Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
2009 July 22 at 02:35:42.1 UTC Greatest Eclipse 2009 July 22 at 02:36:24.6 UTC Last Penumbral Internal Contact 2009 July 22 at 03:24:06.5 UTC Last Umbral Internal Contact 2009 July 22 at 04:17:16.6 UTC Last Central Line 2009 July 22 at 04:18:53.3 UTC Last Umbral External Contact 2009 July 22 at 04:20:30.0 UTC Last Penumbral External Contact ...
A series of violent riots over several days broke out on 5 July 2009 in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, in northwestern China.The first day's rioting, which involved at least 1,000 Uyghurs, [12] began as a protest, but escalated into violent attacks that mainly targeted Han people.
Total solar eclipse of July 22, 2009, from Bangladesh. During the 21st century, there will be 224 solar eclipses of which 77 will be partial, 72 will be annular, 68 will be total and 7 will be hybrids between total and annular eclipses.
July 2009 Ürümqi riots. Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan strengthens his rhetoric: "These incidents in China are as if they are genocide. We ask the Chinese government not to remain a spectator to these incidents." (Associated Press) [permanent dead link ] A curfew is reimposed in Ürümqi, days after it was lifted.
Chinese and Russian troops begin a five-day joint military drill, aimed at boosting their ability to fight terrorism.; The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague issues a decision on the borders of Abyei, a region subject to violent contention in Sudan.
Assertions that all arrivals in China will face mobile telephone checks from July 1 are false, authorities said on Tuesday, dismissing them as distortions of the truth made by "anti-China forces".
January 1 – Tongyong pinyin will no longer be official in the Republic of China, due to the ROC's Ministry of Education's approval of Hanyu pinyin in 2008. [1] [2]January 2 – The border demarcation with markers was officially completed between China and Vietnam, signed by Deputy Foreign Minister Vu Dung on the Vietnamese side and his Chinese counterpart, Wu Dawei, on the Chinese side.
A closely watched measure of Chinese manufacturing activity remained negative in July as concern persists about the state of the world's second largest economy. The Purchasing Managers' Index ...