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Orbits for TiangongSydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 27, 2011 The impending launch of China's first space laboratory will end years of waiting for this important mission. It will also hopefully begin to answer some of the many questions that remain unanswered about China's latest spacecraft. While China will probably remain coy about some details of the mission, one issue will be settled fairly soon after launch. What sort of an orbit will Tiangong 1 enter? Tiangong 1 is expected to remain in orbit for roughly two years. This is far longer than even th ... read more |
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  China seeking to bolster nuclear force: US China's military is seeking to improve its nuclear arsenal by acquiring more mobile ballistic missiles that could survive a possible attack, the Pentagon said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Kim returns to N. Korea after Russia, China visits North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il returned to Pyongyang on Saturday, state media said, after a week-long visit to Russia and China where he expressed a willingness to return to six-party nuclear talks. ... more | .. |
  Palestinians say China will back statehood bid China has said it will vote in favour of Palestinian statehood when the matter is presented to the UN Security Council next month, the official Palestinian news agency said on Friday. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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 Kim tells China N. Korea ready for nuclear talks North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il told China Friday he was ready to resume six-party nuclear talks without preconditions, as he travelled through the Asian nation, the China's state media said. ... more | .. |
  China says US report on its military 'groundless' China on Friday dismissed a US report on its military expansion as "completely groundless" and said it had exaggerated the threat to Taiwan, the self-ruled island Beijing calls a breakaway province. ... more | .. |
  Fire breaks out at refinery in China: Xinhua A fire has engulfed a refinery belonging to state-owned oil giant PetroChina in northeast China, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday. ... more | .. |
  New genome sequence could improve important agricultural crops An international team of scientists, funded in the UK by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), has sequenced the genome of a Chinese cabbage variety of a plant called B ... more |
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  Discovery of a 160-million-year-old fossil represents a new milestone in early mammal evolution A remarkably well-preserved fossil discovered in northeast China provides new information about the earliest ancestors of most of today's mammal species-the placental mammals. According to a p ... more | .. |
  Tutu urges South Africa to give visa to Dalai Lama: report South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu urged his government on Sunday to grant the Dalai Lama a visa to attend Tutu's 80th birthday party, after it denied a visa request in 2009. ... more | .. |
 China road accident kills 18: state media Eighteen people were killed and 16 others injured when a van carrying migrant workers slammed into a trailer truck parked alongside a north China highway early Sunday, state press reported. ... more | .. |
  Emerging powers call for extending climate deal Brazil, South Africa, India and China said Saturday that November's UN climate talks should aim to extend the Kyoto Protocol, the only binding global deal to cut greenhouse gases. ... more |
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 China considers legalising secret detentions China is considering changes to its criminal law that human rights activists said Saturday would effectively legalise the forced disappearance of dissidents. ... more | .. |
 China's Sina warns bloggers to ignore rumours A popular Twitter-like service in China has contacted millions of users warning them to ignore false reports, in a sign of growing official unease over the rise of social networking sites. ... more | .. |
 Murder trial for 3 monks over Tibet self-immolation Three monks in a Tibetan region of China will go on trial for murder next week over the death by self-immolation of another monk in March, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Friday. ... more | .. |
  China's SAIC Motor first-half net profit up 46% China's largest auto maker SAIC Motor said Monday that first half net profit jumped 46 percent but warned of future "uncertainties" in the world's biggest car market. ... more |
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Fresh quake barrage hits Greek island Santorini
Pain, anger as Turkey marks two years since quake disaster
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  Philippines, China talk trade despite tensions Philippine President Benigno Aquino travels to China this week on a mission to secure billions of dollars in trade deals, with both sides looking to rebuild goodwill amid a bruising territorial row. ... more | .. |
  3 rescued in China mine, 23 still trapped Three miners trapped for more than four days in a flooded mine shaft in northeast China were rescued Saturday as authorities battled to reach another 23 workers still underground, state media said. ... more | .. |
  Emerging powers press rich world on CO2 cuts Brazil, South Africa, India and China called Friday on industrialized nations to step up their commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at a key UN climate summit later this year. ... more | .. |
  Bank of America nearing sale of CCB stake: reports Troubled US financial giant Bank of America is close to selling at least half of its 10 percent stake in China Construction Bank, The New York Times and CNBC television reported on Friday. ... more |
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  China train maker reports surge in H1 profit A Chinese train maker said Friday its first-half net profit surged 145 percent from a year earlier after the opening of the flagship Beijing-Shanghai high-speed line. ... more | .. |
 China's BYD to raise up to $939 mn in bond sale Chinese car maker BYD, which is backed by US investment titan Warren Buffett, said Friday it plans to sell up to six billion yuan ($938.8 million) in bonds to repay loans and boost its coffers. ... more | .. |
  China's Hu 'confident' in the euro: Sarkozy China's president has expressed confidence in the euro, visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday, as concerns intensify over the future of the 17-nation eurozone. ... more | .. |
  Production shifts to China for rare earths As China tightens its grip on rare earth minerals, more foreign companies are moving manufacturing operations to China to gain access to the elements. ... more |
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Ariane 6 to deliver inaugural Galileo 2nd Gen satellites as European industry backs Arianespace
Momentus to conduct multi sensor rendezvous trial with US Air Force
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 Japan protests again over Chinese boats Japan on Thursday protested to Beijing a second time over the entry of two Chinese fishery patrol boats into waters near disputed Japanese-administered islands, the foreign ministry said. ... more | .. |
 Patient dies in China after hospital staff flee fire A man died during an operation in a Chinese hospital after doctors and nurses fled during a fire, leaving him to suffocate in thick smoke, state media and officials said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Millions in China at risk from run-down dams: report More than a quarter of Chinese cities are at risk from tens of thousands of run-down reservoirs, prompting the government to speed up efforts to make repairs, state media said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Vietnam to release anti-China protesters: govt Vietnam was set Thursday to free the remaining three anti-China protesters in detention since a weekend crackdown on their rally in Hanoi, an official said. ... more |
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 N. Korea's Kim in China after Russia talks North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il arrived in China on Thursday, official media from both countries said, in unusually open reporting of Kim's latest visit to his cash-strapped country's chief ally. ... more | .. |
 N. Korea's Kim visits factory in China North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il visited a factory in northeastern China on Friday as he travelled through the nation which is his cash-strapped country's chief ally, local residents said. ... more | .. |
  China accuses US of 'exaggerating' military threat China's state news agency accused the United States Thursday of "exaggerating" the threat posed by its military, after a report said the Asian nation was expanding its maritime power. ... more | .. |
 China state news agency accuses US of 'interfering' China's state-run news agency on Thursday accused the United States of "interfering" after a Pentagon report warned that the Asian power's military was increasingly focused on naval power. ... more |
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