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 Beijing (XNA) May 20, 2009 
China's Fengyun-2E weather satellite started its round-the-clock operations Tuesday, according to the China National Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. At the transfer ceremony of the satellite to the China Meteorological Administration, Sun Laiyan, vice director of the bureau, said that the satellite has passed all tests and demonstrated stable performance si ... read more 
Beijing (XNA) May 20, 2009China is the best place in the world to observe the longest total solar eclipse in 2,000 years that will fall on July 22 and last for more than two hours, Chinese scientists said here Tuesday. The eclipse would begin at about 8 a.m. on July, 22 (Beijing Time), and the length of the total eclipse of the sun will run for up to six minutes, said Li Ding, director of the Bureau of Basic Scienc ... 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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Prague (AFP) May 20, 2009EU and Chinese leaders are to focus on tackling the economic crisis at a summit on Wednesday, but lingering tensions over the Dalai Lama will cast a long shadow over the meeting in Prague. The summit was originally set for last December but China called it off in protest at a meeting between Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Poland. France ... more 
Khabarovsk, Russia (AFP) May 19, 2009It's a 10-hour flight from Brussels, a week's ride from Moscow on the train but close enough to China by ferry for a day's cheap shopping. In fact, Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk is almost as far from what is usually defined as "Europe" as you can get. So why has Russia decided to hold a an EU summit in the city on the banks of the mighty Amur River this Thursday and Friday? ... more  
Hong Kong (UPI) May 19, 2009 One member of the Russian military delegation to last November's Zhuhai Air Show described the Chinese-Russian arms trade as being in a long and drawn-out winter. A representative of Rosoboronexport, the agency that handles exports of Russian defense equipment, declined to comment on China's possible export of J-10A fighters equipped with Russian AL-31F engines. China did have it ... more  
Beijing (AFP) May 19, 2009China on Tuesday confirmed its fourth case of swine flu and announced a new suspected case, an Italian woman who had arrived in Tibet as a tourist. The confirmed case was a 59-year-old man who was stopped when he tried to enter south China with a fever on Friday on a train from Hong Kong, the health ministry said on its website. The man, a resident of southern Guangdong province, had sta ... 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 19, 2009China announced Tuesday a massive expansion of subsidies for people who buy new cars and home appliances this year, state media said, in the government's latest bid to lift the crisis-battered economy. The State Council, or cabinet, decided to increase the money available to subsidise car replacements to five billion yuan (733 million dollars) from one billion yuan when the programme was ann ... more  
Beijing (AFP) May 19, 2009Brazil's president said Tuesday in China that the two nations had achieved a century's worth of results in a mere generation, as he witnessed the signing of several large business deals cementing ties. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spent a day meeting with Chinese leaders in Beijing, during which analysts said he could broach a plan to ditch the US dollar in his nation's trade with China. ... more 
Beijing (AFP) May 19, 2009Beijing said it was eager Tuesday to take part in a meeting next month of foreign ministers of the four so-called emerging BRIC nations, Brazil, Russia, India and China. "China has a positive attitude towards taking part in the meeting," foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told reporters. "We believe China, Russia, India and Brazil are major emerging powers and are major forces in promo ... 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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