A coal mine in China was the place of a tragic accident that caused at least 20 fatalities and trapped more miners underground. The mine, located in the Henan province was the place of the tragedy, apparently caused by an explosion. Rescuers are already at the place of the accident and are trying to save [...]
The iPhone 4 is a huge success all over the world. Tech-aware users are demanding more and more of it, and the stocks keep running dry wherever it goes on sale. The situation was not different in the case of China, where the iPhone 4 went on sale on Saturday. The telecom operator chosen to [...]
Apple has grown sick and tired of the fakes? Maybe… The company will start to sell the Wi-Fi version of the iPad in China on Friday. The tablet will be sold through the company’s own stores and certain select Apple resellers. The 16GB Apple iPad will be sold for $590, the 32GB version for about [...]
An airplane crashed on Tuesday in China with 91 people on board, but the good news is that 48 people were rescued. The airplane crashed while landing in Yichun, as it overshot the runway and started burning. The good news is that, like it rarely happens in plane crashes, 48 people were rescued, according to [...]
Chinese authorities have released the new death toll of the Gansu landslides: over 700 lives were lost in the disastrous landslides and over 1000 people are still missing. The landslides hit China’s Gansu region on Sunday, after the worst flood to hit China in the last decade. Heavy rains hit the Gansu province on Saturday [...]
Gansu province, China: At least 127 persons have been killed and about 2000 others are still missing after a series of massive landslides have hit the northwestern part of China on Sunday. The devastating landslides in the Tibetan-inhabited Gansu province were triggered by the heavy rains that have fallen on the area. The land started [...]
The Liverpool FC takeover by Kenny Huang takes an interesting turn, as rumors saying that the Chinese businessman has his country’s authorities behind him surface. Huang has denied, in a press statement, that any state-owned enterprise is behind him. The Chinese businessman has also confirmed his interest in taking over Liverpool FC. Information regarding the [...]
Google has announced that its license to operate in China has been renewed. This news is made more interesting by the fact that Google had some issues with the Chinese authorities over Gmail accounts being broken into, as well as censored search results. David Drummond, Google’s top lawyer, has announced that the company’s license to [...]
Domain registrars will soon – within a two or three – be able to offer domain names formed entirely of Chinese characters, including the top level domain (the last characters of the domain name – the ones after the dot called Country Code Top Level Domain or ccTLD). The Chinese domain names could consist of [...]
The World Expo in Shanghai has started on Saturday, will last for six months and it is the biggest world exposition to ever take place. Its role is to show China’s status as a superpower of the world, both economically and politically. The huge show in Shanghai is designed to accommodate a number of up [...]