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South China Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The South China Sea is a marginal sea south of China. The International Hydrographic Organization defines the sea as stretching in a southwest to northeast direction, whose southern border is 3 degrees South latitude between South Sumatra and Kalimantan (Karimata Strait), and whose northern border is the Strait of Taiwan from the northern tip of Taiwan to the Fujian coast of mainland China. South China Sea is the dominant term used in English for the sea, and the name in most European languages is equivalent, but it is sometimes called by different names in neighboring countries, often reflecting historical claims to hegemony over the sea. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_China_Sea   (1158 words)

Northern and southern China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia As such, the boundary between northern and southern China does not follow provincial boundaries; it cuts through Shaanxi, Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu, and creates areas such as Hanzhong (Shaanxi), Xinyang (Henan), and Xuzhou (Jiangsu) that lie on an opposite half of China from the rest of their respective provinces. The concepts of northern and southern China originate from differences in climate, geography, culture, and physical traits; as well as several periods of actual political division in history. Northern China is too cold and dry for rice cultivation (though it does happen today with modern technology) and consists largely of flat plains, grasslands, and desert; while Southern China is warm and rainy enough for rice and consists of lush mountains cut by river valleys. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_China   (804 words)

The South China Sea Dispute by Scott Snyder: Special Reports: U.S. Institute of Peace The importance of the South China Sea as a strategic passageway is unquestioned. China's ambiguity on the extent and nature of its claims is regarded as a tactical ploy to stall or defer any attempt to achieve a negotiated settlement until China is prepared to get what it wants through military strength. China's preoccupation with its own political transition and increasing feelings of nationalism in the region are also complicating factors that increase the potential for conflict. www.usip.org /pubs/specialreports/early/snyder/South_China_Sea1.html   (5533 words)

South China Tiger Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) China is unique among tiger range countries because four of the surviving tiger subspecies at one time lived within its borders. The Siberian tiger in the far northeast bordering Russia and North Korea; the South China tiger (which is considered the evolutionary antecedent of all tigers) in the central parts of China; and the Indochinese and Bengal tigers in the far south bordering Vietnam, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Assam (India). South China tigers hunt primarily between dusk and dawn, and they attack using the same method as do the lions. www.geocities.com /pride_lands/SouthChinaTiger.html   (801 words)

South China The South China tiger is one of the smallest tiger subspecies. The male South China tiger is between 8 and 9 feet from nose to tail while the smaller female is between 7and 8 feet in length. The female South China tiger weighs between 220 and 250 pounds while the heavier male tiger is between 290 and 380 pounds. greenfield.fortunecity.com /tiger/181/southchina.html   (256 words)

The South China Tiger Unfortunately the South China tiger has had no such exposure and has been left to rely on a few dedicated conservationist and researchers who have carried on with the thankless and seemingly impossible task of saving this subspecies from extinction. In the late 1950’s there were approximately 4,000 South China tigers in the wild, ironically in 1959 when the Siberian tiger was acknowledged as an endangered species, the South China tiger was declared a pest by the Chinese government and a bounty was placed on its head. In 1984 the practice of tiger hunting in China was made illegal, the problems facing the South China tiger now are illegal poaching, to fuel the demand of tiger parts for use in traditional Chinese medicines (see my article Fools Medicine), and the relentless tide of the human population. www.andymcdermott.com /Article_1.htm   (1040 words)

China Daily Website - Connecting China Connecting the World China is debating the establishment of a new "super regulator" for its finance and banking industries to improve co-ordination. China has doubled the tax threshold for domestic firms in a move to narrow the taxation gap between indigenous and foreign-invested companies, the State Administration of Taxation said. China's insurance watchdog is preparing to release new rules to regulate and promote the development of life insurance in rural areas. www.chinadaily.com.cn   (1357 words)

South China Sea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) South China Sea, western arm of the Pacific Ocean, c.1,000,000 sq mi (2,590,000 sq km), between the SE Asian mainland and Taiwan, the Philippines, and Borneo. The South China Sea disputes: implications of China's earlier territorial settlements. Creeping assertiveness: China, the Philippines and the South China Sea dispute. www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0846042.html   (313 words)

South China Tiger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) The South China tiger is the most critically endangered of all tiger subspecies. The last time a wild tiger was seen in the wild was 10 years ago These facts suggest that the South China tiger is the rarest of the five living tiger subspecies, the most threatened, and the closest to extinction. According to the 1995 South China Tiger Studbook the captive population of 48 South China tigers is confined to 19 Chinese zoos. user.aol.com /tigertrail/china.htm   (476 words)

South China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) Lastly, Hainan is China’s youngest province (given provincial status in 1988) and is particularly rich in tropical agriculture and aquaculture. South China is also home to the Pearl River Delta (PRD) economic zone. From 1980 to 2000, the PRD has been the fastest growing region in China growing at a rate of 16.9% compared with 9.6% for the mainland as a whole. www.beijing.gc.ca /guangzhou/en/navmain/523/1138.htm   (728 words)

South China Sea - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) The South China Sea is a marginal sea, part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from Singapore to the Strait of Taiwan of around 3,500,000 km². States and territories with borders on the sea (clockwise from north) include: the People's Republic of China, Macao, Hong Kong, Republic of China (Taiwan), the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Now about 20m under the sea level it was an island until it sunk about 7,000 years ago due to the increasing sea level after the last ice age. voyager.in /South_China_Sea   (795 words)

South China Sea Tables In May, China signed a contract with U.S. firm Crestone to explore for oil near the Spratly Islands in an area that Vietnam says is located on its continental shelf, over 600 miles south of China's Hainan Island. In September, Vietnam accused China of drilling for oil in Vietnamese waters in the Gulf of Tonkin. China protested, and reaffirmed a national law claiming the South China Sea as its own in May. www.eia.doe.gov /cabs/schinatab.html   (1414 words)

south China church To the government, this secret meeting by 80 or so farmers is especially worrisome: They are members of the South China Church, a group that Beijing labeled a cult seven years ago. The plight of groups such as the South China Church suggests that the simmering conflict between church and state in China is intensifying. Gong was one of a handful of figures who canvassed the poor corn and rice farms of central China for converts from the mid-1970s. www.grandtrial.org /English/south_china.htm   (916 words)

THE TIGER FOUNDATION - South China Tiger Even in zoos there are only a few dozen animals identified as members of the South China subspecies (all in China), and the ancestry of all these animals remains to be proven pure. The dire circumstances in which this subspecies finds itself is particularly unfortunate, since only 40 years ago the South China tiger was believed to be one of the most abundant surviving subspecies, represented by an estimated 4000 individuals in the wild. The only way to preserve the remaining South China tiger gene pool appears to be by interbreeding it with that of other similar tigers such as the Indo-Chinese race. www.tigers.ca /Tigerworld/southchinaframe.html   (415 words)

South China Sea Fishery Research Institute (SCSFRI)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) South China Sea Fishery Research Institute (SCSFRI), established in 1953 and located in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province in the south of China, is a comprehensive research institute involved in scientific and technological research for the development of fisheries in South China Sea. It mainly focuses on such research fields as marine fishery resource investigation, mariculture and fishery resource enhancement in the tropic and subtropic regions, fishery ecological environment quality surveillance and protection, marine fish and shrimp diets, fish disease control, application of microelectronic technologies, and fishing technologies in the deep sea and long distant waters. The outstanding achievements are: Artificial breeding of Pinctada maxima (Jameson) and the pearl culture with nucleus insert, A comprehensive survey on fishery resources in the continental slope of northern part of South China Sea, and A survey on marine biomass and fishery resources surround the island waters in Guangdong Province. www.lib.noaa.gov /china/archi/scsfri.htm   (279 words)

Dental South China It is no doubt Dental South China is an important channel for dental products’ import and export.1776 foreign visitors from 35 countries came to join in Dental South China Expo 2006. According to Chinese tooth disease investigation in 2005, In China, 50% adults and 70% children have decayed tooth. Among the 10 biggest cities of China, Guangzhou’s per capita GDP reached USD$6800, ranking first in China, was 5.5 times as the national level. www.dentalsouthchina.com /e-brief.asp   (919 words)

South China Tigers - Panthera tigris amoyensis - Stem tiger The South China Tiger is the most CRITICALLY ENDANGERED of all of the living tiger subspecies. Reports in 1949 estimated that there was more then 4000 South China Tigers. Like the Sumatran Tiger, the S. China Tiger is also one of the smaller tiger subspecies. www.tigerhomes.org /animal/china_info.cfm   (295 words)

People's Daily Online -- Home China has seen its aggregated trade surplus reaching 95.65 billion U.S. dollars from January to August, with the trade surplus in August hitting a single-month high of 18.8 billion dollars. China has waged a 100-day Campaign to protect IPR and raise the awareness of fighting piracy. China launches satellite for breeding seeds of plants, fungus english.people.com.cn   (568 words)

south china The South china tiger is the most endangered of all the tiger species. China is unique among tiger range countries because four of the surviving tiger subspecies at one time lived within its borders: the Siberian tiger in the far northeast bordering Russia and North Korea; the South China tiger (which is considered the evolutionary antecedent of all tigers) in the central parts of China; and the Indochinese and Bengal tigers in the far south bordering Vietnam, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Assam (India). www.fortunecity.com /campus/overdraft/1059/south_china.htm   (366 words)

South China Morning Post - Goods, products   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) Articles and News South China Morning Post The South China Morning Post (WÔÈ1) (also referred to as the SCMP) and its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is the leading English language... South China Morning Post March 21 2001, page 5 Megacities seen as answer to population (Reuters in Beijing) Mainland planners are dreaming about mega-cities - cities with populations the size of... The South China Morning Post and its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is the leading English language newspaper in Hong Kong published by the SCMP Group Ltd. The current Group Editor-in-Chief... www.goods-china.com /southchinamorningpost   (1502 words)

Re-Visiting the South China Sea In the past, China had referred to the islands as its territory and to the South China Sea itself as its "historic waters" At the fourth informal workshop on the South China Sea attended by China and the ASEAN countries held in Surabaya, Indonesia, in 1993, China, which had previously been reluctant to produce any documentary evidence in support of its claims, produced for the first time a map which indicated what it called its historic waters. Since then, the US has been regularly sending its ships and aircraft through the South China Sea in order to assert its position that the waters of the South China Sea constituted "high seas" and that the air space over these high seas is international air space and not Chinese air space. www.saag.org /papers3/paper222.htm   (726 words)

South-China The frustration of the race wasn’t to end as later that afternoon, Ulzii who had forgotten his passport was left stuck till late at the border of China as the race left Hong Kong. We had a training ride on the shores of the South China Sea, by the beachfront of Zhuhai, China. Tour of South China Sea with its short fast and exciting stages is a real fun race. www.worldwidecycling.com /south-china.htm   (1589 words)

South China This is just one of the variety of short tours in duration of 3-5 days in South China throughout the year. We could probably call this the Grandfather of all bike tours in China - this ever popular routing has been going for over 15 years now and still holds all of the marvelous scenery and charm of a rural China that seems to be stopped in time. However, as this tour is always a Monday departure for China, if you choose for us to process your China visa, you must arrive in Hong Kong on the previous Thursday PM the latest. www.mountainbikingasia.com /Tours/tour_itineraries.htm   (2621 words)

china.org.cn - China's Official Gateway to News & Information China to Regulate News and Info Dissemination by Foreign News Agencies Xinhua News Agency yesterday promulgated a set of measures to regulate the release of news and information in China by foreign news agencies, and subscriptions to such news and information by users in China. China welcomes overseas investors to invest in the country's water sector, which will be opened up further, Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan said yesterday at the opening of the 5th World Water Congress in Beijing. www.china.org.cn /english   (141 words)

Shipwrecks, Marine Archeology & Antique pottery from South China Sea Antique pottery recovered from such dated assemblages in the South China Sea, yield important clues about Asia's ceramics developments and associated maritime trade. As such, we have located the exact kilns  in Sukhothai and Sisatchanalai in Thailand and in Dehua and Jingdezhen in China where the ceramics from our shipwrecks were made long ago. Early Chinese porcelain and pottery from the South China Sea shipwrecks www.mingwrecks.com /shipwrecks.html   (1294 words)

SCMP.com - the online edition of South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's premier English-language newspaper CHINA: New Chinese ambassador arrives in N Korea As the United States on Monday tearfully remembers the nearly 3,000 people killed in the September 11 attacks five years ago, worldwide sympathy was tempered with sharp rebukes for the ''war on terror'' that many said had left the world a more dangerous place. China on Monday reported its trade surplus hit a new record high for a fourth consecutive month last month, adding to pressure for a stronger currency as United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson prepared to visit Beijing next week. www.scmp.com   (1080 words)

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | China's typhoon death toll rises The weather is now slowly improving, with the typhoon weakening as it goes up China's coastline. Most of those who died were drowned when a boat capsized off Masbate, south of the main island, Luzon. An official with the Hong Kong Observatory told the Associated Press that Chanchu was the "most intense" typhoon on record to strike in the South China Sea at this time of year. news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4990632.stm   (251 words)

South China Post The Business Times CHINA Aviation Oil said a subsidiary created to help it maintain a supply of jet fuel to China has m... China Daily Some time ago, around World AIDS Day this year, a number of Shanghai college students took part in p... China Daily The Hong Kong Film Awards in 2005 will celebrate the past 100 years of Chinese cinema, and acclaimed... archive.wn.com /2004/12/22/1400/southchinapost   (916 words)

SOUTH CHINA COASTAL WATERS WEATHER SITUATION: A STRONG NORTHEAST MONSOON IS PREVAILING OVER THE SOUTH CHINA COASTAL WATERS. MEANWHILE, AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE LOCATED NEAR 21 DEGREES NORTH, 116 DEGREES EAST, IS BRINGING UNSETTLED WEATHER TO THE NORTHERN PART OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA. SOUTH OF HONG KONG AND SHANGCHUAN DAO: NORTH FORCE 5 TO 6. www.hko.gov.hk /wxinfo/currwx/ffish.htm   (93 words)

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