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Analysis: China exports new SAM missile
Hong Kong (UPI) Mar 18, 2009 China has put its HQ-9 surface-to-air missile on the export market under the name FD-2000. Brochures advertising China's latest missile appeared at the most recent African Ground Force Equipment Exhibition in Cape Town, South Africa, and also at the International Defense Exhibition in Karachi, Pakistan, last November. The China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corp. is the exporter of ... more Russian Chinese Asymmetric Anti-aircraft Missile Capabilities: F-22 Vital Part Four 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Mar 18, 2009 The balance in international military power may be shifting again. In the last two years, Russia, India and China have all announced or clarified major defense programs that include everything from the development of advanced fighters to upgrading aircraft carriers. It turns out that adversaries took careful note of the way the United States and its allies used air dominance in all its ... more Gates hopes to call off escorts in South China Sea 
Washington (AFP) March 18, 2009Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday said he did not think China was trying to prevent the US Navy from operating in the South China Sea and expressed hope armed escorts of surveillance ships would not be needed in the future. The US Navy said it had decided to send in destroyers to escort surveillance ships in the South China Sea after an incident last week in which Chinese ships all ... more Green tea and mushrooms cut breast cancer risk: study 
Sydney (AFP) March 18, 2009Chinese women who ate mushrooms and drank green tea significantly cut their risk of breast cancer and the severity of the cancer in those who did develop it, an Australian researcher said Wednesday. Min Zhang, from the University of Western Australia, studied the diets of 2,018 women from the southeastern Chinese city of Hangzhou -- half of whom had breast cancer -- between July 2004 and Sep ... more Feathers fly over new dinosaur find 
Paris (AFP) March 18, 2009The discovery of a petite, plant-eating dinosaur with primitive plumage could mean that the dinosaur from which all others evolved had feather-like protrusions, said a study released Wednesday. The find in northeastern China is a scientific bombshell, further shattering the once axiomatic view that feathered birds and scaly reptiles developed along different evolutionary paths. Fossils u ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) March 18, 2009The president of a troubled private airline in China has gone missing, the company said Wednesday, amid reports he was taken away by police. East Star Airlines, based in the central city of Wuhan, confirmed its president Lan Shili had disappeared. "The government has informed us that all we can tell the media is we have a problem in operations. We are also looking into president Lan's wh ... more Rio shares plunge on Chinalco deal doubts 
Sydney (AFP) March 18, 2009Shares in Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto plunged almost nine percent Wednesday amid growing doubts over a proposed 19.5-billion-US-dollar investment by China's state-owned Chinalco. In a sign of wavering investor confidence, Rio's shares hit a low of 46.96 dollars in early afternoon trade on the Australian Stock Exchange, before paring back slightly to close down 8.7 percent at 47.5 ... more Russia eyes Cuba's black gold, near US shore 
Havana (AFP) March 18, 2009Cuba is negotiating oil exploration and production deals with Russia, China and Angola, with Moscow shaping up as the partner that could make the communist island energy self-sufficient, officials said Wednesday. The development is unfolding right under the nose of the United States, home to oil giants that cannot follow suit due to the US economic embargo on Cuba. "The Cuban oil industr ... more China growth forecast lowered as US, Japan mobilise 
Beijing (AFP) March 18, 2009The World Bank slashed China's growth outlook Wednesday but said the Asian powerhouse was still a "bright spot" in a world economy due to get a fresh boost from the US and Japanese central banks. Asian stock markets gained for the fourth straight day and Europe opened stronger as investors awaited the end of a US Federal Reserve meeting that could see the launch of a new 200-billion-dollar c ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) Mar 10, 2009Macao people donated 14.46 million yuan (2.1 million U.S. dollars) to the China Space Foundation (CSF) at a ceremony in Beijing. The donation came from 49 Macao businessmen and the non-governmental Macao Foundation, said a statement from the CSF after the ceremony. Of the fund, 2.5 million yuan would go to Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and 1.5 million to Xichang Satellite Launch Ce ... more Scholarships Established For Aerospace Research 
Beijing (XNA) Mar 10, 2009China Aerospace Science and Industry (CASIC) announced on Sunday the establishment of a scholarship worth 5 million yuan (about 714,280 U.S. dollars) for aerospace research in five prestigious domestic universities. The five universities are Tsinghua University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Beihang University, Beijing Institute of Technology and Northwestern Polytechnical University. ... more China voices concern over Korean peninsula 
Beijing (AFP) March 17, 2009China voiced its concern Tuesday over what it said was an increasingly uncertain situation on the Korean peninsula, where close ally North Korea is pushing ahead with plans for a rocket launch. China's foreign ministry made its strongest public comments on the recent spike in tensions surrounding North Korea shortly after the isolated nation's premier, Kim Yong-Il, landed in Beijing for a fi ... more No Japan-China summit this month: officials 
Tokyo (AFP) March 17, 2009Japan's Premier Taro Aso will not visit China this month, Japanese government officials said Tuesday, following earlier reports that Tokyo and Beijing were trying to schedule a summit in March. "We've been coordinating with China to hold the meeting as soon as possible, but we now recognise that realising it in March is difficult," Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura told reporters. ... more
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