The U.S. decision to impose tariffs on Chinese imports is being characterized as the start of the U.S.-China trade war. But unlike what most people think, the U.S. does not want a trade war with China. Instead, it simply wants the Chinese to honor international trade agreements and conduct their trade fairly. And to this ...
Nestled between Pingtung County (屏東縣) in southern Taiwan and Taitung County (台東縣) in the east, the Alangyi Ancient Trail (阿塱壹古道) used to be an important route for aboriginal tribes for hunting, migrating, and trading goods between the eastern part and the southwestern plains of Taiwan in ancient times. Alangyi is derived from Aljungic, the name ...
Sam Brownback, the U.S Ambassador for International Religious Freedom, said: “We will build alliances around the world to resist religious persecution and witness its end. Together, we will defeat this evil!” Just recently, delegations from more than 80 countries and more than 40 ministerial officials attended the first Ministerial Conference for Religious Freedom organized by ...
Cannons, hand grenades, and up to a thousand soldiers were on board the large Swedish warship when it exploded in the Baltic Sea 454 years ago. The ship, known as Mars, belonged to the Swedish navy and was one of Northern Europe’s largest and most feared naval vessels used in the Northern Seven Years’ War. ...
Researchers have created the fastest man-made rotor in the world, which they believe will help them in the study of quantum mechanics. At more than 60 billion revolutions per minute, this machine is more than 100,000 times faster than a high-speed dental drill. The findings were published in the journal Physical Review Letters. Tongcang Li, an ...
There are two major longitudinal (north to south) national freeways in Taiwan — National Freeway No. 1, also known as the Sun Yat-sen Freeway (中山高速公路), and National Freeway No. 3, also called the Formosa Freeway (福爾摩沙高速公路). Both have freeway service areas about every 50 kilometers. There are a total of 13 service areas along the ...
Merck & Co. Inc. (MRK), the largest U.S. pharmaceutical company, transferred its genetically engineered hepatitis B vaccine technology to China in 1989. This was the decision of its former president, Dr. Roy Vagelos, who oversaw 10 years of research to successfully develop the vaccine. In September 1989, Merck signed an agreement with China to transfer ...
A former mainland banker who fled to the United States for 17 years was forced to return to China to face sentencing and imprisonment. In 2001, the Bank of China, during its internal investigation process, found US$482 million was stolen from its Kaiping branch. The staff initially thought that it was a technical problem in ...
With China’s “Livestock Revolution,” demand for animal protein and increasing wealth fuelled a tripling in the domestic production of livestock in China between 1980 and 2010, and the rise, despite some improvements in efficiencies at the farm level, had significant impacts on environmental sustainability, nationally and globally. With this rise set to continue, an international ...
A Chinese report on the “King of Vaccines” revealed how a recent vaccine scandal involving a major pharmaceutical firm in China, Changsheng Bio-technology Co., Ltd., which evolved its business to become a major player in 10 years. However, Changchun Changsheng Bio-technology Co., Ltd. and its parent company, Changsheng Biotech, have been mentioned in at least ...
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