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Two children have died at a kindergarten in China, after ingesting rat poison planted by educators from a rival school.
The school girls from Lianghe village, Pingshan county, Hebei province died after eating yogurt laced with tetramine, found by the side of the road near the school by the girl's grandmother.
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3 May 2013
07:39 GMT |
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A boyfriend dumped by his “bride” after an informal wedding ceremony has sued the woman who was supposed to be his life companion for keeping all the wedding gifts. According to the New York Post, Kevin Li of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn was left by Amy Chan a few days after the “wedding.” The pair m... |
23 April 2013
08:39 GMT |
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Owners of Windows Phone devices interested in translating texts from Chinese into English or the other way around have at their disposal a nice application that can help them in their quest, namely the YiXue Chinese Dictionary.
The app comes with 104,318 words and 26,198 translated example sentences, and offers sup... |
8 March 2013
16:31 GMT |
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A group of researchers led by professor Jing Lu from the University of Electronic Science and Technology in China offer a singular perspective over the humans' brain, managing to make music out of its waves. Previous studies have been conducted in this field by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Sc... |
17 November 2012
06:12 GMT |
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One of the oldest Chinese couples pose for a Tim Burton-like wedding photo, 88 years after the event. They took their time to get an “official” wedding image, but you can see the pair smiling as amateur photographers immortalize the moment.
The pair decided to relive their wedding day, and dress up as a ... |
8 November 2012
06:56 GMT |
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Customs Police officers in Dalian, Liaoning Province, in China, are taught the art of smiling in a specific “how to smile” course.
Officers practice the prefect smile by holding chopsticks between their teeth and forcing themselves to smile with them.
WhatsOnDalian reports that the Liaoning Customs offi... |
30 October 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Chinese mobile phone maker Huawei has put its new Emotion UI up for download on the web, on an official website designed specifically for the interface. The Emotion UI was destined to be loaded on top of Google’s Android 4.0 operating system, and it is available for Huawei Honor, Huawei Ascend P1, and Huawei ... |
3 July 2012
07:53 GMT |
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Apple has confirmed today that some of the cool new features in Mountain Lion are specifically designed with the Chinese user in mind.
“Mountain Lion […] has features specifically designed to support Chinese users,” the Mac maker said in a press release today.
The company has made “signific... |
16 February 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Apple has announced that iPhone 4 is launching to the Chinese market this Saturday, September 25 at 8:00 a.m. at its Hong Kong Plaza store in Shanghai, and at the new Apple Store Xidan Joy City in Beijing, which opens on the same day.Apple also said that iPhone 4 will be available on September 25 at China Unicom s... |
20 September 2010
02:26 GMT |
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An ancient Chinese herbal medicine used for treating intestinal disorders could reduce the intestinal side effects of chemotherapy in cancer patients, a new study in mice suggests.This centuries-old traditional Chinese medicine is called Huang Qin Tang (pronounced Hu-ang Chin Tong) and it contains peonies, a purple f... |
19 August 2010
08:36 GMT |
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The Symbian Foundation, together with Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., a member of the foundation and one of the most renowned text imaging-solution providers, has recently announced the official launch of the first open source font available for the Symbian platform. Monotype Yuppy, also known as the MYuppy Chin... |
10 June 2010
09:43 GMT |
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Security researchers from Vietnamese security vendor Bach Khoa Internetwork Security (Bkis) have identified a new mass injection attack that so far infected almost 180,000 websites with rogue <script> tags. The majority of affected sites are Chinese and many of them are in the gov.cn or edu.cn domain namesp... |
17 December 2009
05:10 GMT |
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Just last week, Softpedia reported that the Japanese had a good-looking mini iPhone selling for just over 100 bucks. This week, the same Export Supermart have revealed a new iPhone clone, called the Sciphone i9+++. The quadband phone is Java-based, yet faithfully replicates the iPhone OS (at least at first glance), a... |
10 August 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Apple has seeded developers with a new build of Snow Leopard, whose seed notes show a couple of noteworthy changes. Those include Chinese handwriting recognition on multi-touch-capable Macs and issues with installing the software on a MacBook Air via a shared optical disk. The seed notes for Mac OS X 10.6 Build 10A3... |
11 May 2009
03:01 GMT |
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A Reuters report points out to a new Apple initiative in China. According to the Chinese version of the Apple web site, the company is having a refurb frenzy in China. Apparently, the iPod maker believes refurbs can potentially help beef up its business in the country, the report says. "We kicked off the campaign at ... |
20 January 2009
06:23 GMT |
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Mostly due to the recent bombing in India, or so it is claimed, a decision has been made for cheap Chinese mobiles and other such devices to be equipped with an international recognition code, should this system prove successful. Knowing that lately most assaults and terrorist bombing attempts have been successful d... |
23 December 2008
03:50 GMT |
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The following came as a real surprise to all of us, but, other than that, it must really be a reason of pride for the Chinese manufacturer in question. Though this is probably very good for Chinese users, the rest of us can only enjoy the irony and the interesting development regarding this Barbie, since such a devic... |
8 December 2008
09:58 GMT |
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Ideographer has released Pinyin Dictionary 2.1.0, an update to its free Chinese Romanization utility for Mac OS X. Version 2.1.0 adds punctuation marks and line breaks that can be preserved, as well as a resizable main window and text input field. Word segmentation has also been included, but only Leopard users can b... |
16 October 2008
15:11 GMT |
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Neonode, the Sweden-based telecoms company, announced today that its fashionable Neonode N2 touchscreen mobile phone has received yet another set of enhancements, in addition to the firmware update released yesterday. From now on, the Neonode N2 will also feature a Chinese XT9 text input interface (phrase prediction ... |
17 July 2008
09:09 GMT |
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In typical Apple manner, the Cupertino-based giant has "quietly" added handwriting recognition for Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) into the latest version of the iPhone Firmware 2.0 beta, sources inform. Users select Chinese input and draw characters on the screen with their fingers. The handwriting recognition ... |
6 May 2008
04:44 GMT |
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Disney Interactive Studios is creating its sixth internal game production studios after it has recently acquired a Chinese-based developer called Gamestar, that has studios in both the Wuhan province and in Shanghai. The move is part of a wider Disney Interactive plan to create a strong internal division that can pro... |
8 April 2008
03:13 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 was made available for download, via a release aimed at developers, on March 5, 2008, the opening day of Microsoft's Internet-centric conference MIX08. The Redmond company is making headway to the release of Beta 2 for its next iteration of the IE browser, and has announced the availab... |
8 April 2008
03:07 GMT |
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If you're not suffering from nausea, you are going to. China does some cloning again, introducing a portable media player, which shamefully rips off iPod's Nano design line and some of the key features. It's true you get to see Apple's ripoffs on a daily basis, but this time what really annoys me ... |
21 November 2007
08:46 GMT |
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There is nothing new about the fact that the Chinese media players have gone wild recently, revealing a lot of design concepts that you wouldn't even dare to think about. This is one damn ugly PMP, which makes me wonder why on Earth it features video playback, since its screen display is one to be proud of.This ... |
14 November 2007
04:06 GMT |
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In case you need a break, somebody thought about the perfect Chinese solution to get you out of the daily routine, with what seems to be the best alternative to expensive devices on the market.The manufacturer, a.k.a Shenzhen Holide is an unknown PMP maker, which claims to have just the right thing for you, such as t... |
12 November 2007
05:56 GMT |
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Here's a Chinese portable media player, which apparently doesn't copy any hot device of the same kind. The PF500 PMP from Sysbay International is trying harder to prove that there is even more room for class in the electronics industry.In this regard, the company has come out with a design line, which kind ... |
30 October 2007
09:31 GMT |
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This Chinese portable media player reminds me of Two-Face, the character from the movie Batman (in this case, Batman being played by the Zune). How come? Well, for starters, the media player sports a rather peculiar design, as if the manufacturers were undecided as to which patterns to addso they mixed them all. The... |
15 October 2007
06:37 GMT |
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Chinese PMPs are driving me nuts. All these crazy design ideas can sometimes give you nausea. Take this, for example. Is that my grandma's homemade time machine, or a miniature photo frame made in Vietnam? No, it's the V503 PMP itself.I don't know, but the thing is it looks terrible. Some say it looks ... |
12 October 2007
05:04 GMT |
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China has a very large population, the largest in the world, with more than 1.31 billion people! One huge country and a pretty well informatized one too. I guess that due to this huge number of inhabitants and the fact that a lot of them have PCs, computer virus infections spread real fast. All a malware writer has t... |
9 October 2007
11:15 GMT |
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This is the story of Liao Peigui from Danzhou city, China. This guy was no average Joe - he had a lot of brains, as he was a computer engineer at only 20 years old! The sad part about all this is the fact that instead of using his great mind for a good purpose, he used it to scam people with a clone site. This is cer... |
8 October 2007
03:37 GMT |
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Evil hackers are doing damage in two ways now. They've got to be insane to do this. Luckily, security experts know better. So, you're probably wondering what I'm yapping about. Well, hackers involved in phishing attacks have been using a Chinese government server, as the Inquirer informs. This is huge ... |
28 September 2007
09:50 GMT |
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Hackers have been causing a lot of damage as of late and since the attack on the Pentagon that got so much attention from the press, everybody's been talking about cyberwar. 'Talking' is the right word here, since up until now, I haven't heard of a lot of people actually DOING something about it, ... |
24 September 2007
04:33 GMT |
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About 200,000 years ago, in Eastern Africa a Homo group started the evolution towards Homo sapiens, the modern human. About 100,000 years ago, modern humans entered South Asia and by 70,000 years ago they were present in southern China. 40,000 years ago, they entered Europe and this ancestral type was called "Cro-Mag... |
21 September 2007
14:31 GMT |
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The Chinese seem to have everything when it comes to mobile phones. They copied the iPhone, Nokia handsets and anything that has been successful on outer markets throughout times. Now they also have their own luxury line of handsets, with the Royal III being the most expensive one. And a striking resemblance to Vertu... |
19 September 2007
09:23 GMT |
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Could it be possible? Nokia leaving aside its own Series 60 operating system for Windows Mobile? That's very unlikely to happen, although a leaked image suggests this possibility for the producer's N94i phone model.The image of this Nokia N94i comes from a Thai auction site that puts the prototype handset u... |
17 September 2007
06:43 GMT |
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The Chinese, who have been blamed for the recent cyber-attacks against other countries, have stated that they are also the victims of hackers. Also, their government has denied any connection with the cyber-aggression against the US, the UK, France or Germany and also said that malicious users from other countries ha... |
13 September 2007
04:13 GMT |
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After the article that appeared in the Financial Times last week, a lot of papers and sites have been writing about Chinese hackers and their possible connection to the People's Liberation Army. Some have even said that the hacks were the PLA's work, even though Chinese officials have been denying any gover... |
11 September 2007
03:07 GMT |
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First, the US suffered. An attack on the Pentagon downed a part of their system. Then, Chinese hackers went and infected German government officials' computers with Trojan viruses, then, they went and hit English machines as well. The latest on episode on "I've been hacked by the Chinese" now features the F... |
10 September 2007
14:31 GMT |
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Britain, just like the US is attacked daily by a lot of hackers that want to breach defenses and get classified info. Out of all the aggressors, the worst are the Chinese that have been hacking their way into government computers. So, what country's next?Of course, the Beijing has never admitted any of these att... |
6 September 2007
10:50 GMT |
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It seems that the Earth is just not enough for the Chinese any more. They've taken war to space and cyberspace. They have an informatized army that is bound to cripple enemy forces. So, instead of directly attacking with planes, tanks and bombs they will render enemy communication offline. Some will say that ol... |
5 September 2007
05:20 GMT |
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Yes, it's true - they were hit by hackers and damaged. The Pentagon had to shut down part of a computer system serving the defense secretary, because of the cyber-attack. The thing is that it all leads to hackers based in China. But is this really true? Black-hatters often use several programs to cover their tr... |
4 September 2007
04:29 GMT |
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Dolphins are swimming not only in the sea, but also in the rivers. Or at least they used to. One of the three known species of freshwater dolphins, the Chinese one, is now "likely to be extinct"(the other two species inhabit Ganges and Indus and Amazon, respectively). An American-British-Japanese-Chinese research tea... |
13 August 2007
08:30 GMT |
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For those who can't have the real thing, a copy sometimes proves to be just as good. Chinese Telecommunication and Microsoft joined forces with Dopod in order to design the CHT 9110 PDA handset.The phone highly resembles HTC Touch's design features and even some of its performances. It's still not the ... |
13 August 2007
02:42 GMT |
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Tired of English? Start learning Spanish, because in less than 25 years, English will be anyway outstripped, as this language of Latin origin is set to go up from the fourth place to the second, behind Chinese. Finally, a soft and musical Romance language instead of a harsh Germanic one. EFE news agency has reported... |
11 August 2007
05:53 GMT |
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Last week, an interesting rumor spread on the Internet sustaining that Yahoo's Flickr was banned by the Chinese authorities but no reason for that was offered. At that time, the Sunnyvale company's officials refused to offer more details about the unavailability of the service, saying only that it wasn'... |
14 June 2007
11:06 GMT |
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Steve Chen, YouTube co-founder, made a trip to Taiwan where he revealed a lot of interesting plans for the online video sharing service. Among others, the most important one is obviously a new flavor of YouTube that will have a new side for the Chinese users soon. At this time, more than half of the users are accessi... |
11 June 2007
13:06 GMT |
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East Asians, like the Chinese and Japanese, may look like little yellow humble persons, self-effacing and with low self-esteem compared to the Americans, but a new research showed that this is just a cover. Psychologists employing new methods compared pools of university students from the three countries, made of ove... |
8 June 2007
05:13 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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With the release of TV Phone V10, the Chinese are aiming at a new solution for several mobile phone problems. This phone is reported to come with two slim slots and also TV support.It seems to be the perfect phone to offer maximum comfort by compacting several functions in only one easy to use device. The design show... |
2 June 2007
05:34 GMT |
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The online video sharing service YouTube caused important trouble in China where a clip posted by a user shows incredible chaos during a high-school class. This is quite shocking because China is that type of country that promotes military-like schools, most of the students being addicted to discipline and justice. H... |
1 June 2007
15:21 GMT |
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