Cracking Zipingku dam in China
The Zipingku dam is near to the epicenter of the 7.9-magnitude earthquake, by the small town of Dujiangyan. Dangerous cracks appeared in the structure after Monday’s earth quake. Xinhua News Agency said Wednesday that 2,000 troops had been sent to work on the Zipingku Dam, upriver from Dujiangyan in Sichuan province. More than 14,000 people were still missing and nearly 26,000 people had been buried. The Dujiangyan project, built in 256 BC, is more than 50 kilometers from the provincial capital of Chengdu and irrigates 666,000 hectares of land. Its the world’s oldest irrigation system.
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Wikipedia allowed in China
Chinese authorities have lifted a block on the English-language version of online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Still politically sensitive topics such as Tibet and Tiananmen Square are not allowed to appear. Wikipedia, which is written collaboratively by volunteers, has more than 2 million articles in English.
Flights to North Korea
Air China becomes the world’s only foreign airline to fly regularly to North Korea’s capital Pyongyang. Air China said previously that it saw the financial potential in the route, primarily from the Chinese tourist business.
Dalai Lama reiterates threat to quit
“If the violent demonstrations continue, I would resign,” the exiled Spiritual leader of Tibet said. Dalai Lama has been living in the northern Indian town of Dharamshala since 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule. He stressed that he wants “meaningful autonomy” for his homeland rather than outright independence. Tibet was incorporated into Chinese territory in 1950. Tibetans (6 million) are now outnumbered by Chinese (7.5 million) within Tibet.
Olympic torch arrived in China
THE Beijing Olympic flame arrived in the Chinese capital amid tight security. The flame, encased in a lantern, was to be officially welcomed at a ceremony at Tiananmen Square. Games of the XXIX Olympiad starts on 8th August.
US mistakenly shipped Ballistic missile parts to Taiwan
United States shipped four electrical fuses for Minuteman nuclear missile warheads to Taiwan, instead of sending helicopter batteries. The mistake was discovered only last week a year and a half after the shipment. Officials said the nose-cone fuses contained no nuclear material and were similar in function to the ones used for conventional munitions, though these were designed specifically to send an electrical signal to the trigger of the MK-12 nuclear warhead as it was approaching the ground.
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‘Shanghai’,Movie production leave China
After Chinese authorities objected to the script, producers of the American movie Shanghai have pulled the project out of China. $3 million US had been spent already by The Weinstein Company to build sets in China. The movie will relocate shooting to Thailand and Britain. The movie is about an American who investigates his friend’s death in the Second World War-era, Japanese-occupied Shanghai.
Riot in Tibet : Which is true?
This YouTube video slams the main stream media to distort the facts about riots in Tibet.
China surpass US in internet usage.
China becomes the world’s largest Internet market by number of users surpassing the United States. An estimate by Beijing-based BDA based on data from China Internet Network Information Center indicates that the country’s Internet users totaled 210 million at end-2007.
YouTube blocked in China over Tibet Videos
China has blocked access to YouTube in order to stop the spread of video footage related to the riots going on in several cities in Tibet. The Chinese government has not commented on its move to prevent access to YouTube.
