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Making Sense Of The World From High Above
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 08, 2008Making sense of the world an old idea, new technologies offer ways to do it better than ever A Babylonian clay tablet dating from 600 B.C. is the oldest map of the known world, although not a whole lot of the world was actually "known" at that point. The Chinese, Egyptians and Mesopotamians used string and bead abacuses to make calculations at least as early as 3000 B.C. Ancient Alexandria ... more China launches hybrid rocket 
Beijing (UPI) Dec 6, 2008 China, for the first time, has launched and recovered a hybrid rocket, the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Bejing says. The Beihang-2 was fired Friday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu province, with the head of the rocket parachuting to the ground for recovery about 15 minutes later, Xinhua, China's state-run news agency, reported Saturday. ... more China To Launch Probe To Mars With Russian Help In 2009 
Beijing (RIA Novosti) Dec 08, 2008China will send a space probe to Mars with Russia's assistance in October 2009, a Chinese newspaper said on Friday. Russia and China signed a cooperative agreement on the joint exploration of Mars on March 26, 2007. The project includes the launch of the Yinghuo-1 Chinese-made Mars probe. Yinghuo-1 and the Russian Phobos-Grunt probe will be sent together to Mars on a Russian Zenit ... more Six-nation NKorea talks on track for Beijing, US says 
Washington (AFP) Dec 5, 2008Six-nation negotiations for North Korea's nuclear disarmament are still on track for Beijing next week even though China has yet to announce the event, the US State Department said Friday. A US official said meanwhile on condition of anonymity that US-North Korean talks in Singapore offered no guarantee the meeting in Beijing would succeed but also gave no sign the process would "fall apart" ... more WHO sets first limits for safe melamine levels in food 
Geneva (AFP) Dec 5, 2008The World Health Organization on Friday issued safety limits for melamine levels in food as international concern mounted over a widening tainted food scandal in China. It is the first time WHO experts have issued safety limits for the use of the industrial chemical and they stressed that melamine should not be used in food at all. The so-called Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) has been ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Dec 5, 2008The OECD warned on Friday that emerging market powerhouses China, India and Russia faced a sharp fall in economic momentum in the near term, with prospects also weakening in leading industrialised countries. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said its October composite index of economic indicators points "to a weakening outlook for all major seven economies but compared ... more GWS Technologies Continues Development Of GWS Solstice Portable Solar Charger 
Scottsdale AZ (SPX) Dec 08, 2008GWS Technologies has announced that it is sourcing polycrystalline silicon cells and other components in Shenzhen, China, for its portable solar charger, the GWS Solstice. The GWS Solstice is designed to be a handheld solar charger that can recharge personal electronic devices from cameras and mobile phones to MP3 players and games consoles. The solar panels fan out for charging, but fold ... more China to implement new fuel tax on January 1: report 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 5, 2008China will implement a new fuel tax system next year that will raise prices at the pump, while allowing the government to adjust subsidies to state-run refiners, state press reported Friday. The long awaited fuel tax system will raise gas taxes to 1.0 yuan (14 cents) a litre (0.26 gallons) from 0.2 yuan per litre, while an annual road maintenance fee will be scrapped, Xinhua news agency said ... more China's Future Astronauts Will Be Scientists 
Beijing (XNA) Dec 05, 2008China will select future astronauts from the ranks of scientists rather than military pilots, a top-level engineer for the country's manned space program said here on Thursday. "China's manned space project will start setting up space laboratories and stations after 2012, and by that time scientists will be needed for a large number of experiments in space," said Zhang Jianqi, deputy chief ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 4, 2008China and the United States vowed Thursday at a top-level meeting in Beijing to cooperate in tackling the global economic crisis, even as they sparred over Chinese exchange rate reform. Following a recent weakening of China's currency, the yuan, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's team pressured their hosts on the contentious issue on the first day of their twice-yearly Strategic Economic ... more China tells US to make sure Beijing's investments are safe 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 4, 2008China's top envoy to high-level economic talks with the United States urged Washington Thursday to make sure Chinese investments in the US economy were safe. "We hope the US side will adopt every necessary measure to stabilise its economy and financial markets and ensure the safety of China's assets and investment in the United States," Vice Premier Wang Qishan said. He made the remark ... more China gets on board railway project to speed up economy 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 4, 2008Travelling at 330 kilometres an hour on one of China's fastest trains, businessman Ren Wenzuo had nothing but praise for a multi-billion-dollar plan to spin a web of new rail links across the country. "People nowadays want to have convenient ways of travel, and with more fast trains across China, they will bring convenience to everyone," he said on board the service from Beijing to neighbour ... more China to kick off inland nuclear power projects: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 4, 2008Construction of an 8.7 billion dollar nuclear power plant in eastern China is set to begin soon, as part of ambitious plans for more atomic energy in the nation's interior, state press said Thursday. Work on the 60 billion yuan (8.7 billion dollar) Pengze nuclear plant in eastern China's Jiangxi province will begin, with authorities also approving plants in nearby Hubei and Hunan provinces ... more
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