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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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Trump's Beijing trip rescheduled for May, after Iran delay
Press Release from Business Wire: ECU Worldwide China Eastern says to buy 101 Airbus A320neo planes in $15.8 bn deal Labubu maker Pop Mart's shares fall 23% despite surging earnings Japan says Chinese embassy break-in 'regrettable' China shipping giant Cosco says resumes bookings to some Gulf countries Crude tumbles, stocks rally on hopes for Iran war de-escalation Exotic pet trade thrives in China despite welfare concerns Rights group warns of 'dystopian' Hong Kong after bookstore arrests CORRECTED: Crude tumbles, stocks rally on hopes for Iran war de-escalation 
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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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US fusion report urges new diagnostics for commercial plasma powerLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2026 To operate fusion systems safely and reliably, scientists must monitor plasma fuel conditions and measure properties such as temperature and density that influence fusion reactions. This work depend ... more 
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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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Japan to deploy counter-strike missiles closer to ChinaTokyo (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 Japan will deploy a batch of long-range, counter-strike missiles in a southwest region near China by the end of March, officials said Monday. ... more 
NATO intercepts second Iran missile in Turkish airspaceAnkara (AFP) Mar 9, 2026 NATO said it shot down a second ballistic missile fired from Iran in Turkish airspace on Monday, prompting a stern warning from Turkey to Tehran not to take 'provocative steps'. ... more 
Italy to send air-defence aid to Gulf countries; France allowing US aircraft on some Mideast basesRome (AFP) Mar 5, 2026 Italy will send air-defence assistance to Gulf countries hit by Iranian strikes launched in retaliation for US-Israeli attacks, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Thursday. ... more
  
Japan eyes remote Pacific island for nuclear wasteTokyo (AFP) Mar 4, 2026 Japan is looking into using a remote deserted Pacific island nearly 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) from Tokyo as a site for burying nuclear waste, officials said. ... more 
US opposes UN nuclear watchdog resolution on Ukraine power grid strikesVienna (AFP) Mar 5, 2026 The UN nuclear watchdog's governing body passed a resolution on Thursday - overcoming US opposition - expressing concern over 'repeated and intensified attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure' posing a 'threat to nuclear safety', according to diplomatic sources. ... 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
  
Residents warned 'crocs everywhere' after north Australia floodsSydney (AFP) Mar 8, 2026 Police in Australia's Northern Territory warned of 'crocs everywhere' on Sunday and said they had moved more than a thousand people across the state into shelter after massive floods. ... more 
Shelter rankings and shower-timing apps: Israelis, Palestinians adjust to Iranian rocketsJerusalem (AFP) Mar 8, 2026 What is Israel's best bomb shelter? And when is the best time of day to shower without interruption from a missile alert? ... more 
Children must not be 'collateral damage' in Mideast war: UN expertsGeneva (AFP) Mar 4, 2026 The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child insisted Wednesday that children must be protected during the war in the Middle East, highlighting an alleged air strike on an Iranian school. ... more |
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