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Nigeria And China Sign Pact To Replace Faulty Satellite By 2011
Lagos, Nigeria (XNA) Mar 27, 2009Nigeria and China have signed a contract for a new communications satellite that will replace one sidelined by a power failure, a newspaper reported Wednesday. According to the contract signed in Beijing on Tuesday, the replacement satellite has been named NIGCOMSAT-1R and is due to be launched by 2011 with no cost to Nigeria, the Lagos-based Guardian reported. The new space vehicle ... more US, Iran could work together in Afghanistan: official 
Moscow (AFP) March 27, 2009Afghanistan is a "very productive area" for engagement between the United States and its arch foe Iran, a US official declared Friday, at a meeting in Moscow aimed at curbing rising violence in the conflict-torn country. The meeting, led by the Shanghai Group which groups China, Russia and Central Asian states, came amid mounting international concerns over the resurgence of the Taliban Isla ... more China aviation giant spins off defence branch: report 
Beijing (AFP) March 27, 2009China's largest aircraft maker has spun off a 7.3 billion dollar independent defence manufacturing branch that will seek to produce top military hardware for global markets, state media said Friday. The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) established the aviation defence branch office Thursday in Beijing to separate the plane manufacturer's civilian and defence operations, Xinhua n ... more China calls US report on military 'gross distortion' 
Beijing (AFP) March 26, 2009China said Thursday that a Pentagon report warning of Beijing's growing military power distorted the truth and urged the United States to stop issuing the annual assessment or risk harming relations. "This report issued by the US side continues to play up the fallacy of the so-called China military threat," foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang told journalists in Beijing. "This is a gross ... more Analysis: China can't buy Sukhoi jets 
Hong Kong (UPI) Mar 25, 2009 Some Western media have reported that China is negotiating with Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi Co. for the procurement of 14 Su-33 shipborne fighters, claiming that the contract on the deal will be signed soon. However, Boris D. Bregman, first deputy general director of Sukhoi, said the talks with China are still only at the consultation stage. While confirming that contacts were ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) March 28, 2009China vowed Saturday to "severely crack down on any separatist activities" in Tibet as it launched a new national holiday marking the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising in the Himalayan region. The Chinese flag was raised in front of the Potala Palace in Tibet's capital Lhasa as more than 13,000 people, most in Tibetan traditional dress, rose for the national anthem to commemorate "Serfs' ... more Tibet's Panchen Lama, Beijing's propaganda tool 
Beijing (AFP) March 27, 2009China's controversial choice as the second highest Tibetan spiritual figure is increasingly being used by Beijing as a tool in its propaganda offensive against the exiled Dalai Lama, say experts. Rarely seen in public previously, but believed to have been educated in the Chinese capital, the 19-year-old Panchen Lama Friday expressed loyalty to Beijing, in stark contrast to the views of the ... more Australia deals blow to China firm's plan to take over miner 
Sydney (AFP) March 27, 2009Australia said Friday a 2.6-billion-dollar (1.8-billion-US) takeover of debt-laden OZ Minerals by China's Minmetals cannot go ahead if it includes mines in a military zone. "OZ Minerals' Prominent Hill mining operations are situated in the Woomera Prohibited Area in South Australia," Treasurer Wayne Swan said in a statement. "The Woomera Prohibited Area weapons testing range makes a uniq ... more Radioactive material found in China: state media 
Beijing (AFP) March 28, 2009Chinese authorities said late Friday they had found potentially deadly radioactive material that went missing from a factory earlier this week, state press reported. A lead ball containing Caesium-137 was lost Monday while workers were dismantling a cement factory in northwest China's Shaanxi province, Xinhua news agency said. It was a major component of a nuclear scale, used to make pre ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) March 26, 2009France is to send high-level political and business delegations to China in a bid to mend relations strained by a row over Tibet, Chinese state media reported Thursday. The official China Daily also indicated that a meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao at next week's G20 meeting in London had not been completely ruled out. "Former French ... more China protests US Congress resolution on Taiwan 
Beijing (AFP) March 26, 2009China said Thursday it had lodged a formal protest with the United States after US lawmakers passed a resolution defending Taiwan. A day after urging Washington to acknowledge the island as part of Chinese territory, the foreign ministry said the congressional resolution "ignored the resolute opposition of the Chinese side." "The Chinese side expresses its strong dissatisfaction and has ... more China milk scandal retrial begins: court 
Beijing (AFP) March 26, 2009The retrial of two men sentenced to death for their involvement in China's tainted milk scandal began Thursday after they appealed the verdict, the court hearing the case told AFP. Geng Jinping and Zhang Yujun were to be heard in a trial expected to last one day in the northern province of Hebei, the official Xinhua news agency said. The brothers of the two men were also appealing against ja ... more Rio Tinto exec says Chinalco deal is 'favourable' 
Singapore (AFP) March 26, 2009Rio Tinto's long-term future is better served if China's Chinalco can double its stake in the Anglo-Australian mining giant to 18 percent, a senior company executive said Thursday. "As a value proposition, this is absolutely favourable," Rio Tinto's chief financial officer, Guy Elliot, said at a mining conference in Singapore. A deal with Chinalco would give Rio Tinto better understandin ... more
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