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 ...
Guanyin (觀音) is a typical agricultural district in northern Taiwan’s Taoyuan City, where farmers have transformed their paddy fields into lotus leisure farms to add value to their agricultural operations. The Taoyuan City government has actively supported these lotus leisure farms to promote sustainable agricultural development. By combining tourism and agriculture, the city government’s Department ...
Ethan Gutmann, a China analyst and human-rights investigator, briefed the Prague Senate earlier this month about forced organ harvesting in China. The following is an edited version of his presentation. Three years ago, I spoke to the Senate about Chinese organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience. What has occurred since then — both in terms ...
The Chinese government took everyone by surprise recently after they released a travel warning to its citizens, asking them not to travel to America. Travel to U.S. dangerous because of alleged gun violence The travel warning specifically points to the trend of American public shootings as a cause for concern. “Public security in the United ...
© 2024 nspirement. All rights reserved
