Tag: china
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China’s Imperiled Jade Rabbit Moon Rover: ‘Goodnight, Humanity’
from cnn.com: China’s brand new moon rover is already saying farewell. The diminutive lunar explorer, known as Jade Rabbit, or “Yutu” in Chinese, was about halfway through a three-month mission to study the moon’s crust when it suffered a potentially crippling breakdown, said state media. The report, authored by China’s state-run Xinhua news, was written…
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Air pollution in Beijing hits worst ever
from NHK.com: Smog levels in the Chinese capital Beijing soared on Thursday to levels considered “extremely serious.” Official readings for concentrations of the tiniest pollution particles, called PM 2.5, climbed up beyond 600 micrograms per cubic meter at one point on Thursday. Hazy smog descended over Tiananmen Square in central Beijing. Tourists in the square…
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Waiter, There’s Fox in My Donkey Meat
#China Fake Donkey Meat Scandal Shows Danger of Food Fraud from science.time.com: Consumers in China are angry because their donkey meat doesn’t contain enough…donkey. Wal-Mart this week recalled “Five Spice” donkey meat sold at some outlets in China after tests revealed that the product contained the DNA of other animals. Donkey is a popular snack…
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China Rejects Shipments of GMO Corn
from latimes.com: China rejected two shipments — almost 546,000 tons — of U.S. dried distillers’ grain, a corn byproduct, because it contained genetically modified material, state media reported Friday. China’s top food-quality watchdog rejected the two shipments because they contained MIR162, a special insect-resistant variety of maize developed by Syngenta, a Swiss maker of seeds and pesticides. …
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New World Next Week: Episode176 – New World Next Year 2014
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode176 – New World Next Year 2014 Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Pilato’s 2013 Story: The End of Money ‘What is Bitcoin’ Among Top US Google Searches in…
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China bans US shellfish imports
from Press TV: China has forbidden US shellfish imports after inspectors discovered a recent shipment containing high levels of a deadly chemical agent, a media report says. The Chinese government imposed the ban after recent shipments of geoduck clams from Northwest waters in the US were found to contain high levels of arsenic and a…
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Chinese spacecraft lands on the moon
from euronews.com: China has reportedly landed an unmanned spacecraft on the moon on Saturday. The Chang’e 3, a probe named after a lunar goddess in traditional Chinese mythology, is carrying a buggy called Yutu or Jade Rabbit. It will dig and conduct geological surveys. The country’s official news service reported that the spacecraft had touched…
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Chinese scientists accused of trying to steal US seed samples
from theguardian.co.uk: Two agricultural scientists from China have been accused of conspiring to take seeds from a research facility in Kansas and pass them to a Chinese delegation visiting the United States. At a detention hearing in Arkansas on Friday, a judge ordered one of the scientists, Wengui Yan, to remain in custody. The other…
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With Look Ahead to Manned Mission, #China Launches Lunar Rover
from computerworld.com: China on Monday launched a lunar probe carrying an exploration rover in what is expected to be the nation’s first soft-landing on an extraterrestrial body. The Chang’e-3 spacecraft carries a lander, as well as a rover named “Yutu,” which means Jade Rabbit, according to the Xinhua News Agency, China’s official news service. The…
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China Launches First Moon Mission
from cnn.com: China launched ts first lunar probe early Monday, which, if all goes well, will make it only the third nation — after the United States and the Soviet Union — to soft-land on the moon. The launch of the unmanned probe took place at 1:30 a.m. Monday (12:30 p.m. ET Sunday), state-run Xinhua…
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China Easing Up On Its One Child Policy and Forced Labor Camps
from seattletimes.com: President Xi Jinping announced Friday the most sweeping package of economic, social and legal reforms in China in decades, including a relaxation of the country’s “one-child” policy and the scrapping of its much-criticized system of labor camps. The changes rolled back harsh social policies that dated back to Communist China’s two most eminent…
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‘Triple Suns’ Appear in Mongolia
from digtriad.com: Chinese residents rushed out of doors to marvel a rare astronomical illusion of “triple suns” in the sky over Chifeng, in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Friday morning. The sun accompanied by two smaller twins suddenly popped up in the sky at around 09:00, and the triple appeared surrounded by an arched…
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China Mulls Transgenic Food Standard
It’s China vs. China in Genetically Modified Food Fight from globaltimes.cn: China is mulling over a national standard on using transgenic technology in agriculture in an effort to safeguard food safety, Vice Minister of Agriculture Niu Dun, told the Global Times Tuesday, without giving a specific timeline. It is imperative for China to develop its…
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U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011
from washingtonpost.com: U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and war, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Washington Post. That disclosure, in a classified intelligence budget provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, provides new…
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Who’s Behind the “Biggest Cyberattack” in China’s History?
from thediplomat.com: In what is being called the “biggest cyberattack in its history”, China’s internet was brought down by widespread distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Sunday. As The Wall Street Journal reported, no one is quite sure where the attacks came from, but the timing is certainly interesting from a number of standpoints. Furthermore, some reports are saying…