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China chooses first women astronautsBeijing (AFP) March 10, 2010 China has selected its first two women astronauts to serve on a team that will undertake future missions launched by the nation's burgeoning space programme, state media reported Wednesday. The women were part of a "second batch" of seven people who will take over manned space-flight duties from the nation's first generation of astronauts, Xinhua news agency quoted a former top space programme official as saying. The two women, who were not named in the report, were both pilots in the People's L ... read more |
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Taipei (AFP) March 9, 2010Taiwan's Delta Electronics is to spend 290 million US dollars on a new solar cell plant as the island moves to increase its use of renewable energy, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday. Delta Electronics' investment, via its subsidiary DelSolar Co, will make it one of the main players in the island's rapidly evolving solar energy sector, said Austin Chiu of DelSolar. "After the project is ... more  
Beijing, China (XNA) Mar 09, 2010A new heavy-thrust carrier rocket is under scientific research, with the goal of sending astronauts to the moon, scientists said. Although there is no official timetable yet for China's moon landing, scientists are researching a new powerful carrier rocket with a lift-off thrust of 3,000 tons, Liang Xiaohong, vice-president of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, told China Dail ... more  
Beijing (AFP) March 7, 2010China has so far convicted 198 people for involvement in deadly ethnic violence last July in its restive western region of Xinjiang, with more sentencings to come, a top official said Sunday. Nearly 200 people were killed and up to 1,600 injured when unrest exploded into street riots in the Xinjiang regional capital Urumqi - some of the worst ethnic violence in China in decades. "The in ... more |
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China reins in military budget growthBeijing (UPI) Mar 5, 2009 China is scaling back defense budget growth to 7.5 percent and telling its neighbors not to worry about its military buildup. The Chinese defense budget for 2010 is to be around $78 billion, said Li Zhaoxing, spokesman for the National People's Congress, an annual two-week congregation of its 3,000 members. The result is an increase in spending about half the usual military budget increase and is the first time in 20 years that the rise in spending will be less than 10 percent. But the a ... read more |
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