China steal terabytes of sensitive data from US computers.

According to secret diplomatic cables made available to Reuters by third party, China had increased its hand in cyber-espionage and said to have gained accessed to sensitive user names and passwords and terabytes of classified documents.

And at the moment, many experts believe China may have gained the upper hand.

According to US investigators, China has stolen terabytes of sensitive data - from usernames and passwords for State Department computers to designs for multi-billion dollar weapons systems. And Chinese hackers show no signs of letting up. "The attacks coming out of China are not only continuing, they are accelerating," says Alan Paller, director of research at information-security training group SANS Institute in Washington, DC.

China steal terabytes of sensitive data from US computers.

By 2013, China may be the World Leader in Science overtaking US.

According to the new study by the Royal Society, the UK's national science academy, China is well on the course of becoming World leader in science as their ancestors were.

The country that invented the compass, gunpowder, paper and printing is set for a globally important comeback and may gain its position as soon as 2013.

The figures are based on the papers published in recognised international journals listed by the Scopus service of the publishers Elsevier.

In 1996, the first year of the analysis, the US published 292,513 papers - more than 10 times China's 25,474.

By 2013, China may be the World Leader in Science overtaking US.

Chinese govt to equip govt vehicles with GPS to prevent officials for personal use.

In order to reduce govt. expenditure on their staff and using govt property for self, Government vehicles in China's Guangzhou city will now have Global Positition System (GPS).

A satellite positioning terminal will be installed on each official vehicle, the China Daily cited the Guangzhou Daily as reporting on Wednesday.

Through GPS a government car's position can be checked at any time and would show on the map.

Chinese govt to equip govt vehicles with GPS to prevent officials for personal use.

China to have its own Peace award to counter Nobel Peace Prize. Will it work?

We all know that china are good at cloning thing, from top notch gadgets to italia designer bags, we all see, we all love it as they are affordable and cheap.

In order to protest and counter the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to Xhin liu, a group of Chinese professors are going to launch the Confucius Peace Prize, doing the same .

China to have its own Peace award to counter Nobel Peace Prize. Will it work?

China economic data was 'man made': Wikileaks

Is the economic growth which china is projecting is unreliable? Wikileaks leaked cable tell us that Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, admitted in 2007 that some of the country's economic data was 'man-made' and thus unreliable.

When evaluating the province's economy, Li said he focused on three figures - electricity consumption, volume of rail cargo and the amount of loans issued, a confidential memo released WikiLeaks.

China economic data was 'man made': Wikileaks

China upgrades to Electronic passport.

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Recently, China has unveiled its first ever electronic passports that contain embedded microchip containing all the information.

One of the Chinese official says that the adoption of electronic passports complies with international trends and plays an important role in international travel for officials.

The embedded microchip contains personal data including name, family name, personal numeric code, the document's term of validity, the issuing agency and citizenship, China Daily reported.

China upgrades to Electronic passport.

After One Child, now its One-Dog policy, china may be adapting.

With increase in population density and limited living place,Shanghai city’s governing council prepares a draft regulation which states each household can only have one dog.

If dogs have puppies, dog owners should give them away to other eligible adopters or send them to government-approved adoption agencies by the time they are three months old.

After One Child, now its One-Dog policy, china may be adapting.

All thing which you want to know about China's Supercomputer Tianhe-1A

China is trying to surpass USA in every aspect and trying to emerge as the World Leader.

Now with supercomputer called Tianhe-1A, china owes the supercomputing supremacy and the United States no longer owns the world's fastest supercomputer.

A computer called Tianhe-1A, unveiled at a conference in Beijing, China, can run calculations faster than the previous speed leader, a computer at a U.S. lab in Tennessee.

All thing which you want to know about China's Supercomputer Tianhe-1A

China come up with its own high-resolution mapping service on the Web may steal Google viewers

After Google exiting the mainland China, site like Baidu are on the advantage by increasing its market share. Now adding more worry to the google is that china has launched an official online mapping service called Map World.

This web-based service gives people access to increasingly detailed satellite images of China and high-level images of other nations.

The flat maps can be viewed in 3D if visitors download and install a browser plug-in to convert the images.

China said the service was still in development and would be updated regularly. It said it could currently handle about 10 million visits per day.

China come up with its own high-resolution mapping service on the Web may steal Google viewers

China indirectly trying to slow down western economy by embargo of rare metals?

Is china trying to gain supremacy with the Western world? According to report complied by New york Times, China is blocking shipments of rare earths to the US,Europe and Japan.

China mines 97% of the specialist metals crucial to green technology.New york Times report, citing anonymous industry sources, said Chinese customs officials had broadened export restrictions but in a statement Chinese ministry denied the report by saying, "The report is completely false".

"China will continue to supply rare earths to the world, and at the same time, to protect usable resources and sustainable development, China will also continue to impose restrictive measures on exploration, production and import and export of rare earths." he added.

China indirectly trying to slow down western economy by embargo of rare metals?

China says that its high speed rail system with avg speed of 500 kmph

Chinese Govt official said that it has started research on a new super-speed technology that would allow it to run trains at over 500 km an hour.

Railway ministry chief engineer He Huawu said that new technology will increase the average speed of trains to over 500 km per hour, China Daily reported.

Speaking at a conference in central China's Wuhan city, He said that the 400-500 km/h high-speed railway technology is in its final phase of development and the 380-km/h trains are already coming off production lines.

China has already put into service 7,055 km of high-speed railway tracks - the longest in the world. It is expected to reach 13,000 km by 2012.

China says that its high speed rail system with avg speed of 500 kmph

Again, China owes a high speed train record.

Previously on June 24, 2008, China had also set a world record with the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed train reaching a max speed of 394.3 km per hour.

Now, again a high-speed train in China has set a new world speed record during a trial run.

The train touched a maximum speed of 416.6 km per hour on its journey on Tuesday between Shanghai and Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, Xinhua reported.

The train is designed to run at a speed of 350 km per hour on the 202-km-long track between the two cities. A one-way journey previously took two hours. But the new train would lessen that to around 40 minutes, officials said.

Again, China owes a high speed train record.

Hard Time for the 23 Million Chinese Bachelors wating to be Married :(

Thanks to the China's One Child policy which was intended to check the country population growth, now facing its side effects.

According to the survey by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), China may result in 23 million Chinese men ending up as bachelors in the next ten years

As per 2005 census data the sex ratio of newborn babies was 120 male births to every 100 female births, falling well below the international average of 103-107 boys for every 100 girls born.

The Chinese infant sex ratio was 119.45 male births per 100 female births last year, said Li Bin, director of the National Population and Family Planning Commission.

Hard Time for the 23 Million Chinese Bachelors wating to be Married :(

China renew Google Internet licence.

I don't know what China wants to prove with renewal of Google's licence to operate in China, the internet giant has said.

Google gave no details of the licence renewal.

There had been speculation China would revoke the licence after Google began redirecting Chinese users to its unfiltered search site in Hong Kong.

But last month, Google said it would no longer automatically redirect users in a conciliatory move towards Beijing.

China renew Google Internet licence.

Dolphins to treat autistic children in China

IANS: A marine amusement park in China has purchased four dolphins, but they are not intended for amusement. The mammals will be use for treating children suffering from autism.

Autism is a neural disorder characterised by impaired social interaction and communication as well as repetitive behaviour.

The dolphins, bought from Japan with five million yuan ($738,000), have begun working with young patients after a month's adaptation and training, Mr Chen Rujun, chief inspector of animals at the Royal Ocean World in Fushun city in Liaoning province, was quoted as saying by Xinhua.

Dolphins to treat autistic children in China

China bans its soldiers from blogging.

A new regulation prohibits the People's Liberation Army (PLA) from creating websites or blogs, citing confidentiality concerns, the official Xinhua news agency says.

China operates vast internet censorship, dubbed the "great firewall of China".

Websites deemed sensitive by the government are routinely blocked.

"Soldiers cannot open blogs on the internet no matter (whether) he or she does it in the capacity of a soldier or not," Xinhua quoted Wan Long, a political commissar of the PLA, as saying.

China bans its soldiers from blogging.

Chinese students use high-tech devices to cheat in exam.

Seven students were caught using wireless earphones and wristwatch-like receiving devices for cheating during a national college entrance examination in northwest China.

The students took the exam Monday and Tuesday in China's Gansu province, Xinhua reported quoting local authorities Wednesday. They scored zero marks in the exams.

Meanwhile, police have detained three people who allegedly sold the devices, a spokesman for the education bureau in Jingyuan county said.

The annual two-day exam, or "gaokao" in Chinese, is the only opportunity for the high school students to secure a place in the universities.

Chinese students use high-tech devices to cheat in exam.

Pirated versions of Apple iPad out in China

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Shenzhen/Shanghai: Just three weeks after the global launch, bootleg versions of Apple Inc's hot-selling iPad tablet PCs have begun showing up on the shelves of online and real-world shops in piracy-prone China.

Apple recently delayed the iPad's international launch after huge demand in the United States caught the maker of trendy iPhones and MacBooks off guard. But Chinese consumers looking for knock-offs of the company's latest must-have product need look no further than this teeming electronics mall in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese boomtown near the border with Hong Kong.

Pirated versions of Apple iPad out in China