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U.S. backs Yemen, Russia arms itSanaa, Yemen (UPI) Jan 11, 2009 America may be doubling its security aid to embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen to fight al-Qaida, but most of the country's weaponry is coming from Russia, China and former Soviet states in Eastern Europe, with Saudi Arabia providing the funds. According to the Inter Press Service, Yemen's armed forces are undergoing a major military modernization program worth an estimated ... read more |
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Washington (UPI) Jan 11, 2009 The Copenhagen summit showed that climate change is as much about geopolitics and power as it is about the weather. China's blunt refusal to accept any binding limits on its carbon emissions, despite the agonized pleas of small island governments facing extinction, demonstrated that this new aspect of the game of nations is going to be played as hardball. And yet, as Cleo Paskal argues ... more  
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jan 12, 2010Chinese researchers have become the world's fifth most prolific contributors to peer-reviewed scientific literature on clock-reversing regenerative medicine even as a skeptical international research community condemns the practice of Chinese clinics administering unproven stem cell therapies to domestic and foreign patients. According to a study by the Canadian-based McLaughlin-Rotman ... more  
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Jan 11, 2010China's leading power grid operator SGCC and Malaysian development fund 1MDB said Monday they will establish massive energy projects worth 11 billion dollars in Malaysian Borneo. Prime Minister Najib Razak unveiled the joint venture between government development and investment firm 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and SGCC (State Grid Corporation of China). "In a short period of time ... more |
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Raipur, India (AFP) Jan 11, 2010Indian police on Monday arrested three Chinese employees over the collapse of an industrial chimney that killed 40 workers. The men were employees of China's Shandong Electric Power Construction, which was contracted to build the 178-metre (584-feet) power station chimney in central Chhattisgarh state, police said. The two engineers and a project manager have been charged with culpable h ... more  
Washington (AFP) Jan 7, 2010President Barack Obama's administration is starting the new year with its fingers crossed on China, hoping that upcoming tough decisions do not inflame tensions with the growing Asian power. The Defense Department on Wednesday gave the go-ahead to sell upgraded Patriot missile equipment to Taiwan, a move that some experts said showed the cautious approach of the Obama administration as it ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Jan 9, 2010China's coal-rich Shanxi province faced its most severe power shortage in three years as severe cold weather continued to drive up national electricity demand, state media reported Saturday. The northern province was rationing electricity as two major coal-fired electricity plants in the capital Taiyuan saw their coal reserves fall below the seven-day supply warning level, the official Xinhu ... more |
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