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NASA Satellite Measures Pollution From East Asia To North America
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 18, 2008In a new NASA study, researchers taking advantage of improvements in satellite sensor capabilities offer the first measurement-based estimate of the amount of pollution from East Asian forest fires, urban exhaust, and industrial production that makes its way to western North America. China, the world's most populated country, has experienced rapid industrial growth, massive human migration ... more Analysis: China's CO2 burden falls on U.S. 
The Dalles, Ore. (UPI) Mar 17, 2008 Any solution to the world's energy woes hinges on two pivotal players, the United States and China, and most of the heavy lifting may fall on the wealthier of the two, experts said at an energy summit Thursday. In recent years, China has undergone an unprecedented development boom, accompanied by skyrocketing energy consumption, and overtook the United States last year as the No. 1 ... more World condemns China as Olympic doubts grow 
Paris (AFP) March 15, 2008Taiwan led sweeping condemnation Saturday of China's brutal crackdown on protestors in Tibet and accused Beijing of trying to gloss over its rights record with Olympic sheen. About 30 people have been killed during unrest in Lhasa, according to the Tibetan government-in-exile in India, although China's state-run Xinhua news agency earlier put the figure at 10, citing government officials. ... more Tibet, a tourist mecca, closed to foreigners: tour operators 
Paris (AFP) March 15, 2008Tibet shut the door to foreign tourists Saturday following China's deadly crackdown on protesters opposed to Beijing's half-century rule of the mountainous region, a booming tourism mecca last year. Tour and hotel operators in China contacted by AFP said foreign visitors have left Tibet or have been barred from entering, while Chinese tanks and soldiers patrol the capital Lhasa after quashing ... more As Tibet becomes more Chinese, frustration builds 
Beijing (AFP) March 16, 2008For a foreign traveller excited about visiting the "Roof of the World" and falling into a mystical land of Buddhist customs, a walk through Tibet's capital can be a disappointing experience. Long rows of Chinese shopfronts dominate even the so-called "genuine" eastern end of Lhasa where pilgrims gather, while traffic woes and drab new malls are as prevalent as in the rest of modern China. ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) March 16, 2008Tibet's government has declared a "people's war" to erase support for the Dalai Lama and end any independence aspirations of the people there, Chinese state media said Sunday. The blitz will involve both security and propaganda campaigns to counter the message of the exiled Buddhist spiritual leader, the Tibetan Daily reported. The call was made during an emergency meeting of Tibetan ... more China's Tibet crackdown highlights US rights policy flaws 
Washington (AFP) March 15, 2008China's crackdown on Tibetan protests has dealt a major embarassment to US President George W. Bush's administration, which removed the Asian giant from a human rights blacklist just three days before the bloody repression, experts say. Rights groups and some lawmakers were dismayed by the State Department's decision last Tuesday to drop China from its list of the world's worst human rights ... more China biggest supplier of small arms to Sudan: rights group 
Beijing (AFP) March 14, 2008China is the biggest supplier of small arms to Sudan following three years of increased sales that helped fuel violence in the African nation's Darfur region, a US-based rights group has said. From 2004 to 2006, China sold over 55 million dollars' worth of small arms to the Sudanese government, which then armed the Arab militias accused of genocide in Darfur, Human Rights First said in a report ... more Bird flu outbreak in southern China: state media 
Beijing (AFP) March 16, 2008Bird flu has broken out in the south of China killing more than 100 poultry, state media reported Sunday, citing the agriculture ministry. The outbreak occurred in a market in Guangzhou, in Guangdong province on Thursday, and was a "highly pathogenic" subtype of the H5N1 influenza virus, which can be deadly to humans, the report said. A further 500 birds were culled and the disease was ... more |
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Beijing (SPX) Mar 17, 2008China Holdings announced the Company has executed its 4th development contract with the exclusive right to develop and construct a Biomass Energy Power Generation Plant with a power capacity of 50 MW through its controlled subsidiary "China Power, Inc." with the local Ongniute Government, Inner Mongolia Province, People's Republic of China. The breakthrough brings the Company's total ... more China To Use Jumbo Rocket For Delivery Of Lunar Rover, Space Station 
Beijing (XNA) Mar 13, 2008A Chinese space expert said here on Tuesday that the Long March 5 large-thrust carrier rocket, currently under development and scheduled to be put into service in 2014, will be mainly used for the delivery of lunar rovers, large satellites and space stations. "With a maximum payload capacity up to 25 tons, the jumbo rocket is expected to be able to send lunar rovers, large satellites and ... more CIA chief says China not acting as "responsible" major power 
Washington (AFP) March 13, 2008CIA chief Michael Hayden said in a report Thursday that China was not behaving like a responsible major power, accusing the Asian giant of pouring aid to South Pacific islands merely to win UN votes. Chinese communist leaders "have not yet stepped up to the responsibility of a major power" and so far have failed to understand "they actually have some responsibility for the maintenance of ... more Hong Kong faces anger and fear over flu 
Hong Kong (AFP) March 14, 2008Hong Kong health authorities tried Thursday to calm public fears over a flu outbreak which has left four children dead and led the city to close all primary schools and kindergartens. It was the first time schools in this Chinese city have been closed for a health scare since the 2003 SARS epidemic. The order came late Wednesday, just hours after a flu-like illness was reported in nearly ... more
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