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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 2, 2009 
Bad breath is enough to fail the test to enter China's manned space programme, state media said Sunday -- but the final green light for blast-off is given by the hopeful astronaut's wife. China only wants to send the best of the best into orbit, meaning unfortunate personal smell is sufficient reason to get disqualified right away, the Sina.com website reported. "Bad body odour will affe ... read more
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 03, 20092009 will mostly be remembered by space enthusiasts as the 40th anniversary of the first Moonwalk. For me, there's a second but more personal anniversary. I'm celebrating ten years of watching China's exciting buy mysterious human spaceflight program. This has not been an easy or a conventional task, but it's certainly been rewarding. China launched its Shenzhou 1 spacecraft in 1999, publically ... more
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Trump says has asked Xi to release Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai
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 
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 3, 2009Two children of exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer have blamed her for deadly ethnic unrest in Xinjiang, Chinese state media said Monday, but a spokesman for her group said their letters were fakes. It was not possible to immediately ascertain the authenticity of the two letters purportedly from Kadeer's son Khahar and daughter Roxingul, as well as her younger brother Memet, which were widel ... more  
Yixian, China (AFP) Aug 4, 2009The river has dried up, the well yields only dust, and Li Yunxi is hard pressed to irrigate his plot of land, even though he lives right next to the largest water project in history. The elderly farmer watches in despair as his corn crop wilts under the scorching northern China sun, knowing that a fresh, abundant stream is only a stone's throw away. "We ordinary people don't dare use tha ... more  
Moscow (AFP) Aug 4, 2009Russia will boost monitoring at its border with China following an outbreak of pneumonic plague in a neighboring north-western region, Russia's top sanitary doctor said Monday. "Control over people crossing this border will be stepped up, including both Chinese and Russian nationals," Gennady Onishchenko said as quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency, adding that the region was fairly remote ... more |
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Shanghai (AFP) Aug 3, 2009China's Brilliance Auto said Monday it is in talks with German auto and truck maker Daimler to set up a joint venture making special-use vehicles in China. "The project is to convert Daimler's commercial vehicles into special purpose vehicles. We have been in discussion since last year," a Brilliance Auto executive told AFP. The joint venture's products would be sold in the Chinese marke ... more  
Shanghai (AFP) Aug 4, 2009China's banking regulator is considering tighter rules on domestic banks' derivative operations after some companies and lenders suffered heavy losses last year, local media said Tuesday. The China Banking Regulatory Commission is studying plans to discourage lenders from trading complicated overseas derivative products, the China Business News reported, citing unnamed sources. It may al ... more
Geneva (AFP) July 31, 2009China on Friday asked the European Union for talks under the first stage of a World Trade Organization disputes procedure over EU measures on imports of Chinese-made screws and bolts. A source close to the WTO confirmed that the global trade watchdog had been notified of the request. The move marked an escalation in the dispute following a final European Commission decision in January to ... more |
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