Reinforcement begins at Peking Man site in China

October 2nd, 2009 Feds: Ex-DuPont chemist took confidential docsWILMINGTON, Del. — Federal authorities have charged a former DuPont Co.

October 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new research by scientists has suggested that coal outbursts in underground mines occur through a process very similar to what happens during explosive volcanic eruptions. Worldwide, thousands of workers die every year from mining accidents, and instantaneous coal outbursts in underground mines are among the major killers.

September 13th, 2009 WENCHANG - China Monday began construction of its new space launch centre in Wenchang city, on the northeast coast of the tropical island province of Hainan. It is scheduled to be completed by 2013.

August 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of archaeologists has come across evidence which proves that the "Peking Man" was able to use fire roughly 200-000 to 500,000 years ago. "Peking Man" is referred to a group of fossil specimens, hundreds of thousands of years old, discovered in 1923-27 during excavations at Zhoukoudian near Beijing (at that time known as Peking), in China.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A scenic spot in China's Chongqing municipality has earned itself the ire of locals, after it decided to attract visitors by hiring and displaying nude models. The Black Valley and Stone Forest in Wansheng hired the models for the 'First China Black Mountain Body Art and Natural Views Photography Competition' held last Sunday, reports the China Daily.

July 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese travel agency in Shenyang, Liaoning province has included a visit to a site where a building collapsed last month, in a tour package. According to the travel agency, the site at Shanghai's infamous Lotus Riverside residential complex was added to the six-day itinerary, which included visits to several tourist attractions in East China, as an example of "blind greed", reports the China Daily.

July 21st, 2009 The eclipse begins in the western parts of India will be moving through China and ends in the Pacific Ocean. The July 22, 2009, Surya Grahan is a partial solar eclipse in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong, Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia and Brunei.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Archaeologists have recently discovered the site of a Five Dynasties palace in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province. As the seat of the Western Han Nanyue Kingdom and the Five Dynasties South Han Kingdom, the site has been the center of Guangzhou for some 2000 years.

July 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The US embassy in Beijing has set up its own air monitoring station out of concern for the health of its staff. The embassy has been releasing its own private air quality reports since last year, which differ significantly from the ones issued by the Beijing Government, spokesperson Susan Stevenson said in an interview last week with Canwest News Service.

June 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Buddhist Mount Wutai in China has become the country's 38th site to join UNESCO's World Heritage List as a cultural landscape. "We've been through a rough path, full of suspense," said Tong Mingkang, deputy chief of China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage, after the announcement.

June 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Pregnant women in China are giving cash to doctors so that they receive better care during childbirth, according to a new survey. The study involving 1,227 pregnant women and mothers with children aged 1 to 6 years showed that 24 percent of the mums gave hongbao (red envelopes with money) to the doctors and the envelopes contained an average of about 620 yuan, reports the China Daily.

June 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence for pottery making, in the form of fragments from a Chinese cave, which push back the dawn of the craft by more than 1,000 years. According to a report in Nature News, the shards of pottery, dating back 18,000 years, have been unearthed in a cave in Hunan province, southern China.

May 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - China's first-ever sexually explicit theme park proved to be 'too hot' for local authorities, and was torn down over the weekend. Love Land, which was slated to open in October in the southwestern city of Chongqing, features naked human sculptures, giant replicas of genitals and an exhibition about the history of sex and sexual practices in other countries.

May 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A group of construction workers have accidentally stumbled upon a prehistoric man's cave underneath a Buddhist temple in southwest China's Guizhou Province. The stone structure, containing hundreds of mammal fossils and stone implements, was between 10,000 and 40,000 years old and presumably dated back either to the end of the Old Stone Age or the start of New Stone Age, according to Cai Huiyang, a top archaeologist with the Guizhou Provincial Museum.

May 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Chinese scientists will soon launch an excavation at a cave where the first 'Peking Man' skull was found with an aim to find more relics of ape men who were believed to live as early as 770,000 years ago. According to Gao Xing, deputy director and a research fellow of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Palaeoanthropology, the excavation will start in mid May and last two months at the western slope of the Peking Man Site.