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Over 2.3 billion passengers – on an average 5.75 million a day – will journey to and from their homes, making for the most congested travel time as China celebrates its most popular annual Spring Festival. Already, in what is the largest annual migration of people anywhere in the world, some 70,000 passengers are heading [...]

Anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune was given a two-year suspended prison sentence and five years’ probation Wednesday by a Tokyo district court judge for his role in boarding a Japanese whaling ship. Peter Bethune, 45, was convicted of injuring a whaler by hurling a rancid butter stink bomb during the latest high-seas campaign by the US-based [...]

Google is a company whose core principles include “You can make money without doing evil” and “You can be serious without a suit.” Last Thursday, Google improved health and family leave benefits for its US employees with same-sex domestic partners. The company said in its blog that it would be grossing-up imputed taxes on health [...]

The Chinese government Tuesday released a white paper on its Internet policy, stressing the guarantee of citizens’ freedom of speech on the Internet and more intensive application of it. The white paper, released by the State Council Information Office, introduced facts of the development and use of the Internet in China, and elaborated on the [...]

The city’s dog registration service will run from May 1 to June 30, according to the Beijing Public Security Bureau. Disabled individuals and seniors can obtain home service by calling the bureau. The Beijing municipal government began requiring the registration of dogs on Sept 23, 2003, and made the law effective the following Oct 15. [...]

Strikes at Honda plants in Foshan is one of the most interesting news stories coming out of China in recent weeks. There are many fascinating aspects about this strike. The strike by Chinese workers to protest pay and working conditions has cost Honda, Japan’s second-largest carmaker after Toyota, thousands of units in lost production in [...]

Weeks before Apple officially announces its next-generation iPhone 4G, the Foxconn factory in China, which produces the iPhone and iPad, has a wave of worker suicides. At least 12 Foxconn employees have killed themselves so far this year, and many more have tried. They work, some on their feet throughout, up to 12 hours a [...]

Country’s long-term space roadmap includes Mars probe and moon base BEIJING – The European Space Agency (ESA) supports China’s inclusion in the International Space Station (ISS) partnership, the agency’s director -general Jean-Jacques Dordain said on Monday. He made the remarks on Monday during the ongoing Global Lunar Conference in Beijing, which is organized by the [...]

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