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Man On Motorbike Crashes Lies In Road And Plays With Phone

2021-05-29T07:55:02Z

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. How the Chinese People's Daily presented his predicament. Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET There are moments when I think I've seen it all. That's when I slap my face with a wet tea towel, knowing that something I haven't seen is about to enter my firmament. So it is that I have received wind of a man riding his motorbike last Tuesday in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, China. [ As recorded by the People's Daily in China,] he and his bike were in an accident with a car at an intersection. What's not clear is what caused the accident. Might the man have been riding his bike while playing with his phone? I ask this apparently absurd question only because photographs first published on Weibo show the man lying in the street, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour trương gia giới] clutching his phone and seemingly playing a video game. The Chinese People's Daily reports that he had injuries. It's unclear how serious these might have been, given that he was conscious enough to play on his phone. More Technically Incorrect [ ] [ ] [ ] [ The Daily Mail reports] that police declared he had subsequently been discharged from hospital. Perhaps he'd even had the chance to charge his phone there. The Mail also said that skeptics on social media [http://www.broowaha.com/search/suggested suggested] that the man stayed prostrate so that he could extract compensation from the driver. However, if that was the case, surely he might have acted a touch more, well, hurt, than the playing on his phone indicated. Still, for me this is a first, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] and one I will remember at least all weekend. Until, that is, the next person-clutching-phone-does-something-very-very-silly comes along. [#comments Comments ] [/technically-incorrect/ Technically Incorrect] [/topics/mobile/ Mobile] [/topics/culture/ Notification on Notification off Culture ]

Suzhou Ferris Wheel - A Fascinating Ride In Asian Skies

2021-05-28T10:43:55Z

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A 120-metre giant Ferris wheel located on the east bank of the Jinji Lake, the Suzhou Ferris Wheel is a must-visit feature when one is vacationing in China's eastern coastal province of Jiangsu. The Ferris wheel features 60 passenger cabins, which can accommodate a capacity of 300 passengers. The time taken to complete each revolution is approximately 20 minutes. This Ferris wheel is one out of the four giant Ferris wheels in China, coming second in size only to the Star of Nanchang that was opened in 2006. The other three Ferris wheels are the Changsha Ferris Wheel, the Tianjin Eye and the Zhengzhou Ferris Wheel. The Wheel is located at a picturesque location and is a beautiful sight by night over the dark ripples of the Jinji Lake. The park is easy to find for [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] anyone driving to the area and it sits next to the large Times Square shopping district. Entrance Tickets to the Ferris wheel park are priced at RMB 80 for adults or for anyone over 140cm tall, and RMB 50 for kids. Out of all the rides and attractions within the park, the Pirate Ship and the Kid's Labyrinth have separate entrance fees. Boat rides at the park take people to a small island [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour du lịch phượng hoàng cổ trấn] nearby that houses a teahouse, a temple, and a few fascinating walking paths. Boats depart every half hour. There are several places on Suzhou's colourful map that are well worth a visit, such as the famous gardens of the city, the Humble Administrator's Garden and the Master-of-Nets Garden. In addition, visitors seeking peaceful excursions may want to visit the Jinji Lake, and perhaps take in a round or two of golf at the International Golf Centre. The younger crowd ready for some excitement and culture could check out the Suzhou Arts & Entertainment Village and the movers and shakers of the business world would appreciate a visit to visit Zuo'an Commercial Street, which caters to high-end businesses. Visitors on the lookout for comfortable Suzhou Accommodation that will let them enjoy all this picturesque town has to offer, have many [https://www.gov.uk/search?q=options options] around the city to choose from. Visitors might want to consider a stylish modern apartment, and one possibility is the Citadines Xinghai Suzhou. These Suzhou Apartments feature well appointed properties with breathtaking views of the city and come equipped with state-of-the-art conveniences that are great whether you are in town on business or leisure. The apartments are situated within the industrial park of Suzhou and are within easy reach of most attractions in the city, including the humongous Suzhou Ferris wheel. Uditha Dharmawardhane is a travel writer who writes under the pen name Roland Lefevre. He specializes in creating features on leisure as well as business travel destinations across the globe. Resourses -[ ] , [ ]

French Car Maker Peugeot To Repatriate Staff From China apos;s Wuhan Area

2021-05-28T06:18:04Z

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PARIS, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour trương gia giới] Jan 25 (Reuters) - French automotive group PSA , maker of the Peugeot and Citroen brands, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour du lịch phượng hoàng cổ trấn] said in a statement it will repatriate expat staff and their families from the Wuhan area in China, which is at the centre of an outbreak of coronavirus. It said that 38 people would be [https://www.change.org/search?q=evacuated evacuated] and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] that the initiative will be executed in full collaboration with the Chinese authorities and the French general consulate. PSA said the evacuees will remain in quarantine in Changsha before traveling back to their home countries. ([http://www.techandtrends.com/?s=Reporting Reporting] by Geert De Clercq; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

Chinese Banks Rush To Issue quot;virus NCDs quot; To Fund Anti-virus Campaign

2021-05-28T01:07:38Z

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SHANGHAI, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Chinese banks are rushing to issue low-cost deposits via the interbank market to help fund companies that are fighting the coronavirus outbreak. A total of 26 banks are issuing negotiable certificate of deposits (NCDs) on Thursday to [http://www.newsweek.com/search/site/raise%20roughly raise roughly] 17 billion yuan ($2.43 billion) in total that will to be lent to companies involved in epidemic prevention and control, according to the National Interbank Funding Center. Such "virus NCDs" carry lower interest rates than normal NCDs, which could help lower funding costs for [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour phượng hoàng cổ trấn] such companies. China has already encouraged the issuance of anti-virus bonds, and virus loans, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] to help channel more money into sectors that have been hardest hit by the outbreak, which has killed over 2,000 people, infected 74,000 and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour phượng hoàng cổ trấn] caused widespread economic disruptions. Issuers of the virus NCDs include major state lenders such as Bank of China and Construction Bank, as well as small banks such as Bank of Kunlun and Bank of Changsha. ($1 = 6.9975 Chinese yuan renminbi) (Reporting by Samuel Shen and Josh Horwitz; Editing by Kim Coghill)

Pollution Concerns Grow Alongside Economy In China

2021-05-27T23:28:05Z

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Over the past few years, growing environmental pressure in China has forced the country to finally look into such issues as people residing near heavy industrial clusters continue to suffer from air, water and [http://www.recruitingblogs.com/main/search/search?q=soil%20contamination soil contamination]. At the ninth "Science and Technological Week" held by the Guangdong Provincial Association for Science and Technology earlier this month, Wang Xiwen, an expert from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, gave a lecture about the seriousness of food security in China. According to Wang, heavy metal pollution is currently endangering some 300 million acres of farmland across China, equal to roughly one-sixth of all cropland in the country. Only 11 percent of farmland in Guangdong Province is considered to be free from contamination. "The pollution in coastal regions is much heavier," Wang said. "The metals mercury, cadmium and copper are the main contaminants. Now the heavy metal contamination is growing in the same speed as our economic development, which means the more our country is developed, the more dangerous our environment will be, especially in the Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong and Liaoning provinces. In addition, the soil pollution in some inland provinces has been spreading gradually, for example, the Chang-Zhu-Tan (Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan) city cluster in Hunan Province is the most advanced area in terms of economic development in the province, while the area appears to have the most severe soil contamination as well." Statistics show that in Guangdong Province 89 percent of the farmland has already been contaminated, with 77 percent considered lightly contaminated and 12 percent classified as heavily polluted. The soil contamination in the lower Pearl River Delta area is a result of frequent industrial activities, while the pollution in northern Guangdong Province has been caused mainly by mining activities. Huge amounts of heavy metals flow into rivers and lakes in the process of washing mineral ore. In Hunan Province, the Research and Development Department of the local National Land and Resources Bureau has tracked the health records of some 70,000 individuals over the last 25 years. The [http://www.glamour.de/content/search/?SearchText=records records] show that the number of people who suffer from osteocarcinoma (known as bone cancer) and other bone diseases such as osteoporosis have gone up. In the severely contaminated Zhuzhou City, it was discovered that the cadmium content of local residents was two to five times higher than normal. China's Hetao District is a region in the upper reaches of the Yellow River in Northwestern China that includes the Yinchuan Plain, the Ordos Plateau, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour trương gia giới] as well as the Loess Plateau and forms parts of Shaanxi, Ningxia, and Inner Mongolia. The region has been known for [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour phượng hoàng cổ trấn] its low quality underground water with high arsenic and fluorine content. There are 300,000 people facing the risk of arsenic poisoning, while 2,000 people have already been contaminated in the region, reports said. In Wuyuan County of Bayannur, a city in western Inner Mongolia, cancer has become the leading cause of mortality. There's also an area between Horinger County and Togtoh County - both of which are under jurisdiction of the Inner Mongolian capital city Hohhot - where the underground water is contaminated heavily by fluorine. Many villagers in the region have darkened teeth and suffer from various bone diseases. Horinger County is best known for the Mengniu Diary Company - one of China's main dairy manufacturers. Around one of the mines of the Baotou Iron and Steel Group, a state-owned steel company in Inner Mongolia, some villagers and their livestock are endangered because of the heavily polluted land which is contaminating the crops. Zinc contamination has long tormented the people of Huludao in northwestern Liaoning Province. Again, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] cancer and various bone diseases have taken away many lives. This article was written for 2point6billion.com, a site established by [ ]. Chris is also the founder of Dezan Shira & Associates, experts in [ ] and [ ].

China Search Giant Baidu Considers Making Own Electric Vehicles...

2021-05-27T21:15:06Z

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BEIJING, Dec 15 (Reuters) - China's Baidu Inc is considering making its own electric vehicles and has held talks with automakers about the possibility, said three people with knowledge of the matter, the latest move in a race among tech firms to develop smart cars. The search engine leader, which also develops autonomous driving technology and internet connectivity infrastructure, is considering contract manufacturing, one of the people said, or creating a majority-owned venture with automakers. The initiative would be a step up from internet peers such as Tencent Holdings Ltd, Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour du lịch phượng hoàng cổ trấn] which have also developed auto-related technology or invested in smart-car startups. Baidu has held preliminary talks - without reaching any decisions - with automakers including Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd, Guangzhou Automobile Group Co Ltd and China FAW Group Corp Ltd's Hongqi, on a possible venture, the people said, declining to be identified as the talks were private. Baidu declined to comment. GAC said it has a strategic partnership with Baidu and that any further cooperation is subject to discussion. Geely said it was not familiar with the matter. FAW did not respond to a request for comment. Baidu established autonomous driving unit Apollo in 2017. The unit mainly supplies technology powered by artificial intelligence and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] work with automakers such as Geely, Volkswagen AG, Toyota Motor [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour du lịch phượng hoàng cổ trấn] Corp and [https://knoji.com/search/?query=Ford%20Motor Ford Motor] Co . Baidu operates autonomous taxi service Go Robotaxi with safety drivers on board in Beijing, Changsha and Cangzhou, and plans to expand to 30 cities in three years. It gained approval last week to test five cars in Beijing without safety drivers. Its talks regarding manufacturing come after Didi Chuxing last month launched a purpose-built van for ride-hailing services with automaker BYD Co Ltd. Meanwhile tech giant Sony Corp in January unveiled an electric concept car with self-driving functions. Building cars would represent a dramatic development in Baidu's push to diversify income streams as growth plateaus in its core search business, where revenue grew just 2% last year. (Reporting by Yingzhi Yang and Yilei Sun in Beijing and Brenda Goh in Shanghai; Editing by Christopher Cushing)

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2021-05-27T21:14:59Z

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