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 Tokyo (AFP) Nov 17, 2009 
NASA is ready to cooperate with China in space exploration, the head of the US agency said Tuesday, as Beijing aims to send a manned mission to the moon by around 2020. "I am perfectly willing, if that's the direction that comes to me, to engage the Chinese in trying to make them a partner in any space endeavour. I think they're a very capable nation," NASA chief Charles Bolden said. ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 17, 2009China and the United States pledged Tuesday to step up military exchanges and safeguard the peaceful use of outer space after talks between Chinese President Hu Jintao and visiting US leader Barack Obama. The two countries vowed to take "concrete steps to advance sustained and reliable military-to-military relations in the future," according to a joint statement released after their summit ... more
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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 Jimmy Lai convicted of national security charges in Hong Kong 
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Sanaa (AFP) Nov 17, 2009With rhinoceros horns under a world preservation order, increased use of plastic from China and lack of interest from young men, Yemen's prided "jambia" curved dagger is under threat. "It will soon be the end of the jambia," bemoans Khaled al-Saikal, an antiques dealer in the souk of the Old City in Sanaa whose windows are brimming with precious and less precious examples. ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Nov 17, 2009US President Barack Obama will Tuesday attack the formal business of his visit to China, sitting down with his opposite number Hu Jintao for talks centred on trade tensions and US calls for a stronger yuan. Their discussions follow Obama's town hall-style meeting with students in Shanghai on Monday where he acknowledged difficulties in China-US ties but said they need not be adversaries. ... more  
Washington (AFP) Nov 17, 2009Warning of a "cyber arms race," top Web security firm McAfee Inc. said Tuesday that China, France, Israel, Russia and the United States have developed "cyber weapons." "McAfee began to warn of the global cyber arms race more than two years ago, but now we're seeing increasing evidence that it's become real," said Dave DeWalt, president and chief executive of McAfee. ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Nov 17, 2009Every night, Mrs Wang finds herself shuttered in her northwest Beijing apartment because of the stench from the nearby dump. "For at least one hour, we don't open our windows as the smell from the rubbish tip is horrendous," said the frustrated young mother, standing outside her son's school in a city in the midst of a garbage crisis. China's capital still relies heavily on burying its ... more  
Washington (AFP) Nov 16, 2009Soaring interest by Chinese students has led to record foreign enrollment at US universities, offering a potential boon to the United States both economically and politically, a study said. Indians remained the biggest group of foreign students in the United States in the last academic year but their numbers appeared to be leveling off, while strong growth came from China, Vietnam and ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 17, 2009China and the United States on Tuesday pledged to resolve their lingering trade disputes and combat protectionism, as visiting US President Barack Obama called on Beijing to let the yuan rise. Comments by Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao to reporters after their summit however gave no further specifics on how the two economic giants planned to defuse mounting trade rancour marked by a ... more |
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