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Countdown begins to 520 day 'Mars mission'Moscow (AFP) May 4, 2010 A group of volunteers have started final training in Russia in preparation for being locked up in a capsule for 520 days to simulate the psychological effects of the voyage to Mars. Three Russians, two other Europeans and one Chinese national will be shut away for one-and-a-half years inside the 180-square-metre (1,000-square-feet) module on the outskirts of Moscow starting late May or early June. The project, the first full-duration simulated mission to Mars, follows a similar experiment at the ... read more |
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Conakry, Guinea (UPI) Apr 30, 2010 China is stepping up its drive to get its hands on Africa's mineral wealth to fuel its ever-expanding economy through multimillion-dollar deals with autocratic regimes of every kind. Beijing is offering crisis-ridden Guinea $1.5 billion for a 47 percent stake in the world's largest unmined reserves of iron ore. It will likely get it because China is offering huge investments in infrastr ... more  
Buffalo NY (SPX) May 03, 2010A study by communication researchers at the University at Buffalo confirms what was made evident by the very public Google-Chinese government dispute over Internet censorship: the fact that China's cyberculture is changing and growing rapidly is no harbinger of political freedom and open speech in that country. "Discourse Behind the Forbidden Realm: Internet surveillance and its implicatio ... more  
Beijing (AFP) April 30, 2010The Chinese capital Beijing has issued rules limiting families to one new apartment purchase as authorities try to rein in rampant property speculation and soaring prices, state media said Friday. "For the time being, one family can buy only one new home in the city," China News Service said, citing the municipal government. Beijing authorities also ordered banks to refuse home loans to ... more |
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28 bodies recovered from flooded Chinese mine: XinhuaBeijing (AFP) May 2, 2010 Emergency workers have recovered 28 bodies from a mine in China's Inner Mongolia region that flooded in early-March, leaving three people still unaccounted for, state news agency Xinhua reported Sunday. The workers had spent weeks draining the Luotuoshan coal mine, filling it with 8,000 cubic metres of rubble and pumping out more than 1.3 million cubic metres of water, said Xu Yongfeng, the deputy general manager of Wuhai Energy, the mine's owner. On Sunday, 15 bodies were lifted out of the shaf ... read more |
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