Bush Admin. Targets 9 Nations for Copyright Problems
The administration on Friday placed the nine countries on a “priority watch list” that will subject them to extra scrutiny and could eventually lead to economic sanctions — if the administration decides to pursue complaints before the World Trade Organization.
In addition to China and Russia, the other seven countries targeted were Argentina, Chile, India, Israel, […]
Appeals Court: Gitmo Detainee Not Enemy Combatant
WASHINGTON A federal appeals court announced Monday that it has overturned the Pentagon’s classification of a Guantanamo Bay detainee as an enemy combatant.
In the first Guantanamo Bay case to be reviewed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Muslim known as a Uighur, […]
Paulson To Travel To China On April 2-3
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will travel to China on April 2 and 3 “to meet with the newly appointed economic leadership,” the department announced Thursday. Paulson will also deliver remarks on U.S. and Chinese cooperation on energy and the environment. Paulson’s talks are part of regular biannual meetings of the U.
China to raise fuel prices
BEIJING, China (AP) — China will raise prices for fuel by as much as 18 percent on Friday, the government’s main economic planning agency announced, in a move intended to cool the nation’s surging energy consumption.
Cars line up at a PetroChina gas station ahead of expected price increase in Chengdu, China, Thursday.
Pentagon Sent Non-Nuclear Missile Parts to Taiwan in Error
WASHINGTON The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that it mistakenly shipped non-nuclear components for an intercontinental ballistic missile to Taiwan but has recovered them and launched an investigation.
At a Pentagon news conference, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne said the misshipped items were four electrical fuses for nose cone assemblies for ICBMs.
Gates Pins Cyclone’s Epic Tragedy On Burmese Junta
SINGAPORE Myanmar’s obstruction of international efforts to help cyclone victims cost “tens of thousands of lives,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Saturday in his strongest condemnation to date of the military government there.
“We have reached out, frankly, to Myanmar multiple times during this crisis in very direct ways,” Gates told an international audience.
Chinese plastic bag maker closes
BEIJING, China (AP) China’s largest producer of plastic bags said Tuesday it has closed more than a days after the government announced a high-profile ban on stores handing out free bags in an effort to clean up the environment.
Shoppers in Beijing and other Chinese cities will have to pay for using plastic bags, starting […]
‘Body Worlds’ Exhibit to Stop Using Cadavers From China
NEW YORK The doctor behind a museum exhibit of preserved human bodies says he wo not be using cadavers from China.
Gunter von Hagens tells ABC’s “20/20″ that he’s had to destroy some of the bodies he’d gotten from China because they had injuries suggesting they were victims of execution.
The exhibit, “Body Worlds,” show preserved bodies […]
