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  Xichang (XNA) Jun 24, 2022 China successfully launched three new remote sensing satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province Thursday. The satellites were launched as the second batch of the Yaogan-35 family at 10:22 a.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-2D carrier rocket and entered the planned orbit successfully. The satellites will be mainly used to conduct science experiments, land resource surveys, yield estimation of agricultural products and disaster prevention and red ... read more |
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Chinese scientists help Africa combat land degradationBeijing, China (SPX) Jun 22, 2022 On June 16, the 28th World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, China's national home event was held in Beijing, where Chinese scientists released an online tool, the Great Green Wall Big Data ... more  
Chinese official says its Mars sample mission will beat NASA back to EarthWashington DC (UPI) Jun 22, 2022 A senior Chinese space official said on Monday the country is on track to bring back rocks from the surface of Mars two years ahead of the planned joint effort by NASA and the European Space Agency ... more  
China develops new coating for spacecraft thermal controlBeijing (XNA) Jun 21, 2022 Chinese scientists have developed a metallic-based thermal-control coating for the Shenzhou-14 crewed spaceship that will protect the taikonauts from extreme heat and cold during their six-month sta ... more  
Did a giant radio telescope in China just discover aliens? Not so FASTPerth, Australia (The Conversation) Jun 18, 2022 This phrase is the standard that astronomers will be applying to a curious signal captured with China's "Sky Eye" telescope that might be a transmission from alien technology. An article repor ... more |
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Moon water may have originated below groundBeijing (XNA) Jun 21, 2022 Chinese scientists have discovered that the majority of water found on the moon may have originated from its interior rather than from solar wind bombarding its surface with hydrogen ions that event ... more 
China launches new test satelliteJiuquan (XNA) Jun 23, 2022 China on Wednesday sent a new satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The Tianxing-1 test satellite was launched by a Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket at 10 ... more  
Taiwan general charged in China spying caseTaipei (AFP) June 24, 2022 A retired Taiwanese general and another senior officer were indicted on Friday for their involvement in developing a spying network for China, prosecutors said. ... more  
Hong Kong arrests 5 for sedition before China rule anniversaryHong Kong (AFP) June 23, 2022 Hong Kong police have arrested five people for sedition as the city prepares to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Chinese rule and a potential visit from China's leader Xi Jinping. ... more |
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Protesters heckle Chinese ambassador to AustraliaSydney (AFP) June 24, 2022 China's new ambassador to Australia chided human rights protesters who heckled him Friday during a speech about the future of frosty relations between the two countries. ... more  
Xi warns about 'expanding military alliances' at BRICS summit: state mediaBeijing (AFP) June 22, 2022 Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against "expanding" military ties on Wednesday in a speech ahead of a virtual summit with top leaders from Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa. ... more  
Huawei loses Swedish appeal over 5G banStockholm (AFP) June 22, 2022 A Swedish court on Wednesday rejected an appeal from China's Huawei over the government's decision to ban the network equipment giant from the rollout of 5G mobile network infrastructure in the Nordic country. ... more 
Beijing insists on 'right political tone' for online streamersBeijing (AFP) June 22, 2022 New rules for livestreamers demand they hit the "right tone" when it comes to politics, Chinese authorities said Wednesday, in the latest sign of a tightening in the country's massive online entertainment sector. ... more |
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Biden says he plans to talk to China's XiWashington (AFP) June 21, 2022 President Joe Biden said Tuesday he plans to talk with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as he considers lifting some tariffs imposed on Beijing in a bid to ease US inflation. ... more
'Life goes on' for unfazed Taiwanese on frontline islandsXiyu, Taiwan (AFP) June 22, 2022 Since moving from Taiwan's capital to the outlying Penghu islands for the peace and the fishing 11 years ago, Lin Chih-cheng has grown accustomed to the roar of Chinese fighter jets puncturing the lull of the surf. ... more 
China made third-largest air incursion this year, says TaiwanTaipei (AFP) June 21, 2022 Twenty-nine Chinese warplanes entered Taiwan's air defence zone on Tuesday in its third-largest daily incursion this year, the island's government said. ... more  
Macau shuts almost everything but casinos to battle Covid outbreakHong Kong (AFP) June 23, 2022 Macau tightened social distancing restrictions on Thursday - closing almost everything except casinos - as the Chinese gambling hub embarked on another round of citywide testing to battle a Covid-19 outbreak. ... more  
Record floods threaten southern ChinaBeijing (AFP) June 23, 2022 Record floods were expected in parts of southern China Thursday as heavy rains pushed water levels in the Pearl River delta to their highest in almost a century. ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 22, 2022 
A senior Chinese space official said on Monday the country is on track to bring back rocks from the surface of Mars two years ahead of the planned joint effort by NASA and the European Space Agency to do the same thing.
Sun Zezhou, the chief designer of China's first Mars mission, Tianwen 1, said in a talk celebrating the 120th anniversary of Nanjing University, that China is ready to send ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) June 24, 2022 
An influential group of emerging economies said they backed talks between Moscow and Kyiv, at the end of a two-day summit held against the backdrop of Russia's war on Ukraine.
Beijing has been hosting a virtual forum of the BRICS nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - which account for over 40 percent of the global population and nearly a quarter of the world's gross dom ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2022 
No one should be surprised by the decision made by the governments of Sweden and Finland to apply for full membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Since the start of the Russian assault on Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, both countries have given Ukraine missile systems, assault rifles, ammunition and money for refugee resettlement.
In my view as a scholar of international re ... more |
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 Frankfurt (AFP) June 23, 2022 
Germany should extend the lifetime of its nuclear plants to avoid an "extreme scenario" in which a Russian gas stop could wipe 12 percent off the economy, a government advisor said Thursday.
Prolonging the operational lifetime of Germany's remaining reactors could "create some breathing space", Veronika Grimm, a member of the government's council of economic advisors, told the Funke media gr ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 23, 2022 
Distributed ledger technology, such as blockchains, has become more prevalent across a variety of contexts over the past decade. The premise is that blockchains operate securely without any centralized control and that they are immutable or unsusceptible to change.
Given its mission to create and prevent technological surprise, DARPA endeavored to understand those security assumptions and ... more |
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Frankfurt (AFP) June 23, 2022
Germany should extend the lifetime of its nuclear plants to avoid an "extreme scenario" in which a Russian gas stop could wipe 12 percent off the economy, a government advisor said Thursday.
Prolonging the operational lifetime of Germany's remaining reactors could "create some breathing space", Veronika Grimm, a member of the government's council of economic advisors, told the Funke media gr ... more |
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 Freiburg, Germany (SPX) Jun 22, 2022 
Wind energy contributes significantly to the energy sector's sustainable, low-CO2 transformation. However, the efficiency of wind turbines depends on available wind resources and the technical characteristics of the turbines. Climate change, of all things, is causing the global wind resource to diminish in the 21st century. At the same time, the technical properties of wind turbines are steadily ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 22, 2022 
TrinaTracker a global leading tracker solution provider, explains the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Solar industry in Genera 2022. Oscar Aira, Head of Solutions Sales EMEA, participated in the Forum that takes place at the International Energy and Environment trade exhibition "Genera" from 14th to 16th June with the presentation "How to Increase Energy Production with Artificial Intel ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) June 23, 2022  Iran said Thursday that it remains "serious" about reaching a revived nuclear deal with major powers that ends economic sanctions and to which the United States is again a party.
Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was speaking at a joint news conference with visiting Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov as talks between the parties in Vienna remain stalled.
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 Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) June 23, 2022 
Ukraine said Thursday that it had taken delivery of precision artillery systems from the United States which is the latest country to answer Kyiv's plea from allies for advanced weapons.
"Himars have arrived to Ukraine. Thank you to my colleague and friend @SecDef Lloyd J. Austin III for these powerful tools! Summer will be hot for russian occupiers. And the last one for some of them," Ukrai ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) June 15, 2022 
US President Joe Biden announced a new package of arms and ammunition for Ukraine Wednesday after speaking with President Volodymyr Zelensky and reaffirming Washington's support for Kyiv as it battles Russia's invasion.
The package of $1 billion worth of arms includes more artillery, coastal anti-ship defense systems and ammunition for artillery and advanced rocket systems that Ukraine is al ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 22, 2022 
Autonomous robots have come a long way since the fastidious Roomba. In recent years, artificially intelligent systems have been deployed in self-driving cars, last-mile food delivery, restaurant service, patient screening, hospital cleaning, meal prep, building security, and warehouse packing.
Each of these robotic systems is a product of an ad hoc design process specific to that particula ... more |
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 Mes Aynak, Afghanistan (AFP) June 22, 2022 
An ancient Buddhist city carved out of immense peaks near Kabul is in danger of disappearing forever, swallowed up by a Chinese consortium exploiting one of the world's largest copper deposits.
Located at the confluence of Hellenistic and Indian cultures, Mes Aynak - believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 years old - was once a vast city organised around the extraction and trade of copper. ... more |
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 Taipei (AFP) June 24, 2022 
A retired Taiwanese general and another senior officer were indicted on Friday for their involvement in developing a spying network for China, prosecutors said.
Taipei and Beijing have spied on each other since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, when the losing Nationalist side fled to the island.
The major general, identified by his family name Chien, and a retired lieutenant col ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) June 21, 2022 
The United States on Tuesday promised enforcement as a landmark ban took effect on most imports from Xinjiang, the Chinese region where rights groups say the Uyghur people are being forced into slave labor.
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which will be felt especially in the textile industry, took effect six months after it was signed into law by President Joe Biden following biparti ... more |
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