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HP Donates Technology To Help Prevent Spread Of Disease In Quake-Stricken China
Beijing, China (SPX) Jul 11, 2008HP has announced it has donated 500 HP iPAQ Travel Companions with GPS technology, valued at approximately $300,000, to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), supporting the establishment and operation of a public health surveillance and evaluation effort in earthquake-affected Sichuan Province. The donation increases the total HP contribution to Sichuan earthquake ... more NKorea returns to nuclear disarmament talks 
Beijing (AFP) July 11, 2008North Korea returned Thursday to international talks on its nuclear activities after a nine-month break, in what host China hailed as a potential turning point in the disarmament process. Envoys from the six nations involved in the long-running talks gathered in Beijing in an effort to capitalise on recent progress that saw the North finally hand over a declaration of its atomic activities ... more Sino-Japan Relations Thaw In Wake Of Sazanami Naval Visit 
Moscow (UPI) Jul 10, 2008 China and Japan have done the unthinkable: For the first time since the end of World War II, 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 was ... more China to urgently boost GM crop development 
Beijing (AFP) July 10, 2008China has said it must urgently step up the development of genetically modified crops as it faces mounting challenges to feed its 1.3 billion people due to shrinking arable land and climate change. Newly-approved plans aim to cultivate high-yielding and pest-resistant genetically modified species, the State Council, or cabinet, said in a statement posted on its website late Wednesday. ... more China's trade surplus falls nearly 12 percent in first half: govt 
Beijing (AFP) July 10, 2008China's trade surplus fell nearly 12 percent in the first half of 2008, official data showed Thursday, as a slowing global economy, rising yuan and the impacts of a devastating earthquake hit exporters. The surplus for the first six months of the year came in at 99.04 billion dollars, the customs bureau said, with strong domestic consumption also helping to boost imports and ease the trade ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) July 9, 2008A Chinese inspector sent by a US ship classification society to a South Korean shipyard has been arrested for allegedly stealing key technology, prosecutors said Wednesday. The 35-year-old unidentified man was arrested on June 27 and indicted for stealing technology to manufacture oil drilling ships and platforms, said the prosecutors' office in the southern port city of Busan. ... more Analysis: Asian navies -- Part 1 
Hong Kong (UPI) Jul 9, 2008 After 10 years of steady effort, both India and China have made significant qualitative changes in their navies, but in terms of submarine capabilities -- the construction of SSNs and SSBNs -- China is now far ahead of India, however. China has built two 094 class SSBNs and two 093 class SSNs, along with JL2 and JL1M submarine-launched ballistic missiles -- SLBMs -- that are ready to ... more Geologists Study China Earthquake For Glimpse Into Future 
Universoty Park PA (SPX) Jul 10, 2008The May 12 earthquake that rocked Sichuan Province in China was the first there in recorded history and unexpected in its magnitude. Now a team of geoscientists is looking at the potential for future earthquakes due to earthquake-induced changes in stress. Around the world, earthquakes like the one in China are associated with triggered aftershocks that are very large. ... more China, India rise while US slips in Fortune company rankings 
Washington (AFP) July 9, 2008The number of US firms among the Fortune 500 list of top global companies slipped to the lowest level in over a decade while Chinese, Indian and Mexican firms gained, the magazine reported Wednesday. The business publication said that US-based Wal-Mart Stores remained at the top of the list of the world's biggest companies by revenue at some 378 billion dollars. But the number of US firm ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) July 8, 2008US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said Tuesday this week's North Korea nuclear disarmament talks would focus on ways to verify a recent declaration of its atomic activities. China announced talks would resume on Thursday in Beijing after a lengthy break, expressing confidence that the drive to end North Korea's nuclear programmes would pick up momentum. "The verification is the most ... more Quarter of Chinese adults are overweight, obese: US study 
Washington (AFP) July 8, 2008Declining physical activity and a shift towards a Western diet are driving up obesity rates in China, with more than 25 percent of adults now considered overweight or obese, a study warned Tuesday. Researchers writing in the July/August issue of the journal Health Affairs predicted these rates would double by 2028 unless the Chinese government took action -- with the rest of the developing ... more Analysis: Controlling Tibet Part Three 
Hong Kong (UPI) Jul 8, 2008 The average load capacity of one Chinese train car is normally 60 tons, with about 20 cars in each cargo train. This would mean each train carrying troops and equipment to Chinese military forces in Tibet could transport 1,200 tons, and thus 11 trains traveling both ways would be enough for each day. In time of war, the actual number of trains running on the railroad could double to roughly 20 ... more China's economy to become world's biggest in 2035: study 
Washington (AFP) July 8, 2008China's economy will overtake that of the United States by 2035 and be twice its size by midcentury, a study released Tuesday by a US research organization concluded. The report by economist Albert Keidel of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said China's rapid growth is driven by domestic demand more than exports, and will sustain high single-digit growth rates well into the 21st ... more
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