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China Launches New Mapping SatelliteJiuquan, Gansu (XNA) Aug 26, 2010 China successfully launched a mapping satellite, "Mapping Satellite - I," from the northwestern Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 3:10 p.m. (Beijing time) Tuesday. The satellite, which was launched on a Long March 2-D carrier rocket, had entered into the preset orbit, according to the center. The satellite, developed by a company under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), would be mainly used to conduct scientific experiments, carry out surveys on land resources, a ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 24, 2010Doctors in central China are puzzling over a 10-month-old baby boy who weighs 20 kilos (44 lbs) - about as much as a normal child of six years - but is otherwise healthy, state media reported. The infant, whose name was not given, was brought to a children's hospital in the Hunan provincial capital of Changsha earlier this month with a fever, the China News Service said. Doctors were s ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 25, 2010A Chinese airliner crashed and burst into flames while attempting to land in northeast China, killing 42 people on board, state media reported on Wednesday. The Henan Airlines plane broke into two pieces late Tuesday before it smashed into the ground while trying to touch down at an airport in the city of Yichun in remote Heilongjiang province, the official Xinhua news agency said. There ... more  
Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2010The United States on Tuesday offered to help major economies such as China and India develop shale gas, a rapidly growing sector in North America which US officials bill as a clean alternative. Twenty nations held two days of talks in Washington in first-of-a-kind shale gas talks initiated by the United States, where some forecast that shale - a miniscule presence a decade ago - could domi ... more |
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China cleans up after flooding by N.Korea borderBeijing (AFP) Aug 23, 2010 Workers in northeast China on Monday toiled to clean up the mess left by severe flooding that killed four people, forced 250,000 out of their homes and left parts of a city in North Korea under water. Heavy downpours last week swelled the Yalu river, which forms part of the border between China and North Korea, to dangerously high levels, sending water spilling over its banks on both sides, inundating homes, roads and farmland. In North Korea, state media has said leader Kim Jong-Il ordered an e ... read more |
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