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the second hyperpower |
 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2009 
Whenever we think of a country's contribution to astronomy, we first tend to consider its most ancient roots. With Chinese astronomy, those roots go back far longer than any other modern culture. Among the most ancient writings and 'oracle bones' uncovered through painstaking archeology, we see the legacy of the first sightings of eclipses, aurora, sunspots and the solar corona. In their ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) July 20, 2009Beijing said Monday that a Chinese-born former Boeing engineer convicted by a US court of spying for China had been set up, and insisted it had no links to the espionage case. "The allegation that a so-called Chinese person stole trade secrets in the United States and gave them to China is purely a fabrication made up out of ulterior motives," the foreign ministry said in a short statement. ... more
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China's Xiaomi to invest nearly $7 bn in chips
Stocks, dollar drop after US loses last triple-A credit rating Markets drop after US loses last triple-A credit rating Asian markets drop after US loses last triple-A credit rating China factory output beats forecasts, weathering tariffs China slaps anti-dumping duties on plastic imports from US, EU, Japan Pakistan FM to visit China on heels of conflict with India over Kashmir Australian firm produces heavy rare earth, first outside China China, EU suspend Brazil chicken imports over bird flu China suspends chicken exports from Brazil after bird flu outbreak 
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Beijing (AFP) July 20, 2009One Chinese official is dead and another in a coma in a pair of cases highlighting the risks of China's culture of drinking heavily to seal political or business deals, state media said on Monday. Jin Guoqing, a district water resources chief in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, died last week of a heart attack after drinking excessively while entertaining official guests, Xinhua news ... more  
Paris (AFP) July 20, 2009A wind storm that ripped across western China's Taklimakan desert kicked up hundreds of thousands of tonnes of dust that high-altitude winds then carried around the world in less than two weeks, a study says. On May 8-9, 2007 winds reaching up to 36 kilometers (22.5 miles) per hour blew an estimated 800,000 tonnes of dust into the air, according to satellite imaging and computer models. ... more  
Geneva (AFP) July 20, 2009China on Monday upped the ante in a dispute with Washington over poultry exports, calling on the World Trade Organisation to rule on its complaint against US "discriminatory" legislation. According to Beijing, Washington is breaching international trade rules through a US spending bill that it says contains a clause banning imports of Chinese poultry. "While violating various WTO rules ... more  
Shanghai (AFP) July 20, 2009Chinese oil giants CNOOC and Sinopec said they have agreed to buy a 20 percent stake together in an offshore oil block in Angola from US oil company Marathon Oil Corp. State-controlled CNOOC and Sinopec are forming a 50-50 joint venture to buy the stake in the 5,090-square-kilometre (1,965 square-mile) field for 1.3 billion dollars, the two said in separate statements. Houston-based ... more |
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Glasgow Lab to Test Space-Bound 3D-Printed Materials for SafetyLondon, UK (SPX) May 14, 2025 A cutting-edge facility in Glasgow aims to address the risks associated with in-space 3D printing, a technology poised to transform how objects are manufactured in orbit. Researchers at the Universi ... more  
HEO and BAE Systems Forge Partnership for Advanced Space Data AnalysisSydney, Australia (SPX) May 13, 2025 HEO and BAE Systems have announced a collaboration aimed at delivering a comprehensive geospatial exploitation solution that integrates HEO's resolved Non-Earth Imagery (NEI) with BAE Systems' lates ... more 
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Beijing (AFP) July 19, 2009Deadly ethnic unrest in China's Muslim Xinjiang region was planned and coordinated in a bid to ignite violence across the regional capital Urumqi, state media reported on Sunday. A report by the official Xinhua news agency said rioters involved in the July 5 violence, China's worst ethnic unrest in decades, appeared to have prepared weapons in the days leading up to the unrest which left at ... more  
Beijing (UPI) Jul 17, 2009 The widening Chinese investigation into the alleged spying charges against the Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd. is becoming a major issue with global trade and other ramifications. Until last month outside of business circles, little was known about the controversy other than that China, the world's largest steel producer, was negotiating iron ore prices with Rio Tinto ... more 
Yangon (AFP) July 17, 2009Foreign investment in Myanmar increased more than fivefold to reach almost one billion dollars last year, as neighboring China pumped money into its mining sector, official statistics showed Friday. Total foreign investment in the military-ruled nation increased from 172.72 million dollars in the 2007-2008 fiscal year to 985 million dollars in 2008-2009, the Ministry of National Planning and ... more 
Taipei (AFP) July 18, 2009Chinese tourists have generated 764 million US dollars in revenue for Taiwan in a year, as ties rapidly improve between the formal rivals, a report here said Saturday. Some 370,000 Chinese tourists have visited Taiwan since July 2008, after President Ma Ying-jeou's Beijing-friendly government trebled the daily quota on mainland visitors to 3,000, said the China Times. Each mainlander ... more |
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