A Chinese scientist has said that prehistoric man ate the bears in what is now part of the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing. In an interview with The Chongqing Morning Post, Wei Guangbiao, the head of the Institute of Three Gorges Paleoanthropology at a Chongqing museum, said that many excavated fossils “showed that pandas were once slashed to death by man,” The Associated Press reported... 

A federal jury on Monday convicted a former research scientist of stealing trade secrets from Dow Chemical Co. A federal jury on Monday convicted a former research scientist of stealing trade secrets from Dow Chemical Co and selling them to companies in China, US prosecutors said. Wen Chyu Liu, a 74-year-old Chinese-American, former Dow employee, allegedly travelled throughout China to market proprietary...