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China Blasts Off First Data Relay Satellite
Beijing, China (XNA) Apr 28, 2008Beijing, China (XNA) Apr 28, 2008 China launched the country's first data relay satellite "Tianlian I" Friday night. The satellite was launched on a Long March-3C carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 11:35 p.m. (Beijing Time). The satellite will not go into function though until the Shenzhou VII mission scheduled for the second half of ... more Successful Cooperation Extends Dragon Programme 
Beijing, China (ESA) Apr 28, 2008Following the success of the Dragon Programme, more than 300 leading European and Chinese scientists have gathered from 21 to 25 April 2008 in Beijing in the People's Republic of China to present their results and to kick off the programme's second phase, Dragon 2. The Dragon Programme is a joint undertaking between ESA and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of China designed to ... more 70 dead in China train crash: state media 
Zibo, China (AFP) April 28, 2008Seventy people were killed and 420 injured early Monday when a passenger train from Beijing careered off the rails and slammed into another train in eastern China, state media reported. Ruling out terrorism, the official Xinhua news agency said preliminary investigations found human error was to blame, without elaborating. The first train was travelling to Qingdao -- the coastal city ... more Costs driving US manufacturing firms out of China: AmCham 
Beijing (AFP) April 28, 2008China is loosing some of its attractiveness to foreign investors as rising costs are forcing some US manufacturing firms to leave the country, the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) said Monday. More than two-thirds of AmCham's member companies surveyed in an annual white paper agreed that China was losing some of its competitive advantage in global markets due to rising costs. Factor ... more China begins building Tibet-Nepal rail link: official 
Kathmandu (AFP) April 26, 2008China has started to build a rail link between Tibet and Nepal that could drastically reduce Kathmandu's trade reliance on its giant southern neighbour India, officials said Saturday. Beijing is bringing the railway line from Lhasa -- the capital of troubled Chinese-controlled Tibet -- to Khasa, a town along the Nepal-China border, Aditya Baral, the Nepalese premier's foreign affairs adviser ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) April 24, 2008China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the country's largest oil and gas producer, plans to nearly double gas output in the nation's resource-rich northwest by 2010, state media said Thursday. The company, which is the parent of PetroChina, aims to increase its natural gas output at fields in Xinjiang region to five billion cubic metres (177 cubic feet) by 2010, the China Daily said. ... more Australia denies telling China to back off on investments 
Sydney (AFP) April 27, 2008The Australian government Sunday denied a report Chinese firms have been told to withdraw from investing in Australian mining companies while it reviews foreign investment rules. "There's been no suggestion that China or any other investor should back off," Resources Minister Martin Ferguson said. A report last week said that at least 10 Chinese companies had pulled back their foreign in ... more China to tie up with Chicago carbon emissions bourse: report 
Shanghai (AFP) April 25, 2008China will join up with the US Chicago Climate Exchange to establish a carbon emission market in the city of Tianjin near Beijing, state media reported Friday. Tianjin authorities, oil giant PetroChina and the Chicago Climate Exchange will sign an agreement for the exchange, the first in the nation, as early as this month, the 21st Century Business Herald reported, citing unnamed sources. ... more China tells companies to provide more diesel to agriculture 
Shanghai (AFP) April 23, 2008China's commerce ministry on Wednesday urged major oil firms to increase diesel supplies to meet rising demand in the agricultural sector during spring and summer. Companies and government agencies must "spare no efforts to carry out various measures to ensure diesel supplies in the rural areas," the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on its website. The ministry said it would close ... more |
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Beijing, April 21, 2008 A Chinese research firm said China has surpassed the United States as the world's largest Internet market based on number of users. BDA, a firm based in Beijing, said data from the China Internet Network Information Center indicated China had an Internet population of 210 million at the end of last year, compared to 216 million in the United States. "Based on these sources and th ... more US asks China to pull back arms shipment to Zimbabwe 
Washington (AFP) April 22, 2008The United States has asked China to withdraw a cache of its weapons destined for Zimbabwe and to halt further arms shipments to the increasingly isolated African regime, the State Department said Tuesday. Beijing was told "to refrain from making additional shipments and, if possible, to bring this one back," department spokesman Tom Casey said, referring to a Chinese ship loaded with arms ... more Activists tackle tuna fishers in Pacific 
Sydney (AFP) April 22, 2008Ship-borne activists said Tuesday they had targeted fishing boats from South Korea, Taiwan and the United States in high-seas protests against the "plundering" of tuna in the Pacific. In the latest confrontation, crew from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza boarded a Taiwanese boat, the Nian Sheng 3, to inspect their catch, a spokesman said. The captain of the tuna boat, which also contained ... more Contaminated blood thinner from China is in 11 countries: report 
New York (AFP) April 22, 2008A contaminated blood thinner from China linked to 81 deaths in the United States is present in drug supplies in 11 countries, the New York Times said Tuesday, citing federal regulators. The US Food and Drug Administration Monday sent a warning letter to Changzhou SPL, the Chinese plant identified as the source of contaminated heparin sold by Baxter International in the United States, the ... more
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