BEIJING, CHINA - Actor Christian Bale was attacked this week in Beijing after an eight-hour drive to visit a Chinese dissident.
Chen Guangcheng, a blimd human rights lawyer has been confined to his home since his release from prison ...
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Iran is really asking for it...it being access to the United States stealth drone RQ-170 it managed to get last week/ Russian and Chinese sent military intelligence teams to Tehran for access but it seems as if ...
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Commercial satellite company, DigitalGlobe Inc., announced that it has an image of the People's Republic of China’s first functional aircraft carrier. The image was taken during the carrier's first sea trial in the Yellow Sea. The Pentagon ...
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I am pretty sure that even with China's notoriety regarding knock-offs, and extremely cheap ones at that, this wasn't exactly a headline you would be expecting. However it seems that like with most other things we can buy online ...
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A breath of fresh air is hard to come by these days in Beijing and that fact was further realized this past weekend when Chinese officials were forced to shut down Beijing International airport because of a blinding ...
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As the end of 2011 getting closer, China is expecting about 780,000 people infected with the AIDS virus, mostly due to heterosexual sex. The state media, citing a report from the Ministry of Health and the United ...
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Yesterday, it was looking as if Russia's Phobos-Grunt probe was as good as dead. Ever since its launch on November 8, officials were having difficulties making contact with the craft after it failed to fire its engines ...
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A report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released today says that on two separate occasions, hackers managed to take over U.S. satellites in 2008.
The first satellite hacking listed in the report was of NASA's ...
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With the United States recently singing a new security agreement with Australia President Obama announced on Wednesday that the United States does not fear china.
News of the Australian security agreement comes at a time when many politicians ...
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Almost half of wealthy Chinese citizens are planning to move, with the United States and Canada as most popular destinations.
A report by Bank of China and Hurun Report, the publisher of luxury magazines, revealed that 46 percent ...
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In an attempt to avoid bankruptcy automobile manufacturer Saab plans to sell to Zhejiang Youngman Lotus Automobile Co. and Pang Da Automobile Trade Co. for the low price of just $142 million.
The company's have until November 15 to ...
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China's Health Ministry announced over the weekend that 10 percent of public swimming pools in China exceed the safe limit for urea levels. The study was released after the Health Ministry inspected 5,639 swimming pools in 24 ...
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Jack Ma, CEO of Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. says he's very interested at the prospect of acquiring internet company Yahoo, Inc.
When speaking at Standford University on Friday Alibaba's CEO told the audience that buying ...
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If you're a fan of dogs you'll be a fan of this good news, officials in China have cancelled the Jinhua Hutou Dog Meat Festival, an event that claims the live's of 5,000 dogs each year.
Served up ...
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The World Health Organization on Tuesday confirmed that the first cases of Polio since 1999 have been recorded in China. The WHO says the strain known as WPV1 is genetically linked to a type already circulating in ...
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As feuding between the Chinese government and the Tibet people continues the Dalai Lama over the weekend said it was up to him if he would be reincarnated, something Beijing dismissed.
The 76-year-old spiritual leader of Tibet said ...
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Increased technological capabilities such as IT, mobile computing and social media are considered to be the most important skills by far for tomorrow's global workforce.
This was the result of a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and ...
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Air travel is a mainstay form of transportation for those that need to travel long distances and regardless the cost of fuel will remain so for some time, or at least until teleportation becomes a reality. As ...
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Maybe China needs its own Tea Party- many of the country's citizens are getting a bit steamed over a proposed new tax on Mooncakes- a traditional gift from employers to workers for a yearly festival.
While Tea Parties ...
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First it was the last launch, and landing, of NASA's space shuttle and now we find out that our other bastion in space, the International Space Station will come to the end of its life in 2020 ...
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We are pretty use to seeing stories about fake Apple products that stream out of China but it seems that some bootleggers have decided to raise the bar and have opened up "Apple Stores" in some Chinese ...
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Despite objections from China, U.S. President Barack Obama met with Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama of Tibet this week. Prior to the meeting Chinese officials including the countries Foreign Minister asked the President to rescind his invitation.
The two ...
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