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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 Trimble Tracks Chinese Crustal Movements 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2009Trimble has announced that it has been selected by the National Development and Reform Commission, which is led by the China Earthquake Administration (CEA), to supply Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Continuous Operating Reference Station (CORS) receivers for the Crustal Movement Observation Network of China (CMONOC). Trimble will supply 295 NetR8 GNSS CORS receivers and GNSS Cho ... more China-based network infiltrates computers in 103 countries: report 
Washington (AFP) March 28, 2009A electronic spying operation based primarily in China has infiltrated government and private computers in 103 countries around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, The New York Times reported late Saturday. Citing a report prepared by Canadian researchers and due to be issued this weekend, the paper said the system was being controlled from computers based almost exclusively in Ch ... more China's leverage on North Korea limited: analysts 
Beijing (AFP) March 29, 2009China might be North Korea's only ally of note but its influence over Pyongyang - and its leverage - is limited, analysts say as the reclusive state prepares for an expected rocket launch. The United States, Japan and South Korea have expressed concern over North Korea's announcement that it will launch a communications satellite between April 4 and 8. The US, Japan and other allies be ... 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 China insists on financial system overhaul 
Medellin, Colombia (AFP) March 28, 2009Chinese Central Bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan on Saturday again urged for international financial reform in the face of the global economic crisis. Speaking at an Inter-American Development Bank meeting in the northwestern Colombian city of Medellin, Zhou said that current fiscal and monetary measures were useless if the international financial system is not overhauled. He said financial ... 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 |
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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 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: EU crisis sows political chaos 
Berlin (UPI) Mar 26, 2009 Besides shattering Eastern Europe's economies, the financial crisis has also sowed political instability in a range of countries in the region. Now even the government of China -- not exactly known as a caring mother to her family of 1.3 billion -- is warning its people from seeking work in Eastern Europe. Chinese workers should avoid going to Romania, Ukraine or Poland, a statem ... 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
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