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TORONTO (Reuters) - Teck Resources <TCKb.TO> said on Friday it will sell a 17.2 percent equity stake to state-owned China Investment Corp in a deal that will help the Canadian miner pay down its debt while expanding China's portfolio of commodity investments. ...

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Mining company Teck Resources says it is selling a 17% stake to China Investment Corp. for $1.5 billion as it seeks to reduce its debt. ...

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Beijing has joined a growing clamour of complaint about US plans for a carbon tax on imports from countries without their own emission caps, warning it could set off a global trade war ...

Source: www.reuters.com --- 6 hours ago
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's Teck Resources said on Friday it will sell a 17.2 percent equity stake to state-owned China Investment Corp in a deal that will help Teck pay down debt while expanding China's portfolio of commodity investments. ...

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China is considering new air quality regulations as it looks to build on its success clearing Beijing's skies during the Olympics, environmental officials from the capital said on Friday. ...

Source: www.businessweek.com --- 11 hours ago
More news out showing China is serious about picking up overseas assets to meet its surging energy and resource needs. This time, a report published yesterday in the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post , says that China National Petroleum Corp, China’s largest oil and gas company, wants to resurrect its bid to take a $17 billion stake in Argentina’s YPF, majority-owned by Spain’s Repsol. It’s no surprise that China is moving increasingly aggressively to pick up overseas resources, including in oil and gas of course. It’s still fast-growing economy already relies on energy imports for more than one-half its overall demand, and that figure is certain to get even larger. And China is interested in spending its $2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves on something other than just U.S. Treasuries. Hard assets, particularly much-needed resources, are one very good alternative and very much in favor from the government’s perspective too. That has driven a flurry of oil and gas deals including one by China’s second largest petro company Sinopec, which plans to spend $7.2 billion to purchase Addax Petroleum, giving it access to assets in Nigeria and the Kurdish region of Iraq. CNCP too has recently made other big investments overseas including in Kazakhstan and in Singapore, and on June 30 won a joint bid with BP to acquire Iraqi oil assets. The company reportedly is also looking at possible deals in Mongolia. A successful bid in Arge ...

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China's "green dam" project splits PC makers into the compliers and the stallers. ...

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STOCKHOLM (AFP) - - Swedish mobile phone network supplier Ericsson won contracts to supply broadband Internet to millions of users in China by a deal with three operators there, it said Friday. ...

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TORONTO - Mining company Teck Resources Ltd. said Friday it is selling a 17 percent stake to China Investment Corp. for 1.74 billion Canadian dollars ($1.5 billion) in a bid to reduce its debt. ...

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Tom Lindmark submits: It’s nice to know that Americans aren’t the only people in the world that believe real estate prices can never stop going up. Apparently the Chinese share our affinity for bubbles. From MarketWatch , real estate prices in China are going through the roof: Complete Story » ...

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A U.S. company will seek legal action against Lenovo, Acer and Sony next week over their shipment in China of controversial software that the company says stole its programming code. ...

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A US company will seek legal action against Lenovo, Acer and Sony next week over their shipment in China of controversial software that the company says stole its programming code. ...

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China has not lifted its requirement that an Internet filtering program be shipped with all computers sold in the country, even though the plan was postponed this week, state media said Thursday. It is just "a matter of time" before the mandate for PC makers to ship the program takes effect, the ... ...

Source: chinadigitaltimes.net --- 2 hours ago
From THR.com/Asia A little-known deputy film censor has been promoted to oversee China’s rapidly growing movie industry, sources inside the State Administration of Radio Film and Television told The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday. On June 25, Zhang Pimin was promoted to vice-director of SARFT, where he formerly was deputy director of the Film Bureau responsible for helping [...] ...

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The New York Times reports: DUNHUANG, China -- As the United States takes its first steps toward mandating that power companies generate more electric... . . . ...

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Related Articles Clinical features of convulsive status epilepticus: a study of 220 cases in western China. Eur J Neurol. 2009 Apr;16(4):444-9 Authors: Chen L, Zhou B, Li JM, Zhu Y, Wang JH, Sander JW, Stefan H, Zhou D BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Convulsive status epilepticus (CSE) is the most common and life-threatening form of status epilepticus (SE). The aim of this study was to describe the clinical features of CSE in western China. METHODS: Convulsive status epilepticus patients hospitalized from January 1996 to October 2007 were prospectively observed. Logistic regression was used to identify predictors of prognosis. RESULTS: The average age of CSE patients (n = 220) was 37.5 years (SD 20.31), 50% of the patients had a history of epilepsy. The primary cause of CSE was central nervous system infection (32.7%), followed by discontinuation or reduction of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs; 15.5%). The median duration of CSE was 5 h and median duration of seizures before treatment was 2 h; both were longer in rural patients than in urban patients (P < 0.05). The fatality rate on discharge was 15.9%. Logistic regression analysis showed the duration of CSE [odds ratio (OR) 1.05, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.03-1.07], a history of epilepsy (OR 0.35, 95% CI 0.14-0.89), and respiratory depression (OR 5.96, 95% CI 2.49-14.24) were independent predictors of CSE prognosis. DISCUSSION: Central nervous system infection and AEDs withdrawal in epilepsy pa ...

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Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told his Japanese counterpart Hirofumi Nakasone when they met last month that China is carefully watching the debate in Japan… ...

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China's central government reiterated its opposition to carbon tariff policies and said they could provoke a trade war, ratcheting up the rhetoric as lawmakers in the U.S. consider legislation to reduce greenhouse gases. ...