The Pneumonic plague has hit China. It has already killed a 32-year-old man in Ziketan, according to the health authority.
There are also 11 other infected people who are relatives of the deceased. They are currently in stable condition in a local hospital.
The remaining 10,000 inhabitants of Ziketan, which covers an area of [...]

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UPDATE: Live stream available here.
We already know that Tuesday’s solar eclipse will be one of the most-watched events in our lifetime. This total solar eclipse will last over six and a half minutes and it will be visible, among other places, in parts of India, Butan, Nepal, Bangladesh, China, Japan, and the Marshall Islands.
The [...]

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A total solar eclipse encompassing a few of Earth’s most densely populated area on July 22, 2009 may be the most-viewed solar eclipse of all time.
Residents of central India and also various regions in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Bhutan will be able to briefly witness the phenomenon before the solar eclipse then moves [...]

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China is laying down the ban-hammer yet again.  The country has apparently now banned citizens from visiting Google Search, Google Apps, Gmail,  Google Books, Google Talk, Google Maps and Google Reader.  Many Twitter users in China are complaining about not having access to the search engine, but it would seem that Google.cn is still accessible [...]

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The iron-fisted Chinese government is understandably not a big fan of Web 3.0.  Still, in an unbelievable move today, Chinese officials have shut down Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Hotmail.com, Blogger, YouTube and a host of other sites.
Free speech is merely a figment of the imagination in China and the blocking of these services is another instance [...]

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Analysts in China are quick to dismiss claims that 1,300 computers in 100+ countries have been compromised and have become part of an espionage network called GhostNet, apparently based in China.
Researchers only discovered GhostNet after computers within the Dalai Lama’s office were compromised.
“This is purely another political issue that the West is trying to exaggerate,” [...]

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