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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 China defence chief calls on US to scrap Taiwan weapons deal 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 8, 2008China's defence minister called on the United States on Monday to drop a planned weapons sale to Taiwan, saying it threatened Sino-US defence cooperation, state media reported. Minister Liang Guanglie also called on Washington to cease all military ties with Taiwan, during a meeting in Beijing with the visiting former chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Richard Myers, Xinhua news agenc ... more China bans Irish pork imports following cancer scare 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 8, 2008China on Monday suspended the import of pork products from Ireland after the discovery of toxic chemicals in Irish pigs and announced increased inspections of other imported European foods. "In accordance with a China-Ireland bilateral agreement, we have provisionally stopped the direct and indirect import of Irish pork products and livestock feed," the General Administration of Quality Insp ... more China-EGuinea in trade deal includes 5.7 million euros 
Malabo (AFP) Dec 8, 2008China has given Equatorial Guinea 5.7 million euros towards a series of public works projects in the oil-rich former Spanish colony, the country's state radio reported Monday. The report said agreements were signed on Sunday during an official visit by Chinese Vice Minister for Foreign Trade Chao Wu-Chen. China agreed to give the 5.7 million euros (4.4 million dollars) to fund a number ... more |
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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 France Appeals For Calm As China Goes Ballistic Over Dalai Lama Meeting 
Paris (AFP) Dec 7, 2008France appealed for calm Sunday after China strongly protested President Nicolas Sarkozy's meeting with the Dalai Lama, with the human rights minister saying there was no need for "psycho-drama." China reacted angrily to Sarkozy's meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader on Saturday, saying it had seriously undermined Bejing's relations with France and Europe. "There is no need for ... more Dalai Lama says a 'democratic' China could resolve Tibet issue 
Gdansk, Poland (AFP) Dec 5, 2008The Dalai Lama said Friday the issue of Tibet could be resolved quickly if China fully embraces democracy, as he arrived in Poland as part of a European tour that has angered Beijing. "When China becomes more democratic, with freedom of speech, with rule of law and particularly with freedom of the press ... once China becomes an open, modern society, then the Tibet issue, I think within a ... more |
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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 De facto US envoy believes Obama won't change Taiwan policy 
Taipei (AFP) Dec 4, 2008The de facto US envoy to Taipei said Thursday he believes President-elect Barack Obama will not change Washington's policy on Taiwan since its "consistency" has aided the island's recent prosperity. Stephen Young, director of the American Institute in Taiwan, underscored the importance of consistency in Washington's relationship with the island, which Beijing regards as part of its territory ... more China lacks moral authority to be a superpower: Dalai Lama 
Brussels (AFP) Dec 4, 2008China lacks the moral authority, including over the question of Tibet, to be a true superpower, the Dalai Lama said Thursday during a European tour that has angered Beijing. After addressing the EU parliament in Brussels, the Tibetan spiritual leader said China "deserves to be a superpower" given its huge population and economic and military strength. "Now one important factor is moral ... more
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