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 [...]
Chinese activist Feng Zhenghu waves before he leaves for Shanghai at the Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, Japan, Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. The Chinese activist who has spent more than three months living inside Tokyo’s international airport said Tuesday, Feb. 2, that Chinese officials have given him permission to return home.
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The Year of the Tiger starts in a few days in China. Among the elaborate celebrations will be the start of a last-ditch drive to save the 50 remaining wild tigers in the country.
China is awash with images of orange and black-striped big cats as the country prepares to usher in the Year of the [...]
The Toyota Motor Corporation says its engineers have solved the accelerator problem that prompted the recall of more than four million of its most popular models. The company apologized to customers on Monday and said repairs will begin as soon as possible.
The Japanese automaker says replacement parts should start arriving in a few days. [...]
HANOI—Communist Vietnam was until recently a highly moralistic society in which men looked for virgins to marry and unmarried couples were fined for living together, but that now seems to be changing.
Traditionally, an unmarried woman who became pregnant could have her head shaved and smeared with lime as punishment in Vietnam’s traditional rural societies.
But increasingly, [...]
Shipping containers are piled up at at a container terminal in the port of Dalian, China (11 Sep 2009 Photo: AP)
China has hit back at the United States after President Barack Obama promised to take a tougher line with Beijing over currency and trade. Meawhile, the United States is downplaying reports of rising tensions with [...]
Active online community Douban.com will be reorganized into four sub-sites this year, Abei, the founder of Douban announced their plan for development in Douban’s official blog. He said the decision was made after serious consideration, four sub-sites are Reading (book.douban.com), Movie (movie.douban.com), Music (music.douban.com) and community (www.douban.com). The new services will be exciting and full [...]
Engineers in Facebook anounced a new technology named HipHop to speed up the PHP processing and reduce the CPU/Memory load. Now about 90% web servers in Facebook have implemented HipHop and engineers have reduced the CPU usage on web servers on average by about fifty percent. The team leader of HipHop is Zhao Haiping (赵海平, [...]
EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CHINESE STUDIES
His Excellency Hu Jintao
President of the People’s Republic of China
Zhongnanhai, Xichengqu,
Beijing
People’s Republic of China
OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
January 15, 2010
Your Excellency,
The European Association for Chinese Studies represents more than 800 scholars from 36 countries, mostly in Europe, who dedicate their efforts to the understanding and [...]
The prepared text of U.S. of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speech, delivered at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. JANUARY 21, 2010
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Thank you, Alberto for that kind introduction. It’s a pleasure to be here at [...]
