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China Leads In Outer Space PollutionMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 02, 2010 China has topped the list of the world's major polluters of the near-Earth space environment, followed by the United States and Russia, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Friday. All together, the three main space powers produce 93% of space debris, according to a statement published on the agency's website. "According to estimates, 40% of space debris is produced by China. The U.S.'s share accounts for 27.5%, and Russia's [share] for 25.5%, with 7% falling on other countries ... read more |
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Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 1, 2010More than 1,000 protesters rallied in Guangzhou and Hong Kong on Sunday against what they say is China's bid to champion the national language Mandarin over their local dialect Cantonese. Hundreds of mainland police officers were deployed to disperse protesters who gathered in People's Park in Guangzhou to call on authorities to preserve the Cantonese language and culture, Hong Kong broadcas ... more  
Tehran (AFP) July 31, 2010Iran's main economic partner China has invested around 40 billion dollars in the Islamic republic's oil and gas sector, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday. Deputy Oil Minister Hossein Noqrehkar Shirazi also said that Tehran's oil exports to China fell by 30 percent in the first six months of 2010 compared with the corresponding period last year. "The volume (of Chinese investment ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 1, 2010Rescuers raced Sunday to free 24 people trapped in a flooded mine in northeastern China, state media reported. Heilongjiang provincial governor Li Zhanshu met coal industry and work safety officials at the scene in Jixi City, ordering them to speed up efforts to pump water out of the mine, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The Hengxinyuan Mine had been slated to close by the end ... more |
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China jails three Uighur webmasters: reportBeijing (AFP) July 29, 2010 A Chinese court has jailed the webmasters of three Uighur-language Internet sites who were detained following deadly ethnic unrest in China's Xinjiang region last year, Radio Free Asia said Thursday. The men, members of Xinjiang's mainly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, were jailed for terms ranging from three to 10 years on charges of "endangering national security," RFA said, quoting the brother of one of them. The report follows the sentencing last week of Uighur journalist Gheyret Niyaz to 15 ... read more |
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