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China ‘river pig’ deaths raise extinction fears
China says 16 endangered finless porpoises have been found dead since the beginning of the year and experts blame water pollutionand climate change for pushing the species toward extinction. The freshwater porpoise — popularly known in Chinese as the “river pig” — mainly lives in China’s Yangtze River and two lakes linked to the waterway. Authorities…
India tests new long-range missile amid China rivalry
India on Thursday successfully test fired a new missile capable of delivering a one-tonne nuclear warhead anywhere in rival China, marking a major advance in its military capabilities. Watched by hundreds of scientists, the Agni V blasted off shortly after 0800 am (0230 GMT) from a concrete launchpad on an island off…
China shutters websites, deletes 210,000 posts over ‘rumors’
BEIJING (AFP) – China has closed 42 websites and deleted more than 210,000 posts since mid-March in a crackdown on online “rumours”, state media said Thursday, as a major political scandal rocked the country. The announcement on the official Xinhua news agency came as Chinese authorities ramped up efforts to…
China purges rising political star as wife is probed for murder
China’s biggest political crisis in decades took a dramatic turn with the removal of one of the Communist Party’s biggest stars from his post and his wife’s arrest on suspicion of murder. Bo Xilai, the charismatic former party leader of Chongqing city, had been tipped for the very highest echelons of…
Top China leader ousted; wife probed over Briton’s murder
Chinese politician Bo Xilai, once a rising star, has been stripped of his elite Communist Party post while his wife is being investigated for the murder of a British national, state media said. The shock announcements — published Tuesday by the officialXinhua news agency – shed some light on a mysterious political scandal…
China shuts political websites in crackdown
Two Chinese political websites said Friday they had been ordered by authorities to shut for a month for criticising state leaders, the latest move in a broad government crackdown on the Internet. Officials told the Mao Flag website, named after late leader Mao Zedong, and the Utopia website, also known…
Congressional commission: U.S. underestimates China’s military strength
The United States has underestimated the growth of China’s military as policymakers have taken public statements at face value or failed to understand Beijing’s thinking, a study said Thursday. The report prepared for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said the United States had a mixed record on predicting…
In candid study, Chinese scholar sees U.S. decline
WASHINGTON — Convinced that the United States is in decline, China’s distrust is growing of the longtime superpower which it sees as bent on holding back the Asian power’s rise, an influential scholar says. In a candid new study, well-known experts from China and the United States with wide experience…
Love is in the air for Britain’s giant pandas
The clock is ticking, and the heat is on. A giant male panda loaned to Britain by China has just 36 hours to make his move on his female companion or he’ll have to wait another year. Conservationists at Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland put Yang Guangtogether in the same enclosure as Tian Tian on Wednesday after months of monitoring…
China vows faster, cheaper Internet
China has said it will aim to bring faster and cheaper Internet accessto more people, following complaints that a near monopoly by state-backed firms had hurt service. China has the world’s largest number of Internet users at half a billion, but Beijing maintains strict controls over content and recently it launched a…
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