BEIJING  - China has launched commercial and public services across the Asia-Pacific region on its domestic satellite navigation network built to rival the US global positioning system.The Beidou, or compass, system started providing services to civilians in the region on Thursday and is ...

The post-Taliban Afghanistan will launch the first-ever space satellite within six months, a local newspaper said on Monday. "Afghanistan's first ever-space satellite will be launched within the next six months,"Daily Outlook quoted Afghan Minister for Communication and Information Technology Amir ...