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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 29, 2009 
China has completed a high-resolution, three-dimensional map of the entire surface of the moon, in an important step towards a future lunar landing, an expert involved in the project said Tuesday.
After putting its first man into space in 2003 -- only the third nation to do so -- China is aiming to launch an unmanned rover on the moon's surface by 2012 and a manned mission to the moon by aro ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 29, 2009China will celebrate 60 years of communist rule Thursday with lavish festivities showcasing the Asian giant's dramatic transformation from global pariah to diplomatic, economic and military power. The Communist Party, firmly in control since the founding of the People's Republic on October 1, 1949, will seize the moment to glorify its achievements and promote national unity at a time when so ... more
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Hong Kong's oldest pro-democracy party announces dissolution
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Paris (AFP) Sept 29, 2009Press rights group Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday that a "paranoid" China had blocked tens of thousands of websites ahead of the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic. The Paris-based group said that Chinese authorities had targeted Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and other ways that residents, including foreign reporters, used to circumvent controls on the Internet. The grou ... more  
Geneva (AFP) Sept 30, 2009World powers racked up the pressure on Iran ahead of crucial nuclear talks on Thursday, amid growing concern about the covert build up of Tehran's nuclear programme. European Union foreign affairs chief Javier Solana will conduct the talks with the top Iranian nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, along with senior officials from Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States in t ... more  
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 28, 2009China on Monday launched the sale of six billion yuan (879 million dollars) in government bonds in Hong Kong, the finance ministry said, marking the first such offer outside the mainland. The sale is another step in efforts by China, which has questioned the US dollar's status as the global reserve currency, to promote international use of the yuan. "Hong Kong has the conditions and ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Sept 27, 2009People who were killed, injured or bereaved in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake had the cruel misfortune to be victims of an event that probably occurs just once in four millennia, seismologists said on Sunday. In a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, Shen Zhengkang of the China Earthquake Administration and colleagues said the May 12, 2008 quake comprised a strong seismic wave ... more  
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 28, 2009A Hong Kong publisher on Monday released a book about Chinese history that was banned in mainland China for criticising authoritarian rule, just days before the celebration of 60 years of communism. "Chinese History Revisited" by journalist Xiao Jiansheng is on sale in Hong Kong bookshops despite Beijing banning the book two years ago, the publisher Bao Pu told AFP. Xiao's work, with an ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Sept 26, 2009China will build and launch a communications satellite for Laos, Chinese media reported Saturday, following similar ventures for Nigeria and Venezuela. China would also build a satellite control centre for Laos, according to an agreement signed Friday, reports said, citing an official at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT). The Dongfang Hong (The East is Red) model ... more |
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