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There is a very cool film loop from the NOAA showing the progression of the night sky in China from 1992 to 2010. You can watch the full animation here. Above is a photo of 1992 and here is 2010. (Pics)
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Prime Minister Wen Jiabao
The New York Times has been under constant attack from Chinese Hackers for four months and they have gone public with the story. The Chinese hackers got wind that the Times was was preparing to reveal that Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s family acquired $2.7 billion in assets.
The State Grid Corporation of China is running the smart-grid project using passive optical networking technology.
Smart-grid technology testing has begun in China hat could eventually be deployed nationwide to make the delivery of electricity more reliable and efficient. It might also serve as a way to deliver high-speed Internet, TV, and telephony to the farthest reaches of the country.
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Graduates in China say no thank you to factory jobs.
Guangzhou, China, a city with a population of 15 million, is the hub of a manufacturing region where factories make everything from T-shirts and shoes to auto parts, tablet computers and solar panels. Despite the factories offering double-digit annual pay increases and better benefits, many are desperate for workers.
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China’s one-child law may be stifling its citizens’ innovation.
Development of a child can greatly be influenced by the number of siblings they have. But what happens when you have an entire nation of only children? China’s one-child law indicates that the policy may be stifling its citizens’ innovative instincts because single children born under the law there are less likely to be competitive, are more pessimistic, and less inclined to take risks, according to a new study. Those were the findings of researchers from Monash University in Australia.
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Opportunities in China have generated high expectations from the elders and potential spouses of this new professional class.
China produces 600,000 engineering graduates every year. A former Google product manager thought hiring a good engineer would be easy when he launched his startup, Julu Mobile, in China in 2011. He learned hiring the best wouldn’t be easy.
“Absolute freedom of the network does not exist … the virtual society and social reality are inseparable.”
China wants to pass a law that will abolish online anonymity which requires citizens to identify themselves when signing up for Internet and telecommunications services.
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Demand for coal rose 4.3 percent last year.
In the next six years, global coal demand will rise 2.6 percent annually and challenge oil as the top energy source, according to the International Energy Agency.
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Friday, Dec. 21 is the date some say the Mayans prophesized would be the end of the world.
More than 500 people from a fringe Christian group for spreading rumors about the world’s impending end have been detained by Chinese police, China’s state media reported Tuesday.
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The “Free CGC” ad went viral on the Chinese Internet.
Chinese social media has become a prominent source keeping people updated about what’s happening in China with over 400 million Weibo (China;s twitter) users.. Here are China’s 10 most memorable Internet memes of 2012. They cover scandal, celebrity, humour and buzzwords.
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Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, sold one trillion RMB worth of goods in 2012, the company announced today. That’s $157 billion U.S. in gross merchandise volume (GMV), which easily surpasses U.S e-commerce giants Amazon and eBay combined.
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Top 18 fastest growing cities are in China.
The top 50 fastest-growing cities, by GDP per capita, are practically all in the developing Asian world. The top 18 are in China. The rest are in China, Indonesia (Jakarta), India (Chennai), and Australia (Perth).
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