China Landed On The Moon
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China landed an unmanned spacecraft on the moon on Saturday, state media reported, in the first such "soft-landing" since 1976, joining the United States and the former Soviet...
View ArticleHere's The 'Jade Rabbit' Rover That China Just Landed On The Moon
Today China joined the United States and the former Soviet Union in managing to land an unmanned spacecraft on the moon. It was the first "soft-landing" since 1976,Here's a look at the "Jade Rabbit"...
View ArticleApple Has Reached The End Of The Rainbow In China
BEIJING (Reuters) - For all the hype, Apple Inc's long-awaited iPhone agreement with China Mobile Ltd may deliver little more than a fleeting revenue jolt for the U.S. giant.A deal with the world's...
View ArticleChina Displayed Its Flag On The Moon For The First Time In History
Shanghaist reports China has photographed its flag on the moon for the first time in history.China landed a rover on the moon last weekend, becoming the third country after the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to do...
View ArticleCHINA MANUFACTURING DATA SLIPS TO THREE-MONTH LOW
China's flash reading for its manufacturing purchasing manager's index came in at 50.5.That's a three month low.Full release »The consensus estimate was for 50.8, unchanged from the prior reading in...
View ArticleHere Are China's Six Top Priorities For 2014 (FXI, EWH)
China has wrapped up its Economic Work Conference (EWC), an annual meeting in which policymakers assess the current state of the economy and set the tone for the next year's macroeconomic policy.The...
View ArticleHere's Video Of China's Historic Moon Landing
On Saturday China became the third country, other than the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, to land an unmanned spacecraft on the moon.China published a photo of the "Jade Rabbit" rover displaying the...
View ArticleChinese Police Shot And Killed 14 People During A Riot In A Restive Region
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police shot and killed 14 people during a riot near the old Silk Road city of Kashgar in which two policemen were also killed, the local government said on Monday, the...
View ArticleA New License Plate Limit In Tianjin Had Chinese Flooding Used Car Dealerships
In an effort to ease traffic conditions and reduce air pollution, China's northern municipality of Tianjin is imposing a quota on new car license plates, according to Xinhua.On Sunday, the day before...
View ArticleNSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy Our Economy By Bricking Computers Across...
The National Security Agency described for the first time a cataclysmic cyber threat it claims to have stopped On Sunday's "60 Minutes."Called a BIOS attack, the exploit would have ruined, or...
View ArticleCats Helped Out Farmers 5,300 Years Ago In China
Ancient Chinese villagers may have palled around with felines, according to a new study that finds possible evidence of domesticated cats 5,300 years ago in a Yangshao village.The earliest evidence of...
View ArticleChinese Doctors Save Severed Hand By Grafting It To Man's Ankle
A Chinese factory worker who lost his right hand in an accident had it successfully reattached after doctors saved the limb by grafting it to his ankle.Xiao Wei of Changde in China's Hunan province...
View ArticleA Shocking 97.8% Of Chinese Say Officials Are Wasting Money
According to Beijing Youth Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Youth League committee in Beijing, 97.8% of respondents to a recent survey felt that Chinese officials were wasting public...
View ArticleHow China's Weapons Technology Snatchers Are Penetrating US Defenses
OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - Agents from Homeland Security sneaked into a tiny office in Oakland's Chinatown before sunrise on December 4, 2011. They tread carefully, quickly snapping digital...
View ArticleAnother Person Has Died Of Bird Flu — But This Time It's A New Strain
For the third time this year a new strain of bird flu virus has been found to infect people.The flu virus, H10N8, killed a 73-year-old woman from the Jiangxi province in China, on Dec. 6. She had been...
View ArticleChinese Home Price Growth Cooled In November, And Is Expected To Keep Cooling...
Chinese home prices climbed in 66 of 70 major cities covered by the National Bureau of Statistics in November. This is up from 65 in October. But prices of new apartments were up 0.53% month-over-month...
View ArticleChina Has A Good Reason To Crack Down On Bitcoin
The price of Bitcoin has been getting clobbered over the last day as China continues to crack down on its use.The latest huge blow is that Bitcoin exchange BTC China announced that due to regulatory...
View ArticleHere's Why China Will Be Immune To The Fed's Taper
The Fed announced yesterday that it would taper its asset purchase program to $75 billion a month, down from $85 billion a month.Many analysts have warned that this could be bad for emerging markets...
View ArticleChina Is Upgrading Its Warships With Technology From Key Us Allies
HONG KONG (Reuters) — If the People's Liberation Army went to war tomorrow, it would field an arsenal bristling with hardware from some of America's closest allies: Germany, France and Britain.Most of...
View ArticleChinese Interest Rates Are Spiking Again, And Jim Chanos Thinks We're...
While the Fed's decision to taper back its monthly asset purchase program to $75 billion has received a lot of attention, many have overlooked the news out of China. The seven-day repurchase rate was...
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