Strange Prophecies anew! She wrote
–’The key is in the window, the key is in the sunlight at the window
–I have the key
–Get married Allen don’t take drugs
–the key is in the bars, in the sunlight in the window.
Love,
your mother’
– “Kaddish“, Allen Ginsberg
Countries in the Asia-Pacific region are bracing for a possible tsunami following a massive earthquake in Chile.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii issued a warning for the Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia and many island nations in the Pacific. A lower-level advisory was issued for the northern Pacific region.
Many countries along the Pacific Rim are [...]
喜讯：本站近日购置的重要域名 ChinaTimes.net 已经就位，这是The China Times 建设过程中的重大事件。如同我们昨天在前一篇文章里提到的，ChinaTimes.net 对于我们有特殊的意义。首先，我们的站名本身就是China Times，一直没有改变，其次站长本人在求学过程中，受过台湾中国时报集团东主余氏家族在大陆捐资助学行动的恩泽。台湾中国时报已经被旺旺集团收购，他们使用的域名是ChinaTimes.com （中时电子报），原域名注册于上世纪九十年代，对多数人而言，穷一生之力也难以收购这样大的媒体资产，但是旺旺的老板做到了，这让我们后来人机会更加渺茫。
“Domain Names are More Important than CEOs.” This idea is based on the simple truth of Internet business. We’ve defined ouself as “The China Times” since the very beginning of this web site, now we got a preminum domain “■■■■■■.■■■” for our business. The acquisition costs about 8,000￥. Considering the value of this domain to [...]
Health officials are considering a new strategy that they say could effectively kill off HIV/AIDS within 40 years.
The proposal is spearheaded by Professor Brian Williams of the South African Center for Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis (SECEMA). It calls for blanket HIV testing for most of the world’s population, and those found HIV positive would [...]
Yaogan 1, a Chinese Earth Observation Satellite, erupted into multiple pieces last week. By back-tracking the pieces, I believe the date and time of the incident was February 4, 2010 at about 6:49 UTC. It is interesting to note that the maximum difference in orbital speeds is about 22 m/s. That can be compared with [...]
Welcome to visit The China Times in Chinese New Year, when most of our readers spend their time with family members at home, we’re busy in negotiating a deal which is very important to the future development of The China Times. I said “a new approach to China Times” because it’s a deal about our [...]
Four people, including a man who tried to sell his own sister, have been jailed for a total of nine years for their part in a sham marriage scam.
At an earlier hearing, 22-year-old Michael Wright from Swindon admitted trying to sell his own sister, who had learning difficulties, into a marriage with a Chinese immigrant.
Wright [...]
An American woman serving a life sentence in Hong Kong for murdering her banker husband has won a retrial.
Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal ruled Thursday that the murder trial of Nancy Kissel was flawed and ordered that she be held in custody while undergoing a new trial.
Kissel’s lawyers had argued that prosecutors used improper [...]
China is urging the US government to cancel plans for President Barack Obama to meet next week with Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu issued a statement Friday, urging the United States to, in his words, “immediately withdraw” plans for a meeting between President Obama and the Dalai Lama.
Ma [...]
