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Recently, researchers in China have investigated an enzyme from the bacterium bacillus cereus DQ01 that has the capability to absorb hydrocarbon n-hexadecane. The bacterium was secluded from the Daqing oil field in Northeast China, where it has...
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Dozens of baby girls in southern China have reportedly been taken from parents who broke family-planning laws, and then sold for adoption overseas.
An investigation by...
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Filed under: Food, News, Weird A woman from the Chinese province of Sichuan boiled a man’s head in a soup because she believed it would remedy her...
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Since the imposing of United Nations sanctions against North Korea after its second nuclear test on May 25, everyone has been looking toward China for its...
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Out of fear that history might repeat itself, the authoritarian governments of China, Cuba and Burma have been selectively censoring the news this month of Iranian...
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Nothing goes ahead in China before the government’s kick in the rear, as an appreciation to begin. This time the nod of approval is an insightful go-ahead for the...
made popular Jun 25 2009
Any hope that an ever more prosperous China would slowly lead to an opening in the realm of free expression and all the consequences thereof were given a setback this...
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Europe and the United States announced last night co-ordinated action against China for busting World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules by restricting exports of essential...
made popular Jun 24 2009
Somehow Mr. Liu became stuck in the machine, his sister Liu Yan recalled during a tearful interview in a village near the factory.
“When we got his body, his whole...
made popular Jun 23 2009
China’s top legislature Monday reviewed for the first time a draft revision to the Law on Guarding State Secrets, underlining the cutoff of Internet or other...
made popular Jun 23 2009
Merchants in China say that American and European orders for the holiday season, for which sweaters are just starting to be knit, have fallen by as much as 30 percent....
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oseph Zen, the former archbishop of Hong Kong, said the Vatican should harden its line towards Beijing and that a planned meeting of China’s officially sanctioned...
made popular Jun 19 2009
The residents of Guangzhou, one of China’s most affluent cities, are already used to sticking to the country’s strict one-child rule, but a new regulation...
made popular Jun 19 2009
Today is the last day for residents of one of the last surviving ancient cities in China to claim a bonus for agreeing to move out to make way for the wrecking...
made popular Jun 18 2009
The edict, issued from the highest level of China’s government, comes less than six months after China described the short-lived ‘Buy American’ clauses in the US...
made popular Jun 17 2009
I thought it happened only in movies especially Bollywood movies where many a times you see the hero or heroine killing the whole gang of criminals single handedly...
made popular Jun 17 2009
In his history of the erotic obsession Western men have felt toward “the Orient,” Richard Bernstein begins with what must have been the most inflammatory...
made popular Jun 16 2009
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that it was imperative for all countries to genuinely cooperate with one another and on a global scale to resolutely defeat...
made popular Jun 16 2009
In China’s cities, the fines for having a second child can run up to 200,000 yuan (£20,000). The payment is intended to cover the schooling and healthcare costs...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Fourteen to 16 hours a day, he studied for the college entrance examination, which this year will determine the fate of more than 10 million Chinese students. He took...
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Conventional lenses used with biochip face a problem in terms of flexibility. The best example can be that of an endoscope operator for whom the lens adjustment can be...
made popular May 14 2009
Eco Factor: Flexible glass could store high voltage current for portable power.
Researchers at Penn State University have reported the highest known breakdown strength...
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A pilot study done at Penn State University hopes to provide a fuller picture of the mental health of college students.
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A new analytical technique may lead to the formation of cheaper, more efficient solar cells. The technique uses infrared spectroscopy for studying light-sensitive...
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Why not clean the world of its rubber-tyre wastes using them to clean its water in turn! — by the way Yuefeng Xie did? The kind of rubber tyres that lie at the...
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A unique research center dedicated to reducing the global threat of terrorism and minimizing its impact on society was launched on May 25 by an international alliance...
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The most distant explosion ever detected came from the edge of the visible universe. But, how was this explosion, the result of a massive star collapsing into a black...
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It was between 5 and 7 million years ago, the most recent common ancestor of humans and their closest ape relatives — the chimpanzees, lived. Scientists at...
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