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GPSi Asia Signs Exclusive Distribution Deal For China
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Jul 07, 2008GPS Industries has announced that its Asian distributor, GPSi Asia Pte has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement for China with the Shanghai Hangying Culture Media Ltd. dba GPS Media. GPS Media, based in Shanghai and with offices in Beijing and Shanghai, is a GPS provider to golf courses in China with a unique business model that includes advertising on the GPS units. ... more China quake created new stress risks in Sichuan basin: study 
Paris (AFP) July 6, 2008The May 12 earthquake in southwestern China has boosted seismic stress in parts of the Sichuan basin, increasing the risk of a dangerous aftershock on some faults that are close to inhabited areas, US geologists warned on Sunday. Their study, published in the British journal Nature, attempts to identify areas where a quake could erupt through "stress transfer," meaning the process by which a ... more China faces serious challenges on grain supply: premier 
Shanghai (AFP) July 3, 2008China faces serious challenges in ensuring it will have enough grain to feed its population in the decades to come, with urbanisation and climate change two major problems, Premier Wen Jiabao said. China's grain supply and demand are basically balanced now but the situation is expected to worsen in the long term, Wen said in a statement published late Wednesday on the website of State ... more Analysis: Controlling Tibet -- Part 2 
Hong Kong (UPI) Jul 2, 2008 Should China-India relations deteriorate to the verge of military confrontation and the riots in Tibet spread extensively, the first combat units of the Chinese People's Liberation Army to be called to action would be the No. 52 and No. 53 Mountain Brigades under the Tibet Military Region. The No. 52 Brigade, stationed at Linzhi, is highly mechanized and armed with T-92 wheeled armored ... more Shenzhou VII Research Crew Ready To Set Out For Launch Center 
Beijing (XNA) Jul 02, 2008The research team that developed Shenzhou VII, China's third manned space launch, will start final testing after arriving at a northwestern satellite launch center in a few days, said a space mission official here on Tuesday. The research and development team of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC) will set out for the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in early July, said ... more |
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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 China pointing new missiles at Taiwan: newspaper 
Taipei (AFP) July 2, 2008A Taiwanese newspaper on Wednesday said China was pointing new ballistic missiles at the island despite improving ties that will see direct charter flights begin this week. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) have built a new ballistic missile base on China's southeastern coast opposite Taiwan and replaced missiles already deployed with improved versions, the China Times said. Taiwan's ... more Analysis: Controlling Tibet -- Part 1 
Hong Kong (UPI) Jul 2, 2008 The eruption of riots in Tibet in March reflected an increasingly complicated political situation there, involving both internal and external factors. Internally, the peaceful and non-violent approach of the Dalai Lama toward China has encountered greater resistance from the young generation of Tibetans, and the Dalai Lama's political relevance has been gradually marginalized as a ... more |
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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 Nearly 2 mln without livelihood after China quake: state press 
Beijing (AFP) July 1, 2008China's devastating earthquake has left nearly two million people without a means to make a living, state press said on Tuesday. The 8.0-magnitude quake in the southwest has left 700,000 people unemployed and deprived 1.15 million farmers of their livelihood, Xinhua news agency said, quoting provincial vice-governor Li Chengyun. The number of jobless jumped after it was determined that ... more Shrinking profits force hundreds of Chinese shoe makers to quit 
Beijing (AFP) July 1, 2008Hundreds of shoe makers in southern China have closed down this year as profits slumped due to the rising yuan, higher costs and a weakening demand overseas, industry insiders said Tuesday. Around 500 shoe factories -- or 10 percent -- in Huidong county in Guangdong province have closed, Mingdanni Shoes Co. owner Ye Hua told AFP. Huidong is on the Pearl River Delta, the world's largest ... more
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