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 Beijing, China (XNA) Nov 09, 2009 
China will launch a French-made communications satellite for the Hong Kong-based APT Satellite Holding Limited in the first half of 2012. A contract for the launch service was signed here Sunday. The satellite, dubbed APTSTAR-7 and made by the Thales Alenia Space, will be sent into space by China's Long March 3B/E carrier rocket at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 6, 2009Chinese President Hu Jintao said his nation supported the peaceful use of outer space Friday, days after his air force commander sparked concerns by saying an arms race in space was inevitable. Hu's comments, which echoed those made the day before by a foreign ministry spokesman, appeared to hammer home the message that Beijing has not abandoned its long-held opposition to the weaponisation ... more
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Washington (AFP) Nov 6, 2009President Barack Obama, set for a mission to China this month to boost warming ties, will stay firm on the US policy of supporting but not recognizing rival Taiwan, an aide said Friday. Jeff Bader, the East Asia director on the White House's National Security Council, stayed coy on whether Washington would soon authorize more weapons to Taipei, saying only, "Our policy on arms sales to Taiwa ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Nov 9, 2009A top Communist party official in China has urged the country's state media to expand its footprint overseas and called on journalists to do more to burnish the image of the nation's leaders. In a speech on Sunday to mark Journalists' Day, Li Changchun -- who is seen as the country's propaganda and ideology chief -- praised Chinese reporters for "strengthening and improving" the party's cont ... more 
Tawang, India (AFP) Nov 9, 2009Tens of thousands of Buddhist devotees gathered Monday to hear the Dalai Lama on his visit to a Tibetan border region that he insists is "non-political" but which China views as deeply provocative. Some 30,000 people, many of whom had arrived days in advance, were expected to attend a mass session of religious teaching by the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader at the remote Tawang monastery in ... more |
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Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt (AFP) Nov 8, 2009Chinese premier Wen Jiabao said on Sunday he was encouraged by signs of an economic recovery in the United States, but hoped it would keep its budget deficit to an "appropriate size" to stabilise the US dollar exchange rate. "We follow very closely China's holdings of US assets, because that is a very important part of our national wealth," Wen told a media conference at the Egyptian resort ... more  
Lagos (AFP) Nov 6, 2009China has dangled a near open cheque book to Africa's major oil producers in a bid to guarantee supplies for decades to come. It has offered 30 billion dollars to Nigeria and is negotiating for stakes in oil fields in Ghana and Angola and companies that exploit the fields throughout Africa. China's thirst for oil is expected to be a major topic at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation ... more 
Rio De Janeiro (UPI) Nov 6, 2009 Brazil's gigantic subsalt oil exploration and development project has received a $10 billion cash boost from China at the same time as the Chinese state oil company has bought its first oil asset in the United States. In the clearest indication yet that China is intent upon building up its energy portfolio in the Americas, Petrobras and Norway's Statoil have welcomed Chinese partnership ... more |
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