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China Plans Space Station With Module Launch In 2010
Beijing (AFP) Mar 01, 2009China will launch a space module next year and carry out the nation's first space docking in 2011 as a step towards its goal of building a space station, state media said Sunday. The Tiangong-1, or "Heavenly Palace-1" is scheduled for launch in late 2010 and will dock with a Shenzhou-8 spacecraft early the following year, Xinhua news agency said, citing officials with China's space program ... more Chinese Navy Has Global Potential As Economic Interests Expand Part Two 
Hong Kong (UPI) Feb 27, 2009 In the future, wherever Chinese merchant ships go, that area may be taken as China's national interest frontier and the trace of the "Chinese Aegis" class DDG may appear. Moreover, this theory gives the People's Republic of China a more convincing rationale for building its own aircraft carriers. Clearly, the conventional Western analysis that the People's Liberation Army navy is follo ... more China, US agree to resume key military exchanges 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2009China and the United States agreed to resume high-level military exchanges during talks here that a senior US defence official described Saturday as his best ever. The two-day defence contacts that ended Saturday were the first between the world powers in five months after China suspended military exchanges over a proposed US arms package to Taiwan -- a sensitive issue in Sino-US relations. ... more China tensions high after Tibet monk sets himself alight 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2009Tensions were high in a flashpoint town of southwest China Saturday after a Tibetan monk set himself on fire in protest against Chinese rule, activist groups and residents said. Chinese authorities confirmed a man had set himself alight, but did not acknowledge claims by activist groups that police shot the monk and that he embarked on his protest after officials banned prayers at his monast ... more SKoreans buy air purifiers amid "yellow dust" warning 
Seoul (AFP) Feb 27, 2009South Koreans are stocking up on air purifiers following a forecast of especially severe "yellow dust" storms from China and Mongolia this spring, officials said Friday. Forecasters say the annual dust storms will be particularly bad this spring because north China and the deserts of Mongolia, where they originate, suffered the worst drought in 50 years. The temperature there is also two ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2009Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao joined the Internet craze Saturday as he chatted online with netizens for the first time, broaching issues as diverse as a shoe-throwing protest and corruption among officials. The online discussion attracted thousands of questions from people in China and abroad, with some querying the amount he earned, how long he slept a day, and how much alcohol he could drink, ... more From Calgary to Caracas, China snapping up resources 
Shanghai (AFP) March 1, 2009Resource-hungry China has seized upon the financial crisis to sign billions of dollars in deals in a buying spree that is set to pick up pace and reshape the global economic landscape, analysts say. From Calgary to Caracas, China has hammered out an unprecedented series of agreements over the past month as plummeting energy and commodity prices have left once mighty producers over-extended a ... more China's CNPC buys Canadian oil firm: company 
Shanghai (AFP) Feb 27, 2009China National Petroleum Corp has agreed to buy Canada's Verenex Energy Inc, including its Libyan oil assets, in a deal worth 499 million Canadian dollars (400 million US dollars), the Calgary-based company said. The Chinese company's international arm, CNPC International Ltd, in an all cash deal, offered 10 Canadian dollars (7.97 US dollars) per share, a 28 percent premium on the company's ... more China's economy showing signs of recovery: official 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 27, 2009China's economy is showing signs of recovering even though the impacts of the global crisis are still being felt, a senior planning official said Friday, as he promised to steer clear of protectionism. "Despite the downward pressure on the Chinese economy since the fourth quarter of last year, we have nonetheless seen signs of recovery," Liu Tienan, vice chairman of the country's top economi ... more |
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London (AFP) Feb 27, 2009A 1.2 billion dollar deal between British jet engine maker Rolls-Royce and Hainan Airlines of China was announced Friday as British and Chinese firms signed deals worth up to 1.9 billion dollars. The announcements, sealed at a ceremony in London attended by China's Trade Minister Chen Deming and Britain's Business Secretary Peter Mandelson, came on the last leg of a Chinese trade tour of Eur ... more Chinese Ahoy It's A Chinese Aegis Part One 
Hong Kong (UPI) Feb 26, 2009 The People's Republic of China recently dispatched two navy ships -- its most advanced No. 171 "Chinese Aegis" class DDG and No. 169 "Chinese Sovremenni" class DDG -- to the waters near Somalia to engage in anti-pirate operations. As a Chinese expression goes, "Why use an ox-cleaver to kill a chicken?" This high-profile action represents a great step forward for the People's Liberation ... more China tells US to stop acting as human rights guardian
Beijing (AFP) Feb 26, 2009China told the United States Thursday to stop acting as a human rights guardian, as it hit back angrily at US accusations that its human rights record had worsened. The spat comes just days after a visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Beijing appeared to signal a detente between the world powers on the sensitive issue. "We firmly oppose any countries interfering in China's i ... more Chinese navy saves Italian ship from pirates: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 26, 2009Chinese naval forces thwarted a pirate attack on a Liberian-flagged Italian merchant ship this week in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia, state media said on Thursday. The incident occurred on Tuesday when a helicopter from the Chinese destroyer Haikou saw a pair of small pirate vessels closing on the ship and fired a pair of signal flares to drive them off, Xinhua news agency said. It was t ... more
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