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Astronomy Without Borders On Show In China
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jun 19, 2008Working from China, CSIRO astronomers have remotely controlled telescopes in three countries and streamed their data to CSIRO's Parkes Observatory in New South Wales for processing in real time. "We're now in the age of astronomy without borders," said Dr Tasso Tzioumis of CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). "From a single operations centre we can make huge streams ... more Sweden rejects Chinese Uighur man's asylum plea 
Stockholm (AFP) June 19, 2008Sweden on Thursday denied a Chinese national of Uighur ethnicity the right to remain on its soil, on grounds that he has refugee status in Albania, the immigration services said. Adil Hakimjan, 33, was sent to the Balkan nation upon his release in May 2006 from Guantanamo Bay, the US detention centre for foreign terrorism suspects, where he spent four years before his innocence was recognise ... more US removes Chinese firm from sanctions blacklist over Iran 
Washington (AFP) June 19, 2008The US Treasury Department said Thursday it was lifting an asset freeze on a Chinese company and its US subsidiary after they were blacklisted for aiding Iran's missile program. The department's office of foreign assets control "removed the China Great Wall Industry Corporation and its US subsidiary, G.W. Aerospace, from the list of 'specially designated nationals,'" a statement said. ... more China sees 'historic change' in relations with Japan 
Beijing (AFP) June 19, 2008Relations between China and Japan have undergone "historic change", China's vice foreign minister said Thursday, a day after the two sides partly resolved a long-running spat on gas fields. "Speaking about China-Japan relations, particularly after President Hu Jintao's visit, a sea change has taken place, historic change, in my view," Wu Dawei told reporters. Speaking a day after China a ... more World Bank expects Chinese economic slowdown 
Beijing (AFP) June 19, 2008The World Bank said Thursday it expected China's economic growth to fall to single digits in 2008 for the first time in six years, while inflation would be higher than previously forecast. "China's economic growth has moderated to a more sustainable pace," the bank said in its quarterly report on China, adding it expected 9.8 percent expansion this year, down from 11.9 percent in 2007. ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) June 19, 2008China will raise petrol and diesel prices by more than 16 percent from Friday to reduce the gap with soaring international oil prices, the official Xinhua news agency reported, quoting the country's top economic planner. Petrol and diesel prices would go up by 1,000 yuan (145 dollars) per tonne while aviation kerosene would increase by 1,500 yuan a tonne, the National Development and Reform ... more Gallup Poll Shows Americans Unconcerned About China Space Program 
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 19, 2008As America prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of NASA later this year, a new Gallup Poll shows strong support for the U.S. Space Exploration Program. The most recent poll, conducted in May 2008, is the latest in a series of four polls commissioned by the Coalition for Space Exploration in an effort to better understand the extent of support and public attitudes toward America's ... more China has no plans to 'encircle' India: ambassador 
Hong Kong (AFP) June 18, 2008China has no plans to try and dominate the shipping lanes of the Indian Ocean, its ambassador to India said in Hong Kong Wednesday. "We don't have such an intention to establish a chain to encircle India," said ambassador Zhang Yan at a lunch held by the Asia Society in Hong Kong. "It's not in China's interest to undertake this kind of strategic move. We see India as our partner," he ... more China Ranks Third In The World In Military Expenses 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 19, 2008Last year, the three nations with the world's biggest military expenses were the United States ($547 billion), the United Kingdom ($59.7 billion) and China ($58.3 billion). The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published these figures in its 2008 annual report. There are other estimates, but they are not radically different. Many research organizations and the media ... more |
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Lagos (AFP) June 18, 2008A Chinese firm handling an 8.3 billion-dollar (5.4-billion-euro) contract to upgrade Nigeria's under-performing railway system said Wednesday inadequate government funding was stalling the project. Nigeria signed the contract with the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) in October 2006. "The contract provided for an advance payment of 1.1356 billion dollars from the ... more Leading Chinese rights lawyer to defend dissident 
Beijing (AFP) June 18, 2008Leading Chinese human rights lawyer Mo Shaoping is to defend dissident Huang Qi, accused of "illegal possession of state secrets" after being taken into police custody last week. Mo, whose past clients include Zhao Yan, a former New York Times staffer who was freed from jail last year after being locked up for fraud, said he had accepted the case on Tuesday. "Exactly what state secrets ... more US, China agree to launch talks for key investment accord 
Annapolis (AFP) Maryland (AFP) June 18, 2008The United States and China have agreed to launch negotiations to forge a bilateral investment treaty that will protect investors after more than a year of discussions, officials said. The move to pursue the accord, aimed at promoting open markets, fair treatment, transparency and the rule of law, was agreed at the senior level US-China Strategic Economic Dialogue in Annapolis, Maryland ... more Medvedev For Legal Action Over Failed Trans-Siberia Pipeline Firms 
Moscow (SPX) Jun 19, 2008Russia's president has called for legal action to be taken against those contractors who failed to meet their deadlines under a project to build an oil pipeline from East Siberia to the Pacific. Delays in the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline, an ambitious project designed to pump up to 1.6 million barrels of crude per day eastward to Russia's Far Eastern regions, China and Asia ... more
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