The United States Air Force will be launching the X 37B for its fourth mission on May 20. Experts remark that the launch is scheduled to take place between 10.45 and 2.45 pm EDT though, the mission engineers will later communicate the exact time.
Health and family planning officials in east China’s Anhui Province are drafting plans to ban abortions for women 14 weeks into pregnancy, a move which observers see as one of China’s latest attempts to combat sex-selective abortions believed to be the major reason for the country’s growing imbalance of gender ratio.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s South American tour has officially started as he arrived on Brazilian soil on Monday, May 17. Aside from his staff and wife, Cheng Hong, Premier Li has also brought with him an array of billion-dollar trade deals, and most of all, a proposed agreement on the Cross-Andes Railway, which will connect Peru’s Pacific coast and Brazil’s Atlantic coast.
China’s anti-corruption campaign, which has been ongoing since 2012, has caught another victim within its nets. Former vice-mayor of Longyan, Chen Shengyi, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. His crime? He was proven guilty of committing adultery and taking bribes.
A new study reveals that sea spray and microbes found in the water mist can change the atmosphere and ultimately, climate change.
NASA and America Makes are holding a $2.25 million engineering competition to design and construct a 3D printer-produced habitat. The environment will be for deep space exploration, such as a Mars habitat.
Chinese officials may have banned gold mining activities in Beijing, the country’s capital, but illegal undertakings are still proliferating in the city’s underground business, journal Want China Times reported.
The Wuhan-based shipyard of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, a state-run shipbuilder, has commenced assembling 3,200 parts for the full-scale Titanic replica over the weekend, a company executive revealed on Saturday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded his three-day visit in China by expressing his gratitude to the Chinese government and its people on his Weibo account, the Global Times reported.
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has announced on May 17, Sunday, the closure of 128 dating websites for supplying false information and violating some regulations, the Global Times reported.
The persistent and massive drought has dried-up rivers and prevented hatchery salmon from reaching the ocean.
Before heading to his Latin America diplomatic tour, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang stopped over in Ireland on Sunday to meet Irish counterpart Prime Minister Enda Kenny.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang recently left Beijing to commence his 13-day trip to the South American continent to boost ties between China and the increasingly important region.
Supplementing the 2002 study by the US Space Agency NASA which shed light on the disintegrating ice shelf in Antarctica; researchers claim that the ice shelf, Larsen B would completely vanish in the next five years.
