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Apple has officially canceled the launch of the iPhone 4S at some retail locations in Beijing and Shanghai, following outbreaks at the company’s stores where entire teams of ‘scalpers’ were waiting to buy the iconic handset.
Apple has confirmed in a statement provided to AllThingsD that the company... |
13 January 2012
03:01 GMT |
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Beijing's inhabitants are worried about the effects air pollution might have both upon the enviroment and upon their health. In order to calm the spirits, officials decided to allow 40 individuals to tour the city's monitoring center, once a week.
As in any other developed country, a certain level of comf... |
10 November 2011
07:52 GMT |
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A dozen small mines are wiping the Great Wall of China out the face of the Earth. Scientist said that current location of mines put the entire surface located 200 km away from Beijing in danger. Its influence upon the outstanding monument is considerable, since some of the facilities are only 100 metres far from t... |
21 October 2011
05:38 GMT |
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City officials in Beijing recently admitted that the pollution situation in the city was absolutely critical. They said that the foul smog that enveloped the city around the year only cleared when massive storms stroke, and added that something should be done this year about this. Mayor Guo Jinlong said during the op... |
25 January 2010
07:04 GMT |
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Completely taken aback by the massive success they registered with cleaning Beijing's air during the 2008 Olympic Games, authorities in the Chinese capital have now recovered, and are moving towards extending the exemplary accomplishment around the country. The Communist government has for a long time stated tha... |
4 July 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Yesterday, the Chinese capital city of Beijing saw one of the weirdest phenomenons its inhabitants ever experienced, when, near noon, the skies turned black and the day turned into night, as a “freak storm” rained down upon the metropolis. ABC China correspondent Stephen McDonell and cameraman Rob Hill we... |
17 June 2009
04:06 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore, the primary source of information on Apple's retail stores, points out to some architectural renderings on a public web site, which (seemingly) depict the design for Apple’s upcoming Beijing (China) store. The designs reportedly belong to American architect Benjamin Wood, while the store in ... |
4 June 2009
09:59 GMT |
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As part of its ambitious project, China announced a couple of years ago that it planned to send a lunar exploration vehicle on Earth's natural satellite by 2012, a deadline that draws nearer and nearer with each passing day. A failure to respect it would mean disgrace, so Beijing authorities are currently organi... |
25 February 2009
06:28 GMT |
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The North-south water route is an enormous project devised by Beijing, which promotes the construction of several new canals, meant to unite the country's four main rivers – the Yangtze, the Yellow River, Huaihe and Haihe. Once completed, around 2050, the project will offer Northern Chinese cities, plagued... |
8 December 2008
04:28 GMT |
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Recently, the Beijing Municipal People’s Government (BMPG) has announced that it will extend its regulations on traffic flows even further than it did for the duration of the Beijing Olympics. During the games, the Chinese capital was mostly closed for traffic, as authorities desperately attempted to clear the ... |
29 September 2008
10:57 GMT |
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The International Olympic Committee announced today that, after negotiations with the Chinese authorities, journalists would be provided with full access to the Internet. "The media should be seeing a noticeable difference in accessibility to web sites that they need to report on the Olympic Games." says an IOC offic... |
1 August 2008
07:11 GMT |
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Shortly after announcing it was named 2008 North America Company of the Year, AT&T has also unveiled that it will offer its customers all the Olympic action from the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games (August 8 - 24). This will be possible thanks to an agreement with NBC Universal, the giant media and entertainment American ... |
17 July 2008
04:13 GMT |
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Ozura Mobile, the Singapore-based mobile content developer and distributor, announced the upcoming release of "Beijing Dreams", a new mobile game that pays an homage to the 2008 Summer Olympics that will debut on August 8 in China's capital city. Beijing Dreams will transform you into Lei Jiang, a young athlet... |
8 July 2008
06:20 GMT |
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With the Beijing Olympics quickly approaching, both hackers and athletes are getting ready for the sports competition. Unfortunately, they have different purposes and, even if we all want to see a fair-play event, it seems that hackers are planning to cheat. According to MessageLabs, the company has detected no less ... |
23 April 2008
16:36 GMT |
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The Censor-full China Central Television (CCTV) will allow two China-based web sites to offer streaming broadcasts of the Olympic events. Originally, under the January introduced Internet censorship plan, every site that wasn't government-owned would be blocked, thus making streaming impossible.MySpace China and... |
28 February 2008
10:43 GMT |
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On Thursday, the capital of the Republic of China was overtaken by a massive wave of pollution, even though the authorities strongly stated in the last months that the air quality in Beijing was improving. In order to protect the population of the city from the increased levels of pollution, the Chinese government is... |
28 December 2007
08:45 GMT |
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What are supercomputers very good at? Well, among other things like simulations, resolving math problems, pattern recognition and so on they are very good at predicting weather changes, so all the weather forecasts for the Beijing Olympic Games will be based on an IBM supercomputer that will continuously update its f... |
27 August 2007
06:19 GMT |
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Next year's Beijing Olympics will bring many reasons for excitement for many people, but also a few problems when it comes to communicating with the locals. EchoTranslator is just the thing any foreigner might need in order to get around efficiently.Chinese is not the easiest language to learn, so hitting the bo... |
7 June 2007
03:00 GMT |
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Nokia Siemens Networks was selected by China Mobile Group Beijing to supply Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) solution in order to meet the needs of the Olympic Games that will take place next year in Beijing. Nokia Siemens Networks has already started to deliver equipment to China Mobile Group Beijing (CMBJ) and will... |
6 June 2007
09:07 GMT |
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