XICHANG – China successfully launched the Tianlian I-03 satellite on Wednesday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, completing the country’s first data relay satellite network system. The Long March-3C rocket carrying Tianlian I-03 satellite blasts off from the launch pad at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center located in Xichang, Southwest China’s...
SHANGHAI (AP) — China is stepping up stimulus spending at the local level seeking to counter its economic slowdown, with one inland city announcing plans for a whopping $130 billion in investment projects. In announcing earlier this week plans for dozens of projects, officials in the central Chinese city of Changsha said increased investment...
The world went into the 2008 games asking whether the Olympics would change China, but maybe it was the other way around. Anthropologist Susan Brownell has written many books about sports and the Olympics in China. Her monographTraining the Body for Chinais one of the few books about sports and China, and she is...
English: A part of the „Demonstration Project at Gobabeb of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency“ (DeGREEE): The solar panels (Photo credit: Wikipedia) According to a recently released United Nations report, global investment in renewable energy reached a record $257 billion in 2011, a 17 percent increase from the amount invested in 2010. Globally, renewable...
Lui Xiang will aim for his second gold medal in London’s Olympic Games when he runs the 110-meter hurdles. Swimmer Sun Yang aims to be the first Chinese male to win gold in his sport. Tennis star Li Na will compete in the singles tournament in her final Olympic appearance. Lin Dan, four-time world...
Commemorative pins from the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics After controversy arose over Ralph Lauren’s 2012 U.S. Olympic uniforms’ Chinese origins, Mitt Romney told ABC’s Jonathan Karl that the issue is “extraneous” to the focus of the games. “The Olympic games are about the athletes and we’re going to watch the athlete perform and these other matters...
BEIJING – In China, the announcement of murder charges against the wife of one of China’s most prominent politicians left many unanswered questions about a case that remains highly sensitive. News of murder charges against Gu Kailai, wife of Bo Xilai covered the front pages of Chinese newspapers Friday. Gu is charged with murdering...
By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator Charles Schumer said on Friday that the United States should use a bid by China’s state-run CNOOC for Canadian oil company Nexen Inc as a chance to take China to task for long-standing trade and investment issues. Schumer, who has made criticism of China’s economic policies a...
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has sentenced a company official to five and a half years in jail for leaking economic data, the Beijing News reported on Friday, the latest move in a crackdown on the unauthorised release of market-moving numbers. Beijing’s first intermediate people’s court had charged Wu Zhiwen, former general manager of Beijing-based...
