As Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 3-day China visit draws to a close, the primary question is how this visit will go down in the pages of history in years to come. Will it be termed as a successful one or would this be yet another futile diplomatic exercise. On the face of it there are many positives but when you look deep perhaps some of the core issues still […]
Yeli Village: A once-barren bank of the Ye river in central China now has 12,000 trees thanks to unlikely but dedicated gardeners: two friends, one blind and one without arms. The story of Jia Wenqi, 53, with no arms, and his blind friend, Jia Haixia, 54, is one of perseverance, environmental awakening and of finding a path in a country where it is difficult for the disabled to find jobs. […]
Beijing: A Chinese construction company is claiming to be the world’s fastest builder after erecting a 57-story skyscraper in 19 working days in central China. The Broad Sustainable Building Co put up the rectangular, glass-and-steel Mini Sky City in the Hunan provincial capital of Changsha using a modular method, assembling three floors per day, company vice president Xiao Changgeng said. The company, which has ambitions to assemble the world’s tallest […]
BEIJING: A group of Chinese businessmen allegedly gave $300,000 to school students in Shaanxi province to procure virgin girls, whom the men then offered to officials as ‘gifts’. Several schoolgirls were molested and tortured, local officials said. In a curious pyramid scheme, girl students of 11th grade were asked to lure and torture virgin girls of 10th grade to force them to have sex with officials. Six of the […]
Las Vegas: Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer TCL has announced that it will unveil a new television model with a curved screen which uses ultra high definition 4K technology and measures 110 inches, putting it in the Guinness record books for the world’s largest television. In a statement Monday on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) here, the company also revealed its plan to show another 55-inch 4K television […]
Beijing: A rare Siberian tiger released into the wild by Russian President Vladimir Putin raided a farm in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province and killed 15 goats. The beast named Ustin has killed 15 goats in the farm in Fuyuan county on Sunday and Monday, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Zhu Shibing, a wildlife protection expert from the Northeast Forestry University said footprints and other traces left near the goat house […]
Beijing: China has begun generating electricity from Tibet’s biggest ever hydropower project, the latest dam development on Himalayan rivers that has prompted concern in India. The dam on the Yarlung Zangbo river – known as the Brahmaputra in India, where it is a major waterway – will be 116 metres (381 feet) high when completed next year, according to reports. Foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said Monday that New Delhi […]
More than 200 protesters buried their heads in the sands of Bondi Beach on Thursday in a demonstration over climate change inaction. The protest came as world leaders began arriving in Australia ahead of the G20 summit in Brisbane at the weekend. Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been criticised for not including talks on climate change in the summit. Since coming to power, Mr Abbott has axed a carbon tax […]
Beijing: China today launched a new remote sensing satellite into scheduled orbit from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre. The satellite Yaogan-23 will mainly be used for scientific experiments, natural resource surveys, crop yield estimates and disaster relief, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. It was carried by a Long March-2C rocket, marking the 198th mission for the Long March rocket family. China launched the first satellite in the “Yaogan” […]
Beijing, China: China completed its first return mission to the moon early Saturday with the successful re-entry and landing of an unmanned probe, state media reported, in the latest step forward for Beijing’s ambitious space programme. The probe landed safely in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region, state news agency Xinhua said, citing the Beijing Aerospace Control Center. Xinhua said the probe took “some incredible pictures” of the Earth and […]
