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Swiss scientists develop faster test for melamine
Zurich (AFP) Jan 19, 2009Swiss researchers have developed a faster technique to detect the presence of melamine in liquids, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (EPFZ) announced Monday. The chemical has been at the centre of a food safety scandal in China since September last year. Detecting it in liquid previously took anything from between 20 and 60 minutes, but the Swiss team's new method has cut the ... more Japanese carriers reduce flights to China 
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 19, 2009Japan's two biggest airlines on Monday announced reductions in their number of flights to China, blaming weakening demand amid the global economic slowdown. All Nippon Airways Co. said it would halt regular flights between Kansai International Airport, the gateway to the western Japanese city of Osaka, and the northern Chinese city of Dalian. ANA will also suspend the ... more China's Tibet celebration sparks anger from exiles 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 19, 2009China announced Monday that Tibet would each year celebrate the freeing of slaves and a failed rebellion five decades ago, triggering immediate condemnation from Tibetan exiles. The news came as China's communist leaders prepared for a series of sensitive Tibetan anniversaries, particularly in March when the 1959 uprising occurred and further riots erupted in Tibet's capital, Lhasa, last ... more China warns of bird flu risk after second fatality 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 19, 2009China warned Monday of a rising bird flu risk after a second person died of the virus in less than a month, and said it could be especially dangerous as the nation headed into the Lunar New Year holiday. A 27-year-old woman surnamed Zhang died in the east Chinese province of Shandong Saturday, nearly two weeks after falling ill, the provincial health bureau said. It was the second ... more The Auto Change Bicycle 
Taipei, Taiwan (SPX) Jan 20, 2009Researchers in Taiwan are designing a computer for pedal cyclists that tells them when to change gear to optimize the power they develop while maintaining comfort. The system is described in the latest issue of the International Journal of Human Factors Modelling and Simulation. As environmental pressures mount to find greener modes of transport, more and more people are turning to bicycli ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Jan 19, 2009China plans to complete its own satellite navigation system by 2015, making it independent of foreign technology such as the US-developed Global Positioning System (GPS), state media said Monday. The Beidou Navigation System will enable military and civilian users from China to find their way anywhere in the world, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing a senior space technology official. ... more S.Africa assures China of political continuity 
Kleinmond, South Africa (AFP) Jan 16, 2009South Africa's Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Friday assured her Chinese counterpart that general elections were unlikely to change her country's political scene. "New parties have emerged but still we think at the end of elections nothing will change much," Dlamini told Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi speaking of the general elections expected in the second quarter of the ... more Kenya khat traders eye Chinese market 
Nairobi (AFP) Jan 16, 2009Kenya's khat farmers and traders are seeking to expand beyond their traditional Somali chewing markets to make a foray into China, they said in a statement Friday. Khat - or "miraa" as it is sometimes referred to - is a mild narcotic leaf chewed by millions in Somalia but a controlled substance in many countries. "Our aim is to diversify from the traditional export markets for miraa of ... more Chinese brace for scaled-down Lunar New Year 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 18, 2009The Lunar New Year has become a time for spending on an epic scale in China, as 1.3 billion people are let loose with their annual bonuses and cash gifts from relatives stuffed into red envelopes. But, from luxury hotels that are scaling down their packages to parents being forced to buy their children second hand gifts, Chinese society is bracing for muted Year of the Ox celebrations amid t ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Jan 18, 2009China's toy exports have taken a beating from the global financial crisis, with demand shrinking in the key US and European markets, state media reported Sunday. In the period from January to November of last year, China's shipments of toys abroad totalled eight billion dollars, an increase of just 2.5 percent from the same period a year earlier, the People's Daily said on its website. ... more Photonics Industry Is Expanding Even In Current Hard Times 
Bellingham WA (SPX) Jan 19, 2008Despite recent turmoil in the economy, the photonics industry has reason to expect growth, SPIE CEO Eugene Arthurs said in a recent visit to Taiwan. Dr. Arthurs visited Taipei in part to give a plenary talk at the Optics and Photonics Taiwan conference. He made his remarks on the industry in a conversation with Peter Shih, founder of the Photonics Industry and Technology Development ... more Taiwan's once-world beating memory chip makers face tough times 
Taipei (AFP) Jan 18, 2009Taiwan's pivotal memory chip industry is facing tough times as international demand for high-tech products plunges in the midst of the deepening downturn gripping the global economy. Long regarded as one of the island's two major information technology pillars, the island's manufacturers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips recently reached out to the government for bailout funds. ... more China calls on World Bank to provide evidence of graft 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 17, 2009China has called on the World Bank to provide evidence of graft by four Chinese construction firms banned from bank projects due to alleged corruption in a Philippine tendering process. The World Bank on Thursday said it found evidence of collusion among four Chinese and three Filipino construction firms in the bidding for a road project in the Philippines. The bank subsequently cancelle ... more
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