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ATK Conducts Successful AARGM Flight Test
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Aug 11, 2008Alliant Techsystems, the U.S. Navy, and the Italian Air Force successfully completed another challenging missile firing of the AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake on August 3, 2008. The missile test firing was the first of two "Operational Assessment" firings supporting Milestone C Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) decision ... more Tropical storm leaves 100 dead, missing in Vietnam 
Hanoi (AFP) Aug 9, 2008More than 100 people were dead or missing in flash floods and landslides as heavy rains brought by tropical storm Kammuri pounded mountainous northern Vietnam, officials said Saturday. At least 72 people have died and 37 are missing since the storm hit the poor and widely deforested region on Friday, having previously lashed Hong Kong and southeastern China, said central and provincial ... more GM to export hybrid SUV to Europe, China, Middle East 
Detroit, Michigan (AFP) Aug 8, 2008General Motors Corp. said Friday it plans to export its newest hybrid, a version of the Cadillac Escalade sport utility vehicle, to Europe, China and the Middle East. The hybrid powertrain boosts the Escalade's fuel economy by 50 percent in city driving and by 10 percent on the highway, GM officials said. Production of the new hybrid begins next week at an assembly plant in Texas and the ... more CTDC Launches New Website 
Hong Kong (SPX) Aug 11, 2008China Technology Development Group has announced that the Company unveiled a redesigned website. The newly redesigned site includes many resources and helpful information that were previously unavailable for both existing and prospective clients. The site has been revised and updated to offer dedicated content sections on the Company's products and technology, production facility and ... more Bush confident China's future to reflect universal aspirations 
Washington (AFP) Aug 9, 2008US President George W. Bush expressed confidence Saturday that China's future will reflect "the universal aspirations of mankind," despite criticism of a lack of freedom in the world' most populous country. "The China of the future will reflect its own culture and traditions, but it will also reflect the universal aspirations of mankind -- and there's no deeper human desire than liberty." ... more |
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Beijing (UPI) Aug 7, 2008 U.S. and Chinese researchers say they've determined climate change might be responsible for a decrease in hail falling across China. Hail -- defined as precipitation of balls or irregular lumps of ice produced by storm clouds -- forms when liquid raindrops freeze at altitudes above a threshold called the "freezing level height," researchers said. If drops cannot be formed above the free ... more UN target of 2010 will not be reached by all: AIDS leaders 
Mexico City (AFP) Aug 6, 2008The UN goal of achieving "universal access" to anti-HIV drugs and care by 2010 is unlikely to be reached worldwide, two leading figures in the campaign against AIDS said here on Wednesday. Looking to the mounting bill for the drugs that keep millions of poor people alive, they also said China and other fast-advancing economies could shoulder more of their own burdens in the future, freeing ... more China's Sinochem secures exploration deal in Indonesia 
Shanghai (AFP) Aug 7, 2008China's Sinochem Corp., a state-owned oil trading conglomerate, said Thursday it has entered into an agreement to explore oil and gas in two blocks in Indonesia. Sinochem has bought a 20-percent working interest in Merangin II Block and a 40-percent stake in Belida Block, both in oil-rich south Sumatra, from Pt. Sele Raya, a private oil firm, the Chinese firm said in a statement. The ... more Japan kept quiet on food scare at China's request: FM 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 7, 2008Japan's foreign minister said Thursday the government had withheld information about the latest health scare involving Chinese dumplings at the request of Beijing. Chinese authorities "asked us not to disclose it because it could become an obstacle to the police investigation," Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said. The foreign ministry said Wednesday it had been told by Beijing that ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 6, 2008China evacuated nearly 400,000 people and called thousands of vessels back to port as a severe tropical storm lashed its southern coast late Wednesday, state media and government agencies said. Severe Tropical Storm Kammuri made landfall in China's Guangdong province, packing strong winds, the local weather observatory was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua news agency. There were ... more China inflation to ease to 5.5 percent: official 
Shanghai (AFP) Aug 6, 2008China's consumer inflation is expected to ease to 5.5 percent in the third quarter and 4.5 percent in the last three months of the year, a senior official said Wednesday. The 2008 consumer inflation rate is likely to stand between six and seven percent, Xu Lianzhong, head of the National Development and Reform Commission's price office, wrote in an opinion piece in the China Securities ... more Quake kills three in China's Sichuan: report 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 6, 2008A 6.0-magnitude earthquake killed three people in southwest China's Sichuan province as the Olympic torch passed through the area on its final leg before reaching Beijing, state media said Wednesday. At least 22 people were injured in the quake on Tuesday, one of the strongest since a devastating tremor hit the region in May, the China News Service reported. The quake struck shortly ... more Technology Intelligence For Coal To Liquids Strategies 
Menlo Park CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2008Coal has been used for energy for centuries and today fuels about forty percent of electrical production worldwide. Global demand for energy continues to increase with oil demand alone expected to increase forty to fifty percent by 2030. At the same time oil prices continue to rise and supplies are diminishing. Energy strategies are particularly critical for countries like the US, China ... more
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