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Zoo Starved Tigers with Chicken Bone Diet

Source country CBSnews Friday, March 12, 2010 3:53:00 PM CET | info [other]

11 Rare Siberian Tigers Died from Starvation; Kept in Small Cages at Cash-Strapped Chinese Zoo...

Chinese zoo blamed for death of 11 Siberian tigers

Source country yediotaharonot Friday, March 12, 2010 2:38:00 PM CET [other]

Published: 03.12.10, 14:47 / Israel News Eleven rare Siberian tigers, starving and kept in small cages, have died at a cash-strapped zoo in China, heightening concerns about conditions at wildlife facilities in the country, where activists say profiteering off the carcasses of endangered species sometimes drives over-breeding....

Eleven rare Siberian tigers die at struggling Chinese zoo

Source country guardian Friday, March 12, 2010 2:37:00 PM CET | info [other]

Animals at Shenyang Forest zoo reportedly starved to death after being fed only chicken bones Eleven rare Siberian tigers, starving and kept in small cages, have died at a cash-strapped zoo in China, heightening concerns about conditions at wildlife facilities in the country....

Siberian tigers die in Chinese zoo

Source country CBC Friday, March 12, 2010 1:55:00 PM CET | info [other]

Eleven rare Siberian tigers have died at a cash-strapped zoo in China, heightening concerns about conditions at wildlife facilities in the country....

Leave yuan to us, China says

Source country theglobeandmail Friday, March 12, 2010 1:31:00 PM CET | info [other]

Entities: Su Ning[1]; Zhou Xiaochuan[1]; Stephen Green[1];

Other categories: Financial Crisis;

Quotes in this article

Stephen Green said: “That's the $64-billion question to which no one really knows the answer”

T he United States should not make a political issue out of the yuan, a Chinese central banker said on Friday, as the two countries lurched towards a potential bust-up over Beijing's currency regime. The latest rhetorical salvoes underlined how long-running friction caused by the yuan's de facto dollar peg could come to a head next month when U....

Siberian tigers die at Chinese zoo

Source country theglobeandmail Friday, March 12, 2010 12:45:00 PM CET | info [other]

Eleven rare tigers kept in small cages have died of malnutrition in the last three months at facility in China’s northeast...

Obama urges China to cut currency

Source country washtimes Friday, March 12, 2010 11:46:00 AM CET | info [other]

Entities: Patrice Hill[1]; Lloyd Wood[1]; Nick Bennenbroek[1];

Other categories: Monetary Issues EU; Europe 2020; G20; Financial Crisis;

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Lloyd Wood said: "The change was too small and too gradual even to begin the process of reversing Chinas current account surplus with the world,"

President Obama is stepping up pressure on China to stop fueling the world's biggest trade imbalance by artificially depressing the value of its currency, and Beijing is signaling it may soon heed those pleas. Under political pressure to address burgeoning job losses that many blame in part on China and its aggressive exports policy, Mr....

11 Siberian tigers starve to death in zoo

Source country msnbc Friday, March 12, 2010 11:45:00 AM CET | info [other]

Eleven Siberian tigers — among the world's rarest species — died of malnutrition after being kept in small cages and fed chicken bones at a cash-strapped zoo in China, state media said....

11 Siberian tigers starve to death in China zoo

Source country AsiaOne Friday, March 12, 2010 11:19:00 AM CET | info [other]

Other categories: Trade; Ecology;

BEIJING - Eleven Siberian tigers have starved to death over the past three months at a zoo in northeast China, after the cash-strapped animal park fed them cheap chicken bones, state media reported. Liu Xiaoqiang, the vice head of the wild animal protection office in Shenyang, the capital of.......

China hits back at Obama over currency policy

Source country telegraph Friday, March 12, 2010 10:31:00 AM CET | info [other]

Entities: Su Ning[1]; Wen Jiabao[1]; Dalai Lama[2];

Other categories: Society; EU-USA; External Relations;

Quotes in this article

Su Ning said: "We don't agree with politicising the renminbi exchange rate issue,"

China on Friday hit back at an attack from US President Barack Obama over currency policy, saying the yuan's value was not a political one and was not the key to global trade imbalances....

Don't politicise yuan, China tells Obama

Source country china Friday, March 12, 2010 10:14:00 AM CET | info [other]

Entities: Barack Obama[1]; Su Ning[1]; Zhou Xiaochuan[1]; Stephen Green[1];

Other categories: Financial Crisis;

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Stephen Green said: "That's the $64-billion question to which no one really knows the answer"

Su Ning said: "We had expected that February's CPI would be higher than January,"

People's Bank of China Vice Governor Su Ning was responding to a question about remarks on Thursday by US President Barack Obama, who called on China to move to a "more market-oriented exchange rate". Speaking on the sidelines of China's annual session of parliament, Su said the United States should.......

11 Siberian tigers starve to death at Chinese zoo

Source country earthtimes Friday, March 12, 2010 10:02:00 AM CET | info [other]

Other categories: Communicable Diseases;

Beijing - Eleven Siberian tigers died of starvation in north-eastern China's Liaoning province after a cash-strapped zoo fed them only chicken bones, state media said Friday. The 11 tigers died over the past three months at the privately run Shenyang......

Leave yuan to us, China tells Obama

Source country reuters Friday, March 12, 2010 9:36:00 AM CET | info [other]

Entities: Su Ning[1]; Zhou Xiaochuan[1]; Stephen Green[1];

Other categories: Financial Crisis;

Quotes in this article

Stephen Green said: "That's the $64-billion question to which no one really knows the answer"

Su Ning said: "We had expected that February's CPI would be higher than January,"

BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States should not make a political issue out of the yuan, a Chinese central banker said on Friday, as the two countries lurched toward a potential bust-up over Beijing's currency regime....

Siberian tigers die at China zoo

Source country bbc Friday, March 12, 2010 9:06:00 AM CET | info [other]

Entities: Liaoning Province[1];

Eleven rare Siberian tigers have died over the last three months at a zoo in north-eastern China, reports say....

China hits back at Obama on yuan

Source country bbc Friday, March 12, 2010 9:06:00 AM CET | info [other]

Entities: Barack Obama[1]; Su Ning[1]; Dalai Lama[2];

Other categories: Europe 2020;

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Su Ning said: "We don't agree with politicising the renminbi [yuan] exchange rate issue,"

Barack Obama said: "For too long, America served as the consumer engine for the entire world. But we are rebalancing. We're saving more. We all need to rebalance,"

Barack Obama added: "Countries with external deficits need to save and export more. Countries with external surpluses need to boost consumption and domestic demand," "As I've said before, China moving to a more market-oriented exchange rate would make an essential contribution to that global rebalancing effort"

Barack Obama said: "at a time when millions of Americans are out of work, boosting our exports is a short-term imperative" "When other markets are growing, and other nations are competing, we need to get even better. We need to secure our companies a level playing field,"

China has hit back at comments by US President Barack Obama that Beijing should change its currency strategy....

Don't 'politicise' yuan: China to US

Source country economictimes Friday, March 12, 2010 8:48:00 AM CET | info [other]

Entities: Barack Obama[1]; Su Ning[1];

Other categories: EU-USA; External Relations;

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Su Ning said: "We don't agree with politicising the renminbi exchange rate issue,"

China on Friday hit back at Barack Obama over his comments on the value of the yuan, saying the issue was not a political one and was not the solution to global trade imbalances....

Siberina tigers starved to death in Chinese zoo

Source country ruvr-en Friday, March 12, 2010 8:37:00 AM CET [other]

Eleven Siberian tigers have starved to death over the past three months at a zoo in northeast China, after the cash-strapped animal park fed them cheap chicken bones, Xinhua news agency reported....

China tells US not to 'politicise' yuan policy

Source country smh Friday, March 12, 2010 8:32:00 AM CET | info [other]

Entities: Barack Obama[1]; Su Ning[1]; Wen Jiabao[1]; Dalai Lama[2];

Other categories: Society; EU-USA; External Relations;

Quotes in this article

Su Ning said: "We don't agree with politicising the renminbi exchange rate issue,"

China on Friday hit back at an attack from US President Barack Obama over currency policy, saying the yuan's value was not a political one and was not the key to global trade imbalances....

Eleven Siberian tigers starve to death in Chinese zoo

Source country telegraph Friday, March 12, 2010 8:12:00 AM CET | info [other]

Other categories: Monetary Issues EU; Financial Crisis;

At least 11 Siberian tigers have starved to death in a zoo in North Eastern China after its owners ran out of money for their food....

Don't politicize yuan, China central bank tells Obama

Source country reuters Friday, March 12, 2010 7:32:00 AM CET | info [other]

Entities: Barack Obama[1]; Su Ning[1]; Zhou Xiaochuan[1]; Stephen Green[1];

Other categories: Financial Crisis;

Quotes in this article

Stephen Green said: "That's the $64-billion question to which no one really knows the answer"

Su Ning said: "We had expected that February's CPI would be higher than January,"

BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States should not make a political issue out of the yuan, a Chinese central banker said on Friday, as the two countries lurched toward a potentially serious clash about Beijing's currency regime....

Tigers die of malnutrition at zoo

Source country belfasttelegraph Friday, March 12, 2010 7:11:00 AM CET | info [other]

Tigers die of malnutrition at zoo

Source country channel4news Friday, March 12, 2010 6:57:00 AM CET | info [other]

Eleven Siberian tigers died at a zoo in China's frigid north-east region and animal protection officials suspect that the majority died because they weren't given enough to eat, it has been reported. The China Daily newspaper reported that the animals were kept in small metal cages at the Shenyang.......

China Hits Back at Obama on Yuan

Source country wsj Friday, March 12, 2010 6:53:00 AM CET | info [other]

Entities: Barack Obama[1]; Su Ning[2]; Jin Jing[1];

Quotes in this article

Barack Obama stated: "As I've said before, China moving to a more market-oriented exchange rate would make an essential contribution to that global rebalancing effort"

A senior Chinese central banker hit back at comments by U.S. President Obama that China should move to a more market-oriented exchange rate, saying countries shouldn't rely on others to fix their own problems....

Obama issues new call on China over yuan

Source country AsiaOne Friday, March 12, 2010 6:48:00 AM CET | info [other]

Entities: Ursula Burns[1]; Barack Obama[1]; Wen Jiabao[1]; Jim McNerney[2];

Other categories: Monetary Issues EU; Europe 2020; EU-USA; Trade; Financial Crisis; External Relations; External Trade;

Quotes in this article

Barack Obama said: "Countries with external deficits need to save and export more. Countries with external surpluses need to boost consumption and domestic demand,"

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Thursday called on China to embrace a "market oriented" exchange rate, upping US pressure on the yuan at a time of turmoil in Washington's delicate relations with Beijing. Obama, who is under fierce political pressure to press Beijing over its currency, said in.......

Chinese zoo blamed for death of tigers

Source country smh Friday, March 12, 2010 6:16:00 AM CET | info [other]

Eleven rare Siberian tigers kept in small cages and fed only chicken bones have died of malnutrition at a cash-strapped zoo in China, state media says....

11 Siberian tigers starve to death in China zoo: report

Source country smh Friday, March 12, 2010 5:31:00 AM CET | info [other]

Other categories: Trade; Ecology;

Eleven Siberian tigers have starved to death over the past three months at a zoo in northeast China, after the cash-strapped animal park fed them cheap chicken bones, state media reported....

Don't politicise yuan, China c.bank tells Obama

Source country finanznachrichten-en Friday, March 12, 2010 4:51:00 AM CET | info [other]

Entities: Ken Wills[1]; Barack Obama[1]; Su Ning[1]; Alan Wheatley[1];

BEIJING, March 12 (Reuters) - The United States should not make a political issue out of the yuan, China's deputy central bank governor Su Ning said on ......

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