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China is apparently planning to launch a manned spacecraft sometime in June, with state media reports suggesting that the vehicle will be docking with a mobile space lab that has been orbiting Earth since last September. CNN, citing information obtained from the Xinhua news agency, said that the Shenzhou-9 was moved to a launch platform Saturday in order to allow scientists to conduct tests prior to the launch, which is scheduled for the middle of this month. It will be the first time...

An American, Chinese-language website that been detailing the scandal of a former Chinese Communist Party official claims that they were the victim of a cyberattack on Friday, according to BBC News reports. According to the British news agency, the website, Boxun.com, was forced to move to a new webhost following a denial of service attack that had "crippled" the page for several hours. They had been covering a scandal involving ousted Chinese official Bo Xilai, who had previously been...

NEW YORK, April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The publication of two seminal books that illustrate the destruction caused by the Wenchuan Earthquake in May 2008 and then the miraculous reconstruction of that part of Sichuan Province four years later, has been announced jointly by McGraw-Hill Education and Sichuan People's Publishing House, an affiliate of the Xinhua Winshare Publishing and Media Co. Ltd. The two illustrated books are being released and shown at this year's London...

FUZHOU, China, Jan. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- In 2011, the European debt crisis put the global economy into turmoil while the Chinese stock market remained sluggish. In the online world, financial bloggers made their contributions to debates, giving rise to many different opinions. In October 2011, China's well-known financial portal Cnfol.com held the "2011 China's Top Ten Financial Blogs" vote, in association with a range of media organizations, including Xinhuanet.com, Chinanews.com...

The Russian space program suffered yet another setback on Friday after a Soyuz-2 vehicle failed to put a communications satellite into orbit, resulting in debris from the probe crashing back to Earth in a Siberian town located roughly 1,400 miles from Moscow. According to BBC News Science Correspondent Jonathan Amos, the Soyuz 2.1b (described by Amos as the most modern form of the venerable Russian spaceship) launched at 16:08 Moscow time from the Plesetsk spaceport in northern Russia....

<font size="2" face="Arial"> </font> <font size="2" face="Arial">SHANGHAI</font>, Dec. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- CEIBS Shanghai Campus - The platform economy (p-economy) is a vital element for the future development of global business, an unavoidable spinoff of increasing globalization, rapidly evolving information technology, and the internet revolution that will be the key drivers behind business innovation in the 21st Century. An impressive slate of...

China successfully docked space modules together for a second time on Monday, according to its Xinhua news agency. The country's Shenzhou-8 unmanned spacecraft re-docked successfully with the Tiangong-1 module. The news report said about half an hour before the re-docking, Shenzhou-8 had disengaged from Tiangong-1 after a 12-day flight together. Shenzhou-8 launched on November 1 and rendezvoused and docked with the Tiangong-1 spacecraft on November 3. The Beijing Aerospace Control...

China launched an unmanned spacecraft on Tuesday morning, taking its space agency one step closer to having its own permanent manned space station. The Shenzhou 8 blasted off in Jiuquan, China this morning, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. The agency said that Chang Wanquan, who leads China's space program, announced the launch was successful. The spacecraft will attempt to dock with an experimental module, carrying out maneuvers to couple with the Tiangong 1 that...

  A Chinese official said on Tuesday that the country plans to launch an experimental spacecraft next week that will be a big step in developing its first space station. The Tiangong 1 will blast off from a site in the Gobi Desert between September 27 and 30, according to the Xinhua news agency. The news agency said the Tiangong 1, or "Heavenly Palace", will launch aboard the Long March rocket on a pad at Jiuquan in northwest Gansu province. "The main task of the Tiangong 1...

China experienced 500,000 cyber-attacks in 2010, with almost half originating from foreign countries such as the United States, the country's computer security agency said on Tuesday.Most of the attacks came in the form of Trojan software, which is malicious software that disguises itself as an application, China's official Xinhua news agency reported.Nearly 15 percent of these programs originated from IP addresses in the United States, while eight percent came from India, according to the...