A Chinese man has admitted to illegally taking a laptop belonging to a US government-owned nuclear weapons research facility to China. A Chinese immigrant to the US has admitted to illegally taking a laptop belonging to a US government-owned nuclear weapons research facility to China. Jianyu Huang, a former scientist who had been employed at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, made the admission... 

China’s Inner Mongolia is hosting the biggest military drill ever held by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The training of 7,000 servicemen from five SCO member states is set to test troops’ effectiveness in fighting terrorism. The Peace Mission-2014 drill, being conducted from August 24 to 29 in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was declared open by Deputy Chief of Chinese... 

In a surprise U-turn, China’s Ministry of Agriculture has decided not to continue with a program which developed genetically-modified rice and corn. Some environmentalists say public concerns about GM crops played a key role in the decision. On August 17, when these permits were up for renewal, the Ministry of Agriculture decided not to extend them. In 2009, the ministry’s Biosafety Committee... 

Over 380 people were killed and around 1,800 injured after an earthquake measuring from 6.1 to 6.5, according to different estimates, toppled thousands of buildings in China’s southwestern Yunnan province. The majority of the dead were from Ludian County, which Chinese state television said was at the epicenter of the quake. Ludian authorities said at least 296 people were killed in their jurisdiction,... 

Experts have reported the discovery in southern China of the world’s yet-biggest aquatic insect, which has been found to be a giant dobsonfly. The specimen, discovered in China’s Sichuan Province, has been described as having long teeth and fearsome pincers. So far also spotted elsewhere in China, as well as in northern Vietnam, and India’s Assam state, the largest one of the insects has been... 

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has called a location service offered by iPhone handsets, a threat to the country’s national security. The broadcaster attacked the device’s Frequent Locations function for allowing users to be tracked and information about them revealed. The critical broadcast featured an interview with Ma Ding, director of the Institute for Security of the Internet at People’s... 

US Representative Mike Rogers, (R-Mich.), speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington. An influential US Republican lawmaker says America must respond more aggressively to China’s territorial claims in East Asia. On Thursday, Representative Mike Rogers warned against China’s territorial claims, accusing Beijing of “gluttonous, naked aggression”... 

China is planning to land a rover on Mars by 2020 and bring back samples from the Red Planet a decade later, according to a top scientist with the country’s Lunar Exploration Program. The Mars probe will be launching an orbiter and a landing rover, Ouyang Ziyuan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and one of the chief scientists of China’s Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP) said on Monday at the... 

Australia’s University of Western Sydney and Beijing University of Chinese Medicine recently conducted a large retrospective review of thousands of studies and “hundreds of thousands of cancer patients” which proved that Chinese herbal medicine is indeed a viable treatment for almost all cancers. The researchers intensely scrutinized lung, liver, stomach, breast, esophageal, colorectal and nasopharyngeal... 

China is calling on banks to stop using IBM servers and replace them with local-made machines amid fears that the nation’s financial security might be compromised via the US-based company’s servers, a Bloomberg report has revealed. The new request comes amid an intensified spy scandal between China and the US. The People’s Bank of China and the Ministry of Finance have been asking banks to suspend... 

The United States has deployed two of its most advanced long-distance surveillance drones to a base in northern Japan to spy on North Korea and China. The deployment of the Global Hawk drones was made over the past week, The Associated Press reported on Friday. The US military is seeking to improve its ability to have a close look on North Korea’s alleged nuclear activities and Chinese naval operations,... 

​Russia and China are set to sign a long-awaited 30-year gas contract during a two-day meeting, when Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Shanghai on May 20-21. Gazprom, Russia’s largest natural gas producer, and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) are set to sign a gas deal that will send 38 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year eastward to China’s burgeoning economy, starting... 

Chinese researchers at the Applied Superconductivity Laboratory of Southwest Jiaotong University claim their fast transportation concept based on magnetic levitation (Maglev) technology could potentially be three times faster than an airplane. Maglev technology was first proposed in the mid-20th century. Nowadays, the Shanghai Maglev Train can reach speeds of over 430 kilometers (260 miles) per hour... 

A new study has found that China is rapidly moving ahead to overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy as soon as this year. The new finding by the International Comparison Program (ICP), which involves the World Bank and United Nations, said on Wednesday that China in 2011 closely followed the US that has been dominating the world economy for over a century. “The size of the Chinese... 

China is on track to have the world’s largest telescope, as large as 30 football fields, installed in its southwest. The installation process, due for completion in 2016, is currently being undertaken in Pingtang County of Guizhou Province. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) which is basically nothing more than just a bigger clone of the US Arecibo Observatory (305 meter),...