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China To Launch Civil HD Survey Satellite In 2011Beijing (XNA) Dec 21, 2009 China will put into space a civil high-definition survey satellite, the first of its kind in the country, in 2011, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) said here Friday. The satellite, ZY 3, would be launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on a Long March 4B carrier rocket, according to Xu Deming, director of the SBSM and Vice Minister of ... read more |
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Xinxiang, China (AFP) Dec 16, 2009After years of campaigning to clean up the sludge-filled rivers and acrid air of central China's Henan province, Tian Guirong no longer has a bed to call her own and says she fears for her life. As world leaders huddle in Copenhagen for crunch talks on a global climate change deal, Tian's story is an example of the huge struggle faced by some developing countries trying to fight pollution. ... more  
Washington (AFP) Dec 18, 2009The United States announced Friday that China agreed to end a series of "famous brand" subsidies for a range of goods that Washington challenged as illegal at the World Trade Organization. The office of the US Trade Representative said Washington and Beijing had signed an agreement to settle a complaint filed last December with the WTO challenging an array of programs viewed as improper ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Dec 20, 2009China has quietly rewritten the geopolitical landscape in Central Asia in recent years, breaking Russia's monopoly over the export of the region's energy resources also coveted by the West, experts say. The proof came last week when Chinese President Hu Jintao travelled to the region for the inauguration of a natural gas pipeline snaking from Turkmenistan through Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in ... more |
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Seoul (UPI) Dec 17, 2009 North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong Il made a visit to the country's sputtering free-trade zone for the first time since its foundation two decades ago in an apparent bid to woo much-needed foreign capital. Kim made an "on-spot" guidance tour of the Rason free economic and trade zone on the country's northern tip bordering China and Russia, the North's official Central News Agency ... more  
Stockholm (AFP) Dec 16, 2009A 61-year-old Uighur living in Sweden as a political refugee since 1997 has been charged with spying for China on Uighur expatriates, a Swedish prosecutor said Wednesday. The man was identified in court documents as Swedish citizen Babur Maihesuti. He was arrested in Stockholm on June 4, 2009. He has been charged with aggravated espionage conducted "during the period January 2008 up ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Dec 17, 2009Moviegoers in China have flocked to see the big-budget Hollywood disaster film "2012" in which their country saves part of mankind from the apocalypse. Directed by Roland Emmerich -- known for mega-action hits such as "Independence Day" and "The Day After Tomorrow" -- the film has grossed more than 451 million yuan (66 million dollars) since its mid-November release. That places it in ... more |
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