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  • Chinas state-sponsored hackers attack US again

    Chinese "state-sponsored" hackers have renewed attacks on the US, after a unit of the Chinese army was named in February as the source of many cyber attacks on US companies, a media report said. According to BBC, cyber-defence company Mandiant told the New York Times daily that the army's Unit 61398, believed to operate from a heavily guarded building in Shanghai, has recently stepped up its ...

  • China accepts there are some problems with India but wants to resolve all issues peacefully

    Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang, alluding to recent skirmishes on their Himalayan border, acknowledged on Monday, that there were some problems with good friend India but said that the two Asian giants should take a leaf out of their vast history to resolve all issues peacefully. "Since we are strategic partners and we are good friends that can speak to each other with candour, so we do not deny ...

  • Lowy India Poll 2013 study 83 percent Indians consider China a security threat

    An opinion poll conducted with samples across India has revealed that a large majority of people, 83 percent, considered China as a security threat, though 63 percent would like relations with China to strengthen. The poll, titled 'India Poll 2013: Facing the future - Indian views of the world ahead' conducted by the Lowy Institute for International Policy and Australia India Institute (AII), ...

  • India and China have more mutual interest than differences

    In wake of Chinese Premier Li's visit to India, Ambassador of India in China Jaishankar during a press conference said that India is a priority in China's agenda of global development. Jai Shankar said that the present visit of the Chinese Premier Li to India is significant because it is his first visit to India. " India surely is a priority in China's agenda today on global development. This ...

  • Chinese man dies trying to climb Lhotse peak in Nepal

    A 58-year-old Chinese climber died Monday while attempting to climb the Lhotse peak, the world's fourth highest, officials said. Xiaoshi Li died in Sagarmatha region, after falling sick on his way to the 8,516 metre high Lhotse peak, Nivesh Karki, manager of the expedition organiser, Seven Summit Treks Pvt. Ltd., told Xinhua. The mountaineering section of Nepal's ministry of tourism said ...

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A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) [DVD]

A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) [DVD]

Asghar Farhadis A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) is a devastating, slow-burn portrait of how dozens of seemingly insignificant actions and decisionssome conscious, some otherwisecan accumulate into a ruinous scenario. The film opens in the midst of a judicial hearing ... ...

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  • Mount Everest ice cores to help study climate change

    Scientists from China have obtained three ice cores from Mount Everest with the aim to understand more about climate change, an expedition leader said Monday. During the expedition that lasted more than a month, scientists drilled the ice cores at a mountain pass near the East Rongbuk glacier, which covers the north collar of the Mount Everest, Xinhua reported. The longest ice core measures ...

  • Two Chinese acquitted of rape after 10 years in jail

    A court in China will compensate two men after they were acquitted of rape charges that led to their wrongful imprisonment for 10 years. The court in Zhejiang decided to give Zhang Hui and and his uncle Zhang Gaoping 1.11 million yuan (around $179,000) each to compensate them for depriving them of their personal freedom, as well as for causing mental damage, Xinhua reported. Zhang Hui was ...

  • Chinese hackers resume cyber attacks on U.S. companies government agencies

    Chinese hackers have resumed attacks on America three months after hackers, who worked for a cyber unit of China's People's Liberation Army, went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies. The hackers appear to have resumed their attacks using different techniques, according to computer industry security experts and American ...

  • Protesters take to streets in Kashmir burn Chinese premiers effigy

    Protesters took to streets in Jammu on Monday and burnt an effigy of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. Activists of the Jammu West Assembly Movement held a protest march in Jammu against Premier Li Keqiang's visit to India. The outfit demanded that the Government of India take up the issue of Chinese troop incursions very strongly with Beijing. Sunil Dimple, the President of the Jammu West Assembly ...

  • Chinese Premier Li Keqiang meets Salman Khurshid

    Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid here on Monday, as he sought to strengthen mutual trust and deepen cooperation between the two nations after a recent military standoff in Ladakh threatened to derail ties between the two Asian giants. The Chinese premier also visited Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi and paid homage to the father of the Indian ...

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