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Pottery fragments found in south China cave confirmed to be 20,000 years old »

BEIJING - Pottery fragments found in a south China cave have been confirmed to be 20,000 years old, making them the oldest known pottery in the world, archaeologists say. The findings, which will appear in the journal Science on Friday, add to recent efforts that have dated pottery piles in east Asia to more than 15,000 years ago, refuting conventional theories that the invention of pottery correlates to the period about 10,000 years ago when hum...

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Vincent Palmer

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U.S. Middle Class Shrinking While Chinese Middle Class Quadruples

China's middle class grows while America's disappears

Eamonn Fingleton, Economics writer; Author of "In the Jaws of the Dragon" joins Thom Hartmann. In America - the income for the bottom 90 percent of Americans has decreased over the last decade. In China - income for an average family has increased tenfold since 1980. Is the middle class in China really booming - and if so - what should Americans learn from China's economic growth?

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Alex von Wittig

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China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft returns to Earth

Chinese astronauts in the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft have successfully returned to earth. The spacecraft landed in Inner Mongolia at 10:00 am Beijing time on Friday. Jing Haipeng, Liu Wang and China's first woman astronaut Liu Yang were back home after being in space for 13 days. Chinese scientists claim that they are now capable of transporting humans and cargo to the space lab. Chinese leaders Premier Wen Jiabao, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang arrived at the landing site on Friday morning to watch the return of Shenzhou-9, according to Xinhuanet. "Tiangong 1 and Shenzhou 9, in the task of manned rendezvous and docking, have achieved complete success," the Guardian quoted Premier Wen Jiabao, as saying. "This is another outstanding contribution by the Chinese people to humanity's efforts to explore and use space." Doctors who examined the astronauts said they were in good health. Images of the capsule landing in Inner Mongolia were shown live on local television, according to a BBC report. Shenzhou 9 was launched on 16 June, 2012 to carry out a rendezvous and docking test with the Tiangong-1, an 8.5-ton space-laboratory module, which is capable of supporting the docking of manned and autonomous spacecraft; it was launched in September 2011. On 24 June, Chinese astronauts successfully made their first manual docking with the Tiangong-1. The astronauts conducted several experiments and tests in the space lab. The scientists said that the data from the experiments will help them improve their technologies and also build another space station by 2020 "The data will help us improve technologies for astronauts' future and long-term stays in a space station," Xinhuanet quoted Chen Shanguang, chief commander of the mission's astronaut system, as saying. On Thursday, the three astronauts had manually separated the Shenhouz-9 spacecraft from the Tiangong-1 lab module at 6 am Beijing time.

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China paves way to charge cop who sparked Bo drama

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BEIJING (Reuters) - A former police whose dash to a US consulate triggered China's biggest political scandal in two decades has resigned as a national lawmaker, state media said on Saturday, possibly paving the way for criminal charges against him. Wang Lijun, former Chongqing police chief, ...

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Asia Pac companies sidestep more expensive loans * Japan, China first-half lending higher year on year. From the web. RLPC-Asia Pacific lending down 26 pct at half year · Reuters - 2:07 PM. Asia Pac c...

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China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft returns to Earth

A Chinese space capsule carrying three crew members has returned to Earth following a 13-day mission. Images of the capsule landing in Inner Mongolia at 10:05 local time (02:05 GMT) were shown live on television.

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China's space capsule returns to Earth after a mission which saw the country's first manual docking procedure and its first woman in space.

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China's first female astronaut returns to Earth.

The 13-day mission was successful.

China's first female astronaut returns to Earth »

China's first female astronaut and two other crew members completed a 13-day mission Friday to an orbiting prototype for a future Chinese space station.

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1st Chinese female astronaut, crew land safely

San Francisco Chronicle  -  1:43 AM

AP In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, China's first female astronaut Liu Yang waves as she comes out of the re-entry capsule of Shenzhou-9 spacecraft in Siziwang Banner of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Friday, June 29, 2012. Liu and two other crew members ...