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No Spacewalk From Tiangong-1Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 25, 2010 China's next manned space mission, expected in 2011, will carry three astronauts to China's first space laboratory. The laboratory module that will host them, dubbed Tiangong-1, is expected to fly in late 2010 or early 2011. China will then perform rendezvous and docking tests with an unmanned Shenzhou spacecraft launched to Tiangong, to prove that astronauts can visit the lab. The expedition to Tiangong is expected to last around two weeks. The astronauts are expected to spend most of their time ... read more |
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300,000 more to move for China's Three Gorges Dam: reportBeijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2010 An additional 300,000 people will be forced to move from their homes because of China's controversial Three Gorges Dam and its huge reservoir, state media reported on Thursday. The English-language China Daily said the relocations were aimed at preventing pollution from adjacent communities contaminating the reservoir, and at protecting residents from possible seismic dangers. The report quoted government officials in the huge municipality of Chongqing in southwestern China. The dam, t ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Jan 23, 2010Five people have been jailed for spilling industrial waste into a drinking water source, causing the supply for a city of five million people to be cut off for a week, state media reported Saturday. Three petrochemical company managers in Huai'an, eastern China, hired two private contractors in February last year to empty waste into an irrigation ditch connected to the city's drinking water ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2010At least 80 hospital patients in central China were infected with HIV through contaminated blood, according to a state media report that highlighted the continuing impact of a 1990s blood-selling scandal. The patients at the No. 2 Hospital in Hubei province's Daye city were infected after receiving transfusions of blood sold by several local residents who were later found to have HIV, the Wu ... more  
Washington (AFP) Jan 20, 2010The lead author of a World Bank report on the global economy published Wednesday said the bank sees "signs of bubbles" in the Chinese economy, a problem he said the Chinese government acknowledges. "We can already see some signs of bubbles and signs of tensions in the Chinese economy, in particular in the housing sector," said Andrew Burns, head of the bank's macroeconomic forecasting, at a news briefing Tuesday under embargo until the report was released late Wednesday in Washington. ... more |
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US asked to drag China to WTO over Google disputeWashington (AFP) Jan 23, 2010 Some groups are calling on the United States to challenge China's "firewall" before the World Trade Organization, as a bilateral row over cyberattacks on Google adds to trade tensions. As President Barack Obama awaits answers from Beijing on the cyberstrikes, Washington is being asked to contest China's Internet censorship as a breach of global trade rules to which the Asian giant, as a WTO member, is subject. "The US can argue that China's 'Great Firewall' -- a system of filters and bottlenecks ... read more |
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