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Taiwan presidential candidate delivers olive branch to Beijing
Taipei (AFP) Feb 18, 2008The presidential candidate of Taiwan's ruling party on Monday delivered an olive branch to arch foe China, saying that if elected next month he would invite Chinese President Hu Jintao for a visit. Frank Hsieh, from the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), made the rare gesture while visiting the fortified Taiwanese island of Kinmen, off the southeastern Chinese city of ... more China Sunergy Announces Signing Of A Supplementary Agreement With aleo solar AG 
Nanjing, China (SPX) Feb 19, 2008China Sunergy has provided information on a supplementary agreement it recently signed with aleo solar AG. Under the Agreement, more than 20% of the supply will now be in the form of high-efficiency selective emitter cells. aleo solar, a leading German solar module manufacturer, signed an initial solar cell supply agreement with China Sunergy in October 2007. The total shipment volume under ... more SunPower Announces 3-Gigawatt Silicon Supply Agreement With Jupiter, Qingdao DTK Industries 
San Jose CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2008SunPower has announced that it has signed a multi-year polysilicon supply agreement with Jupiter, a sales office of Qingdao DTK Industries, a corporation based in China. Starting in 2010 and continuing through 2016, SunPower has contracted to purchase increasing volumes of polysilicon from Jupiter, Qingdao DTK. The agreement will provide polysilicon volumes sufficient to manufacture more ... more China's cold snap to heat up inflation, investment: analysts 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 17, 2008China's worst winter weather in half a century will fuel inflation and investment problems in the Asian giant's runaway economy, while the rest of the world may also feel its impact, analysts say. Weeks of heavy snow and freezing cold swept across densely-populated provinces in south China this month and last, destroying crops and wreaking havoc on infrastructure that proved much more ... more Heavy Manufacturing, Steel, And Coal-Fired Power Stations To Close For 2008 Summer Olympics 
Singapore (SPX) Feb 14, 2008China is preparing to shut entire sections of heavy manufacturing across swathes of its industrial heartlands in preparation for this year's summer Olympics, in a determined bid to clean up its key host cities before and during the games, according to Platts, a leading global provider of energy and commodities information. Sources returning from a visit to China told Platts this week that ... more |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Feb 12, 2008GyPSii has partnered with Dopod in China to provide new and exciting location-based information and content features and services, for use on the mobile phone or via the Internet. The new services will be available to members of Dopod Club the exclusive online community for Dopod device users in China, when members download the GyPSii mobile client ... more Moscow To Present Sino-Russian Space Arms Race Control Initiative 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 12, 2008Russia will submit to a UN disarmament conference a joint Sino-Russian proposal for an international treaty to ban the deployment of weapons in outer space. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will present the draft treaty to the UN-sponsored annual Geneva Disarmament Conference on February 12. The United States has been critical of the Russian-Chinese initiative, especially following ... more US Treasury cautions China over sovereign wealth fund 
Washington (AFP) Feb 7, 2008The US Treasury cautioned China Thursday against using profits derived from its cash-flush sovereign investment fund to delay currency reform, as the fund's maneuvers came under Congressional scrutiny. The China Investment Corporation Ltd., launched in September with 200 billion dollars capital, wants to boost investment returns on China's massive foreign reserves and manage reform of ... more Geotimes Explores For Oil Around The World 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2008With oil hovering around $90 a barrel, Geotimes magazine examines emerging trends and issues in several obvious, and some not-so-obvious locations, in this month's cover story "Oil Around the World." Land disputes, foreign sanctions, terrorism, war and economics play into the exploration and recovery of the world's oil and natural gas reserves. Be it Libya, Iraq or Norway, the South China ... more |
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London (AFP) Feb 1, 2008Chinese aluminium giant Chinalco said Friday it and US peer Alcoa have bought a 12-percent stake in Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto, setting up a possible takeover tussle with rival BHP Billiton. Analysts said the acquisition was a possible defensive move to prevent, or at the least complicate, any tie-up between Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, two of the biggest miners and suppliers of raw mat ... more Atlaspost.Com -- An Innovative Social Mapping Site From Taiwan 
Taipei, Taiwan (SPX) Jan 31, 2008Atlaspost.com today officially launched its English site for the global market at DEMO 08. Atlaspost.com is a popular social mapping network from Taiwan. What makes Atlaspost.com stand out is that they have designed the map to be a fun place with three innovative features, which caught the eye of Google Taiwan. Among them, ''Atlas Village'' is regarded as one of the most innovative and fun ... more Russia May Build New Shuttle Spacecraft By 2015 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 30, 2008Russia's rocket and space corporation Energia may build a new-generation piloted spacecraft by 2015, the company president said on Tuesday. Energia has been developing a reusable manned spacecraft since 2000. It is designed to replace the Soyuz and Progress launch vehicles in making regular flights to the International Space Station and even the Moon and Mars. "Countries, such as the US ... more China To Monitor Global Disasters Through Satellite 
Beijing (XNA) Jan 29, 2008China is considering using it's environmental resources satellites to monitor natural disasters in the country as well as other parts of the world, said the country's space authority. China will expand the use of its Cbers-2B satellite to gather more information on land, forests and farmland to help itself and more countries to deal with natural disasters, said China Daily quoting Li Guoping, sp ... more
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