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CHINA'S first manned spacecraft, the Shenzhou V, lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the northwestern province of Gansu at 9:00am, October 15.
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- From lift-off to landing
CHINA'S first manned spacecraft, the Shenzhou V, lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the northwestern province of Gansu at 9:00am, October 15.
- China's path into space
EVERY time Zhou Xudong got onto the special train from Beijing or Shanghai that took aerospace scientists and parts of spacecraft to Jiuquan, in northwestern China's Gansu Province, or other space bases, he was witnessing a new step forward in Chinese aerospace development.
- Latest space hero
ASTRONAUT Lieutenant-Colonel Yang Liwei was born in June, 1965, in Suizhong County of Northeast China's Liaoning Province. He joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) at the age of 18.
- Hard-earned success
THE historic launch of the Shenzhou V spacecraft not only caused euphoria among the Chinese people, it also highlighted the country's perseverance in space exploration over the past 50 years.
- Chronology
CHINA launched its first manned space flight, the Shenzhou V, on October 15 and became the third country after the former Soviet Union and the United States to put a man in orbit.
- For the sake of heavenly peace
THE successful launch of China's first manned spacecraft, the Shenzhou-V, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre at 9:00am October 15 makes China the third nation to send a man into space, following the former Soviet Union and the United States.
- Countdowns to triumph and tragedy
CHINA on October 15 became only the third nation to send a man into orbit when Shenzhou V blasted off into the clear skies over the Gobi Desert launchpad.
- Stars in their eyes
Beijing - The vast land of China was in the grip of excitement as people learned about the success of the first manned spaceship launch from TV, Internet websites and radio Wednesday.
- US astronaut hails China's space pioneer
TOKYO - One of the first men to walk on the moon - US astronaut "Buzz" Aldrin - hailed China's manned space flight saying it heralded a new age that could either result in greater competition or greater co-operation in space.
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- OIC demands UN role
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia - Foreign ministers meeting in Malaysia sought the rewording of an Islamic summit resolution on Iraq on Tuesday to strengthen a call for a dominant role for the United Nations.
- Saudi hands terror suspects to US
RIYADH - Saudi Arabia said this week that more than 200 Muslim militants arrested in a security clampdown belonged to the al Qaeda terrorist network and that it had handed over to the US at least three Americans suspected of terrorism links.
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- Space is for people
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." These words from Karl Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach", if twisted in an extraterrestrial direction, take on a special pertinence in the age of space exploration.
- Ordering an unaffordable lunch
The ETS (Educational Testing Service) and GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council) of the US won a trial case on the issue of copyright and trademark infringement on September 27, 2003. The case was heard in the First Appellate Court of Beijing against the New Oriental School, a private Chinese school, which was alleged to have used unauthorized TOEFL test materials and commercially exploited them without obtaining prior consent.
- Cruelty and indifference prevails
After finishing my comment last week on the plight of Chinese peasants, I was challenged by one of my colleagues that industrialization has, ultimately, the potential to provide employment for an increasing number of labourers.
- It's only a sport!
Earlier this week, I read an interview with 21-year-old Chinese footballer, Dong Fangzhuo, who had just returned from a month's training with Manchester United.
- Digital photography: A panacea?
Being an inventive and somewhat enterprising type from an early age, I borrowed some books on photography from the city library when I was 14 and taught myself all there was to learn about wet processing of films and prints. The next hurdle was not only how to save enough pocket money to purchase the developing tank, dishes, chemicals and photographic papers in soft, medium and hard gradations, but how to smuggle them home without my father, a stern type, ("concentrate on your studies, my boy") getting wind of it.
- A comparison of two cities
When I first arrived in Shanghai I was well prepared to enter a completely new world containing unknown, exotic and strange things. In Europe people often speak about the culture shock and misunderstanding tourists usually have in the "Empire of the Middle Kingdom".
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- Looking for trouble
AMONG all his nicknames - such as "Street Secretary", "City's Woodpecker" and "Old Yang" - 76-year-old Yang Cunyi prefers the title of "Senior Counsellor".
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- Foxy ladies
SICHUAN Province recently established a regulation preventing men in official positions from employing women as secretaries.
- The old city's hub
WHEN talking about the main hub of public transport and communication in Shanghai, most local residents, even newcomers, will probably think of People's Square.
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