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Chinese Scientists Start Studying Samples From Shenzhou-7
Lanzhou, China (XNA) Oct 08, 2008Chinese scientists on Monday unsealed a box of solid lubricant samples that were aboard the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft. They will study the material for the next six months. "Two types of solid lubricant samples, after being exposed to outer space during the Shenzhou-7 mission, had shown obvious changes," said Liu Weimin, head of the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy ... more NKorea fires short-range missiles: Yonhap 
Seoul (AFP) Oct 8, 2008North Korea has fired two short-range missiles into international waters in the Yellow Sea as part of a routine military drill, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said early Wednesday, quoting a defence source. The missile launch in waters adjoining China comes amid intense efforts to save a nuclear disarmament agreement which is in danger of collapsing because of a dispute over verification ... more US arms sales threaten peace in Taiwan Strait: China 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 7, 2008China confirmed Tuesday it had curtailed military exchanges with the United States over a proposed US arms package to Taiwan, saying the plan was a threat to peace in the region. "It is US arms sales to Taiwan that disturb the peaceful development of cross-strait relations and undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan strait," foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang told journalists. ... more 'Displeased' China still engaged in Iran, NKorea nuclear talks: US 
Washington (AFP) Oct 7, 2008China will continue to take part in multilateral talks on the Iranian and North Korean nuclear crises despite the country's objections to US plans to sell arms to Taiwan, a US state department official said on Tuesday. A senior official from the department said on condition of anonymity that China would remain engaged in the six nation attempt to solve the North Korea standoff and the ... more Eight of China's 10 oldest people are ethnic minorities: report 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 7, 2008Eight of China's 10 oldest people belong to ethnic minorities, with the nation's oldest man identified as a 121-year-old Uighur in China's western Xinjiang region, state press reported Tuesday. Sadiq Sawut is in poor health in the city of Kashgar, Xinhua news agency said, citing the Gerontological Society of China. China's oldest woman was identified as Maikup Zhan, who was born on June ... more |
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Bangalore, India (AFP) Oct 6, 2008India will launch its first lunar mission on October 22 from southern India, a top official from the country's space agency said Monday. The announcement came a week after Asian rival China said it was setting its sights on a manned trip to the moon after completing a historic mission that included the country's first space walk. "We have set October 22 as the tentative date for the ... more Quake kills 74 in Kyrgyz mountain village 
Bishkek (AFP) Oct 6, 2008Rescuers toiled on Monday in a remote mountain village close to Kyrgyzstan's border with China searching for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed at least 74 people, 41 of them children. Hours later, a powerful tremor also struck a sparsely populated area of China's Himalayan region of Tibet, killing at least 30 people, Chinese state media reported. The Kyrgyz quake, which ... more Nine dead as strong quake hits Tibet: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 7, 2008At least nine people were killed in a strong earthquake which struck the Himalayan region of Tibet, Chinese state media said early Tuesday, quoting the rescue headquarters at the epicentre. The earthquake struck at 4:30 pm (0830 GMT) Monday in a sparsely populated area about 84 kilometres (50 miles) west of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, the US Geological Survey said. US seismologists ... more Melamine found in Chinese restaurant fare in Hungary: ministry 
Budapest (AFP) Oct 6, 2008Products containing traces of the industrial chemical melamine have been found in several Chinese restaurants in Hungary, the agriculture ministry's food safety officer, Miklos Suth, announced Monday. The melamine content did not, however, reach dangerous levels, he added. "Food products with melamine levels under the limits defined by food safety rules were found in a number of Chinese ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Oct 6, 2008 Leaders of the four big European economies -- Germany, Britain, France and Italy -- met in Paris Saturday and failed to come up with any kind of common European solution to the financial crisis that is battering their banks. Instead, they pinned their hopes on a vague plan for a wider international summit next month to include the Group of Eight countries plus China, India, Brazil ... more Blackstone completes China Bluestar deal 
Shanghai (AFP) Oct 6, 2008US private equity giant Blackstone said Monday it had completed its first foray into mainland China by acquiring a 20-percent stake in a major Chinese chemical firm for up to 600 million dollars. Bluestar, a subsidiary of China National Chemical Corporation, is now officially a joint venture, the companies said in a statement. The two companies agreed to the deal in September 2007 and ... more China Sets Sights On First Space Station 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 03, 2008The success of China's first spacewalk on the Shenzhou 7 mission paves the way for greater things. For China, the next great task will be its first space station. Much reportage has been circulated on this, but ironically, the more we read, the more confused space analysts become. What is China really planning? It all seemed so simple just a month ago. China would launch a space laboratory ... more Rare Herbal Plants Aboard Shenzhou-7 Spacecraft Studied 
Beijing (XNA) Oct 06, 2008Several rare herbal plants aboard the recent Shenzhou-7 space mission have now been transferred to a Chinese nanobiotechnology lab for study. The plants, including rauwolfia and salvia miltiorrhiza (also known as red sage), were used to produce nanomedicines to treat cancerous tumors, Professor Zhang Yangde with China's Laboratory of Nanobiotechnology at the Central South University told ... more
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