Tag Archives: China

Thursday, 13 July 2017 A research team in China has completed the first successful teleportation of a quantum-paired photon from the surface of the Earth to a satellite in orbit, at the same time breaking the distance record for the process. Chinese scientists working at a high-altitude research station in …

Tuesday, 11 July 2017   Researchers at The University of Manchester, in collaboration with Central South University (CSU), China, have created an innovative ceramic coating that could revolutionize hypersonic travel – for defense, space and even air travel purposes. Hypersonic travel is defined as moving at Mach five or above …

Friday, 7 July 2017 HONG KONG: Authorities in Hong Kong this week made their largest haul of contraband ivory in more than 30 years, amid surging illegal wildlife seizures fuelled by lax regulations and buoyant demand from mainland China. The former British colony situated at the mouth of China’s Pearl …

Thursday, 6 July 2017 BERLIN: Airbus has signed an agreement to sell 140 aircraft to China, it said on Wednesday, in a deal worth almost $23 billion (17.81 billion pounds) at list prices. The agreement, signed during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Germany, is for 100 A320 …

Thursday, 6 July 2017 SHANGHAI/BENGALURU: Yum China Holdings Inc, the operator of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell in the world’s second-largest economy, posted quarterly sales slightly below estimates, dragged down by sluggish growth at Pizza Hut amid a turnaround drive. The firm, which spun off from Yum Brands Inc …

Wednesday, 5 July 2017 The Panda Power Plant, near Datong in Shanxi province, is the brainchild of Panda Green Energy, a company who are planning many more solar farms as part of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road program. The panda’s black limbs, eyes and ears are actually monocrystalline silicone solar cells while the …

Wednesday, 5 July 2017 HONG KONG: Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting, who once envisioned building an empire that would rival US tech giants Apple, Tesla and Amazon, is seeing it fall apart before his eyes. The 44-year-old founder of internet media company LeEco has been forced to abort ambitious overseas expansion, …

Monday, 3 July 2017 BEIJING: Taiwan military jets scrambled to shadow a Chinese aircraft carrier passing through narrow waters separating the two sides en route to Hong Kong to mark the 20th anniversary of the former British colony’s return to China. The Liaoning fleet will be open to the public …

Monday, 3 July 2017 BEIJING: Bilateral relations between the United States and China have entered turbulent waters, with Beijing lodging a formal protest against Washington’s decision to sell US$1.42 billion in arms to Taiwan. The arms sales, announced on Thursday, was the latest in a series of US actions related …

Monday, 3 July 2017 BEIJING – Floods in southern China have killed at least 15 people over the past few days and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands more, state media said. In Guangxi region, 7 died and 3 were missing following torrential rains, with more than 23,000 people …