‘India, China should enhance cooperation in plastic industry’

September 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari Saturday said his country wants to further bolster the existing strong bilateral ties with China and to enhance the strategic economic cooperation between the two countries. Pakistan "attaches high value to its relations with china and takes pride in the success story of China", Zardari said while speaking to Chinese ambassador in Pakistan Luo Zhaohui who visited the president here Saturday, Online news agency reported.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister S. M.Krishna on Wednesday informed the Lok Sabha that China has proposed for the establishment of a hotline between the Chinese Premier and the Prime Minister of India to maintain regular contacts at the highest level.

June 15th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Chinese President Hu Jintao Monday reiterated they would enhance cooperation in all areas and vowed to make progress on strategic partnership, the Online news agency reported. The two leaders met here Monday ahead of the 9th summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).

May 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Around 100 officials and scholars from China and India have gathered in Beijing to discuss how to boost cooperation between the two Asian giants. "Dragon and elephant have danced together in recent years," Feng Zuoku, vice president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, said at the start of the seminar.

May 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There should be high level talks between Brazil, Russia, India and China on a global pact to combat climate change before the first BRIC summit in Russia next month, India's top climate negotiator Shyam Saran said here Thursday. The talks should be at the level of either politicians or senior officials, Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Climate Change Saran told delegates from all BRIC countries at a summit preparatory meeting organised by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF).

April 23rd, 2009 HONG KONG - Hong Kong lawmakers Thursday approved a tax on every plastic bag handed out by supermarkets in the city as of July in a move to cut the mountain of waste created by the bags. The tax of 50 Hong Kong cents (6 US cents) will be levied from July 1 in a total of 2,000 shops, including every major supermarket, in the high-rise city of seven million.

April 22nd, 2009 BEIJING - China and France have signed an agreement to extend their cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear power. The three-year agreement, which was signed Tuesday by the heads of the China Atomic Energy Authority (CAEA) and the French Atomic Energy Commission, is the 10th agreement of its kind between the two nations.

April 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Thursday launched an India Business Forum (IBF) in China, a lobby to promote bilateral trade and economic cooperation between the two countries. The IBF will act as a forum for promoting India-China trade through collective and consensual approach and will also work with the Indian embassy in Beijing and others towards 'building brand India', the CII said in a statement released here.

March 31st, 2009 BEIJING - China declared Tuesday that it desired mutually beneficial cooperation with India and it posed no threat to New Delhi. 'The leaders of China and India have already reached consensus that the two countries will not pose a threat to each other,' Xinhua quoted foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang as telling reporters here.

February 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With the Delhi government imposing a ban on plastic bags in the capital, an NGO Wednesday demanded lifting of the ban and launched an awareness campaign to highlight the benefits of plastic. Plastic Bag Awareness Forum launched a campaign to create awareness among the users that plastic bags are not harmful.

February 21st, 2009 BEIJING - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived here Friday evening on her first visit to China since she took office. Clinton was greeted by Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi at the airport.

February 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the state government to respond to an industry forum's plea for withdrawal of complete ban on plastic carrybags in the capital. The All India Plastic Industry Association (AIPA) in its petition termed the notification was 'unjust' as the court last year asked the government only to increase the minimum permissible thickness of plastic bags from 20 microns to 40 microns - to make it more costly and discourage indiscriminate use - and not completely ban it.

February 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Patil Wednesday urged plastic manufacturers to take adequate measures for waste management, as more than half of the plastic waste is causing harm to the environment. 'Plastics are chemically inert by nature, but it's a question of degradability which has attracted severe criticism on its applications all around,' Patil said after inaugurating the seventh International Plastics Exhibition and Conference, PlastIndia-2009, here Wednesday.

January 29th, 2009 KOLKATA - Former US assistant secretary of state for South Asia Karl F. Inderfurth Friday pitched for making India a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

January 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and Sri Lanka will enhance defence cooperation, including military training and intelligence sharing, officials said after a meeting of the representatives of the two countries Monday. The defence secretaries of the two countries discussed various cooperations during a meeting at the garrison city of Rawalpindi, the official Associated Press of Pakistan said.