BEIJING (Reuters) – China urged peace and stability on Thursday after Tehran threatened to punish proposed Western sanctions by choking off oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, but declined to make any other comment about the crisis. The foreign ministry’s terse, one sentence public response to Tehran’s threats over the world’s most important...
BEIJING: A spate of self-immolations by ethnic Tibetans in China over the past few months in protest at government controls will never succeed in forcing any policy changes, a senior Chinese official was quoted as saying in remarks published on Friday. Twelve Tibetans have set themselves on fire so far this year, all but...
December 30, 2011, 1:38 AM EST By Zheng Lifei (Updates with analyst comment in fourth paragraph.) Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) — China pledged to fix design flaws blamed for a high-speed rail crash last July and punish the officials responsible, as the government released the results of an investigation that sought to allay criticism of...
Enlarge image Slowing China Manufacturing Calls for Easing Keith Bedford/Bloomberg A factory worker manufactures rims for tires at the Pirelli C SpA tire factory in Jining, Shandong Province, China. A factory worker manufactures rims for tires at the Pirelli C SpA tire factory in Jining, Shandong Province, China. Photographer: Keith Bedford/Bloomberg Dec. 23 (Bloomberg)...
By Maurits Elen China wrote history this week after gaining approval for oil exploration in the Amu Darya Basin in Afghanistan, making it the first international oil deal made by Afghanistan with a foreign country in several decades. Wahidullah Shahrani, the Afghan mining minister in a statement during the signing ceremony: “Today is a...
BEIJING — The Chinese government Thursday announced a five-year plan for space exploration that would move China closer to becoming a major rival at a time the U.S. program is in retreat. Coupled with China’s earlier vows to build a space station and put an astronaut on the moon, the announcement conjured up memories...
China Manned Space Engineering Office This illustration depicts a Chinese Shenzhou vehicle approaching the Tiangong 1 space lab during orbital rendezvous and docking tests, a precursor for space station construction. BEIJING – China plans to launch space labs and manned ships and prepare to build space stations over the next five years, according to...
SHANGHAI | Fri Dec 30, 2011 10:00am EST SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The Chinese government is working with domestic Internet search engines like Baidu Inc and Sohu.com and financial institutions to prevent phishing attacks on unsuspecting Chinese web users. The Ministry of Public Security said on Friday it would work with 10 Chinese search engines...
China laid out its vision for space exploration in a white paper released today. In it, China declares its intention to put a man on the moon, a feat accomplished last by the United States almost 40 years ago. The Financial Times says that while the prospect has been discussed by scientists in the...
