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the second hyperpower |
 Beijing (AFP) May 18, 2009 
Chinese President Hu Jintao has called for a crackdown on graft and extravagance in the military, kicking off a campaign to bring discipline to the world's largest army, state press said Monday. In a recent circular he ordered the end to "prominent problems" in the military and reiterated the need to maintain a clean and honest defence force, the People's Liberation Army Daily reported. ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) May 18, 2009China said Monday it hoped the new US ambassador would help develop a "new era" of relations between the two nations, two days after President Barack Obama unveiled his pick to the critical post. Obama revealed Saturday he had chosen Jon Huntsman, the current governor of Utah, a rising Republican star and a fluent Mandarin speaker, to take up the posting in Beijing -- one of the most importa ... more
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Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted of national security charges
Chinese man who documented alleged Uyghur camps risks removal from US Daughter warns China not to make Jimmy Lai a 'martyr' China sanctions retired Japan general over Taiwan 'collusion' International reaction to Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai verdict Japan's only two pandas to be sent back to China Asian markets drop with Wall St as tech fears revive Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media 'troublemaker' in Beijing's crosshairs What we know of Jimmy Lai's national security verdicts Jimmy Lai convicted of national security charges in Hong Kong 
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Beijing (AFP) May 18, 2009Workers at China's biggest Internet search engine postponed a two-week-long strike Monday, despite failing to reach an agreement over compensation issues, a US-based financial newspaper said. Representatives of several hundred employees of Baidu Inc ended meetings here Monday at company headquarters, giving Baidu several days to come up with a "fair response" to their grievances, the Wall St ... more  
Beijing (AFP) May 18, 2009China reported Monday a suspect case of swine flu in its southern Guangdong province involving a man who recently returned to the mainland from Canada and the United States. The man, aged 59, was diagnosed with the A(H1N1) virus, as it is officially known, following a preliminary test in the provincial capital of Guangzhou, the health ministry said in a statement on its website. China ... more  
Taipei (AFP) May 18, 2009The leader of Taiwan's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Monday vowed to launch a referendum in a bid to stop the signing of a major trade pact with rival China. "The DPP will get the endorsement of one million people in order to push for a referendum against the ECFA (Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement)," DPP chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen told a crowd in front of the pr ... more  
Taipei (AFP) May 18, 2009Taiwan's China Steel said Monday authorities in Vietnam approved its application to set up a joint venture there with Japan's Sumitomo Metal Industries. In a statement, China Steel said it received approval from the Vietnam government on May 12 to establish the joint venture, to be capitalised at 1.15 billion US dollars with Sumitomo Metal Industries and Taiwanese partners. China Steel ... more |
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Solar cell defect analysis advances with new transient response techniqueTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 26, 2025 Researchers from the Korea Institute of Energy Research and Chungbuk National University have pinpointed two distinct types of defects responsible for power loss in silicon heterojunction solar cell ... more  
Blade-coating advances promise uniform perovskite solar films at industrial scaleTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 18, 2025 Researchers at Zhejiang University have mapped critical parameters governing crystallization in blade-coated perovskite films, clarifying pathways to manufacture high-efficiency solar cells and opto ... more 
Floating solar panels show promise, but environmental impacts varyCorvallis OR (SPX) Nov 18, 2025 Floating solar panels are emerging as a promising clean energy solution with environmental benefits, but a new study finds those effects vary significantly depending on where the systems are deploye ... more
  
Highly Efficient Lead Free Material Converts Motion into ElectricityLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 26, 2025 Researchers from the University of Birmingham, University of Oxford, and University of Bristol have developed a material that efficiently converts mechanical motion into electricity without the use ... more 
Wafer-scale capacitors produced in one second with rapid heating and cooling processTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 19, 2025 Researchers led by Professor HU Weijin from the Institute of Metal Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have demonstrated a fabrication method for energy storage capacitors that completes in ... more 
Zap Energy achieves extreme fusion plasma pressures in new FuZE-3 trialLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 19, 2025 Zap Energy has reported that its Fusion Z-pinch Experiment 3 (FuZE-3) has produced plasmas with electron pressures reaching 830 megapascals. This figure corresponds to a total pressure of 1.6 gigapa ... more |
Beijing (AFP) May 18, 2009Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrived in Beijing on Monday with 240 business leaders for a visit aimed at boosting trade with China and promoting what he called a "new economic order." He was due to meet Chinese President Hu Jintao and other leaders during the three-day visit, and promote oil contracts, sales of Embraer aircraft, meat exports and biofuel technology for cars ... more  
Hong Kong (UPI) May 15, 2009 At the most recent Zhuhai Air Show, China put on open display its FT-5 Global Positioning System-guided bomb. The FT-1 and FT-3 500/250-kilogram-class, or 1,100/550-pound-class, GPS-guided bombs were on display at the previous show in 2006. China also showed off its 500-kilogram-class FT-2 with gliding fins added. The FT-2 has an effective range of 15 to 90 kilometers, a circular error probabi ... more  
Minneapolis MN (SPX) May 18, 2009Alliant Techsystems, the U.S. Navy, and the Italian Air Force successfully fired an AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake on April 13, 2009. The firing marks the fifth consecutive successful AARGM live fire in the program's System Development and Demonstration (SD and D) phase and continues AARGM's progression toward Independent Oper ... more |
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What is Taiwan's T-Dome?Taipei (AFP) Nov 30, 2025 Taiwan's government has proposed $40 billion in extra defence spending over several years, with the focus on developing a multi-layered air defence system dubbed "T-Dome". ... more 
Space Force operationally accepts SciTec Forge missile warning ground systemBoulder, CO (SPX) Oct 17, 2025 On September 23, 2025, the U.S. Space Force declared operational acceptance of the second operational delivery of the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution, or FORGE, for the 11th Space Wa ... more 
SpaceX launches 21 satellites for U.S. military from CaliforniaWashington DC (UPI) Oct 15, 2025 SpaceX on Wednesday launched 21 satellites from California for the U.S. military's Space Development Agency. ... more
  
Microbes join forces to quickly clean up uranium pollutionTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 27, 2025 Chinese scientists have discovered a quick and effective way to remove toxic uranium from water using helpful bacteria that work together. These bacteria can change uranium from a dangerous form tha ... more 
Successful fabrication of nuclear fuel assemblies boosts Barakah plant supply chainLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 25, 2025 Framatome and the Emirates Nuclear Energy Company (ENEC) have reported completion of the first lead nuclear fuel assemblies at Framatome's Richland, Washington facility for use in the Barakah Nuclea ... more 
Electrochemical system boosts uranium recovery from wastewaterTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 27, 2025 Researchers have developed an electrochemical system that recovers uranium from chemically complex wastewater using a self-standing covalent organic framework electrode operated through an indirect ... more
  
China launches campaign against fire hazards; as calls for accountability over HK fire silencedBeijing (AFP) Nov 29, 2025 China has launched a campaign against fire hazards in high-rise buildings, state media reported Saturday, after at least 128 people were killed in one of Hong Kong's deadliest blazes. ... more 
China FM pledges support for Syria in 'achieving peace'Beijing (AFP) Nov 17, 2025 China's top diplomat Wang Yi pledged support for Damascus on Monday in "achieving peace at an early date", as his Syrian counterpart Asaad al-Shaibani made his first official visit to Beijing. ... more 
Drenched and displaced: Gazans living in tents face winter downpoursGaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP) Nov 14, 2025 A barefoot Niven Abu Zreina swept an incessant stream of water away from her tent, as the season's first big rain hit her makeshift displacement camp in Gaza City. ... more |
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