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China's Shot Heard Around The Galaxy
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2008China's counterspace program - punctuated by the January 2007 successful test of a direct-ascent anti-satellite weapon - poses dangers to human space flight and puts at risk the assets of all space faring nations. --U .S. Department of Defense. The United States unquestionably holds the strategic high ground of space today. What is very much in question, however, is who will hold that ... more North Korea Had To Develop Nuclear Arms To Get Into US Graces 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 03, 2008With a six months' delay, North Korea presented a list of its nuclear programs to China, which chairs the six-lateral talks aimed at ridding the Korean peninsular of nuclear weapons. Last year, diplomats from Russia, the United States, China, North Korea, and Japan agreed that it is essential to establish trust between all partners in dialogue in order to reach the finals goal of the talks ... more US interrogation methods borrowed from Chinese: NY Times 
New York (AFP) July 2, 2008US interrogators questioning detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base employed harsh techniques borrowed directly from the Communist Chinese during the Korean War, the New York Times reported Wednesday. The daily reported that military trainers at Guantanamo in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart created from a 1957 Air Force study on Communist Chinese methods. ... more Shanghai knifing toll rises as sixth policeman dies: reports 
Shanghai (AFP) July 2, 2008The death toll from a stabbing rampage by an unemployed man at a Shanghai police station rose to six on Wednesday after another officer died of his injuries, state media reported. The Shanghai Evening Post said a sixth police officer had died from the attack by Yang Jia, 28, who has been reported as seeking revenge after being arrested in October on suspicion of bicycle theft. The paper ... more Revenge blast in China injures 12: state media 
Beijing (AFP) July 2, 2008A man angry over the demolition of an illegal structure he owned in central China blew up two bottles of compressed gas in an attack on Wednesday that hurt 12 people, state media said. The man, identified as Tian Kaiyou, lit the gas cylinders on fire and then drove them to a local government office in Zhangjiajie in Hunan province, the China News Service said. The resulting explosion ... more |
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Berlin (AFP) July 2, 2008Two-hundred-year-old German soft toy maker Steiff will no longer produce its trademark teddy bears in China because of quality concerns, a German press report said on Wednesday. "We are withdrawing from China step by step. For toys of high quality, China is simply not a reliable source," the Stuttgarter Nachricten newspaper quoted company chief Martin Frechen as saying. Frechen said China ... more China's Global Position On GPS Handsets 
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Jul 03, 2008China's GPS phone market grew rapidly in 2007, and GPS phones, along with music and camera phones, are one of the brightest spots in the mobile phone market overall. A number of the major handset manufacturers have entered the GPS phone market, although cautiously and with a limited number of high-end models. The GPS phone market is still small and has low penetration, but its high ... more Far Eastern Patriot Games 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 02, 2008China and Japan have done the unthinkable. For the first time since the end of World War Two, a Japanese warship docked in a Chinese port on June 24 and stayed there until June 28. Several hundred Chinese sailors welcomed the destroyer Sazanami by holding up signs with slogans and chanting praises for bilateral relations as ordered by their commanders. The Sazanami's visit is in ... more China quake was very unusual: US scientists 
Washington (AFP) July 1, 2008The devastating earthquake in China was the unexpected result of a seismological oddity and is likely to occur in the area only about once in every 2,000 to 10,000 years, US geoscientists said Monday. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had studied the region around Sichuan province, where the 7.9 magnitude quake hit on May 12, for more than two decades but found ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jun 30, 2008 Enter the Dragon in Middle East politics. No, this is not the title of a remake of an old Bruce Lee film; rather, this title refers to China's new policies in countering Western influence for a piece of the Middle East's most important commodity -- oil. In recent years China has undergone a new revolution, one that has seen the emergence of a new college-educated middle class with ... more Spire Delivers PV Module Line To ET Solar In China 
Bedford MA (SPX) Jul 02, 2008Spire has announced that it has delivered advanced solar module production equipment to ET Solar Group, located in the People's Republic of China. The module manufacturing equipment delivered to ET Solar includes Spire's most current process technology. With this equipment, the line will be capable of annually producing up to 15 megawatts of solar modules. Mr. Roger Little, CEO and ... more Chinese oil major CNOOC blames supply concerns for price hike 
Madrid (AFP) July 1, 2008Supply and demand concerns are driving the spike in oil prices as appetite for crude in developing nations is expected to soar over the coming years, the president of Chinese oil major CNOOC said Tuesday. Fu Chengyu told delegates at the World Petroleum Congress in Madrid that while speculators, the weak dollar and geopolitical instability were playing a role, "the deciding force can be ... more Sichuan quake cost agriculture six billion dollars: FAO 
Rome (AFP) June 30, 2008Last month's earthquake in Sichuan caused some six billion dollars (3.8 billion euros) in damage to agriculture in the southern Chinese province, the UN food agency said Monday. "Over 30 million people in rural communities have been severely hit, losing most of their assets," the Food and Agriculture Organisation said in a statement. "Thousands of hectares of farmland were destroyed ... more
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