Gaojin. Interviewing employees at Gaojin, the numbers didn't add up.

Investigators worked out that of more than 78,500 kilograms of pork sold in Walmart stores since January 2010 as organic, only 15,000 kg, or 19 percent, was organic meat.

"They sold more than 600,000 yuan ($95,240) worth of false organic pork," Zhao said. "That's consumer fraud."

Asked if he thought Wal-Mart tripped up in the pursuit of profit in China's cut-throat retail industry, where a competitor's hypermarket may be only a stone's throw away, Zhao said he didn't think the stores intentionally sought to deceive customers.

"One employee told us they were instructed to keep the special display shelf for organic pork stocked with meat," Zhao said. "They didn't want to show empty shelves."

Walmart Asia spokesman Anthony Rose declined Friday to comment about the pork, noting that Chongqing authorities are continuing their investigation.

But he said the company is pleased with the stores' reopenings.

"We are glad that after working with the AIC and implementing corrective actions, we have reopened all of our stores in Chongqing and customers have responded very positively," he said. "Walmart will continue to make the very best efforts to exceed our customers' expectations."

Unlike Walmart stores in the United States, which are often accessible mainly by car and cater largely to discount shoppers, Walmarts in China are in densely populated areas, often in basements or the lower floors of skyscrapers, serving as a one-stop shopping center for groceries and household goods.

Indeed, when the Walmart stores in Chongqing reopened, they were overrun by shoppers who said they were drawn by price, selection and the ability to walk to the store from home or take the retailer's free shuttle van.

BIAS AGAINST FOREIGN FIRMS?

The administration's sanction against Wal-Mart was tough: closure of all its stores in the municipality for 15 days.

The AIC also slapped a 2.7 million yuan ($423,000) fine on Wal-Mart and arrested the manager and deputy manager of one store, Zhao said. Authorities are investigating 25 others for possible criminal charges.

Some executives have raised the question of bias against foreign firms in China.

Both the American Chamber of Commerce and the European Chamber of Commerce in China have published reports in the past year saying foreign firms are sometimes unfairly singled out for sanctions.

Not here, said Zhao.

There were many more complaints about Wal-Mart stores in Chongqing than outlets run by France's Carrefour SA, Germany's Metro AG, or domestic competitors such as Yonghui, Shinshiji and Chongqing Baihuo, he said.

And consumer monitors are not just concerned with big players in Chongqing, a sprawling metropolitan region the size of Austria.

A small-scale entrepreneur in Chongqing was caught adding food coloring to make his steamed "mantou" buns appear fresher. The AIC fined him 40,000 yuan and banned him from working in the food industry for life, Zhao said.

Wal-Mart has not said how much it spent on improvements or staff training during the shutdown, but "it is significant and in keeping with the positive response we want to see from our customers," spokesman Rose said.

Analysts also don't expect the issue to affect Wal-Mart over the long term in China.

Visiting a number of Walmarts in Chongqing Tuesday, the day stores reopened, shoppers were raucously cheerful as they jammed aisles and loaded up on cooking oil, soy sauce, peanuts and fruit, some even taking their turn at gutting rabbits.

Wang Dingbao, 66, brought his wife and a camera to the Jiulongpo Walmart to snare some bargains as well as some snapshots of the hustle and bustle.

"I like the selection and the prices," said Wang, who lives within walking distance and also shops at Yonghui and Shinshiji.

He said he likes Walmart the best, and trusts the retailer. "They said they would fix things, and they did."

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Who hasn't told a Charlie Chan broken English joke once or twice? But when a leading House member tells one in public, it can get quite a reaction.

That happened Wednesday night at Mt. Vernon where House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers was receiving an award from the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States for "his extraordinary service to and leadership of his state and country."

The folksy Kentucky lawmaker opened with a tale about how people pronounce the home city of the Kentucky Derby, Louisville. "There's a lot of debate on how you pronounce, how locals pronounce the biggest city in Kentucky. Some say Louie-ville. Some say Louis-ville, some say Loy-ville, some say Loueee-ville," he said. [Read about a Congressional bill aimed at making China raise the value of its currency.]

Well one different version, Rogers told the crowd, came years ago from a Chinese ambassador to the United States who spoke broken English. As Rogers tells it, he had just visited China and when he returned he had dinner with the unnamed ambassador. During dinner, and in his broken English, the ambassador tried to impress staffers on how much he knew about the United States and Kentucky. [Read how the debt downgrade affected U.S.-China relations.]

"He had been to the Kentucky Derby and he said, 'you know, the Kentucky Derby, this and that, is located in a city and you need to know how to pronounce the name of.' He said, 'it's not Rouee-ville, it's Roo-i-ville."

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Our pal Nikki Schwab, at the Washington Examiner, said she tried to chase Rogers down for a quick comment, but he had left the dinner.

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China ready for next space leap

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29 September 2011 Last updated at 11:04 GMT By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News China is taking a stepped approach to the development of its human spaceflight programme China is due to launch its first space laboratory, Tiangong-1.

The 10.5m-long, cylindrical module will be unmanned for the time being, but the country's astronauts, or yuhangyuans, are expected to visit it next year.

Tiangong-1 will demonstrate the critical technologies needed by China to build a fully fledged space station - something it has promised to do at the end of the decade.

The space lab is set to ride to orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.

State media say the lift-off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert is likely to occur between 21:16 and 21:31 local time (13:16-13:31 GMT). Meteorologists report that weather conditions should be good.

The Long March will put Tiangong in a near-circular path around the Earth, just a few hundred km above the surface.

It will operate in an autonomous mode, monitored from the ground. Then, in a few weeks' time, China will launch another unmanned spacecraft, Shenzhou 8, and try to link the pair together.

This rendezvous and docking capability is a prerequisite if larger structures are ever to be assembled in orbit.

Commentators say Russian technology, or a close copy of it, will be used to bring the two craft into line.

Assuming the venture goes well, two manned missions (Shenzhou 9 and 10) should follow in 2012. The yuhangyuans - two or three at a time - are expected to live aboard the conjoined vehicles for up to two weeks.

Tiangong-1 will launch on the latest version of a Long March 2F rocketThe lab will go into a 300-400km-high orbit and will be untended initiallyAn unmanned Shenzhou vehicle will later try to dock with TiangongThe orbiting lab will test key technologies such as life-support systemsChina's stated aim is to build a 60-tonne space station by about 2020

Tiangong means "heavenly palace" in Chinese. The programme is the second step in what Beijing authorities describe as a three-step strategy.

The first step was the development of the Shenzhou capsule system which has so far permitted six nationals to go into orbit since 2003; then the technologies needed for spacewalking and docking, now in progress; and finally construction of the space station.

Animation showing the launch of Tiangong-1 and eventual completion of China's space station

At about 60 tonnes in mass, this future station would be considerably smaller than the 400-tonne international platform operated by the US, Russia, Europe, Canada and Japan, but its mere presence in the sky would nonetheless represent a remarkable achievement.

Concept drawings describe a core module weighing some 20-22 tonnes, flanked by two slightly smaller laboratory vessels.

Officials say it would be supplied by freighters in exactly the same way that robotic cargo ships keep the International Space Station (ISS) today stocked with fuel, food, water, air, and spare parts.

There has been much talk about China becoming involved in the ISS project itself, and the fact that it has adopted many Russian engineering standards would certainly make it technically possible for Shenzhou vehicles to visit the orbiting complex.

Europe, too, has argued that additional partners could help spread the cost of running what is an extremely expensive endeavour. But political differences between China and the US would appear to make such involvement unlikely in the near-term.

"These are decisions that have to be taken by the whole ISS partnership; everyone has to agree," says Karl Bergquist from the European Space Agency's (Esa) international relations department.

Five astronauts, or yuhangyuans, have followed Yang Liwei's historic first flight in 2003

"You also have to see whether it is something which would interest a country like China, given their ambitions in space. They have advanced so far in their plans that they will probably go ahead and develop their own station," he told BBC News.

Thomas Reiter, the director of human spaceflight at Esa, was asked to comment on the status of China's space programme during a seminar this month at the London School of Economics.

"I think the Chinese want to prove to themselves and others that they are on a level," he said. "At that point, it becomes a moment for discussion on greater co-operation. We are certainly drifting towards each other."

The director said he could envisage the day when yuhangyuans made visits to European astronaut training facilities.

Currently, most of Europe's engagement with China falls in the area of space science.

Esa participated in the Double Star mission, a pair of satellites sent into orbit to study the Sun's interaction with the Earth's magnetic field.

There is also co-operative work in Earth observation, assisting the Chinese with the development of applications to interpret satellite data.

In the UK, manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Limited announced recently that it would be making three high-resolution imaging spacecraft for the purpose of mapping China.

The ISS is very expensive, but all partners would need to agree to China's participation Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk

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Anger over China tourist beating

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24 September 2011 Last updated at 15:23 GMT A Chinese tourist was badly beaten up after being mistaken for a petitioner who wanted to lobby the authorities in Beijing, state media report.

Zhao Zhipei and three others were dragged from a hotel and bundled into a van before being dumped in their home province of Henan.

Mr Zhao was later found unconscious on a road in Luoyang city. The case caused anger on China's social media sites.

Six local officials have been punished for the beating, state media said.

Millions of people petition government offices across China every year to try to resolve disputes or complain about official misconduct.

They are often treated as a nuisance and many are rounded up by police to stop them complaining.

The Beijing News said Mr Zhao had checked into a Beijing hotel and ended up sharing a room with three other people, who were genuine petitioners.

The following day unidentified men dragged them out of the hotel and they were taken back to their home province, Henan, in central China.

"Perhaps the wrong person was caught," police in Luoyang told the newspaper.

Officials quoted by Xinhua news agency said employees of a Beijing security firm hired by the Luoyang Letters and Calls bureau had carried out the beating.

One official at the Letters and Calls bureau has been removed from his post and another suspended, Xinhua reported.

Four others have been given warnings, while a senior official has apologised to Mr Zhao.

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US accuses China on chicken tax

  The US claims 300,000 agricultural jobs are at risk The US has opened a new front in its battle for better access to Chinese markets by asking the World Trade Organization to look at Beijing's taxes on the billion-dollar chicken trade.
Washington claims China violated trade rules by imposing tariffs on US chicken imports, threatening farmers' jobs.
Other recent US filings to the WTO include complaints about steel product duties and wind power subsidies.
"China must play by the rules," said US Trade Representative Ron Kirk.
He said import duties imposed by Beijing last September have ruined a market that had been worth $1bn (£636m) to the US, putting 300,000 agricultural jobs at risk.
"We will not stand still if we believe that China has violated its commitments as a WTO member and is therefore threatening American jobs," said Mr Kirk.
China was one of the top two markets for US chicken exports before the tariffs were imposed. The other was Russia.
There was no immediate response from Beijing.

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Thousands riot in south China over land grabs: report

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thousands of people have attacked government buildings in southern China in a protest over land sales, a newspaper reported on Friday, the latest outbreak of trouble in the economic powerhouse of Guangdong province.
The protests in Lufeng, a city of 1.7 million, are the latest sign of growing public anger over land grabs, generally carried out by either private or state-linked companies but with the acquiescence of local governments.
These property disputes, in a country where the government legally owns all land, have led to protests, fights with police, imprisonment and suicides, and created a headache for the stability-obsessed ruling Communist Party.
Witnesses in Lufeng city said the protests, in which around a dozen residents were hurt, were triggered by the seizure of hectares of land and their sale to property developer Country Garden for 1 billion yuan ($156.6 million), Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reported.
Directing their ire at the local seat of government and attacking buildings including the local Communist Party headquarters and a police station, the angry mob in some cases used "sticks, bricks and their fists," the Post reported.
Roads were also blocked, and a businessman said several thousand villagers had joined demonstrations outside government headquarters since Wednesday.
The trouble started on Wednesday morning when villagers demanded the return of their land, the report said.
GUANGDONG TROUBLES
The municipal government of Shanwei region, which includes Lufeng, confirmed the unrest in a statement issued late on Thursday night which said more than a dozen police officers were injured on Thursday, and six police vehicles damaged.
The Shanwei government accused villagers of having "ulterior motives" and of "inciting" other villagers to charge into the police station on Thursday afternoon by spreading rumors about police officers beating a child to death.
Four people have been detained for their role in organizing the protests on Wednesday, according to the website of Shanwei's local news service.
Earlier this year, in the Guangdong factory town of Zengcheng, thousands outraged migrant workers rioted over the alleged maltreatment of a female worker, torching government offices, smashing police cars and marching in their thousands through the streets.
Protests and incidents of "mass unrest" have risen recently, fueled by rapid economic transformation, according to Zhou Ruijin, a former deputy editor-in-chief of the People's Daily, writing in current affairs magazine 'China through the Ages'.
Between 1993 and 2006, the national number of recorded "mass incidents" such as riots and protests grew from 8,708 to around 90,000, Zhou wrote in the September edition of the magazine.
From 2007 to 2009, the number of such incidents was consistently above 90,000, he added.
"These conflicts are concentrated in rural land requisitions and urban housing demolition, as well as in resource development and environmental protection," wrote Zhou.
MESSAGES BLOCKED
Chinese authorities are wary of any discussion of such discontent spreading, and by Friday morning, searches for 'Lufeng' on China's Twitter-style microblogging service Weibo were blocked, with a message saying the "relevant legal regulations" prevented showing the search results.
The unrest in one of China's most economically important provinces, encompassing the famed Pearl River Delta "world factory" zone that accounts for around a third of China's exports, is a major challenge for Guangdong Communist Party chief Wang Yang.
Wang, who is widely expected to be promoted to China's highest leadership ranks in a once-in-a-decade leadership transition next year, has called for a more balanced "Happy Guangdong" development model emphasizing social harmony.
A message on the Internet bulletin board of the Southern Daily, Guangdong's official newspaper, says the residents of Wukan village have petitioned many times in 2009 and 2010 about the land disputes that triggered the riot.
"Please tell us, just who will take charge of this case? Do we really have nowhere to complain?" wrote a user.
(Additional reporting by Sisi Tang in Hong Kong and Chris Buckley and Sabrina Mao in Beijing, Writing by Sui-Lee Wee, Editing by Ken Wills and Daniel Magnowski)

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Polio outbreak in China confirmed

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20 September 2011 Last updated at 21:30 GMT Polio is highly infectious and affects the nervous system, sometimes resulting in paralysis Polio has spread to China for the first time since 1999 after being imported from Pakistan, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed.

It said a strain of polio (WPV1) found in China was genetically linked with the type now circulating in Pakistan.

At least seven cases have now been confirmed in China's western Xinjiang province, which borders Pakistan.

The WHO warned there was a high risk of the crippling virus spreading further during Muslim pilgrimages to Mecca.

Polio (also called poliomyelitis) is highly infectious and affects the nervous system, sometimes resulting in paralysis.

It is transmitted through contaminated food, drinking water and faeces.

'Right things done'

On Tuesday, the WHO said the polio cases in Xinjiang had been detected in the past two months.

The Chinese authorities are now investigating the cases, and a mass vaccination campaign has been launched in the region.

"So far all the right things are being done," WHO spokesman Oliver Rosenbauer told Reuters news agency.

Polio was last brought into China from India in 1999. China's last indigenous case was in 1994.

Pakistan is one of a handful of countries where polio remains endemic.

WHO officials had been warning for some time that the virus was spreading within the country to previously uninfected areas.

The UN's children fund, Unicef, has said that eradicating polio from Pakistan depends on delivering oral vaccines to each and every child, including the most vulnerable and the hardest to reach.

Polio was virtually eliminated from the Western hemisphere in the 20th Century.

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Mass protest at China solar plant

Riot police were brought in to remove protesters from outside the solar panel factory in Haining City Hundreds of villagers in eastern China have held three days of protests at a solar panel plant over pollution fears.Around 500 people started gathering at Zhejiang Jinko Solar company in Haining city, Zhejiang province, on Thursday.
Some of protesters stormed the factory, overturning several company cars and destroying offices, officials said.
Residents in the nearby village of Hongxiao said they became concerned after the deaths of a large number of river fish.
One 64-year-old villager told the Associated Press that the factory - located close to a school and kindergarten - discharges waste into the river and spews dense smoke out of a dozen chimneys.
"The villagers strongly request that this factory be moved to another area," he said. "I am very worried about the health of the younger generation".
Factories closed
Four police vehicles were reportedly damaged in demonstrations on Friday, and dozens of police officers were seen being brought in to keep control of the situation.
Chen Hongming, a deputy head of Haining's environmental protection bureau, was quoted by Chinese news agency Xinhua as saying that the factory's waste disposal had failed pollution tests since April.
The environmental watchdog has warned the factory, but it had not effectively controlled the pollution, he added.
The company is a subsidiary of a New York Exchange-listed Chinese solar company, JinkoSolar Holding Company. Both firms have made no comment about the protests or pollution allegations.
In a separate incident, Shanghai on Friday ordered the temporary closure of two factories in the east of the city amid lead poisoning fears.
The Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau said in a statement that a "small amount of children living in the Kangqiao area... were found to have excessive levels of lead in their blood in early September".
The factories affected include a large lead-acid battery plant operated by Shanghai Johnson Controls International Battery Company - a unit of the New York-listed industrial giant Johnson Controls.
Johnson Controls said it had suspended production at the site and was co-operating with the authorities, but insisted it did not believe its plant was the source of the problem.
The battery plant was named a "national model enterprise for occupational health and safety" in 2006, and has lead emissions at about one-seventh the Chinese national standard, the company said in a statement.

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Hero quake pig 'cloned in China'

  Hero pig Zhu Jianqiang "surprised us again" said scientists Chinese scientists have cloned a pig which was hailed a hero in 2008 after surviving more than a month under earthquake rubble, a newspaper reports.Six piglets have been produced with DNA identical to Zhu Jiangqiang, or "Strong-Willed Pig", the Hong Kong-based Sunday Morning Post says.
The cloning project was a success even though Zhu is castrated and is five years old (60 years in human age).
Zhu survived the 8.0 magnitude quake that rocked Sichuan province in 2008.
More than 90,000 people died or went missing in what was considered in China to be the worst natural disaster in a generation.
The 330-pound (150kg) Zhu is thought to have survived in the ruins of his sty by chewing charcoal and drinking rainwater, the AFP news agency reports.
He is said to have suffered severe trauma from being buried under rubble for 36 days.
"The wonderful pig surprised us again," Du Yutao, the head of the cloning project, told the Sunday Morning Post.
The newspaper says the piglets bear a striking resemblance to their dad - with a birthmark between their eyes.
They are likely to be paired off and sent to a museum and a genetic institute, the paper reports.

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