Beijing accused of taking box office receipts from American studios Tim Walker Tuesday, 30 July 2013 China is likely to become the world’s biggest film market within the next five years, making it a potential source of vast profits for… Read More ›
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Chinese police allege Glaxo sales reps trained to offer sexual bribes
Chinese police have released new details of GlaxoSmithKline’s alleged crimes in China, claiming that sales representatives were given “clear directives” to offer bribes to doctors and were trained to cater “to their pleasures.” Xinhua reported that a woman, named as… Read More ›
A ginkgo biloba extract promotes proliferation of endogenous neural stem cells/ “effectively and safely treats memory loss and cognitive impairments in patients ”
Contact: Meng Zhao eic@nrren.org 86-138-049-98773 Neural Regeneration Research IMAGE: EGb761 improved the proliferation of neural stem cells in the subependymal zone of vascular dementia rats (immunofluorescence staining). The presence of green particles in the nucleus was the… Read More ›
Japan eyes first-strike capability, Marines in defense policy update
By Linda Sieg National Jul. 25, 2013 – 05:10PM JST ( 41 ) TOKYO — Japan is likely to start considering acquiring the ability to launch pre-emptive military strikes in a planned update of its basic defense policies, the latest… Read More ›
Ketamine as anesthetics can damage children’s learning and memory ability
Contact: Meng Zhao eic@nrren.org 86-138-049-98773 Neural Regeneration Research Recent studies have found that anesthesia drugs have neurotoxicity on the developing neurons, causing learning and memory disorders and behavioral abnormalities. Ketamine is commonly used in pediatric anesthesia. A clinical retrospective study… Read More ›
GlaxoSmithKline finance head banned from leaving China
The BBC’s Martin Patience in Beijing: “Business leaders say foreign companies operating in China have never faced a tougher time” Related Stories China media: GSK case Chinese GSK executive ‘confesses’ Peston: GSK’s Chinese lesson Chinese authorities looking into alleged bribery… Read More ›
Japan to deploy ships after China detected drilling in disputed waters – report
Published time: July 18, 2013 16:50 An aerial view shows a Chinese facility under construction (top R) for natural gas exploration and a large crane ship are seen near what Tokyo claims to be the median line between the… Read More ›
N.Korea has everything in place for new atom test: US expert
N.Korea needs more tests to “miniaturise” bomb, an expert said. -Reuters Wed, Jul 17, 2013 Reuters VIENNA – North Korea has strong technical reasons to carry out another nuclear test but may be hesitating because it would anger China, a prominent… Read More ›
Glaxo used travel agencies for China bribes – police / Over $489 million
Source: Reuters – Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:39 PM Author: Reuters A Chinese national flag is seen in front of a GlaxoSmithKline office building in Shanghai, July 12, 2013 REUTERS/Aly Song * GSK used travel agencies to funnel bribes… Read More ›
Japan mulls nationalising unclaimed islands
National Jul. 16, 2013 – 06:52AM JST ( 32 ) A Taiwan fishing boat is blocked by the Japan Coast Guard near the disputed Diaoyu / Senkaku islands, September 2012AFP TOKYO — Japan may nationalise any unclaimed remote islands in… Read More ›
Japan seeks to ‘nationalize’ islands
With an Upper House election looming this weekend, the Japanese cabinet plans to strengthen territorial claims on hundreds of remote islands in the East China Sea. -China Daily/ANN Tue, Jul 16, 2013 China Daily/Asia News Network With an Upper House… Read More ›
Chinese court executes man for fraud and illegal fundraising without telling family: media
AFP Sunday, Jul 14, 2013 BEIJING – A Chinese court executed a man on death row without notifying his family and then defended its actions, sparking anger online, local media reported Sunday. Businessman Zeng Chengjie was executed on Friday after… Read More ›
China says GlaxoSmithKline execs confess to bribery and tax crimes
Source: Reuters – Thu, 11 Jul 2013 04:32 PM Author: Reuters * Biggest graft case involving foreign firm for years * GSK says it is cooperating fully with authorities * Lawyer says too early to say what punishment might be… Read More ›
China woman seeks suitable Malaysian man as life partner
EEV: Always enjoy some of the stories that make headline news. Wed, Jul 10, 2013 The Star/Asia News Network A 37-year-old China woman put up an advertisement in a local daily looking for a suitable Malaysian man as her husband,China Press… Read More ›
Japan: Risk of Incident From ‘Coercive’ Acts By China / fighters were scrambled more than 300 times against Chinese planes flying near Japan’s airspace for the year to March
Jul. 9, 2013 – 08:48AM | By SHINGO ITO for AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | TOKYO — China’s “coercive” behavior in waters around islands at the center of a bitter dispute with Japan is dangerous and could trigger an incident, Tokyo said… Read More ›
China state media blames Syria rebels for Xinjiang violence
Source: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 09:30 AM Author: Reuters Armed paramilitary policemen run in formation during a gathering to mobilize security operations in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, June 29, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer BEIJING, July 1 (Reuters) – Chinese state… Read More ›
Activists target China dog meat festival
The event is reported to have started several decades ago to mark the summer solstice. July 2, 2013 BEIJING (AFP) – A festival dedicated to dog meat in southern China has been targeted by protesting animal lovers, who have won… Read More ›
China’s troubled Xinjiang hit by more violence-state media ( So far 35 reported casualties )
Source: Reuters – Sat, 29 Jun 2013 04:56 AM Author: Reuters BEIJING, June 29 (Reuters) – More than a hundred people, riding motorobikes and wielding knifes, attacked a police station in China’s ethnically divided western region of Xinjiang, state media… Read More ›
Chinese wind-turbine firm charged with stealing US trade secrets
Sinovel Wind Group accused of illegally downloading software from former supplier American Superconductor guardian.co.uk, Friday 28 June 2013 05.38 EDT A worker paints wind turbines in Guangdong, China. Photograph: Tyrone Siu/Reuters China‘s largest wind-turbine company has been charged… Read More ›
27 killed as rioting hits Xinjiang
Knife-wielding mobs attacked police stations, the local government building and a construction site, stabbing people and setting fire to police cars. -China Daily/ANN Cui Jia, Wang Xiaodong Thu, Jun 27, 2013 China Daily/Asia News Network XINJIANG – Riots left 27… Read More ›
Chinese businessman behind $40 bln Nicaragua canal denies special ties
Tue, Jun 25, 2013 Reuters BEIJING – The mysterious Chinese businessman behind a US$40 billion (S$50.8 billion) plan to build a canal through Nicaragua pledged transparency on Tuesday – but refused to reveal where he attended college. Wang Jing, 40,… Read More ›
‘I feel like a trapped animal’: U.S. executive is held HOSTAGE by staff at Beijing medical supply plant in dispute over pay
Chip Starnes, 42, said he was being kept captive by scores of workers He said they were demanding severance packages The workers were expecting wire transfers by Tuesday said Mr Starnes By Jill Reilly PUBLISHED: 07:20 EST, 24 June 2013… Read More ›
DoD Calls Out China On Cyber Spying
Jun. 19, 2013 – 09:50AM | By Staff report | Filed Under C4ISR Journal The Pentagon for the first time is making direct allegations that China’s government and military are behind widespread cyber spying. Previously, the U.S. had tried to… Read More ›
Chinese supercomputer world’s fastest – Processor designed by U.S. firm Intel
Technology Jun. 18, 2013 – 07:00AM JST ( 12 ) BEIJING — A Chinese supercomputer is the fastest in the world, according to survey results announced Monday, comfortably overtaking a U.S. machine which now ranks second. Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed… Read More ›
Chinese censors target Winnie the Pooh and Tigger
China’s army of internet censors have picked an unusual target in their battle to wipe dissent from the country’s computer screens: Winnie the Pooh and Tigger. The two images were published side by side this week on the Twitter-like Chinese… Read More ›
NYU accused of KICKING OUT blind Chinese dissident over lucrative building deal with Communist government
NYU booting blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng amid Shanghai expansion: sources By JAMES COVERT Last Updated: 9:04 AM, June 13, 2013 Posted: 3:03 AM, June 13, 2013 EXCLUSIVE NYU isn’t letting a pesky thing like human rights stand in… Read More ›
‘The smell of burning flesh filled the room’: Workers reveal hellish conditions in Chinese labour camp where man hid letter pleading for help that was found U.S. store’s decorations box
American woman found plea for help in Halloween decorations she bought Letter came from Chinese labour camp worker who has now come forward He wrote workers were suffering ‘torturement, beat and rude remark’ Inmates at the labour camp work seven… Read More ›
Hollande tells Japanese business leaders eurozone crisis is over
By MALCOLM FOSTER Politics Jun. 09, 2013 – 06:34AM JST ( 7 ) French President Francois Hollande delivers a speech during his lecture in Tokyo, Saturday.AP Photo/Koji Sasahara TOKYO — French President Francois Hollande sought reassure Japanese business leaders Saturday… Read More ›
Tiananmen Square online searches censored by Chinese authorities
Banned search terms include ‘today’, ‘tomorrow’ and date references in attempt to quell protest Jonathan Kaiman in Beijing guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 4 June 2013 08.55 EDT Twitter image mocking Chinese censorship of Tiananmen Square, adapted from AP’s 1989 photograph (the search… Read More ›
Report: Chinese Hackers Breach Top Weapons Designs
May. 28, 2013 – 05:59PM | By DOUG STANGLIN USA Today and the Defense News staff | Cyber Attack Targets Australia Spy Headquarters: Hackers traced to a server in China have stolen the floor plans for the new Australia… Read More ›
Has China hacked into Australia’s new spy HQ – before it’s even finished being built?
TV investigation claims important government departments were also hacked James Legge, Agencies Tuesday, 28 May 2013 Australian officials have refused to confirm or deny a report that Chinese hackers stole blueprints for the country’s new spy agency headquarters. The Australian… Read More ›
China’s One-Child Policy Affects Personality
China’s one-child policy has affected the personalities of a generation of only children By Carrie Arnold | Monday, May 20, 2013 | In 1979 China instituted the one-child policy, which limited every family to just one offspring in a controversial… Read More ›
Disabled Chinese toddler ‘imprisoned for four years’
A four-year-old disabled Chinese boy was put in a prison for over three years because his parents were protesters, his foster father has claimed. Disabled Chinese boy Chen Ya, now eight, was imprisoned for over three years because his parents… Read More ›
China trying to strengthen its claim to Okinawa
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN National May. 20, 2013 – 06:49AM JST ( 25 ) BEIJING — China is trying to strengthen its claim on tiny, uninhabited, Japanese-controlled islands by raising questions about the much larger Okinawa chain that is… Read More ›
Chinese general says Ryukyu islands do not belong to Japan
Politics May. 17, 2013 – 06:45AM JST ( 72 ) BEIJING — A senior Chinese military officer has said the Ryukyu Islands—which include Okinawa and its U.S. military bases—“do not belong to Japan”, as a territorial row mounts between the… Read More ›
Japan protests to China over Okinawa claim
Politics May. 09, 2013 – 07:00PM JST ( 55 ) Graphic showing US military bases in Japan’s OkinawaAFP TOKYO — Japan has lodged a diplomatic protest with China over an article in a state-run publication that challenged Japan’s ownership of… Read More ›
China refuses to confirm Okinawa Island belongs to Japanese
Bloomberg — May 09 China refused to confirm that Okinawa belongs to Japan after two Chinese scholars suggested re-examining the ownership of the archipelago that includes the island, adding to tensions over a separate territorial dispute. Agreements between… Read More ›
China should reconsider who owns Okinawa: People’s Daily – China may claim rights to Okinawa
Politics May. 08, 2013 – 05:00PM JST BEIJING — China’s top newspaper on Wednesday published a call for a review of Japan’s sovereignty over the island of Okinawa—home to major U.S. bases—with the Asian powers already embroiled in a territorial… Read More ›
China-Japan Island Dispute Could Become Flashpoint
May. 4, 2013 – 11:15AM By WENDELL MINNICK TAIPEI — While North Korea has garnered attention as Asia’s top hotspot, experts worry that the real problem is between Beijing and Tokyo over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, which China calls… Read More ›
Scientists create hybrid flu that can go airborne : Mixed Genes from H5N1 & H1N1
H5N1 virus with genes from H1N1 can spread through the air between mammals. Ed Yong 02 May 2013 Researchers have crossed two strains of avian flu virus to create one that can be transmitted through the air — and possibly… Read More ›
‘Appalling irresponsibility’: Senior scientists attack Chinese researchers for creating new strains of influenza virus in veterinary laboratory
Experts warn of danger that the new viral strains created by mixing bird-flu virus with human influenza could escape from the laboratory to cause a global pandemic killing millions of people. Steve Connor Thursday, 2 May 2013 Senior scientists have… Read More ›
Honorary Professor Was an Organ Harvester, Say Critics
By Matthew Robertson, Epoch Times | April 30, 2013 Last Updated: May 1, 2013 6:16 am Chinese Vice Minister of Health Huang Jiefu after a conference in Taipei, Taiwan, in 2010. Huang has recently come under scrutiny for his involvement… Read More ›
Red faces as Pentagon leases Chinese satellite
It’s ok, we’ve added ‘additional transmission security’ By Phil Muncaster Posted in Government, 1st May 2013 04:04 GMT Free whitepaper – Hands on with Hyper-V 3.0 and virtual machine movement US lawmakers are up in arms after it emerged that the… Read More ›
Pentagon leaning on Chinese satellite for Africa Command communications : ” sparked outcry by disclosing its lease of bandwidth from a Chinese satellite “
On the heels of a new presidential resolution for US government agencies to avoid Chinese IT hardware over security concerns, the Pentagon has sparked outcry by disclosing its lease of bandwidth from a Chinese satellite. According to Pentagon… Read More ›
China official clearly calls Senkaku core interest
Jiji Press — Apr 27 Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying clarified at a regular press conference Friday that the Senkaku islands in the East China Sea are part of the country’s core interests concerning its territorial sovereignty. It is… Read More ›
WIG aircraft – a new joint project between Russia and China: ” advantage in the air, for example during an airdrop operation against Taiwan”
Photo: RIA Novosti Recently the Chinese press announced the first test flights of the new Chinese Wing In Ground Effect (WIG) aircraft CYG-11. In its appearance and technical characteristics it completely replicates the Russian WIG aircraft Ivolga, as Vasily Kashin,… Read More ›
Official Organ Trade Network in China Revealed
By Epoch Times News Analysis Less than two weeks after Lens magazine in mainland China blew the whistle on the torture taking place in China’s Masanjia Labor Camp, another magazine from the same company has revealed the existence of a… Read More ›
China builds second aircraft carrier
Navy has a single carrier, the Russian-built Liaoning, and says another larger vessel is under construction Reuters in Shanghai guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 24 April 2013 00.23 EDT China’s first aircraft carrier, the Soviet-era Liaoning. Photograph: Str/AFP/Getty Images China will build… Read More ›
China calls Japan-U.S. island drill ‘provocative’
Reuters — Apr 25 China said on Wednesday that “provocative actions” would not sway it from defending its territory, after Japan confirmed it would conduct military drills with the United States amid tension between Beijing and Tokyo over disputed… Read More ›
China, Japan tense over disputed islands : Eight Chinese government ships had entered waters near the contested islands
CNN — Apr 24 The fragile relationship between China and Japan came under fresh strain Tuesday as ships from both sides crowded into the waters around a disputed group of islands and nearly 170 Japanese lawmakers visited a controversial… Read More ›