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Xinhua China-related world news summary at 0900 GMT, Aug. 24

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A Chinese envoy to the UN said Tuesday that non-proliferation cannot be used as a pretext to beef up military deployment, step up military presence or scale up military exercises.

Liu Jieyi, China's permanent representative to the UN, made the remarks at a Security Council debate on preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. (UN-Non-Proliferation-China)

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NEW YORK -- In the near future, consumers in the United States will have a chance to use Xiaomi smartphones, a Chinese homegrown brand.

Xiaomi will launch a new product in the United States, said Xiaomi Vice President Hugo Barra, without giving a specific date. (China-Xiaomi-U.S.)

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Phytium Technology Co. Ltd., a Chinese integrated circuit (IC) design firm, has unveiled its latest product, a 64-core central processing unit (CPU), and a related prototype computer server at a technology event in Silicon Valley.

The company, based in Tianjin, northern China, claims that its FT-2000/64 CPU, with 4.8 billion transistors on a die 25.38 millimeters in width and 25.38 millimeters in length within a chip package 55 millimeters in width and 55 millimeters in length, is the first of its kind adopting the Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) architecture. (China-Phytium-U.S.)

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WELLINGTON -- China's Tianjin Airlines is to start services between New Zealand's biggest city of Auckland and China from December, Auckland Airport announced Wednesday.

The airline would operate year-round between Tianjin, Chongqing and Auckland three times a week using an A330 aircraft, said airport general manager Norris Carter. (China-Tianjin Airlines)

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VIENTIANE -- The Laos-China Railway Project is likely to bring such benefits to the Lao PDR as strong economic infrastructure, the achievement of cooperation and connectivity strategies, increased foreign investment, and reduced production costs, a recently released report prepared by Lao Ministry of Public Works and Transports said.

The Laos-China Railway Project will ensure that the Lao PDR has strong economic infrastructure that meets its vision of transforming from a landlocked to a land-linked country and help Laos achieve the external cooperation and connectivity strategies that it has envisioned having with other ASEAN member countries and China, Lao state-run news agency KPL Wednesday quoted the report as saying. (China-Laos-Railway) Endi