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China on Monday began construction of its new space launch center in Wenchang City, on the northeast coast of the tropical island province of Hainan, which is scheduled to be completed by 2013. The Hainan Space Satellite Launch Center, the fourth and the lowest latitude one in China, only 19 degrees north of the equator, would allow China to take part in more international commercial space ... read more
Beijing (AFP) Sept 14, 2009China began the construction of its fourth space launch centre Monday as the nation gears up for future manned space flights aboard a new generation of carrier rockets, state media reported. Work started on the Wenchang Space Satellite Launch Centre on southern Hainan island, which will become China's first coastal launching pad when completed in 2013, the Hainan Daily reported. ... more
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Washington (AFP) Sept 14, 2009The United States and five other powers will have a chance to present a "united front" in opposing Tehran's nuclear program when they meet on October 1, the State Department said Monday. Department spokesman Ian Kelly also said the five UN Security Council permanent members -- the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France -- plus Germany would push for more transparency from Iran at ... more  
New Haven CT (SPX) Sep 15, 2009A tiny bit of genetic material with no previously known function may hold the key to stopping the spread of cancer, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Sichuan University in Chengdu, China report in two papers in the September 7-11 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In the papers, Alan Garen of the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale ... more  
London (AFP) Sept 14, 2009British drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline said on Monday that trials had shown one dose of its swine flu vaccine produced "a strong immune response". "The results demonstrate that after one dose the candidate vaccine can provide a strong immune response," GSK said in a statement. The trial, which is taking place in Germany, involves 130 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 60. Chinese biotech ... more |
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New York (AFP) Sept 14, 2009Oil prices pulled back Monday amid fears that a US-China trade row could derail a fragile global economic recovery, adding to pressure from an oversupply of crude. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for October delivery, finished at 68.86 dollars a barrel, down 43 cents from Friday's closing level. London's Brent North Sea crude for October dropped 25 cents to settle at 67.44 ... more  
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 14, 2009The U.S. Air Force awarded Raytheon a $77.4 million Foreign Military Sales contract to produce AGM-65D and AGM-65G2 infrared-guided Maverick air-to-surface missiles for Korea and Taiwan. The AGM-65 Maverick family of precision-attack missiles is used by the air, naval and marine forces of 33 countries. More than 69,000 missiles have been produced to date, and more than 6,000 have been used ... more 
Washington (AFP) Sept 13, 2009Iran's latest offer of talks amounts to an opening bid to engage world powers in negotiations even if it fails to respond to their concerns about its nuclear program, analysts said. An unprecedented opportunity may be underway as the United States reluctantly seeks to join negotiating partners Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany in an urgent test-the-waters meeting with Iran over the ... more |
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