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China To Launch New Remote Sensing Satellite
Beijing (XNA) Dec 15, 2008China is scheduled to launch a new remote sensing satellite "Yaogan V" on Monday at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The satellite is to be launched into the space on a Long March-4B carrier rocket "at an appropriate time", China News Service reports on Sunday. At present, both the rocket and the satellite were in good condition and the preparation ... more Airlift The Key To True Superpower Capability Part One 
Washington (UPI) Dec 12, 2008 In the world of superpowers, it's military airlift capability that separates the world's two heavy hitters -- the United States and Russia -- from all the wannabe second division powers. India and China are both building world power military forces with major air forces and navies. Both countries also are working hard on expanding their military industrial sectors. But both are still ... more NKorea warns on nukes after talks collapse 
Fukuoka, Japan (AFP) Dec 13, 2008North Korea warned Saturday it would slow down work on ending its nuclear drive after six-party talks collapsed, but South Korea predicted a fresh start for diplomacy under US president-elect Barack Obama. The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea -- half of the group involved in the North Korean disarmament talks -- all voiced hope for the negotiations as they held a rare joint summit in ... more Taiwan China To Begin Direct Daily Flights: Pandas To Arrive By Xmas 
Taipei (AFP) Dec 14, 2008Direct daily flights between China and Taiwan begin on Monday, the latest step in rapidly improving relations between the island and the mainland. The official hostility that has marked relations for decades has been melting away since the election of Ma Ying-jeou as Taiwan's president earlier this year, and direct transport links are expected to bring the two closer. "That will mark the ... more Club-wielding rioters near scenic city in China: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 13, 2008A riot broke out close to a scenic city in northern China when a man hired dozens of bussed-in club-wielding people to help settle a dispute with a company, state media reported Saturday. The incident happened Friday morning when more than 150 people blocked the gates of an agricultural firm in Wangjia village of Shanxi province, near Pingyao, one of China's best-preserved ancient cities ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 13, 2008China's inflation will weaken further in December as the economy continues to slow, a key policy maker said Saturday, while also confirming next year's economic growth target will be eight percent. The producer price index, PPI, will retreat "markedly" this month, increasing the possibility of deflation, said Liu Mingkang, chairman of China Banking Regulatory Commission, according to Xinhua ... more China to increase money supply in 2009 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 14, 2008China said it wants to increase money supply by 17 percent in 2009 as part of new measures to keep the world's fourth-largest economy ticking over in the face of the global slowdown. The government has taken a number of measures to boost domestic demand and cope with the downturn, including repeated interest-rate cuts and a four trillion yuan (586-billion-dollar) stimulus package announced ... more China likely to miss energy saving goal for 2008: report 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 13, 2008China is likely to miss an energy saving target that it has set itself for this year, state media reported Saturday, citing the nation's top economic planning agency. In the first nine months of the year, the nation cut average energy consumption by 3.46 percent, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing the National Development and Reform Commission. This makes it unlikely that China will ... more Asian powers vow cooperation on economic crisis 
Fukuoka, Japan (AFP) Dec 13, 2008The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea pledged Saturday to drum up funding to spare Asia the worst of the global financial crisis, vowing to serve as an engine to revive the world economy. The East Asian powers also called for restarting efforts to end North Korea's nuclear drive as they held an inaugural joint summit that would have been unthinkable a few years ago due to rocky ties. ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 11, 2008Two miners died and three other people were killed in a moderate earthquake that struck near an area of southwestern China devastated by a massive quake in May, the local government said Thursday. The tremor killed two miners in Guangyuan city early Wednesday morning, a staffer at city government headquarters who would give only his surname Huo told AFP by phone. "There are two dead and ... more Sonitel employees call for China's ZTE to sell up 
Niamey (AFP) Dec 11, 2008About a thousand employees of Niger telecom company Sonitel demonstrated in Niamey Thursday calling for main shareholder China's ZTE to sever all ties with them because of "poor management". Protesters marched in the streets of the capital before presenting a petition to government officials calling for the "immediate withdrawal" of ZTE from all Sonitel operations. Chinese-Libyan ... more VIASPACE Plants Biofuel And Animal Feed Grass 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2008VIASPACE has announced that it has planted 1.2 million seedlings of its proprietary fast-growing China Giant King Grass near the IPA factory in Guangdong province in China. Giant King Grass is a natural hybrid perennial grass which is propagated from seedlings rather than seeds. In tropical and subtropical areas such as Southern China, it can yield four crops per year and up to 156 tons of ... more HK, Macao Scientists Expected To Participate In China's Aerospace Project 
Macao (XNA) Dec 11, 2008Scientists in Macao and Hong Kong can participate in the nation's aerospace project in the future, Zhang Jianqi, deputy commander-in-chief of China's manned space engineering program, said here on Wednesday. The Shenzhou VII manned space mission delegation, including three Chinese taikonauts who made the nation's first space walk in a concerted effort, left here on Wednesday, wrapping up ... more
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