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French navy looking to strengthen ties with China against Somalia piracy
Hong Kong (AFP) June 16, 2008The French navy and its Chinese counterpart are discussing ways to strengthen intelligence exchange to combat piracy off the coast of Africa, a senior French naval officer said on Monday. "We will see if we can do something together, especially in the waters off Somalia, where many Chinese fishing boats travel to," Vice Admiral Gerard Valin, who is also commander of French joint forces in ... more China should halt executions, publish statistics: campaigners 
Hong Kong (AFP) June 16, 2008China should impose a moratorium on the death penalty before the Olympic Games in August, and publish statistics on executions, human rights campaigners said here Monday. Since last year all death sentences have to be reviewed by China's Supreme People's Court, but no details have yet been released on how many people have been killed by the Communist state. The measure was seen as a ... more NASA Data Helps Pinpoint Impacted Populations In Disaster Aftermath 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 17, 2008When two catastrophic natural disasters struck within days of each other in May 2008, disaster relief, humanitarian aid, and health officials, as well as members of the news media tapped into a unique set of NASA data products describing the location of the exposed populations. In the hours and days following the cyclone in Burma and the earthquake in China's Sichuan Province, workers had ... more Teacher fired after abandoning students in China's quake zone 
Beijing (AFP) June 16, 2008A teacher who fled a classroom leaving his students behind when a massive earthquake hit southwest China has been stripped of his teaching qualification and fired, a former colleague said Monday. Fan Meizhong, a teacher at Guangya school in Dujiangyan, near the epicentre of the quake, admitted online to abandoning his students, earning him the nickname "Running Fan" amid increasingly ... more Thousands evacuated as rains lash China quake region 
Beijing (AFP) June 16, 2008Tens of thousands of victims of China's earthquake were evacuated Monday as torrential rain lashed the region, triggering flood warnings on major rivers including the Yangtze and the Pearl. Heavy downpours have battered large parts of eastern and southern China, leaving at least 65 dead or missing, and adding to the misery in the quake-ravaged southwestern province of Sichuan. ... more |
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Hong Kong (AFP) June 16, 2008Hong Kong is looking at developing its own oil futures market as China tries to counter the effect of the commodity's rocketing price, the city's financial secretary said Monday. The new market would help fix the disparities that Asian buyers face when purchasing oil, which is priced in Dubai, London and New York and does not take into account local conditions, John Tsang said. "This ... more Gazprom, Chinese oil firms eye Nigeria's Ogoniland: report 
Lagos (AFP) June 16, 2008Russian gas giant Gazprom and several Chinese companies are interested in replacing Royal Dutch Shell in the Ogoniland region of the Niger Delta following the Nigerian government's decision to award the oil fields to another company, the daily This Day reported Monday. Shell abandoned the fields, which hold proven reserves of over 10 trillion cubic metres of gas, 15 years ago after its ... more Rio Tinto chief backs China foreign investment in Australia 
Sydney (AFP) June 16, 2008Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese backed greater cooperation between China and Australia on resources investment Monday, saying Canberra should not fear government-backed foreign investment funds. Amid official predictions that Chinese investment in Australia could triple to 30 billion dollars (28.2 billion US) this year, Albanese said foreign money was needed to fully develop Australia ... more Intelsat Renews China Central Television Contract For US DTH Services 
Pembroke, Bermuda (SPX) Jun 13, 2008Intelsat announced that China Central Television (CCTV), the national broadcaster of the People's Republic of China, renewed a multi-year contract on Intelsat's Galaxy 3C satellite for Ku-band capacity to distribute its regional direct-to-home (DTH) services in the United States. China Central Television became the world's first global Mandarin Chinese television provider when it expanded ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) June 14, 2008Rescue workers were Saturday forced to abandon a search for seven miners trapped after an explosion at a Chinese coal mine in which at least 27 died, state media said Saturday. The rescue effort, already hampered by high levels of toxic gas in the mine, was abandoned completely after the workers found unused explosives and detonators in the shaft, the state Xinhua news agency said. ... more China manned space flight set for October: state media 
Beijing (AFP) June 12, 2008The launch of China's third manned space flight, the Shenzhou VII, with a crew of three "taikonauts" has been set for October, state media reported Thursday. A short-list of six "taikonauts" or astronauts had already been selected for the flight and would be whittled down to a crew of three before the October launch, Xinhua news agency said, citing a spokesman for the mission. "One member ... more Two Suits For Shenzhou 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 13, 2008China's state-run media is finally unveiling more details on the upcoming Shenzhou 7 mission. A report from Xinhua, the principal Chinese news agency, has helped to resolve some of the outstanding questions of the mission, but hasn't entirely outlined the mission plan. Shenzhou 7 will make history by carrying out China's first spacewalk. This will be an amazing mission, but, as this writer ... more The Sino-Russia Il-76 Row 
Hong Kong (UPI) Jun 12, 2008 For some time, military cooperation between China and Russia has been stalled over a failed deal involving China's import of Russian Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft. China claims that Russia violated the terms of an agreement involving the sale of 38 aircraft. But Russia says this claim is unfair. Negotiations on the aircraft deal began seven years ago. By the time the contract was ... more
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