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Xinhua China-related world news summary at 1030 GMT, Aug. 12

Xinhua, August 12, 2016 Adjust font size:

Six crew members of a sunken Chinese fishing boat saved by Japan have been handed over to China, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson confirmed late Thursday night.

China is continuing searching for others still missing, spokesperson Hua Chunying said in a statement. (East China Sea-Fishing Boat-Sink)

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VANCOUVER -- Border agents in Vancouver have seized a package of highly toxic carfentanil shipped from China to Canada that could have been turned into 50 million deadly doses and sold on Canadian streets.

The Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) in Vancouver announced on Tuesday that they identified and seized a package in late June at the Vancouver International Mail Center containing approximately one kilogram of carfentanil imported from China. The package was disguised as printer materials and was addressed to a man in Calgary -- a city in the western province of Alberta. (Canada-Carfentanil)

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PHILADELPHIA -- Against the backdrop of rising anti-trade sentiment around the world, many government officials and businessmen from both China and the U.S. still believed that trade and investment could benefit people from both countries, and called for further understanding and interaction between the two countries.

"If you address the focus of anti-trade, you show them ways how trade is good, positive and productive, and creates ... higher paying jobs, creates more opportunities, enables people to be innovative," Michael Stack, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, told Xinhua, at an event held by China General Chamber of Commerce-U.S.A. (China-US-Ties)

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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico and China have an opportunity to take a big step forward in agricultural cooperation during a G20 summit to be held in the Chinese city of Hangzhou in September, economist Anibal Zottele said on Thursday.

While Mexico has increased exports to China in the past two years, there was a lack of fruits and other agricultural produce in Mexico's export basket to the Asian giant, Zottele told Xinhua. (Mexico-G20) Endi