Mega departments to help improve efficiency: "The country's numerous energy and finance administrative bodies are likely to be merged into two mega departments in a bid to streamline the sectors, a top policy planner said Wednesday.
Coal mining, crude oil, electricity and renewable energy bodies will be unified under a large new energy department, according to Zheng Xinli, deputy chief of the Central Policy Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Similarly, the regulatory commissions on securities, banking and insurance that make up the financial regulation system will be merged into one mega department."
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
New Video Surveillance Cameras - High-Tech Law Enforcement Spying Programs - Popular Mechanics
New Video Surveillance Cameras - High-Tech Law Enforcement Spying Programs - Popular Mechanics: "Security expert Bruce Schneier says that it is naive to think that we can stop these technological advances, especially as they become more affordable and are hard-wired into everyday businesses. (I know of a local pizzeria that warns customers with a posted sign: 'Stop stealing the spice shakers! We know who you are, we have 24-hour surveillance!') But it is also reckless to let the advances proceed without a discussion of safeguards against privacy abuses. 'Society is fundamentally changing and we aren't having a conversation about it,' Schneier says. 'We are entering the era of wholesale surveillance.'"
Epoch Times | Picturesque Lijiang River Is Drying Up
Epoch Times | Picturesque Lijiang River Is Drying Up: "The water level of China's famous scenic attraction, the Lijiang River in Guilin, Guangxi Province, is at the lowest level in 50 years. Part of the river course has dried up so much that riverbed rocks have been exposed. The famous golden waterway, which attracts millions of native and foreign tourists every year, no longer exists.
Riverbed rocks are exposed in the dried-up area of the Lijiang River. (The Epoch Times)
Riverbed rocks are exposed in the dried-up area of the Lijiang River. (The Epoch Times)
Guilin City is experiencing a drought and has had almost no rain since the fall"
Riverbed rocks are exposed in the dried-up area of the Lijiang River. (The Epoch Times)
Riverbed rocks are exposed in the dried-up area of the Lijiang River. (The Epoch Times)
Guilin City is experiencing a drought and has had almost no rain since the fall"
EC gives go ahead to Huawei-Symantec joint venture
EC gives go ahead to Huawei-Symantec joint venture: "The joint venture will develop security and storage appliances for telecommunications carriers, and will be based in Chengdu in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan. It will be 51 percent owned by Huawei and 49 percent by Symantec."
Backgrounder: Major PLA-related joint anti-terror military trainings_English_Xinhua
Backgrounder: Major PLA-related joint anti-terror military trainings_English_Xinhua: "KUNMING, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and Indian armies kicked off their first-ever joint anti-terrorism military training code-named 'Hand-in-Hand 2007' in southwest China Friday morning. Both armies dispatched about 100 ground troops for the training."
[ Integrated mar.com ]
[ Integrated mar.com ]: "'How do you pull off a social engineering attack? You go where the people are. Where are the people? They're at social Web sites,' Abrams said. 'Web 2.0 is simply a technology with more marketing than security designed into it.' But even if those sites were stronger on the security side, that would be 'no match for a gullible user,' he noted."
Output at Xinjiang oilfield up -- china.org.cn
Output at Xinjiang oilfield up -- china.org.cn: "China began exploiting oil resources in the Junggar Basin, in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in 1955 and drilled an oil well at Karamay the same year. The output at the Karamay field has been increasing steadily for 27 straight years since 1981."
Baidu Expands Patent Internet Searches In China - ChinaCSR.com - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) News and Information for China
Baidu Expands Patent Internet Searches In China - ChinaCSR.com - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) News and Information for China: "Chinese Internet search engine Baidu.com has announced expansion of its agreement with the China Patent Information Center of the State Intellectual Property Office to supply authoritative and professional patent searching services for netizens, starting on January 1, 2008."
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