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Olympic optimism fades as China crushes dissentBeijing (AFP) Feb 14, 2010 When China won the right to stage the Olympic Games, it promised the event would bring significant human rights improvements. But since Beijing hosted the world in August 2008, the ruling Communist Party has launched a sustained crackdown on dissent which experts say is driven by fear of social unrest and growing concern about the power of the Internet. Violent unrest in restive Tibet and Xinjiang was met with security crackdowns, dissidents have been jailed, controls on the Internet tightened a ... read more |
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New Delhi (UPI) Feb 11, 2009 Iraq, vowing to become OPEC's top oil producer, has offered to boost the sale of its crude to India by up to 60 percent in a bid to forge a strategic alliance with the Asian giant. But Baghdad's ambitious plan to supplant Saudi Arabia as OPEC's leading producer may well run afoul of the oil cartel, which is expected to seek to impose a production quota on Iraq as it drives to increase i ... more  
Chennai, India (PTI) Feb 11, 2010Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K. Radhakrishnan has said the flight- testing of the indigenous cryogenic stage of the GSLV D3 would be conducted in April. Talking to reporters after receiving the Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) at the fifth convocation of SRM University here, Radhakrishnan said: The vehicle would carry GAST-4, a communication satellite. Though we had several ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 10, 2010India will test a nuclear-capable missile with a range of over 5,000 kilometres (3,000 miles) within a year, its top military scientist said Wednesday, risking a rise in regional tensions. "The next series of missiles is Agni-V, which has left the drawing board and is moving toward the first flight trial within the year," the country's chief military scientist, V.K. Saraswat, told a news con ... more |
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US warns China against 'stillborn' climate dealWashington (AFP) Feb 9, 2010 The United States on Tuesday pressed China, India and other emerging powers to make clearer commitments to fighting climate change, warning that last year's Copenhagen accord risked being "stillborn." The 194-nation UN-led summit in the Danish capital pledged to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) along with billions of dollars in financing. It gave countries until January 31 to sign on. China, India, Brazil and South Africa each submitted to the United Nations t ... read more |
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