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US lunar pull-out leaves China shooting for moonBeijing (AFP) Feb 21, 2010 China aims to land its first astronauts on the moon within a decade at the dawn of a new era of manned space exploration - a race it now leads thanks to the US decision to drop its lunar programme. US President Barack Obama earlier this month said he planned to drop the costly Constellation space programme, a budget move that would kill off future moon exploration if it is approved by Congress. In contrast, China has a fast-growing human spaceflight project that has notched one success after an ... read more |
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Xichang, China (XNA) Jan 18, 2010China took one step forward in its ambition to build an independent global navigation network capable of rivaling foreign congeneric systems with the successful launch of a new orbiter into space early Sunday morning. Boosted by a Long-March-3III carrier rocket into a geostationary orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, it was the third orbiter China has launched for the network ... more  
San Francisco (AFP) Feb 17, 2010Coordinated cyberattacks launched from Europe and China breached computers at firms and government agencies worldwide in the past 18 months, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The Journal quoted computer security firm NetWitness as saying the attacks made mountains of data vulnerable to mining by hackers, although the damage had yet to be fully assessed. Information bared to hac ... more  
Brussels (AFP) Feb 18, 2010The head of the European Commission warned on Thursday that European leaders must "rethink" their approach to climate change negotiations with major partners such as China and the United Sates. In a letter to the 27 European Union leaders, Jose Manuel Barroso said a UN summit in Copenhagen in December at which bloc negotiations were outmaneouvred "showed us just how tough it will be" to con ... more |
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China goes gourmet with foie grasYanqing, China (AFP) Feb 17, 2010 China's ever-growing taste for luxury goods is extending into the culinary world - and that's good news for Jean-Marie Vallier, who runs a duck farm and foie gras factory outside Beijing. Two years ago, French group Euralis - the world leader in foie gras production - invested 2.7 million dollars in the facilities, aimed at producing the delicacy for high-end restaurants under the Rougie brand. As the tastes and budgets of China's growing middle class expand, so does the demand for upmarket W ... read more |
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