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Paris, April 29, 2009 The European Space Agency says scientists have found extreme solar activity drastically compresses the Earth's magnetosphere and modifies ions. The researchers obtained their findings from coordinated in-situ measurements by the ESA's four Cluster satellites and two Chinese-ESA Double Star satellites. The scientists said they are now creating a model to determine how the changes affect ... more China Launches Yaogan VI Remote-Sensing Satellite 
Taiyuan, China (XNA) Apr 27, 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 US destroyers to escort ships in South China Sea: official 
Washington (AFP) March 12, 2009The United States has decided to provide heavily armed destroyers to escort US surveillance ships operating in the South China Sea after a tense naval standoff this week, a US official said on Thursday. "Right now they are going to escort these types of ships for the foreseeable future," the defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP. The US government has said Chines ... more Indian envoy sees close ties with Obama 
Washington (AFP) March 11, 2009A senior Indian envoy voiced confidence Wednesday of close cooperation with US President Barack Obama, even though the administration has focused first on Asian heavyweights China and Japan. Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, wrapping up talks in Washington, said the world's two largest democracies would work together on a range of issues including bringing stability to Afghanistan -- a k ... more US, China try to defuse tension, focus on economy 
Washington (AFP) March 12, 2009President Barack Obama welcomes Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi to the White House Thursday as both powers try to defuse military tensions and focus on stabilizing the global economy. Obama invited Yang after the visiting foreign minister held talks Wednesday in Washington with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. With only a few weeks in office, O ... more |
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Washington (AFP) March 12, 2009The family of missing Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been tipped for a Nobel Peace Prize, has defected to the United States, rights activists said Thursday. New York-based Human Rights in China and Radio Free Asia said Gao's wife and children arrived in the United States on Wednesday and were seeking asylum. "It was extraordinarily difficult to get us out of China. The frien ... more Fowl Soil Additive Breaks Down Crude Oil 
Wuhan, China (SPX) Mar 13, 2009It is an unlikely application, but researchers in China have discovered that chicken manure can be used to biodegrade crude oil in contaminated soil. Writing in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution the team explains how bacteria in chicken manure break down 50% more crude oil than soil lacking the guano. Bello Yakubu, Huiwen Ma, and ChuYu Zhang of Wuhan University, China, ... more Iraq, China open major oil field 
Kut, Iraq (AFP) March 12, 2009Chinese engineers have inaugurated an Iraqi oil field, the first major oil development deal secured by a foreign firm since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein, officials said on Thursday. The project, which follows the signing of a three-billon-dollar contract late last year, revives a deal signed in 1997 that granted China exploration rights to Al-Ahdab oil field in central Iraq. "This pro ... more Gloom persists as China's factory output, retail sales slow 
Beijing (AFP) March 12, 2009China on Thursday said factory output and retail sales were slowing, but banks were also pumping more credit into the economy as the country battles the global downturn. Industrial production in the world's third-largest economy grew 3.8 percent in the first two months of 2009 compared with the same period last year, the National Bureau of Statistics reported. It was a sharp slowdown com ... more |
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Washington (AFP) March 11, 2009US President Barack Obama on Wednesday invited Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi to the White House as both powers tried to defuse military tensions and focus on stabilizing the global economy. Obama is to take the symbolic step of meeting the foreign minister - which is not standard protocol but has been used sparingly by previous presidents - on Thursday after his talks with Secretary ... more US-China naval standoff worst since 2001: Official 
Washington (AFP) March 11, 2009A tense US-China naval standoff in the South China Sea was the most serious military incident involving the two powers since Beijing held a downed US spy plane and crew in April 2001, a top official said Tuesday. US intelligence director Dennis Blair said China was sending mixed messages by taking a "more aggressive" military stance in Southeast Asia while also deploying ships for anti-pirac ... more China Afloat In The Indian Ocean Part Two 
Hong Kong (UPI) Mar 11, 2009 China's Sea Lion radar can search for more than 100 targets at once and track 50 of them at the same time. Its search range for combat aircraft appears to be around 500 to 550 kilometers (300 to 330 miles). The design requirements for both Russian and Japanese phased array radar systems are such that even if 10 percent of the elements are lost, the radar system can continue to function ... more 'Peking Man' 200,000 years older than thought: study 
Paris (AFP) March 11, 2009Barrel-chested "Peking Man," the collective name given to the treasure trove of homo erectus fossils found near the Chinese capital in the 1920s, is some 200,000 years older than previously thought, according to a study released Wednesday. Using a new dating technique, Chinese and US researchers led by Guanjun Shen of Nanjing Normal University determined that the tool-making "erect man" live ... more
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