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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 China expert recruitment project nets first batch: report 
Beijing (AFP) April 16, 2009China has signed up more than 120 overseas experts for a new project aimed at spurring innovation by offering thousands of academics one million yuan (146,000 dollars) to move to China, state media reported Thursday. The first batch of recruits for the programme comprises 96 scientists and 26 entrepreneurs - 80 of whom hold foreign passports and all but four of whom are of Chinese origin ... more 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 US nuclear experts expelled from NKorea: Xinhua 
Beijing (AFP) April 17, 2009Four US experts monitoring the shutdown of a North Korean nuclear plant were expelled Friday from the isolated nation, Chinese media reported, days after they were told to leave. The four departed Pyongyang's Sunan airport for Beijing "under the DPRK's (North Korea's) expulsion order," Xinhua news agency said. North Korea on Tuesday pulled out of nuclear disarmament talks and ordered US ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) April 18, 2009China said Friday it has punished 113 people over a massive landslide last year that engulfed a busy market in the north, killing at least 277. The torrent of mud and mining waste triggered by the collapse of a mine reservoir buried an outdoor market in the coal-rich northern province of Shanxi last September, the state Xinhua news agency said. The official death toll stands at 277, with ... 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 Drug-resistant TB rampant in ex-USSR, China: study 
Paris (AFP) April 16, 2009Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has reached "epidemic" levels in many ex-Soviet nations, and is widespread in several provinces of China, according a new global assessment released Thursday. Data on more than 90,000 patients in 83 countries covering the period 2002-2007 showed that one-in-nine of the approximately nine million new cases of tuberculosis each year failed to respond ... more |
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Shanghai (AFP) April 16, 2009China Eastern Airlines said it suffered a net loss of 15.3 billion yuan (2.2 billion dollars) last year due to falling passenger numbers, rising fuel costs and bad bets on fuel hedging contracts. The country's third largest carrier, which posted a net profit of 378.6 million yuan in 2007, said its revenue declined 3.4 percent to 41.1 billion yuan last year. "The global financial crisis. ... more China sends more patrols to South China Sea: report 
Beijing (AFP) April 16, 2009China has dispatched more civilian patrol boats to the South China Sea, where tensions have risen recently over a long-standing territorial dispute, state press said Thursday. At least six patrol vessels belonging to provincial units of the Maritime Safety Bureau of China have been sent to the South China Seas in recent weeks, with several others being prepared for departure, China Daily rep ... 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 China Beidou Navigation System Expected To Cover World
Beijing (XNA) Apr 16, 2009With the successful launch of the second Beidou navigation satellite on March 15, China's independently-developed Beidou satellite navigation system has entered a peak network formation period from this year. A Global Positioning System is expected to be established around 2020. On the morning of April 15, China sent the second Beidou navigation satellite into the orbit with the carrier ro ... more
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