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November
30, 2000 |
China's
First Human-like Robot Shown in Changsha: Developed by China's
University of Defence Science, the 1.4-meter high robot
is named "Forerunner". It has the appearance of
a man with a weight of 20 kilos. - Xinhua photo![ASIMO: The Honda Humanoid Robot](asimo.gif) Who's
better looking? Forerunner (left and below) and Asimo, (on the right) via Honda
Creates Walking Robot
First
Hominine Robot in China
Compared with the first robot produced in 1990 by the
university, "Pioneer" can walk faster. It can
take two steps per second instead of one step every six
seconds, like its predecessor. Many technological
breakthroughs have been made in producing the new robot,
scientists said, noting that they involved neural
networks, physiological optical systems, hand
coordination skills and finger-control abilities. - China.org
Chinadaily
Families in Shanghai get
wired
Vegetables
from outer space to land on China's markets
Vaccine
may work against tuberculosis
China
in the grip of 'nano-mania'
Bringing
art to the masses via the web
Japanese
press hails major wartime settlement by contractor
Hard
to Be a Chinese Trader
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November
29, 2000 |
China
Still Shows Distrust of Japan
China's distrust of Japan bubbled to the surface again
Wednesday as state-run media gave prominent coverage to a
tearful survivor of the 1937 Nanjing massacre and warned
Tokyo not to "whitewash" history. - Martin
FacklerNanjing
Massacre survivor battles Japanese
Xia Shuqin, a woman from Nanjing, capital of East China's
Jiangsu Province, has sued two right-wing Japanese
authors for trampling on her reputation.- Qin Chuan
Nanjing
Massacre Survivor Lodges Lawsuit against Japanese
Rightists
History
cannot be distorted
According to Japanese and Asian media, in their drafts
submitted to Japan's Ministry of Education for screening,
seven textbook companies involved have either altered,
slashed or blurred a considerable number of important
historical facts related to Japan's wartime aggression in
Asian countries. - Wang Hui
Japanese
contractor pays to settle wartime past with Chinese
slaves:
The settlement relates to the treatment of 986 Chinese
prisoners at Kajima's Hanoaka copper mine in Akita,
northern Japan, during World War II. - AFP
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November
24, 2000 |
B.C.
police arrest Chinese smuggling suspect On Friday, the RCMP
confirmed that Lai Changxing was picked up in the
Vancouver suburb of Burnaby the previous night. A woman,
Tsang Mingna, was also arrested - CBCImmigration
nabs suspect in major Chinese smuggling and corruption
scandal -
Steve Mertl
Canada
Nabs China's Alleged Smuggling Kingpin -Allan Dowd/Reuters
Xiamen
mastermind has explosive evidence on senior Chinese
leaders -
AFP
Xiamen
Yuanhua smuggling scandal - Chinadaily
Beijing
pondering co-hosting 2008 Olympic Games with Taiwan
The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Bid Committee is thinking
seriously inviting Taiwan to co-sponsor the 2008 Olympic
Games, said a leading official with the committee's press
and public affairs department on Thursday on condition of
anonymity. - Li Du
People's
Daily
Farming
manual far too practical for Chinese authorities
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November
23, 2000 |
South Korean President Kim Dae-jung
(C) joins hands with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori
(L) and Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji before a three-way
breakfast meeting November 24, 2000 in Singapore, on the
sidelines of a gathering of Southeast Asian nations and
some of their North Asian counterparts. - ReutersRight
to silence debuts in China's judicial system
Is spite of its subjectivity, a confession has been taken
as the major source of proof in trying criminal cases in
China. The right to silence application is believed to
help eliminate inquisition by torture or extorting a
confession. - Chinadaily
Chinese
law experiment gives suspects right to remain silent
Law and Policy
Making in Depth
Chinese
adoptees increasing in state
The agency has found American homes for about 2,200
Chinese babies, including 29 boys, LaMons said.- Joe
Garner
Computers
Available for Students in Mountainous Area: Wen Yonghua, a student of
the Danma Village High School in the poverty-striken
Danma village of Huangzhong county in West China's
Qinghai province, operates a computer in a lab of her
school. - Xinhua photo
Chinese
painting with some teeth
Rare
Birds Take Winter Habitat At China's Largest Fresh-water
Lake
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November
20, 2000 |
VeriSign
vs. China (And the World)
The CNNIC claims it offers a superior service - VeriSign
still requires the .com or .net extension in Roman
characters, the CNNIC service is entirely Chinese...The
CNNIC service is free of charge, first come, first serve.-
Sa.internet.comFurious
Fight Arises in Registration of Chinese Domain Names
Under such circumstances, a company which plans to
protect it's on-line trademarks must register at least
three or four Chinese domains, with different suffixes,
not to say registering domain names for it's subsidiaries.
- Xinhua
VeriSign
Takes Asia
The implications are immense, signaling a critical step
in opening the Internet to the 90% of the world that
doesn't count English as its first language. Yet as the
Internet moves away from its reliance on English, the
role of U.S. Internet authorities like VeriSign in
dictating global standards is increasingly being
questioned. - Seth Redniss
VeriSign
Plays Down China Dispute Over Addresses
For instance, one possible problem with VeriSign's system
is the fact that many words and proper names in Japanese
and Korean are written in Chinese characters. That means
companies with identical trademarked names in those
countries could end up fighting over who has the right to
the same Web address. - Reuters
Welcoming
an age of Chinese tourists by the million
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November
19, 2000 |
China,
Russia beef up cooperation
Russia and Chinese military officials have agreed to
coordinate their efforts in combatting ethnic separatism
in central Asia, a senior Russian officer said Saturday.
- AFPChina
warming to its wary neighbors
If for no other reason, it is to Beijing's advantage to
encourage the peaceful development of ASEAN states, whose
populations include 40 million ethnic Chinese with
combined wealth estimated at $200 billion. - David Lamb
Defiant
Chinese Muslims Keep Their Own Time
In this far western outpost, where a Muslim majority
lives restively under Chinese rule, you can tell a lot
about a man's politics by how he sets his clock. -
Elisabeth Rosenthal
China
Sets Up Modernized Middle School at Pamirs
Japan
watchful of China's ambitions
I think China will remain preoccupied with domestic
issues over the next 20 years, and it will take a long
time for China to really strike a balance domestically.
It will face minority issues, even separatist issues,
perhaps revolts in certain areas.- Monique Chu
Generosity
toward China faces tough test
Chinese
dissident wages solitary crusade
Town
honors unsung Chinese builders
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November
17, 2000 |
China
Envoy Angers Koreans Again
Reiterating Beijing's opposition to the possible visit to
Seoul by the Dalai Lama, for example, he said giving the
Nobel Peace Prize to the Tibetan spiritual leader in 1989
had made a mockery of the award...Such comments from the
Chinese envoy on the prestigious prize are inappropriate,
especially as Korean President Kim Dae-jung recently
became this year's recipient. - Son Key-young Women's
groups plan to put Japan in the dock for sex crimes
"The main purpose of the tribunal is to clarify that
this military sexual slavery was a crime against women,"
- AFP
Quick
Trip To The Future
The cities have been revolutionized, the people have been
revolutionized, and their industry has been
revolutionized. I wonder if their thinking has been
revolutionized as well. - Alan Joseph
First
Children’s Bank Card Issued
China's
changing face
"When the artist Wang Gongxin returned after a few
years in New York he had to buy a map of the city he was
born in" - Julian May
China
Declares Elimination of Absolute Poverty - Xinhua
Beijing
claims victory in poverty fight - SCMP
A
young Chinese immigrant's fear came deadly true
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November
15, 2000 |
Japanese
biological warfare veteran says he cut human `logs'
Yoshio Shinozuka is still haunted by the ghoulish
experiments he helped carry out on captured Chinese
civilians and soldiers as part of Japan's top-secret
biological warfare program during World War II. - Mari
YamaguchiSurgeons
Replace Esophagus with Colon
"It is unbelievable that I can eat with my mouth
again," it quoted E Aiguo as saying with tears in
his eyes, after slurping down a full bowl of noodles
cooked by his wife. - Reuters
-- can't seem to
find this article on Xinhua: the news service reminds
me of an older version of China.org.cn (China Internet
Information Center) which ran briefly on a new domain.
Lessons
from the Chinese diet
A
middle class emerges in China
In
China, Making Nice on the Web
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November
12, 2000 |
Retail
investors draw the short straw in China's bullish market
China's bourses are some of the best performing in the
world this year, but many small investors have failed to
reap the rewards of the spectacular bull market. - AFP
A
Bull In China StocksLager
than life
Chinese breweries are so busy feeding the internal market
that few of their products are exported. The only regular
beer to appear in Britain is China's oldest and biggest
brand, Tsingtao. - Roger Protz
Grandiose
Survey of Chinese Alcoholic Drinks and Beverages
Founder
of Modern China Commemorated
Born in 1866 in Xiangshan County (now Zhongshan City),
Guangdong Province, Dr. Sun has been known across the
country as a "great revolutionary and a great
statesman" who fought against imperialist aggression
and for the independence and freedom of China. He died of
illness in Beijing on March 12, 1925. - People's daily
Sun
Yat-sen
Chinese
pilot recalls racism during WWII
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November
11, 2000 |
WWII
vet fought in elite Chinese unit
Janes, it seems, had unknowingly volunteered for duty
with the elite SACO strike force, comprised of U.S.
soldiers leading Chinese troops. - Michael JamisonCaught
in the Web China weaves
The main reasons for overregulation are commercial —
and analysing them is a lesson in how modern Chinese
capitalism works. - Oliver August
China's
Tangled Web
The
result of mixing administration with business
Chinese
Government Bans Unauthorized Web News -Biztech
China
Enacts Rules Controlling News on Internet -Reuters
China
cracks down on news Web sites, chats -AP
Regulating
Internet News Transmission -People's Daily
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November
10, 2000 |
China
looks for ways to increase female population: High-tech methods to
determine the sex of a fetus have apparently skewed the
proportion of male-to-female births. The rate, known as
the "sex rate" has swelled beyond normal
proportions favoring male births. - ChinaonlineChina's
50 Richest Entrepreneurs
Five of the 50 have based their businesses in agriculture
and 29 in manufacturing; 14 have made their money from
the Internet or other high-tech fields. - Rupert
Hoogewerf
Chinese
confused by odd US polls, suspect corruption
Many Chinese were stunned to learn that the candidate
with the most votes did not necessarily win -- Gore has
polled more votes than Bush nationally, but if Bush is
declared winner in Florida he will become president
because of the United States' Electoral College voting
system. - AFP
Making
sense of Electoral College
Angry
Chinese protesters turn on Li Peng over investment scam
Manna
from heaven: A shaggy, cheesy yak story
Territory
recalls orgy of killing and rape after the surrender
Finnish
minister discusses human rights issues in China
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November
9, 2000 |
Upward Bound:
Planned skyscraper to be
Beijing's tallestStudy
finds Chinese civilization older than thought - A government-funded
study released Thursday pushed back the dates of China's
earliest dynasties, shedding light on the origins of
Chinese civilization and adding fuel to a controversy
over the influence of politics on scholarship. - Charles
Hutzler
Oldest
civilization; largest dam; highest skyscraper; manned space flight...nanodots!
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November
8, 2000 |
Splendour
of the emperors: China reveals its buried wealth
Most of the items were found in burial sites in the
Shaanxi, Henan and Inner Mongolia provinces and have been
lent to the Paris authorities by local museums. - AFP
Petit
PalaisChina
in Paris: the dragon takes wing
The Chinese community in Paris is itself a cultural
patchwork, its members originating from different regions
of China but also from the Chinese diaspora in other
southeast-Asian countries. - AFP
"Suzhou
River"
is a rare Chinese movie (it was co-produced with German
money) that isn't about Chinese culture or history - in
fact, it's a contemporary homage to Alfred Hitchcock's
"Vertigo." - Lou Lumenick
Lou
Ye's Variations on Romance - Virtualchina's film
Tam
goes for the gold in fall/winter collection
Residency
given despite false 'war orphan' claim
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November
6, 2000 |
China
battles sex disease explosion
New figures indicate that more than eight million Chinese
people have STDs - far more than the previously
acknowledged figure of 830,000 - and that the number is
rising by almost 40% a year. - BBC. Source: State
alert as STDs on the rise Your
millennium words immortalized
Share your
thoughts and wishes before the new century officially
starts in 2001 at the China Millennium Monument. -
Chinadaily
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November
4, 2000 |
Will
Soaps Wash In China?
Chinese TV isn't known for its steamy plots or racy
romances. But that's all changing as the country's first
soap opera takes to the air..."I would be so amazed
if this country doesn't get addicted to soaps." -
Trish Saywell/BeijingLetting
Off Steam
Jiang told the reporters he had "personally
experienced a hundred battles" in his lifetime. Just
a few weeks earlier, Premier Zhu told a television
audience in Tokyo he had "suffered injustices more
times than you can imagine." The battle between the
two men may be just beginning. - Bruce Gilley/Beijing
Doctor
leads first crusade against medical negligence in China
Views
in China of the race for American presidency vary greatly
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November
3, 2000 |
Overseas
Chinese War Heroes Tour Homeland
More than 20 overseas Chinese pilots of the "Flying
Tigers" arrived Thursday in Guangzhou, capital of
south China's Guangdong Province to initiate their two-week
long homeland tour. - People's Daily"At midnight on July 4,
1942, the American Volunteer Group (AVG), better known as
the Flying Tigers, ceased to exist. They were replaced by
the China Air Task Force (CATF), a group that was, in the
words of Tiger founder and leader Brigadier General
Claire Lee Chennault, "patched together in the midst
of combat from whatever happened to be available in China
during the gloomy summer of 1942." - By William B.
Allmon via P-40.com
Before
the Flying Tiger
A
Tribute to the Flying Tigers
The
Story of the Flying Tigers
First
commercial heli flight in China - Look out! (up)
Pilots
saw plane line up 'on the wrong runway' - Pilots didn't alert
plane; PR
nightmare
Rice
fields 'are threat to world's ozone layer' - Methyl halide compounds,
naturally released by fields of crops; Guilt
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November
2, 2000 |
Chinese
breaks into English Web
The gatekeeper for China's Internet domain name
registrations Wednesday released a sweeping new system
which enables Internet surfers to type Chinese characters
in the address bar to pinpoint a website. - Zhao HuanxinChina
bans sale of e-mail lists
Unsolicited e-mail, also known as spam, has become the
bane of the computer age. China is doing something about
it. - Chinaonline
China
gets a new perspective on the Korean war
John Gittings, East Asia editor, on how China is viewing
the outbreak of the Korean war in a more sophisticated,
less confrontational fashion
The
Asian Domain Name Game
Now if all the high-level (.com, .net, .org) domains are
gone, what should you do? Answer: register your name in
your country-level domain name registry. - Linda Cheng
via Asiagateway
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November
1, 2000 |
China's
gamble
China's Communist leaders deserve half a cheer for
planning a modest experiment with a more open political
system...The party pledged after its recent plenum to
build "democratic politics" over the next five
years, to "make decision-making a scientific and
democratic affair and expand citizens' orderly
participation in politics". - Financial TimesDelta
Chinese Hang On to a Vanishing Way of Life
"Don't get me wrong -- I'm an American," Mrs.
Wong said. "I'm proud to be an American.".
"But no matter where I go," and here she poked
herself in the cheeks, "I'm still going to be
Chinese." - Somini Sengupta
China's
youth: Shaping the future
This is the last generation of young Chinese who have
brothers and sisters...The students call these spoilt
single children "little gods" and say they
think only of themselves. - Iain Simpson in southern
China
How many people
are there in China?
National
headcount gets underway
Surveys
taken down the centuries
China
Readies For Gargantuan Task Of Counting Its People
Chinese
census takers start counting world's largest population
Solving
China’s population puzzle
Clipboard
army seeks out China's missing generation
Taiwan Headlines
DPP's
twin goals dangerous for Taiwan
Pro-Hanyu
decision sparks mass resignation
KMT
moves to recall the president
Officials
say that at least 66 people dead in Singapore Airlines
crash
45
killed, 11 missing as typhoon Xangsane lashes Taiwan
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