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Google, US intel to team up to fight cyberattacks: reportWashington (AFP) Feb 4, 2010 US Internet giant Google is enlisting the help of the top US electronic surveillance organization to ward off cyberattacks, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The report emerged amid an ugly spat between Beijing and Google, which has threatened to pull out of the Chinese market over cyberattacks and Web censorship in China. Under an agreement still in the works, the National Security Agency (NSA) would help Google analyze those attacks in a bid to better protect the California-based search c ... read more |
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Brussels (AFP) Feb 4, 2010The European Commission on Thursday defended its penalty taxes on Chinese shoe imports as "the right thing to do" after Beijing launched a complaint with the World Trade Organisation (WTO). "Anti-dumping measures are not about protectionism, they are about fighting unfair trade," acting EU Commission Trade Spokesman John Clancy said. "In this respect we believe this is the right action t ... more  
Taipei (AFP) Feb 5, 2010Formosa Plastics Group, one of Taiwan's largest industrial conglomerates, said Friday it planned to invest 650 billion Taiwan dollars (20 billion US dollars) at home and abroad in 2010. "We will focus on petrochemical and steel manufacturing this year," an official close to Formosa Plastics Corp chairman C.T. Lee told AFP. Formosa Plastics Corp is the flagship company of the group. ... more
Beijing (AFP) Feb 5, 2010China said Friday it would slap stiff penalties on a variety of US chicken meat it says is being sold at an unfairly low price, in the latest move sure to increase the pressure on strained Sino-US relations. The commerce ministry, in a preliminary ruling, said importers of US broiler chicken in China would have to pay deposits based on the difference - up to 105.4 percent - between the mea ... more |
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China Aiming To Have Its Own GPS In Place By 2012Beijing, China (XNA) Jan 18, 2010 China is in a rush to build its version of the Global Positioning System (GPS), by planning to launch 10 Beidou navigation satellites between now and 2012, a newly launched official website said. "The Beidou (Compass) Navigation Satellite System, which will be completed in 2020 with 35 satellites, will enable China to shake off its dependence on GPS and achieve huge economic benefits," Pang Zhihao, a senior researcher with the China Academy of Space Technology, told China Daily. Na ... read more |
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