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China Launches Second Compass Satellite For Global Navigation System
Beijing (XNA) Apr 17, 2009China successfully launched its second navigation satellite early Wednesday, as part of the country's independent global satellite navigation system. The carrier rocket, Long March 3C, blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 0:16 a.m.. An official with the National Engineering Center of Satellite Navigation told Xinhua, the succes ... more China, US to try to cooperate on Pakistan, Afghanistan 
Beijing (AFP) April 16, 2009The United States and China have agreed to work together on bringing peace to Afghanistan and Pakistan, officials said Thursday following a visit to Beijing by a top US envoy. Richard Holbrooke, US envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, left China after holding talks with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and leading cabinet official Dai Bingguo during a two-day trip. "We came here to share view ... more China planning huge navy upgrade: commander 
Beijing (AFP) April 16, 2009China's navy will develop a new generation of warships and aircraft to give it much longer-range capabilities, its commander-in-chief said in comments published Thursday. Admiral Wu Shengli told the state-run China Daily newspaper the Chinese navy wanted to develop hardware such as large combat warships, stealth submarines with abilities to travel further and supersonic cruise aircraft. ... more Australia must boost military to deal with China rise: think tank 
Melbourne (AFP) April 16, 2009Australia must boost defence spending to give its military the hardware to deal with strategic challenges presented by China's rise as a global superpower, an influential think tank has warned. China's growth meant the US, Australia's main military ally, would lose its dominant position in Asia in coming decades, creating uncertainty and a higher risk of conflict, the Lowy Institute for Inte ... more China looks to farmers to boost economy 
Beijing (AFP) April 17, 2009With his sun-baked face and rough peasant hands, 47-year-old Chen Meiji does not look like the saviour of the Chinese economy, but that is the role his government wants people like him to fill. Like hundreds of millions of other farmers, Chen is being offered government subsidies to buy household goods, which is meant to boost rural consumption, and in turn reignite the world's third-largest ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) April 16, 2009China announced its slowest growth in at least a decade on Thursday, but Premier Wen Jiabao said the world's number three economy was performing better than expected. The Asian giant posted growth of 6.1 percent in the first quarter of the year, down from 6.8 percent in the final three months of 2008, underlining the impact of the global crisis. But overall, the economy was in "better-th ... more China may pull off growth target, but uncertainty remains 
Beijing (AFP) April 17, 2009China may pull off its eight-percent growth target for this year after performing better than expected in the first quarter, but many factors could derail the recovery, analysts said. A massive stimulus package implemented with lightning speed soon after the global financial crisis began has been key in bolstering the world's third-largest economy. But the question now is whether other ... more China loans 10 bln dlrs to Kazakhstan: state media 
Shanghai (AFP) April 17, 2009China has extended 10 billion dollars in loans to oil and gas-rich Kazakhstan, the Kazakh state news agency reported Friday, in the latest Chinese deal locking up access to foreign resources. China National Petroleum Corp, or CNPC, said Friday it had signed an agreement to give financial support to the resource-rich central Asian country's national oil and gas company. Under the agreemen ... more China launches global positioning satellite: report
Beijing (AFP) April 15, 2009China launched a navigational satellite Wednesday, the nation's space administration reported, the second in a series of up to 30 orbiters to comprise a global positioning network. The launch of the COMPASS satellite took place just after midnight from the Xichang Satellite Launching Centre in southwest Sichuan province, the China National Space Administration said on its website. The sa ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) April 15, 2009Russian authorities on Wednesday evacuated 53 passengers to quarantine and sealed off a train after a Chinese woman died of what could be a mystery infectious disease, officials said. "At the Zuyevka station in the Kirov region, the dead woman was urgently taken off the train. All the travellers, a group of migrants who were in her proximity, were also evacuated," the regional government sai ... more Protesters clash with police in China dispute 
Beijing (AFP) April 14, 2009Clashes between police and demonstrators erupted in south China after hundreds of people gathered to protest the handling of a housing dispute, locals and a rights group said Tuesday. The clashes occurred late Monday in Shenzhen city after protesters gathered to demonstrate against the alleged detention of up to four people representing them in the housing dispute, locals said. "They det ... more One man's bid to keep China's ancient music alive 
Xian, China (AFP) April 14, 2009An obsessive passion to revive a nearly forgotten music enjoyed by China's elite more than a thousand years ago has cost Li Kai his wife, his job and most of his savings. But the energetic, ever-smiling 57-year-old insists he has no regrets. "When I play the music, I'm happy - I don't feel tired, I don't feel hungry, and I'm not bored," he said as he introduced the ensemble he set up al ... more China orders governments to go green: state media 
Beijing (AFP) April 14, 2009Local governments in China have been ordered to buy more energy efficient products as part of the national drive to curb pollution and combat global warming, state press reported on Tuesday. China's State Council, or cabinet, issued a statement Monday calling for all local governments to place a higher priority on eco-friendly products in their public purchases, the China Daily reported. ... more
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