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Analysis: Missiles aimed at Taiwan
Hong Kong (UPI) Jun 6, 2008 Satellite photos of the Leping Ballistic Missile Base in China's southeastern province of Jiangxi show this is a key site for the deployment of the People's Liberation Army Air Force's DF-15A campaign tactical missiles. The direct distance from the base to Taiwan is 435 miles. It is apparent that the striking range of the earlier version, the DF-15 ballistic surface-to-surface missile ... more China tightens media controls in earthquake zone 
Mianzhu, China (AFP) June 6, 2008Chinese police Friday restricted the movements of foreign journalists in the earthquake zone, the latest sign that initial openness on covering last month's disaster was drawing to a close. Two AFP journalists were barred entry to the town of Wufu, where parents have bitterly demanded answers from the government why a 10-year-old primary school building collapsed in the May 12 quake when ... more China 'quake lake' still rising despite drainage: report 
Dujiangyan, China (AFP) June 8, 2008A swollen "quake lake" in southwest China continued to rise Sunday despite intensive efforts to drain it, triggering official warnings that the situation remained dangerous. Soldiers had already dug one channel to drain water from Tangjiashan lake, and were working Sunday to clear a second one in hopes of reducing the risk that it might burst its banks, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. ... more Mothers who lost children in China quake given new baby hope 
Beijing (AFP) June 7, 2008China has sent medics to offer reverse sterilisation operations to women who lost children in last month's Sichuan earthquake but want to give birth again, state media reported. Under China's one-child family planning policy, parents are allowed only one child in most cases and mothers are often encouraged to have sterilisation surgery after giving birth. However, a medical team is being ... more Walker's World: Are the BRICs crumbling? 
Washington (UPI) Jun 2, 2008 The Chinese media is reporting that Beijing's financial authority, the China Securities Regulatory Commission, has instructed Chinese mutual funds, on pain of "administrative punishment," to shore up falling stock prices and prevent a deeper slump. Three weeks ago the regulators appealed to the mutual funds to buy on patriotic grounds, to avoid a stock market plunge after the earthquake ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Jun 2, 2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's recent visit to China has encouraged economic, cultural and other ties. The parties also signed a whole package of documents, including a $1.5 billion deal on Russia's contribution to China's nuclear power generation. The only issue the journalists on Medvedev's team overlooked was military technical cooperation -- an area of relations that has been ... more Analysis: China's fighter planes -- Part 1 
Hong Kong (UPI) May 29, 2008 Front-line combat units of China's People's Liberation Army air force will have at least 112 J-10 fighter jets by the end of the year, an analysis of current deployments and in-progress production reveals. There are multiple indications that the 2nd Regiment of the No. 1 Division of the People's Liberation Army air force has received a full complement of the domestic-made, next-generati ... more Earthquakes Are Best Predicted From Space 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 04, 2008China's deadly earthquake in the Sichuan province has again showed that ground-based earthquake prediction methods and systems are not reliable. Traditional seismology does its best, sometimes succeeding, but more often only saying something like, "California will be destroyed in the next 30 years." Remote sensing from space can provide more accurate data about locations, and even dates of ... more Critical moment for China's 'quake lake', Wen warns
Qinglian, China (AFP) June 5, 2008Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Thursday that efforts to drain a dangerously swollen "quake lake" were at a critical juncture, with one million people warned to prepare for the worst. Wen, who has been very visible since the devastating May 12 earthquake in southwest Sichuan province, flew by helicopter to the lake at Tangjiashan soon after arriving in the disaster zone early Thursday, Xi ... more |
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Washington (UPI) May 29, 2008 Thirty or so years ago, the phrase "China Syndrome" was the battle cry of the more radical elements opposing nuclear power. The meaning was clear. A catastrophic nuclear reactor failure here would melt all the way through the Earth and end up in China -- a warning that was as ludicrous as it was dead wrong. Today, the disastrous earthquake in China's Sichuan province yields a newer mea ... more Yingli Green Energy Signs A Polysilicon Supply Contract With Sailing 
Baoding, China (SPX) May 29, 2008Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited has announced that it has entered into a polysilicon supply contract with Sailing New Energy Resources Co., Ltd. ("Sailing"), a rising player in the polysilicon industry located in Chongqing, China. Under the terms of the contract, Sailing will supply polysilicon to Yingli Green Energy from the fourth quarter of 2008 through the end of 2010. The ... more Big energy consumers to gather in Japan as oil prices soar 
Tokyo (AFP) June 5, 2008Eleven nations that guzzle nearly two thirds of the world's energy will hold talks in northern Japan this weekend, seeking ways to secure enough supply and reduce consumption as oil prices hit record highs. The June 7-8 ministerial meeting in Aomori, some 600 kilometres (370 miles) north of Tokyo, brings together China, India, South Korea, and the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations. ... more Lockheed Martin Successful In First SCALPEL Flight Test 
Archbald PA (SPX) Jun 03, 2008Lockheed Martin has conducted the first SCALPEL weapon system release in a recent flight test at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division China Lake test range in California. This was the first in a series of tests as part of the U.S. Navy/Marine Corps/Lockheed Martin demonstration flight test program. Three inert SCALPEL weapons were captive-carried and released from two AV-8B Harrie ... more
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