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Nigeria Communication Satellite Limited on Wednesday denied allegations that Africa's first communication satellite was missing in orbit.
Ahmed Rufai, Managing Director of the company, a public-private partnership, said that the satellite was powered down after technical problems were identified on Sunday night.
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Up to 2,000 residents rallied against rumoured plans to relocate a north-western Chinese city devastated by the Sichuan earthquake, with some protestors smashing windows and attacking government cars, reports said on Tuesday.
The crowd had grown since early Monday in response to rumours that the local branch of China's ruling...
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China on Thursday released a well-known dissident after he served more than nine years of a 13-year prison sentence, a Hong Kong-based rights group said.
Veteran activist Liu Xianbin was released from the Chandong prison in the south-western province of Sichuan, the Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said.
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Aircraft builder Airbus opened an assembly plant in China on Sunday, its first production facility outside of Europe.
Airbus said it viewed the modern facility in the port city of Tianjin one hour to the south-east of the capital Beijing as a "milestone" in the globalization of the company's production.
Chinese Premier...
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 Sichuan, a town in the south of China, was shook by an earthquake of 6.1 magnitudes on Saturday. Rescue crews headed to the scene on Sunday to find 22 people dead and hundreds of injured people. The earthquake killed 17 people in Sichuan and 5 others in Yunnan, a near province.The China Earthquake Administration put the death toll at 25...
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The billionaire owner of kung fu legend Bruce Lee's last home warned Monday he would scuttle plans for a museum at the site if Hong Kong's government did not allow him to build a tribute cinema, library and fan shops.
Chinese property developer Yu Panglin said in an interview Monday he would only go ahead with the highly-anticipated...
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Beijing police have ordered 10 pro-Tibet activists - all foreigners - to 10 days in detention in the harshest treatment so far of Tibet activists since a series of demonstrations were carried out in the capital during the Olympics.
The police faxed a statement Friday saying six foreigners arrested Tuesday for "disturbing public...
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Chen Yibing and He Kexin continued China's strong showing in the gymnastics disciplines with victories in the men's rings and women's uneven bars Monday while Poland's Leszek Blanik took gold in the men's vault.
China also took gold in the women's trampoline when He Wenna finished ahead of Canada's Karen Cockburn and Jekaterina Chilko...
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 A 6.2-magnitude earthquake killed three people in southwest China's Sichuan province, injuring 22 others, local emergency officials said Wednesday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the epicenter of the earthquake was an estimated 50 kilometers (30 miles) north-northwest of Guangyuan, in close proximity to Sichuan’s border with...
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An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Ritcher
scale shook a large area of south-western China's Sichuan province on
Friday afternoon, the government said. The quake was recorded
at 4:32 pm (0832 GMT) Friday with an epicentre close to several of the
areas worst-hit in the devastating May 12 earthquake in Sichuan, the
State...
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 Beijing's Tiananmen Square was closely watched by security forces during Wednesday's anniversary of the 1989 repression on pro-democracy protests. At access points to Tiananmen Square, police searched bags for banners or other materials containing dissident messages. Calls for the release of political prisoners before of this year's...
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 June 2 – The search for survivors
continues in the mountainous earthquake-struck region of Sichuan for a crashed helicopter engaged in
quake relief work.
The Chinese military has already
sent 1,240 troopers to look after the crashed chopper and four helicopters were sent in action to survey the suspected crash sites. The search...
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It has been a very long night for 600 engineers and Chinese soldiers in the Sichuan
province. They have been working ceaselessly to dig a channel, in order to eliminate the
pressure that one of the “quake lakes” might drop on the naturally-formed dam. Local media
reported that they flew earth-moving instruments and explosives to...
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 A 5-magnitude aftershock rattled windows in Sichuan’s provincial capital of Chengdu in the early hours of Tuesday, scaring
residents who feared another earthquake after the devastating May 12 main
quake.
According to China’s
Xinhua news agency, the number killed in that province had risen to 39,577.
A number of fresh...
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The chaos started last Monday when an
earthquake at about 7.9 magnitude on the Richter scale hit the Sichuan province in China. A blast of another 20
aftershocks of 5.0 or above on the Richter scale was experienced during the
past days.
The human loss is being approximated at around
50,000 persons. Many of them can still be alive...
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 A powerful earthquake devastated China, killing about 10,000 people,
toppling thousands of homes, factories, offices and schools. It was China’s worst
natural disaster in 32 years. It ravaged the mountainous region outside Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province,
destroying 80 percent of structures in some of the towns and small cities...
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 China is battered by torrential rain which caused flash floods and landslides in seven provinces, 94 people being reported dead and 25 missing over the last week, as no amelioration is in sight, authorities informed Monday.Southern China was the most affected, thousands of houses collapsing under the heavy rain or were swept away by...
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 After in London police battled to keep pro-Tibet
demonstrators away from the Olympic flame and more that 20 men had been
arrested, and in Paris the final leg of the 27-kilometre tour from the capital
had to be cancelled because of the protests, Chinese authorities are also
expecting to see protests during the Tibetan stage of the...
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 The first Chinese lunar satellite, Chang’e 1, named after a mythical goddess, has sent the first photographs of the lunar surface, objective that is considered to be the “third milestone” in the country’s space program, after the first satellite launch in 1970 and the first Chinese manned space flight in 2003.Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao,...
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China launched a second Olympic
forecasting satellite on the morning of May 27. Although it was initially
conceived to give precise and timely information about the weather changes
during the Beijing Olympic Games, it seems that the 2,295-kilogram satellite
will be also used in helping the long-term reconstruction in the affected...
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 A week after its launch, the first Chinese lunar probe has entered the moon’s orbit, on Monday, according to government officials.Chang'e-I, which is the name of a Chinese mythical goddess that flew to the moon and lived there with a jade rabbit, was launched 11 days ago from the Xichang space centre in the south-western province of...
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