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Philippines, China trade barbs over new incursionsManila (AFP) April 17, 2012 The Philippines and China traded fresh accusations Tuesday of illegal incursions in a disputed area of the South China Sea, while refusing to compromise on their territorial claims. The Philippines said it had lodged a new diplomatic protest, accusing Chinese vessels of harassing a Filipino-flagged archaeological research ship at Scarborough Shoal. The shoal is the same area where Chinese vessels last week blocked a Filipino warship from arresting the crews of eight Chinese fishing boats. De ... read more |
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  Boeing Celebrates 4,000th Next-Generation 737 Boeing executives and more than 500 employees, suppliers, union representatives and government officials joined China Southern Airlines to celebrate the 4,000th Next-Generation 737 at a special even ... more | .. |
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 Tokyo to buy disputed islands: governor Controversial Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara has said taxpayers in Japan's capital will buy a small chain of uninhabited islands at the centre of a damaging territorial dispute with China. ... more | .. |
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 Philippines hails start of US war games The Philippines hailed the start of major war games with the United States on Monday as a timely boost to their military alliance, amid a tense territorial dispute with China. ... more | .. |
 China airport tarmac protests prompt service plea Chinese regulators have urged better service in the rapidly growing aviation industry following incidents in which angry passengers stormed onto the tarmac at airports, state media said Monday. ... more | .. |
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 Australia's Qantas makes first commercial biofuel flight Australia's Qantas Friday launched the nation's first commercial flight using a mixture of refined cooking oil, saying it would not survive if it relied solely on traditional jet fuel. ... more | .. |
 Oil prices drop on slower Chinese growth Oil prices fell on Friday, dragged down by prospects of weaker crude demand from China as data showed the country's economy grew at the slowest rate for nearly three years, analysts said. ... more | .. |
Philippines, China make progress in standoff The Philippines said Friday it had made progress in efforts to end a tense standoff with China in the South China Sea, but each side was still refusing to remove its ships from the disputed area. ... more | .. |
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 Search is on for source of US Gulf of Mexico oil sheen The US Coast Guard and oil company experts on Thursday used aircraft and undersea probes to monitor and search for the source of a 10-mile long oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico. ... more | .. |
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 ZeaChem Welcomes Governor Kitzhaber to Oregon Biorefinery ZeaChem has welcomed Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber on a tour of its 250,000 gallon-per-year biorefinery in Boardman, Ore., and announced it has begun construction on the U.S. Department of Energy ( ... more | .. |
 Proterro Meets Key Productivity Milestones for Clean, Fermentation-ready Sugar Feedstock The cost barrier standing in the path of economical and scalable biofuels and chemicals production can be broken," Proterro CEO Kef Kasdin said here at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference. ... more |
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