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New Space Launch Center To Be Built In China's Southernmost Hainan
Beijing (XNA) Mar 03, 2009China will start the construction of a new space launch center in the southernmost Hainan Province in the near future, according to military sources. The State Council and the Central Military Commission approved the new space launch center at the end of 2008. It features high carriage efficiency, high launch capacity, and low launch costs, said the sources. The new space launch cent ... more China's New Geo-Stationary Weather Satellite Finishes Testing 
Beijing (XNA) Mar 03, 2009China's new geo-stationary meteorological satellite, Fengyun-2E, finished in-orbit testing at the end of February, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said Monday. "Fengyun-2E demonstrated stable operation and successfully performed all its functions, including image capture and broadcast, data collection and space environment monitoring," said CMA official Zhao Licheng. ... more Disputes remain as Taiwan, China strike museum accord 
Taipei (AFP) March 2, 2009Taiwan and China Monday forged an agreement calling for close cooperation between the two sides' most famous museums in a further sign of warming ties between the cross-Strait rivals. The nine-point agreement was reached during a closed-door meeting between top officials of Taipei's National Palace Museum and its Beijing counterpart. Under the accord, the two sides agreed to further exch ... more Chinese forces surround Tibetan monastery after protest: activists 
Beijing (AFP) March 2, 2009Security forces have surrounded a Tibetan monastery in a tense region of southwest China after monks held a rally a week before the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising, activist groups said Monday. They said the monks in Sichuan province, bordering Tibet, demonstrated close to where another monk set himself on fire last week to protest against China's 58-year rule of the Himalayan region. ... more China likely behind relics sale sabotage: YSL partner 
Paris (AFP) March 2, 2009Yves Saint Laurent's partner, Pierre Berge, on Monday said he suspected China was behind the collapse of a deal to acquire two prized Chinese relics up for auction as part of the YSL collection. In the latest chapter in a row over the relics, a Chinese antiques collector sudddenly announced Monday being the mystery bidder for the ancient bronzes looted from Beijing - but said he would not ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) Mar 02, 2009Chang'e-1, China's first lunar probe, impacted the moon at 4:13 p.m. Beijing Time (0813 GMT) Sunday, said sources with the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. The satellite ended its 16-month mission Sunday when it hit the lunar surface at 1.50 degrees south latitude and 52.36 degrees east longitude. Chang'e-1 began to reduce its speed at 3 ... more 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 |
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Beijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2009China on Saturday approved a long-awaited food safety law, state media reported, in a bid to end repeated scandals involving dangerous food products in the country. The law has been in the works since October last year after a huge scandal erupted over contaminated milk which killed at least six children and sickened nearly 300,000 others in China. "The law will see the establishment of ... more Economic, social fears to dominate China parliament 
Beijing (AFP) March 1, 2009China's parliament opens this week with the plotline of the annual Communist Party political show centred squarely on the government's plans to rescue the country from economic gloom. The party will spell out those plans to the 3,000-member, rubber-stamp National People's Congress - and the country - in what observers expect to be a national pep rally that opens Thursday for about 10 days ... more China's Wen makes Internet debut 
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
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