Chinese police detain 'hit-and-bury' couple
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| Police in China's Zhejiang province have detained a couple accused of burying an elderly woman alive after crashing into her, state media say. The couple, both 25, hit the 68-year-old woman as they returned from a night out drinking at a karaoke bar on 30 April, police said. They buried her at a construction site in the city of Yuyao to cover up the accident, police said. It is not clear whether they knew she was alive when they buried her. Police said the accident occurred as the couple drove back from the karaoke bar late at night. An eyewitness... |
No Chinese Parts in our Commercial Jetliners! -- Call 'Em!
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| Call your airline or email them and demand they inspect all airplanes and all parts for Chinese made fakes. Ever wonder why the Air France jet 'fell' out of the sky? Makes you wonder! |
Backdoor discovered on ZTE Score M Android smartphone
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| If anyone reading this owns a ZTE Score M Android smartphone, your device has been found to include a backdoor allowing root access without user authentication.The discovery of the backdoor comes via a post on the text storage website Pastebin. It has since been confirmed via Reddit by Justin Case of Cunning Logic and TeamAndIRC. He has confirmed with someone at ZTE that the backdoor does indeed exist and that a fix is in the works.The question that needs to be asked is, why is it there at all?Apparently the handset includes a hard-coded password that allows access to a... |
Dalai Lama fears Chinese poison plot
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| Buddhist leader believes Chinese agents may have trained fake female followers to kill him when seeking blessingsThe Dalai Lama has revealed he fears Chinese agents have trained bogus female devotees to kill him with poison while seeking blessings. The Tibetan Buddhist leader told the Sunday Telegraph that he had been passed reports from inside Tibet warning of the plot, using Tibetan women. The 76-year-old Nobel laureate said he now lives in a high security cordon in his temple palace grounds in Dharamsala, in the Himalayan foothills, on the advice of Indian security officials. His aides had not been able to... |
Chinese cities coming to America
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| A Chinese group known as "Sino-Michigan Properties LLC" has bought up 200 acres of land near the town of Milan, Michigan. Their plan is to construct a "China City" with artificial lakes, a Chinese cultural center and hundreds of housing units for Chinese citizens. Essentially, it would be a little slice of communist China dropped right into the heartland of America.This "China City" would be located about 40 minutes from both Detroit and Toledo, and it would be marketed to Chinese business people that want to start businesses in the United States. Unfortunately, this is not just an isolated incident. ... |
Obama adviser says US will find ‘right way forward’on Chinese activist who fled house arrest
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| Washington - A top White House aide on Sunday said President Barack Obama wants to strike an “appropriate balance” between advancing human rights and maintaining U.S. relations with China, the first public comments by the administration on its potential involvement in harboring a Chinese activist on the eve of diplomatic talks between the two world powers. John Brennan, Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, declined to provide details on the incident or say whether the activist, Chen Guangcheng, might be hiding in the U.S. embassy in Beijing as reported. Chen, who has exposed forced abortions and |
Did Ancient Drifters 'Discover' British Columbia?
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| Legends and bits of evidence tell a story of Asians arriving here long, long ago. Part one of two. "Even pale ink is better than memory." -- Chinese proverbAs the tide creeps over the sand flats of Pachena Bay south of Bamfield, it brings ashore the flotsam of the Pacific that -- on occasion -- hints at extraordinary travels and a mystery of historic proportions. Amid the kelp, in decades past, hundreds of green-glass fishing floats would arrive intact on the Vancouver Island coast, having ridden the powerful Japanese Current in year-long transits from Asia. But on rare occasions, entire... |
Chinese Student And His Parents Are Charged In Iowa With Rape And Attempting To Bribe The Victim
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| Chinese Student And His Parents Are Charged In Iowa With Rape And Attempting To Bribe The Victim Michael Kelley April 16, 2012, 3:49 PM Peng Tang, a 21-year-old student in the University of Iowa, has been charged with the first-degree kidnapping and attempting to bribe the alleged victim in a case that has become a big story in China, according to chinaSMACK. Tang has pleaded not guilty to first-degree kidnapping and was charged on April 13 with solicitation to commit an aggravated misdemeanor and tampering with a witness or juror, according to The Daily Iowan. Tang's parents, who arrived in... |
2 USC Students Murdered During Attempted Carjacking Near Campus
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Two USC students were murdered Wednesday morning in what may have been an attempted carjacking in front of a home in the West Adams area. Officials say the victims, Ying Wu and Ming Qu, were sitting in a BMW in the 2700 block of Raymond Avenue with hazard lights on when they were approached by an armed man at 1 a.m., according to KNX 1070′s John Brooks. |
How Chinese toddler was rescued from a 40ft well with an iPhone (with video link)
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| This incredible footage was recorded as firefighters in China used an iPhone camera to seek out a two-year-old boy who had fallen down a well. The child plunged into the 40ft shaft while playing with friends outside a small village near Mengzi City, in Yunnan Province. Villagers raised the alarm after they heard him crying, tossing down a rope to which he clung for about an hour as they waited for the emergency services to arrive. When the fire service arrived they struggled to pull the trapped toddler out of the narrow hole. Emergency workers fed in a hose attached... |
China cyber capability puts U.S. forces at risk: report
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| Chinese cyberwarfare would pose a "genuine risk" to the U.S. military in a conflict, for instance over Taiwan or disputes in the South China Sea, according to a report prepared for the U.S. Congress. Operations against computer networks have become fundamental to Beijing's military and national development strategies over the past decade, said the 136-page analysis by Northrop Grumman Corp released on Thursday by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Chinese commercial firms, bolstered by foreign partners, are giving the military access to cutting-edge research and technology, the analysis said. The Chinese military's close ties to large Chinese telecommunications... |
Archdiocese (of NY) Welcomes 1,470 Entering Church at Easter Vigil
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| REFLECTION—Over the past two weekends, nearly 1,500 persons who will enter or come into full communion with the Church in parishes of the archdiocese at the Easter Vigil took important steps on their journey. A catechumen and his sponsor, at left, pray during Rite of Election ceremony led by Cardinal Dolan in St. Patrick’s Cathedral Feb. 26. The archdiocese rolled out the welcome the past two weekends for 1,470 people who will be fully received into the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil April 7. On Feb. 26 the Church welcomed to St. Patrick’s Cathedral 655 who will be baptized,... |
China calls U.S. criticism over Syria "totally unacceptable"
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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China on Monday called "totally unacceptable" U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's denunciation of its stand on Syria, and a top newspaper said that, after the Iraq war, Washington was "super arrogant" to claim to speak for Arab people. China's angry words came after Clinton on Friday called the Chinese and Russian veto of a U.N. resolution on Syria "despicable." "They are setting themselves not only against the Syrian people but also the entire Arab awakening," Clinton said of China and Russia, which have resisted Western and Arab calls to push Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power.
Chinese national indicted in Colorado for trying to illegally export to China...
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| NOTE The following news release is a quote: www.ice.gov/news/releases/1202/120206denver.htm FEBRUARY 6, 2012 DENVER, CO Chinese national indicted in Colorado for trying to illegally export to China radiation-hardened computer circuits used in satellite communications DENVER – Philip Chaohui He, aka Philip Hope, a Chinese national, made his initial appearance in U.S. district court on Thursday after he was named in a three-count indictment charging him with attempting to export defense articles without U.S. State Department authorization. The indictment was announced by U.S. Attorney John Walsh, District of Colorado and Michael A. Holt, special agent in charge of the Denver office of... |
U.S. Leans Toward Taxing Chinese Solar Panels
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| The U.S. Department of Commerce hinted on Monday that American solar panel manufacturers might prevail in their case against subsidized Chinese imports. Led by SolarWorld of Hillsboro, a group of U.S. solar panel manufacturers have asked the federal government to add a 50 to 250 percent tariff to imported solar panels from China to make up for 30 Chinese government subsidy programs that artificially reduce the panel prices Chinese manufacturers can offer. Chinese-made solar panels already represent half the American market, according to this story in the New York Times. |
Urban US Chinatowns wane as Asians head to suburbs
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| WASHINGTON (AP) -- America's historic Chinatowns, home for a century to immigrants seeking social support and refuge from racism, are fading as rising living costs, jobs elsewhere and a desire for wider spaces lure Asian-Americans more than ever to the suburbs. As the Lunar New Year begins Monday, annual festivities in Washington, D.C.'s shriveled Chinatown are, for the first time, being promoted by a large marketing firm. New York's Chinatown, one of the nation's oldest, has lost its status as home to the city's largest Chinese population, based on the 2010 census. |
Report: Chinese workers at LG factory strike over complaint of pay discrimination
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| Report: Chinese workers at LG factory strike over complaint of pay discriminationBy The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – Wed, 28 Dec, 2011 BEIJING, China - Some 8,000 employees of a factory in China owned by a unit of South Korea's LG Corp. over complaints about pay discrimination, a labour group said Wednesday. Chinese employees of the LG Display factory in Nanjing, west of Shanghai, walked off the job Monday over complaints Korean employees at the factory received annual bonuses equal to one year's salary while those for Chinese workers were equal to one month's pay, the New York-based... |
43,000 Chinese officials probed for abuse of power
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| 43,000 Chinese officials probed for abuse of power Beijing, Dec 23 : Over 43,000 government officials in China have been investigated this year in cases related to abuse of official power, according to latest figures. **SNIP** Prosecutors across China approved the arrests of a total of 837,736 suspects and prosecuted nearly 1.07 million people. |
The Chinese are coming to town.
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| You better watch out, You better not cry, Better not pout, I'm telling you why, the Chinese are coming to town. If you think the unemployment rate of 8.6% is high just give Obama another four years and if you don’t speak Chinese you’ll be unemployed too. The Chinese own us financially now. They are readying for war. We can barely pay the interest on what we owe them now – four more years of Obama and we won’t be able to pay and it will be the excuse the Chinese need to declare war. |
China builds its African empire while the 'anti-colonialist' Left looks the other way
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| Imagine what would happen if America barged its way into a developing country, buttered up its homicidal dictator and agreed a back-of-the-envelope deal in which he signed over his nation’s mineral wealth in return for roads, railways and sports stadiums. Everyone would benefit, no? No. The problem is that the infrastructure turns out to be worth a hell of a lot less than the minerals. Fortunately, Washington has had the foresight to top up the dictator’s Swiss bank account. Problem solved! As for the mining operation, the Americans really don’t want to be bothered by minimum wages or trade unions.... |
Huntsman's Daughter: "He's More Chinese Than American" (and other great clips): Chinese Video
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| > Source: VOA China (video stream HERE.Candidate Huntsman's (I would add, a bit easy on the eyes) daughter talking about her father's personality orientation (more Chinese than American), Huntsman droning on in Chinese bragging about his closeness to the Red Chinese, and other fun stuff, all in Chinese from VOA China (a personal profile on the guy). |
The Chinese Now Know Every Trick In The Book For Getting Into A US College
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| The number of Chinese students in American colleges has tripled in the last three years. Unfortunately, most colleges don't know what they are getting into. According to New York Times many of these students are arriving with barely passable English, despite dominating the SATs and having impeccable applications. The secret to getting into college for a Chinese person is paying the right agency. About 80 percent of Chinese applicants use such agents according to a report by Zinch Group. Aoji Education Group, for example, offers parents a package complete with money-back guarantee if you don't get into one of the... |
Chinese buy their favourite Bordeaux by the vineyard
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| With its fairytale turrets and a 15th-Century tower, Chateau Latour Laguens is surrounded by vineyards in a region steeped in European tradition. But this chateau, south-east of Bordeaux, is also at the cutting edge of Asia's growing economic might. The staff who tend the vineyards and make the wine are still French, but this is now a Chinese-owned domain. It has been taken over by the Longhai group based in eastern China, which has created a subsidiary to run it called Chateau Latour-Laguens (Qingdao). The Chinese are developing a new taste for French wines these days. And in addition to... |
'Red Army' Behind Occupy Wall Street?
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| On a balmy autumn afternoon, a stroll along lower Manhattan to Liberty Plaza, or another American city or even in squares and plazas around the world, is likely to take you to an encampment of mostly-young, mostly cheerful, determined citizens who've come together for the long haul to challenge and oppose a list of anti-social deeds, from government support of venal businessmen to excessive CO2 emissions. Under the banner of "Occupy Wall Street," a local-turned-global protest movement strives to bring your attention to injustice. The panoply of complaints, seen by some observers as a childish litany, is cited by others... |
Chinese man pleads guilty for U.S. trade secret theft
Thursday 24th of May 2012 01:46:45 PM
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| A Chinese-born scientist pleaded guilty on Tuesday to stealing valuable trade secrets about pesticides and food products from two major U.S. companies and sending the information to China and Germany. Kexue Huang, 46, worked at a Dow Chemical Co subsidiary from 2003 to 2008 in Indiana where he led a team of scientists developing organic insecticides and then later for another agribusiness giant, privately held Cargill Inc. He pleaded guilty in a federal court in Indiana to one count of stealing trade secrets from Cargill and one count of engaging in economic espionage at Dow, only the eighth case charged... |
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