DETROIT (Reuters) - A boutique carmaker led by a former General Motors Co executive Bob Lutz and China's largest auto parts supplier submitted an offer to buy cash-strapped "green" car company Fisker Automotive, people familiar with the matter said.
Chinese liberals and reformers are using Xi Jinping's "Chinese Dream" slogan against the Communist Party as a method of exposing growing problems within China. [ more › ]
You know what happens when you use other people's email services, such as Yahoo or Google? You become especially vulnerable to attacks on your privacy, including the ability of the government to search your email provider's computers. Show More Summary
Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Suzan Johnson Cook participates in the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Beijing, China, in May 2013. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
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Getting called out by the Obama administration wasn't enough of a deterrent for Unit 61398, the cyberattack unit of the People's Liberation Army of China, because apparently they're at it again, working to pilfer information from private...Show More Summary
A joint study conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Chinese government has shown that poultry farms are likely the source of the H7N9 virus that has so far killed 36 people. [ more › ]
The People's Republic of Manufacturing is rattling sabers and promising a tit-for-tat battle if the European Union investigates allegations of anti-competitive practices by Chinese telecom equipment manufacturers. This threat by theShow More Summary
The Chinese navy's surface forces are on the march. Destroyers, frigates, corvettes, fast-attack craft, and, most recently, the newly commissioned aircraft carrier comprise the surface fleet. Over the past two decades, the People's Liberation...Show More Summary
People ain’t isht!
Via NYDailyNews reports:
A young girl had her mouth stitched up with fishing cord as part of a sickening campaign of abuse carried out by her own dad, police said.
Xiao Li’s father, named only as
The itch in atopic dermatitis can take over your life. It is so intense, those with atopic eczema of wake up scratching. And after your scratch, the skin becomes more inflamed, itchy, dry, and lichenified. Most people with atopic eczema have a family history eczema, hay fever, and asthma. Allergies to foods, mold, or irritant [...]
Hundreds of people took to the streets of the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming on Thursday to protest against the planned production of a chemical at a refinery, the second demonstration this month against the project.China's increasingly...Show More Summary
Chinese health officials have reported that three people have died recently from the new strain of H7N9 bird flu virus raising the death toll to 35. The number of people infected has already risen to 130. The World Health Organization...Show More Summary
Creative people don't let availability stand in the way of something they want. The Atlantic rounded up some great do-it-yourself projects that you may not had heard about because they are in China. See homemade submarines, helicopters, robots, cannons, and other amazing things, including a man with no arms who designed and built his own prosthetics. Show More Summary
A truck driver in Anhui province, sick of paying exorbitant toll fees, painted his vehicle in camouflage and fitted fake military license plates, seeking to take advantage of the People's Liberation Army's exemption from tolls. [ more › ]
Chinese officials have responded to a wave of Tibetans setting hemselves on fire to protest the occupation of their country. They've arrested people they accuse of helping others set hemselves of fire and seized more than 1,800 satellite TV dishes in an effort to keep news from spreading across Tibet.
Despite a strained history between Prince Charles and China, he may be Britain's only hope to soften Chinese outrage following Prime Minister David Cameron's meeting with the Dalai Lama, according to the Telegraph. [ more › ]
Chinese state media say a coal mine blast in southwestern China has left 12 people dead and two more injured.The official Xinhua News Agency says the gas explosion occurred Friday night in Pingba county in Guizhou province. It says the coal mine was operating illegally and that the operators lied about the number of trapped miners and deaths. Show More Summary
In the last week, at least a dozen petitions that appear to be penned by Chinese citizens have been submitted to the White House's "We the People" petition site. Like the petitions that Americans have put on the site asking the president...Show More Summary