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Outside View: Iran nuke deadlock -- Part 2
Moscow, April 29, 2008 The Russian Foreign Ministry said before the six-nation meeting in Shanghai on the Iranian nuclear issue between Russia, China, the United States, Britain, Germany and France that the talks should focus on developing new "positive" proposals for Iran this time. Moscow must have remembered that the latest U.N. Security Council resolution on Iran was accompanied by a statement of the six ... more Defense Focus: C21 sub threat -- Part 2 
Washington, April 28, 2008 Anyone who has watched any World War II movies or History Channel documentaries knows what a wolf pack was: It was the massed attack carried out by Nazi submarines against British and American convoys of merchant ships in the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II. China is looking at a modern, 21st century of wolf pack tactics for any future war it might have to fight against the United ... more Chinese officials accused of covering up killer virus 
Beijing (AFP) April 29, 2008Local authorities in eastern China tried to cover up an outbreak of a highly contagious virus that has killed 20 children and left more than 1,500 others ill, Chinese press reports said Tuesday. The China Youth Daily, the official organ of the Communist Youth League, compared the situation in Anhui province to the cover-up by Chinese officials of the SARS crisis in 2003. "SARS has alread ... more China jails 30 people over Tibet unrest: official media 
Beijing (AFP) April 29, 2008Chinese authorities on Tuesday jailed 30 people for between three years and life for their role in last month's Tibetan unrest, state press reported. The 30 were involved in violence on March 14 in Tibet's capital, Lhasa, CCTV news said, announcing the first verdicts for anyone connected with the unrest that has embarrassed and angered China ahead of the Olympics. Xinhua news agency ... more Dalai Lama yet to receive talks invite from Beijing: spokesman 
Paris (AFP) April 29, 2008The Dalai Lama's representative in Paris said Tuesday that Tibet's spiritual leader had yet to receive an invitation from Beijing despite China's public offer of talks. "China announced, via its official press agency, that Beijing wished to hold dialogue with a representative of the Dalai Lama," Jampal Chosang told AFP. "That announcement was made on Friday.... To-date, we have not received ... more |
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Washington (AFP) April 29, 2008US drug-maker Baxter International said Tuesday its blood thinner heparin, which is produced in China and has been linked to dozens of deaths, appears to have been deliberately contaminated. "We're alarmed that one of our products was used in what appears to have been a deliberate scheme to adulterate a life-saving medication, and that people have suffered as a result," Baxter chief executive ... more Shanghai's Own Moon Vehicle Passes Test 
Beijing, China (XNA) Apr 28, 2008Shanghai has developed a lunar rover that it hopes to be chosen for China's first moon landing in 2013, the city government announced yesterday. The Shanghai Science and Technology Commission said the key technology of the rover has passed a technical appraisal by the government. The technology mainly covers the rover's maneuverability and detection sensors. The rover, which hasn't been gi ... more 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 |
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Ottawa (AFP) April 24, 2008A majority of Canadians (67 percent) believe the influence of China and India in the world will rival that of the United States within the next decade, said a survey Thursday. As well, more than 60 percent of Canadians believe the growing importance of China and India as economic powers are more of an opportunity for Canada than a threat, according to the Angus Reid poll. Some 36 percent ... more Asia's rainforests vanishing as timber, food demand surge: experts 
Hanoi (AFP) April 27, 2008Asia's rainforests are being rapidly destroyed, a trend accelerated by surging timber demand in booming China and India, and record food, energy and commodity prices, forest experts warn. The loss of these biodiversity hot spots, much of it driven by the illegal timber trade and the growth of oil palm, biofuel and rubber plantations, is worsening global warming, species loss and poverty ... more Chinese firms sign 400 mln dlr Sudan dam deal 
Khartoum (AFP) April 27, 2008State-owned China Water and Electric Corp (CWE) and Sino-Hydro signed a 400-million dollar (255-million euro) deal on Sunday to raise the height of Sudan's oldest dam, in the southern Blue Nile state. The capacity of the Roseires dam, built by the British colonial power in the early 20th century to irrigate Sudan's cotton fields, will rise from four billion cubic metres (140 billion cubic ... more China's CNPC to further boost gas output: report 
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
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