CRI Hourly News 2012 09 02

 China urges U.S. politicians to stop making groundless accusation 1 against China 

China urges U.S. politicians to view China's development in an objective and rational way, stop making groundless accusation against China and contribute more to China-U.S. mutual 2 trust and cooperation.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry 3 spokesman Hong Lei made the remarks in a statement issued Saturday morning in response to the U.S. Republic Party's recently-released China policy and U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt 4 Romney's remarks concerning China in his nomination 5 speech. 
Hong Lei said all American politicians, regardless of political party, should view China's development in an objective and rational way, correctly understand China-U.S. relations, stop making groundless accusation against China and intervening in China's internal affairs, and do more contribution to promoting China-U.S. mutual trust and cooperation in a responsible way.
He stressed that it is the common cause of China and the United States to push forward the mutually beneficial cooperative partnership 6 with mutual respect.
 
China denies Greenpeace GM rice test claims 
Government officials in central China's Hunan Province have denied claims that children in the area were being used as guinea pigs in U.S.-backed research on the effects of consuming genetically 7-modified (GM) rice.
The response was prompted by a Greenpeace article saying that the environmental protection group had discovered a study backed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture involving feeding genetically modified Golden Rice to a group of 24 children, aged 8 between six and eight, in Hunan. 
A spokesman for Hengyang City, where the study was allegedly conducted, said the government has formed an investigation 9 team to probe the claim, but initial findings indicated that there had been no such research project.
 
Car bomb kills 15 civilians 10 in Damascus' suburb
15 people have been killed in a booby-trapped car explosion at a restive 11 suburb of the Syrian capital of Damascus.
Reports say the car went off near Muaz Bin 12 Jabal mosque 13 in the Sbaineh suburb Saturday. 
The Sbaineh area is dominated by Palestinian refugees.
 
2 U.S. soldiers killed by militants 14 in Afghanistan
The U.S. Forces have confirmed Anti-government militants attack claimed the lives of two U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Afghan interior ministry says Afghan police and army, backed by the NATO-led coalition 15 forces, have carried out 11 military operations in several provinces, killing 16 87 armed Taliban insurgents 17 within the past 24 hours.
 
No peace treaty deal with Japan at APEC summit: Russian FM
Russia says it will not settle the peace treaty issue with Japan during the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok. 
During a meeting with students from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the territorial 18 disputes and the relevant problem of a peace treaty between Russia and Japan would not be settled within the APEC framework. 
Russia and Japan have long been at odds 19 over the sovereignty of four disputed Pacific islands which are called Northern Territories in Japan and Southern Kuril islands in Russia.
 
Chinese premier 20 says property controls still in "critical period" 
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has reiterated 21 the country still needs to resolutely 22 curb 23 speculative 24 property investment as controls on the real estate sector 25 are still in a "critical period."
During an inspection 26 tour of affordable 27 housing projects in the city of Tianjin in north China, Wen Jiabao said increasing the effective supplies of homes to the market will be more important to consolidate 28 the previous achievements in stabilizing 29 housing prices. 
He said that smooth progress in the affordable housing projects will provide important support in stabilizing property prices and consolidating 30 the government's efforts to tame overly high home prices.
 
Chinese man seized for sending threatening message to ground flight 
Chinese police have seized a suspect who allegedly sent a threatening message which caused a domestic flight to divert on Thursday.
The 29-year-old man, Xiong Yi, was caught Saturday afternoon in a hotel in Dongguan city in southern province of Guangdong, according to the police of central China's Hubei Province, where Xiong resides. 
Xiong Yi confessed that he made an anonymous 31 phone call to an airport in Shenzhen, Guangdong Thursday, claiming that explosives had been planted on Shenzhen Airlines Flight ZH9706, which was in mid-air for Shenzhen from Xiangyang, Hubei. 
The flight made an emergency landing at an airport in Hubei's capital Wuhan out of concerns for passenger safety. Police conducted a thorough inspection but found no dangerous items on the aircraft or in the passengers' belongings 32.
 
Chinese provinces halt overnight buses after accident 
Several Chinese provincial 33 regions have banned the non-stop overnight operation of long-distance buses after a truck-bus collision killed 36 people last week.
The ban went into effect in Fujian Province on Saturday. Passenger buses with seven or more seats were ordered off the road from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m., according to orders issued by the provincial public security department. Only shuttles for airports, railway stations and ports are exempted 34.