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China Launches "Yaogan VI" Remote-Sensing Satellite
Taiyuan, China (XNA) Apr 23, 2009China on Wednesday launched a remote-sensing satellite, "Yaogan VI," from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north Shanxi Province. The satellite was successfully launched into the space on a Long March 2C carrier rocket at 10:55 a.m., the center reported. It will be mainly used for land resources survey, environmental surveillance and protection, urban planning, crop yield estim ... more China celebrates navy's 60th anniversary 
Beijing (AFP) April 21, 2009China's navy will mark its 60th anniversary with a ceremony starting Thursday dubbed the "naval Olympics" that will display the country's nuclear-powered submarines for the first time, state media said. The four-day event involves 21 vessels from 14 countries in the eastern city of Qingdao and includes a fleet review to be held Thursday -- the fourth one in China since 1949, the official ... more Pentagon agency at source of harsh interrogation techniques: probe 
Washington (AFP) April 22, 2009A little known Pentagon agency that trained US troops to resist torture promoted the use of some of the same interrogation techniques on Al-Qaeda, which were aired and quickly authorized at high levels of the US government, a Senate investigation has found. Warnings by military lawyers about both the legality and the effectiveness of techniques that were modeled on methods used by China to e ... more Chinese police tortured Tibetan lama: lawyer 
Beijing (AFP) April 22, 2009A Tibetan lama who went on trial for weapons possession gave a false confession after Chinese police tortured him by depriving him of sleep for four days, his lawyer said Wednesday. Phurbu Rinpoche, the 52-year-old head of a nunnery in the restive prefecture of Ganzi in the southwestern province of Sichuan, was tried on Tuesday for his alleged role in deadly unrest that swept across the Tibe ... more China labour disputes rise as economy slows: state media 
Beijing (AFP) April 22, 2009The number of labour disputes in China has soared amid the global financial crisis as laid-off employees seek salaries owed to them by suddenly defunct companies, state press reported on Wednesday. A total of 98,568 cases involving labour disputes were filed in Chinese courts in the first three months of 2009, up 59 percent year on year, the China Daily said, citing figures from the nation's ... more |
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Shanghai (AFP) April 22, 2009China's central bank said Wednesday the government's stimulus package had kicked in and the nation's economy was showing signs of recovery. Quarter-on-quarter data indicated the last three months of 2008 was the bottom of the downward cycle for the world's third largest economy, Yi Gang, vice governor of the People's Bank of China said, Dow Jones Newswires reported. "The economy is going ... more China approves deal with Australia's Fortescue 
Sydney (AFP) April 22, 2009Australian miner Fortescue Metals said Wednesday that Beijing's development regulator had approved a one billion dollar (700 million US) tie-up with China's state-owned Hunan Valin Iron and Steel Group. The investment, which was last month approved by Canberra, was Wednesday given the green light by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Fortescue said. "The NDRC appr ... more China says planning more dams on troubled Yangtze 
Beijing (AFP) April 21, 2009China will build at least 20 more reservoirs or hydroelectric projects in the Yangtze river system by 2020, the government said Tuesday, despite growing concerns over dam construction there. The figure was contained in comments by a top water resources ministry official on plans for the Yangtze, China's longest river, and its upper reaches that were posted on the ministry's website. ... more Taiwan probing military bribery claims 
Taipei (AFP) April 21, 2009Prosecutors in Taiwan said Tuesday they are probing allegations that a clutch of senior military officers bribed their way to the rank of general. The United Daily News, quoting unnamed prosecutors, said they would centre first on around 30 generals promoted by former president Chen Shui-bian. However, hundreds of other lieutenant and major generals promoted under his eight-year presiden ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) April 21, 2009China and Russia signed an energy agreement Tuesday that will usher in billions of dollars of commercial deals, including the building of an oil pipeline and supply of fuel to a thirsty Chinese market. "China and Russia have agreed to a package of deals on oil pipeline construction, crude oil trade and financing and other projects pertaining to oil cooperation," foreign ministry spokeswoman ... more Rally against shark fin trade opens in Singapore 
Singapore (AFP) April 18, 2009Animal rights activists launched a campaign in Singapore Saturday against the consumption of shark fin, a status symbol when served at Chinese wedding banquets and dinners. The Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES) held the rally at Speakers' Corner, Singapore's only venue for outdoor assemblies and demonstrations, subject to strict guidelines. A large banner bearing the ... more China's wild alligators to double in 10 years: report 
Shanghai (AFP) April 19, 2009China's endangered Yangtze alligator population is expected to more than double to 300 in the wild within five to 10 years, state media reported Sunday. Currently there are more than 120 alligators breeding in a wider area than five years ago, Wang Chaolin of the Chinese Alligators Protection Nature Reserve, in eastern Anhui Province, told Xinhua news agency. "We have for the first time ... more China's poor hope reforms will fix health care 
Siziwangqi, China (AFP) April 19, 2009Wang Jun's eyesight is slowly deteriorating from suspected glaucoma, but there is nothing hazy about his view of China's much-maligned health system. "It's really lacking, really inadequate," said the retired 56-year-old former dairy farm worker, reflecting a view widely held in this country as he awaits treatment in a grubby clinic in northern China. China this month announced plans to ... more
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