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the second hyperpower |
 Nanjing, China (XNA) Jul 22, 2009 
Chinese scientists are striving to capture a 40-minute sequence of images of the corona of a solar eclipse along its path across China on Wednesday in a bid to understand the sun's outer atmosphere. "We have set up 17 observer stations along the central line of the solar eclipse in China to capture the corona images," said Ji Haisheng, an astronomer with the Chinese Academy of Sciences ... read more 
Phuket, Thailand (AFP) July 21, 2009The signing by the United States this week of a friendship pact with Southeast Asia sends a strong signal of its desire to deepen ties and counter China's increasing influence, diplomats said. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will ink the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation on Wednesday in the Thai resort of Phuket during a meeting with her counterparts from the Association of Southeast ... more
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Taiwan coast guard says 'urgent need' for surveillance tech
Denmark in 'frank' talks with China over backing Russia 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 
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Beijing (AFP) July 21, 2009Developers building one of the world's biggest hydropower projects in southwest China are taking dangerous shortcuts, state media reported Tuesday, citing the national auditor. Alarm bells started ringing after builders brought forward their timeframe to finish the Xiluodu dam by more than two years, the National Audit Office said in a report on the project, according to the China Daily news ... more  
Taipei (AFP) July 21, 2009Taiwanese scientists said Tuesday they had developed an organic compound which could help control the global swine flu epidemic as the worldwide death toll from the disease passed 700. The compound, which the researchers call NTU-VirusBom, can destroy viruses such as A(H1N1) swine flu and avian influenza and stop the spread of bacteria including those responsible for staph infections. ... more  
Beijing (AFP) July 21, 2009China's policies toward its ethnic minorities were not to blame for deadly riots this month by Muslim Uighurs and would not be adjusted as a result of the violence, the government said on Tuesday. "The violent crimes in (the Xinjiang capital) Urumqi have nothing to do with China's ethnic policies," Wu Shimin, vice minister of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, told a press briefing. ... more  
Washington (AFP) July 21, 2009US President Barack Obama should press visiting Chinese officials next week to open China's markets to banned US beef and pork exports, Republican Senator Charles Grassley said Tuesday. "I ask that when meeting with the visiting delegation from China next week, your administration raise the issue of China's continued barriers to exports of US pork and beef," Grassley said in a letter to ... 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 
Soviet-era spacecraft hits ocean after 50 years in orbitWashington DC (UPI) May 10, 2025 A Soviet-area spacecraft that orbited Earth for more than 50 years crashed into the Indian Ocean on Saturday, Russian officials confirmed. ... more
  
Eldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if they fallBoston MA (SPX) May 14, 2025 The United States population is older than it has ever been. Today, the country's median age is 38.9, which is nearly a decade older than it was in 1980. And the number of adults older than 65 is ex ... more 
Self-Organizing Robots Poised to Revolutionize Marine OperationsBerlin, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2025 Imagine a world where AI-powered robots autonomously organize themselves into collaborative teams, dynamically adjusting their configurations and strategies based on changing mission requirements. ... more
Ping pong bot returns shots with high-speed precisionBoston MA (SPX) May 12, 2025 MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design that returns shots with high-speed precision. The new table tennis bot comprises a multijointed r ... more
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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 
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 |
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