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China sentences five more to death over riots: state mediaBeijing (AFP) Dec 3, 2009 A court in China's restive Xinjiang region sentenced five people to death on Thursday for murder and other crimes committed during deadly unrest in July, the state-run Xinhua news agency said. Two others were sentenced to life imprisonment by the court in the regional capital of Urumqi and six others were given varying jail terms, it said. China last month executed nine people who were c ... read more |
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Taipei (AFP) Dec 2, 2009Taiwan plans to invest more than 65 million US dollars in its competitive electronic-book sector over the next five years, the economic ministry's Industrial Development Bureau said. The bureau said it will provide up to 40 percent of the research and development costs for creating an online Chinese-language digital publications service similar to the English-language version operated by ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Dec 2, 2009Police in northern China have sentenced five Christian church leaders to two years of "education through labour" after they protested against a police raid on their church, a rights group said Wednesday. The punishments came after a Shanxi province court last week sentenced five other leaders of the same church to up to seven years in prison for trying to protect the unregistered church from ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Dec 2, 2009China's official swine flu death toll has tripled in the past two weeks after the government ordered more accurate reporting of fatalities amid suspicions of a cover-up. A statement posted on the health ministry's website late Tuesday said the number of people reported killed by the influenza A(H1N1) virus had jumped to 178 at the weekend, up from a previously reported nationwide tally of ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 2, 2009China is planning "rare" and "heavy-handed" steps to phase out outdated industry, state media said Wednesday, days after Beijing pledged to slow the growth in its fast-rising carbon emissions. The government is to launch a "rare nationwide campaign" to eliminate inefficient and excess industrial capacity, the Shanghai Securities News reported. It will include austerity measures that will ... more  
Luanda, Angola (UPI) Dec 2, 2009 Angola, the arena for a Cold War conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, is now caught up in a new battle -- for its oil. The West African state is now the continent's major producer, having eclipsed troubled Nigeria, and the Americans see it as a vital energy source in the years to come. So does China. During the Cold War, the United States sought to depose the ... more  
Shanghai, China (SPX) Dec 02, 2009A huge amount of scientific data have been accumulated by the CE-1 lunar orbiter. Using laser altimeter data, Jinsong Ping and Qian Huang et al obtained improved 3D lunar topography, and based on this, they had made new discoveries (such as impact basins and volcanic deposit highlands) of some ancient topographic characteristics on the lunar surface. Chao Chen and Qing Liang et al found ... more |
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