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China's space station plan delayed for 'technical reasons'Beijing (AFP) March 3, 2010 China has postponed the next step in its ambitious space station programme until 2011 for technical reasons, state media said Wednesday. China had originally planned to place the Tiangong-1 space module in orbit late this year and undertake experimental docking manoeuvres in subsequent missions, Xinhua news agency cited rocket designer Qi Faren as saying. But the initial launch has now been delayed by a year due to "technical reasons", Qi said, without elaborating. Qi was speaking to the med ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) March 2, 2010A senior US diplomat was due in China Tuesday for talks aimed at getting Sino-US relations back on track, with tensions high over US arms sales to Taiwan and a White House visit by the Dalai Lama. US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg will also focus on efforts to bring North Korea back to stalled nuclear disarmament negotiations, and try to persuade Beijing to back new sanctions agai ... more  
Beijing (AFP) March 2, 2010Chinese authorities have reported an outbreak of highly contagious foot and mouth disease in the south of the country and have destroyed more than 8,000 pigs, state media reported Tuesday. Xinhua news agency quoted local veterinary officials in Guangdong province as saying a total of 8,382 pigs had been culled after the outbreak was reported in a district of the provincial capital Guangzhou ... more  
Stockholm (AFP) March 1, 2010China has started exploring how to reap economic and strategic benefits from the ice melting at the Arctic with global warming, a Stockholm research institute said Monday. Chinese officials have so far had been cautious in expressing interest in the region for fear of causing alarm among the five countries bordering the Arctic, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) sai ... more |
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One dead, dozens trapped in flooded China coal mineBeijing (AFP) March 1, 2010 A flood in a coal mine in northern China's Inner Mongolia region on Monday has killed one worker and left dozens of others trapped, the government and the mine's owner reported. At least 31 miners were trapped in the mine after it flooded, mine owner Shenhua Group said in a statement. The State Administration of Work Safety confirmed the toll, after earlier reporting that 44 miners were missing in the flooded mine shaft. The incident occurred at the Luotuoshan Coal Mine in Wuhai City, about ... read more |
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