Posts Tagged ‘Beijing’

Spacious and spectacular: Incheon Main Stadium for 2014 Asian Games takes lavish shape

Monday, November 2, 2009 9:00 By Neo

Since the day the world first lay its eyes on the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube in Beijing, people have been obsessed with creating the perfect stadium, to hold international sporting events. The trend is understandable though with television making these grand engineering and designing marvels appear as symbols of national pride, creativity and capability. [...]

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China approves single dose vaccine against Influenza A (H1N1)

Sunday, September 6, 2009 18:29 By GSerrano

The vaccine manufactured by Beijing-based Sinovac Biotech Ltd. has received approval from the State Food and Drug Administration’s drug registration department in China. The World Health Organization has stated that the results of clinical trials have been encouraging. The WHO had access to test results and has declared that there is no reason to doubt [...]

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A sad reality in Urumqi

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 18:52 By NARUTO

As it did in Tibet, the Chinese leadership is repressing the disturbances hardly in Xinjiang. The Muslims Uigures of the area are feeling degraded and stolen of their culture while they suffer in their birthplace under the domain of Han Chinese ethnicity.
Xinjiang (”new border”, in Chinese) is an enormous area that links China to Central [...]

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China to shift from firing squads to lethal injection

Thursday, June 18, 2009 22:04 By GSerrano

According to Amnesty International, 1,718 people were executed in China in 2008. At least 7,003 face the death sentence. In a secretive regime such as China, nobody really knows if these figures are accurate. Most of these executions were done through the firing squad. There are plans, however, to completely eradicate the use of firing [...]

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Tiananmen Square Massacre: ‘state-enforced erasure’ of collective memory

Thursday, June 11, 2009 22:27 By GSerrano

China is observed to be suffering from amnesia regarding the massacre that occurred at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 20 years ago. Some attribute this to state-enforced erasure of collective memory. The communist regime in China ‘tolerates no mention of the massacre.’
On June 3 and 4, 1989, students and mostly Chinese elite and intellectuals filled the tragic square with a [...]

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China ‘softens’ on Taiwan

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 16:59 By GSerrano

China and Taiwan parted ways in 1949, but China still regards the island nation as part of its territory. Here lies the problem that has been festering for 60 years. To stake its claim and reiterate its position, China has threatened war against Taiwan several times in the past. As far as China is concerned, [...]

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U.S. secretly negotiated with China on climate change

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 17:47 By GSerrano

A group of prominent Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. talked secretly with China on matters about climate change over the recent months. The visit to China, attended by people who now occupy positions in the Obama government, produced a draft document in March that was meant to be submitted to the White House.
Although the [...]

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GhostNet: China’s Cyber Spy Ring in 103 countries?

Thursday, April 2, 2009 3:06 By GSerrano

Beijing has reacted to allegations that China is involved in a global cyber espionage network, claiming that those who concocted these ‘fabricated lies’ have the mentality of the Cold War. These statements were a response by the Chinese government to a report by Canadian researchers claiming the existence of a global cyber espionage network whose [...]

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The ‘new Cold War’ between USA and China?

Thursday, March 26, 2009 20:31 By GSerrano

U.S. and China are up against each other in what could be the new Cold War. This is despite their rather functional economic relations. The latest chapter in these two superpowers’ struggle for global hegemony involves the Pentagon’s report that warns about China’s military rise.
The report, currently causing considerable diplomatic friction between Washington and Beijing, [...]

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Snowfall in the Forbidden City

Friday, February 20, 2009 15:23 By Madhuri Katti

China first demonstrated their conviction to control pollution and fog before Olympics by taking all kinds of measures right from shutting down polluting industries to keeping vehicles off the street. Now they have gone a step ahead and manipulated the very weather by seeding clouds by spraying chemicals. The result though was snowfall instead of [...]

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