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China defends web censorship after Google threatBeijing (AFP) Jan 15, 2010 China declared its Internet "open" Thursday but defended censorship that has prompted web giant Google to threaten to pull out of the country, adding a potential new irritant in China-US relations. But Google -- backed by the White House -- appeared to be winning the battle for hearts and minds, with Chinese online users flooding the web and visiting the company's Beijing offices to express ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 13, 2010A senior US defense official on Wednesday voiced doubts about China's insistence that its use of space is for peaceful means as Washington appealed for steady military ties with the rising Asian power. "The Chinese have stated that they oppose the militarization of space. Their actions seem to indicate the contrary intention," said Wallace Gregson, the assistant secretary of defense in in charge of Asia. "We continue to press the Chinese for explanation," Gregson told a congressional hearing. ... more  
Beijing, China (XNA) Jan 14, 2010The "Lunar Probe Project" won a special award at the National Science and Technology Awards held during the China National Science and Technology Meeting January 11. Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of China's Lunar Probe Project disclosed during an interview that the resolution of the cameras mounted on the Chang'e-2 Satellite which has been scheduled to be launched this year reached 7 mete ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Jan 13, 2010China's government Wednesday called for the acceleration of a proposal to integrate the nation's Internet, telecommunications and broadcast media. The State Council, or Cabinet, decided at a meeting that integration was needed to meet the Chinese public's "increasingly diverse" information needs, a statement summarising the meeting said. However, it said the proposal should include stren ... more |
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Beijing (UPI) Jan 12, 2009 China has successfully tested new technology capable of intercepting missiles in midflight, state media reported. The move comes amid increased tensions over Taiwan and repeated complaints by Beijing over the planned sale of American weapons to its hostile neighbor. The official Xinhua News Agency reported that "ground-based midcourse missile interception technology" was tested ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Jan 13, 2010State press splashed a front-page photo of China's first publicly "married" gay couple on Wednesday -- the latest sign of new openness about homosexuality in a country where it has long been taboo. The page-one story in the English-language China Daily featured a photograph of the "newlyweds" arm-in-arm during a January 3 ceremony. Zeng Anquan, 45, and Pan Wenjie, 27, tied the knot at ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Jan 13, 2010Six people have died in the fierce cold snap that has gripped China since the start of the new year, and millions of others have been affected, state media reported Wednesday. Police in the northern Inner Mongolia region said two people died from the cold weather. One of them, a student, died from exposure when he got lost in windy weather after school, the official Xinhua news agency said. ... more |
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