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I can't find any references to this before January 2012, although maybe the recent news flare-up has drowned the older stuff out.

Or maybe it's just now made it to the English-language media. Here's an documentary from 2008 in Chinese about the kid. It turns out his night vision is a bit better than normal, but it's not that much better. The doctor says he probably has a form of ocular albinism (which is known to cause both sensitivity to bright light, and slightly improved night vision).

I think Dells move to diversify it's manufacturing is a smart move especially with a currency war with China v EU,USA in the offing. You can bet that wont be good and Chinese made goods will be facing down the barrel of a 25-40% tariff slapped on them. Any US or EU company with all their manufacturing based in China are placing their long term viability on risky ground if they don't diversify their manufacturing starting now.

Both are pretty eye-opening, once you filter the bias.

Both are pretty eye-opening, once you filter the bias.

CCTV's English language service ran this article a couple of months back: http://www.cctv.com/english/20080410/101774.shtml

Being a Brit, I love comparing US news sources to others around the world, including those of our "enemies", and I regularly find that news sources from the USA are very introverted compared not only to the BBC, but even Al Jazeera and Chineese State news are more outward looking (even if somewhat biased). It's not just the news of our enemies either I look at other allies news, they too are less introverted than their US equivilents. And it's not that you can't produce quality news from around the world, compare the versions of CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/
http://edition.cnn.com/

But who would think to put "edition" at the beginning of a URL?

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20 060125&hn=29033/
http://english.cctv.com/english/20060125/101039.sh tml/

Germany used gas to kill thousands of Jews.

It didn't happen nearly as often but it did happen./p

Germany used gas to kill thousands of Jews.

It didn't happen nearly as often but it did happen./p

another link here

Germany used gas to kill thousands of Jews.

It didn't happen nearly as often but it did happen.

from http://www.cctv.com/news/china/20050126/102938.sht ml
(yes, Simplified Chinese)

The Sims 2, Painkiller, Battlefield Vietnam, Titan and FIFA 2005 ...(26 in total) are on the piracy list.
The Doom and other games (don't know their names in English) (24 in total) are on the illegal distribution list, which they are translated and sold in China without the approval. There are some names of the companies involved in the "illegal selling" in the news.
Apparently, China didn't ban any games. They don't need to, they can simply refuse to give out the permission of some particular games (too violence, political incorrect)they don't like, and it will fall into piracy category if someone try to play it, unless it is copyright-free.

Hopefully this will cause NASA and the US gov't to focus more on the need for ongoing space exploration.

There are about 1.28 billion people in the People's Republic of China, and 300 million television sets. That's one TV for every 4.3 people. Thus, at least every other nuclear family in China has a TV, and given even slightly extended families, I'd guess that almost everybody in China who wants to watch red TV can watch red TV.

• BHR-01 is a 158cm tall humanoid robot, developed in the 863 national technology advancement programe .
• BHR-01 weighs 76kg. It has 32 degree of freedom with extra dexterity around the hand and foot joints.
• Main contributions: improved system integration and gait control.
• The second country developed advanced non-tethered humanoid robot.
• Recent advancement in robotics:
  
  • Security robot (demostrated on Dec 2002), capable of walking up/down stairs/uneven terrain, very flexible hand, can be remote controlled/ in autonomous mode. Targeted application: explosive disposal and handling of armed offender.
  • 12 joint biped robot developed by CheungXua Defense University, capable of moving like a ordinary human (eg move sizeward and other acrobat like movements).
  • Beijing Aerospace University: robot hand capable to handle objects with vastly different texture and hardness.

• BHR-01 is a 158cm tall humanoid robot, developed in the 863 national technology advancement programe .
• BHR-01 weighs 76kg. It has 32 degree of freedom with extra dexterity around the hand and foot joints.
• Main contributions: improved system integration and gait control.
• The second country developed advanced non-tethered humanoid robot.
• Recent advancement in robotics:
  
  • Security robot (demostrated on Dec 2002), capable of walking up/down stairs/uneven terrain, very flexible hand, can be remote controlled/ in autonomous mode. Targeted application: explosive disposal and handling of armed offender.
  • 12 joint biped robot developed by CheungXua Defense University, capable of moving like a ordinary human (eg move sizeward and other acrobat like movements).
  • Beijing Aerospace University: robot hand capable to handle objects with vastly different texture and hardness.