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Earthquake hits sea near Taiwan HONG KONG, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale occurred on the sea near Taiwan at 15:45 Tuesday (0745 GMT), according to a bulletin released by the Hong Kong Observatory. The epicenter was initially determined to be 24.6 degrees north latitude and 122.6 degrees east longitude, about 120 kilometers east- southeast of Taipei. There were no reports of casualties or damage so far. (c) 2008 Xinhua News Agency - CEIS. Provided...
Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) [Xinhua: "Chinese Mainland Issues New Policies To Ease Cross- Strait Travel"] XIAMEN, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) - Mainland residents with permits to go to Taiwan will be able to travel to and from Taiwan through the islands of Jinmen, Mazu and Penghu, Wang Yi, director of State Council Taiwan Affairs Office announced on Sunday. Residents of 13 mainland provinces and municipalities can take tourist trips to...
The number of endangered gray snub-nosed monkeys, found only in China's Guizhou province, has more than doubled to about 850, a government bureau says. The population, which lives in Guizhou's 260-square-mile mountainous Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve, has grown because of steady environmental improvements and governmental protection measures, the Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve Administration Bureau said. Back in 1979, there were just 400 gray snub-nosed simians, the bureau noted...
Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) [Xinhua: "13 Trapped in North China Mine Blast"] SHIJIAZHUANG, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) - Thirteen people were trapped after a coal mine blast in north China's Hebei Province, police confirmed on Saturday. An explosion occurred at around 3 a.m. Friday in a mine which had stopped production in Guye District, Tangshan City, trapping nine maintenance staff, the Tangshan City police said. The mine owner then...
China's 3rd-largest hydropower station to be fully operating this year NANNING, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Longtan hydropower station, China's third-largest, will be fully operating before the end of this year, the proprietor said on Tuesday. The seven sets of generators, with a capacity of 700,000 kw each, will all be put into operation by the end of the year, said Dai Bo, general manager of the Longtan Hydropower Development Company. Five generators have begun operation and two are still...
Conservation body WWF said that Sumatra's endangered elephants and tigers are expecting a boost from an Indonesian government move to expand one of their last havens, a four-year-old national park on the island.It was announced in Jakarta on Thursday that the park area would be more than doubled to 86,000 hectares (212,500 acres).Increased efforts would be vital to ensure that poaching and other illegal activities"”like unsanctioned logging and settlement"”did not continue in the park,...
Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) [Xinhua: "China Building Airport on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau"] XINING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) - Workers on Wednesday completed construction of a runway for a new airport in the heart of China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The 3,800-meter-long runway, 3,900 metres above sea level,is part of a planned airport about 20 km away from Yushu, also known as Gyegu, seat of Tibet Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu in Qinghai...
Text of report in English by Japan's largest news agency Kyodo Beijing, Aug. 25 Kyodo - Eight Americans and a British national who were detained in China after holding pro-Tibet activities were sent home on Sunday and Monday, officials of the countries' embassies said. The Americans were deported on a 9 p.m. flight on Sunday from Beijing to Los Angeles, after the US Embassy urged their immediate release, expressing disappointment that China has not demonstrated "greater tolerance and...
In order to meet the growing local demand, the Sharjah Agriculture Development Corporation will build a $32.6 million worth egg production plant, revealed news agency Wam. To be located at Seeh Al-Lebsa, the production facility will be built in four phases over two years. On completion of construction, the plant will have a total daily output of 3,500 cartons of eggs. According to Sheikh Faisal bin Khalid Al Qasimi, proprietor and board chairman of the Sharjah Agriculture Development...
At least 10 injured in E. China plant fire HANGZHOU, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 workers were injured when a fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon at a chemical plant in east China's Zhejiang Province, a local government official said. The blaze was triggered by inflammable chemicals in a storehouse of Hangzhou Hi-tech Fine Chemical Co., Ltd. in the Haihong Science and Technology Industrial Park in Hangzhou, the provincial capital. The injured had been in hospitalized and all were...
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The Persian Gulf is located in the western part of Asia between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. It’s an addition to the Indian Ocean. The Gulf was the focal point of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, which each side assaulted the other’s oil tankers. In the year 1991, the Persian Gulf again was the background for what was known as the “Persian Gulf War” or otherwise known as the “Gulf War”, despite the fact that this disagreement was mainly a land conflict, when Iraq raided Kuwait...
Yunnanosaurus, meaning "Yunnan lizard," is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the Early to Mid Jurassic Period. This was perhaps one of the last living prosauropods of the time. It was discovered by Yang Zhongjian in the Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, China. The find consisted of twenty incomplete skeletons, including two skulls, and were excavated by Tsun Yi Wang. The type species, Y huangi, was named by C.C. Young in 1942, and created the family Yunnanosauridae based on the findings as a...
Lufengosaurus, meaning "Lufeng lizard", is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early and Middle Jurassic Period of what is now southwestern China. It was named by C. C. Young in 1941. The type species, L. huenei, was discovered in the Lower Lufeng Formation of the Yunnan Province in China. Young described and named a second species a few years later. This is one of the few prosauropod dinosaurs to survive from the Early Jurassic into the Middle Jurassic eras. Lufengosaurus was about 20...
The Marco Polo Sheep (Ovis ammon polii), is a subspecies of sheep, specifically the Argali. These sheep are found only in the Pamir Mountains in the border region of China, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. Some of the protected areas where the species occurs include the Khunjerab National Park and Central Karakoram National Park in northern Pakistan and the Taxkongau Nature Reserve in southwestern China. The Marco Polo sheep is particularly known for its long horns. The longest horn...
The Himalayan Tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus), is a large ungulate and a close relative to the wild goat. Its native habitat is in the rugged wooded hills and mountain slopes of the Himalaya from northern India to Tibet. They spend the summers grazing in high pastures, then come down the mountains and form mixed-sex herds in the winter. Feral Himalayan Tahrs are an introduced species in the South Island of New Zealand, with herds forming in the Southern Alps. The rarity of this mammal in its...
