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Today In History June 10

2020-12-31T15:50:16Z

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HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY ON THIS DATE 1190 - Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa drowns trying to cross the Saleph River in Cilicia (now in Turkey) while on the Third Crusade to free Jerusalem. 1793 - First public zoo, the Jardin des Plantes, opens in Paris. 1794 - Power of French revolutionary tribunals is increased, leading to mass executions. 1835 - Formation of Australia's first political party, the Australian Patriotic Party. 1865 - The first performance of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde takes place in Munich. 1838 - At least 28 unarmed Aboriginals are killed at Myall Creek, in central NSW, by a group of stockmen. Seven men are later found guilty and hanged for the massacre. 1906 - Death of Richard John Seddon, prime minister of New Zealand (1893-1906). 1908 - Australia's federal parliament passes the Invalid and Old-Age Pensions Act, offering means-tested financial support to the elderly and infirm. 1917 - Sinn Fein [https://www.gov.uk/search?q=riots%20break riots break] out in Dublin. 1933 - Australian Women's Weekly is first published. 1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, by William G Wilson and Dr Robert Smith. 1940 - Italy enters World War II against France and Britain as Germany's ally. 1941 - Recruiting begins for the Torres Strait Defence Force. 1943 - Hungarian journalist Laszlo Biro patents his ball-point pen. 1944 - Nazi troops massacre nearly all the residents of Oradour-sur-Glane, France, in a reprisal against the French resistance movement. The last Japanese aircraft is shot down by the RAAF in the New Guinea campaign. 1960 - Fokker Friendship crashes at Mackay, north Queensland, killing 29. 1977 - James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, escapes from prison in Tennessee with six others. He is recaptured three days later. 1988 - Riot police in South Korea block thousands of students trying to march to North Korea for reunification talks. 1989 - China and Taiwan open direct telephone links; 1000 students are arrested after students battle riot police in demand for overthrow of South Korean President Roh Tae-woo. 1991 - Iraqi troops begin attacking Shi'ite Muslims in southern Iraq who rebelled after Gulf War. 1993 - Scientists announce they have extracted genetic material from the preserved remains of an insect that lived when dinosaurs roamed the earth. 1994 - In one incident of the Rwandan genocide, Hutu militiamen massacre 170 people hiding in a Roman Catholic church. 1996 - Australian swimmer Susie Maroney claims record by swimming from Cuba to the US in 37 hours, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html tour du lịch quế lâm] despite falling short of land. 1997 - Top Khmer Rouge lieutenant Son Sen and his family are executed on the orders of leader Pol Pot. 1998 - President Nursultan Nazarbayev formally opens Kazakhstan's new capital city Astana. 1999 - Yugoslav troops begin pulling out of Kosovo and NATO suspends its punishing 78-day air war. 2001 - Media baron Silvio Berlusconi becomes Italy's prime minister for the second time after his party wins 30 per cent of the vote, more than any other party. His government is Italy's 59th since World War II. 2002 - India reopens its airspace to Pakistani commercial flights, in the first signs that it is ready to ease the standoff over the border shared by the two nations in Kashmir. 2003 - Former Lebanon hostage Terry Waite, 64, who was chained to the wall of a Beirut cell for nearly five years, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] agrees to spend a day in a British prison to raise money for charity. 2004 - Ray Charles, who overcame poverty, blindness and heroin addiction to become one of America's most beloved entertainers and to be hailed as The Father of Soul, dies aged 73. 2005 - Some 117 people, most of them children, drown when a flash flood sweeps through a primary school in China's [https://www.jamendo.com/en/search?qs=fq=license_cc:(-nc%20AND%20-nd)&q=northeastern%20Heilongjiang northeastern Heilongjiang] province. 2006 - Three Guantanamo Bay detainees hang themselves, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html tour du lịch quế lâm] the first reported deaths among the hundreds of men held at the base in Cuba on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban. 2008 - The chief of Saddam Hussein's tribal clan is killed by a bomb glued to the undercarriage of his car. 2010 - Pope Benedict XVI strongly defends celibacy for priests as a sign of faith in an increasingly secular world during a rally that draws some 15,000 priests from around the world to Rome. 2011 - In a stern rebuke, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates warns that the future of the historic NATO military alliance is at risk because of European penny-pinching and distaste for front-line combat and says the US won't carry the alliance as a charity case. 2012 - Opposition leader Henri Capriles marches through the Venezuelan capital of Caracas accompanied by hundreds of thousands of supporters as he formally launches his campaign to run against President Hugo Chavez. 2013 - Bombs explode across Iraq, killing at least 70 people. 2014 - Jihadist followers of the al-Qaeda splinter group ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) seize Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, in a spectacular blow to the Shi'ite-led government of Nuri al-Maliki. Australia Post announces it will cut 900 jobs over the next year. 2016 - Mourners line the streets of Muhammad Ali's hometown of Louisville to farewell the boxing great who died aged 74. 2017 - New security measures are announced for Melbourne's CBD to combat the threat of terrorism, including temporary bollards at some of the city's most crowded places. 2018 - Perth's "grand old lady" Princess Margaret Hospital closes after 109 years as sick children are moved without a hitch to the newly opened Perth's Children's Hospital. 2019 - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam refuses to back down on controversial extradition laws and is accused as a "puppet" for Beijing by the pro-democracy movement. Today's Birthdays: Gustave Courbet, French artist (1819-1877); Nikolaus August Otto, German developer of internal combustion engine (1832-1891); Henry Stanley, English explorer (1840-1904); Lang Hancock, Australian mining magnate (1909-1992); Saul Bellow, US novelist and Nobel laureate (1915-2005); Britain's Prince Philip (1921-); Judy Garland, US singer-actor (1922-1969); Robert Maxwell, Czech-born British media tycoon (1923-1991); Maurice Sendak, author of Where The Wild Things Are (1928-2012); Ian McCahon Sinclair, Australian politician (1929-); David Walker, Australian racing driver (1941-); Tony Mundine, Australian boxer (1951-); John Edwards, American politician and lawyer (1953-); Jeanne Tripplehorn, US actor (1963-); Tony Martin, New Zealand comedian (1964-); Elizabeth Hurley, British actress (1965-); Justin Eveson, Australian Paralympic athlete (1970-); Kyle Sandilands, Australian radio host (1971-); Faith Evans, US singer (1973-); Tara Lipinski, US Olympic champion ice skater (1982-); Kate Upton, US model and actress (1992-). Thought for Today: History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past - Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American author (1879-1958).

Slowly But Steady China Strives To Make Widespread Virus Testing...

2020-12-31T02:13:38Z

ConsueloStarke: Created page with " By Brenda Goh and Min Zhang SHANGHAI/BEIJING, May 13 (Reuters) - Beijing resident Wang Yukun was happy to comply in April when the construction firm he works for t..."

By Brenda Goh and Min Zhang SHANGHAI/BEIJING, May 13 (Reuters) - Beijing resident Wang Yukun was happy to comply in April when the construction firm he works for told him he'd need to take a test for the novel coronavirus before he could come back to work, even though he was at low risk of having the disease. "My company arranged it and covered the test fee. The process was less time-consuming than I imagined," he said, recalling how he got his negative result the next day. "I think everyone should be tested as a matter of personal health." While coronavirus tests can be difficult to obtain in many countries, China is rapidly expanding their availability and affordability, enabling the masses - not just frontline workers, people from hard-hit areas or the sick - to get tested. China is able to produce 5 million test kits a day, the country's industry ministry said last month. While China has not tallied how many daily tests are being carried out nationally, its capacity is far greater than other countries including the United States, which has conducted around 300,000 tests daily on average in recent days, according to the non-profit COVID Tracking Project. Even South Korea and Germany, hailed for tested widely, were able to conduct roughly 20,000 and 120,000 tests a day, respectively, at their peak. Major Chinese cities and provinces have published lists of hundreds of hospitals and clinics now authorised to perform tests and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] are expanding laboratory capabilities to allow people to obtain their nucleic acid test results in a few hours. Some local governments have added the tests to basic medical insurance schemes, helping to cover costs which range from 60-270 yuan ($8.50-$38). The easy access has helped firms, schools and entertainment providers to reopen after widespread testing. Hosts of popular Chinese singing competition, Singer 2020, invited 251 audience members to record a live show last month after testing them. It is also laying the groundwork for [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html tour du lịch quế lâm] mass testing efforts, should the need arise. Wuhan, the epicentre of China's coronavirus outbreak, plans to conduct nucleic acid testing across the city of 11 million after a cluster of new infections emerged, sources said. TESTING UNEVEN, VOLUNTARY China began pushing for widespread testing in April as concerns about the potential asymptomatic patients spreading the virus rose. Since April 13, each Chinese province has been required to provide daily reports on their virus testing efforts, and a stringent nationwide regime of screening, testing and quarantine has seen case numbers fall sharply since peaking in mid-February. Even so, China has refrained from making testing mandatory for all people. Daily, country-wide testing data is not published, and the ramp up of testing capability has been uneven. Hubei, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Heilongjiang, which have a combined population of over 267 million, are together able to [https://twitter.com/search?q=conduct&src=typd conduct] at least 321,000 tests a day, according to statements they made in April and May. Beijing has 67 labs capable of processing 48,000 tests a day. But other less well-off provinces including Yunnan and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html tour du lịch quế lâm] Guangxi are playing catch-up, opening new labs in recent weeks. And with testing compulsory only for certain categories of people, decisions are mainly left to companies or individuals. A source from a Hunan-based state-owned steel mill that employs around 80 people said they were initially asked to take a test only if they lived near a confirmed case. However, colleagues who travel outside the province are now asked to take a test before they return to the office. Still, everyone who wants to get tested is being encouraged to do so. Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and JD.com allow people to book appointments via their widely used platforms, and companies often waive the fees for workers. One taxi company based in Guangzhou sent all 14,000 of its drivers for tests at the request of the government. "This given to the drivers for free," said Kuang Yali, head of Guangzhou Baiyun Car Rental Group's publicity department. "This is to give the drivers assurance, and to also put passengers at ease." ($1 = 7.0816 Chinese yuan renminbi) (Reporting by Brenda Goh in Shanghai and Min Zhang in Beijing; Additional Reporting by Cheng Leng and Roxanne Liu in Beijing, [http://wordpress.org/search/Josh%20Horwitz Josh Horwitz] in Shanghai, Josh Smith in Seoul, Shanghai and Beijing Newsrooms; Editing by Lincoln Feast.)

Beijing Origin And Changes

2020-12-30T21:17:15Z

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According to a text to test history, the Beijing Urban Construction city for 3040 years, the vicissitudes of history, its name was called thistle, is a packet of one of the capital of the Zhou Dynasty. Zhujun Sui legacy for the city to thistle, Tang collectively Youzhou. Liao Ji are all in Capital, renamed Nanjing, also known as Yanjing, Jin, after following the formal relocation of the capital of Liaoning here, both named to the Yuan Dynasty, also created in the outskirts of town are called the most. Converted most of the Ming Dynasty, said before Beijing. Qing capital Beijing to continue until the final collapse of the feudal dynasty. "Thistle" growth "thistle" is the name, first seen in "Book of Rites" in the "Music" chapter: "Wu Wang Keyan, anti-business, no time off, and closed after the Yellow Emperor in the thistle." Talking about the week Shang King Wu forces wiped out immediately after the start of the descendants of the Yellow Emperor in the packet thistle fact. "Ji" is the packet Zhou vassal state in the north, also on the capital was located. This means that, at least in the Western Zhou Dynasty, when near the city of Beijing today to have one called "thistle" in the city. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push(); "Yan" and "thistle" Western Zhou Dynasty, King Wu of Zhou Ji country packet when the packet is still another vassal state of the north, which is Yan. "Historical Records. Yan Zhao Gong family," it reads: "King Wu of Zhou the off, called the public in Northern Yan Feng." Talking about here is what we call the North Yan Yan. Thus, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, when near the present city of Beijing and the regions actually have two Western Zhou vassal state, one is thistle country, the other is built on a thistle near the Yan State. So, when King Wu of Zhou the early packet manor where? Historians have long debated, has been [http://en.search.wordpress.com/?q=inconclusive inconclusive]. Later in the southwest of Beijing's Fangshan District Liulihe found near an ancient city of the West Zhou Dynasty and mass burial site, and from a large number of funerary objects unearthed after the beginning of the history of the manor on Yan's awful pending cases, finally a success solution. To the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Beijing around the region's political situation has undergone great changes, is located south of the country Yan Ji forces increase gradually merged with the country north of thistle, thistle and will migrate to the capital city, since then there will be a Yandu thistle city view. Later, they called Beijing Yanjing, also from here. Thistle thistle hill and the city for us, the most interesting thing is the exact location of Thistle City Buildings site, whether it's somewhere in Beijing today? Beijing today is still retained some remains of the ancient city of thistle? Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534 years) of Big geographer Li Tao Yuan, in his famous book "Waterways", the origin of the city of Ji's comments were made more reliable, and also the city with thistle thistle hill on the relationship between described. Li Tao Yuan said: "The past after King Wu of Zhou Ji Feng Yao, this city has Xibei Yu Ji Qiu, due to the name Qiu Yi, it still Qufu Lu, Qi Qiu carry on business." According to this argument, the thistle City The origin of the name of the city, the city began in the northwest corner of Thistle Hill, as the Qufu Lu, Qi Qiu, like the camp, are due to have a significant local geographical features, namely, the ground near the mound and a prominent name in the . Ang famous Tang Dynasty poet, wrote a "thistle Qiu Lan ancient" poetry, among them: "North Teng Ji Qiu Wang, find the ancient Xuan Yuan Taiwan. Should have been gone long, Wrangler, Wong Egypt." Thus, at least in the Tang generations, thistle hill is still distinctly visible, so it may have ang poem retro thistle hill. Since Li Tao Yuan Qiu said the relative position of thistle is credible, then, according to this important clue, and with reference to relevant literature, we will be happy to find what you want to determine the location of the city thistle. From the geographical position and geographical analysis of the situation, Li Yuan Road, recorded in the thistle hill, about Beijing Guang An Men in this vicinity. White Cloud Temple is now the West wall of the original one Takaoka, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] is probably the site of the ancient hill thistle. Beijing liberation, in the new excavation near Takaoka around the Tyrant, the Warring States period, had found some pottery, indicating that this is a long history of Takaoka. Between spring and summer of 1957, archaeologists had excavated this mound a planned way and found some ancient buried walls, and some from the Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang dynasties between the sites and relics. For various reasons, find, and not dug up the local culture and the bottom layer, so the city was not found direct evidence of early, but did not find sufficient evidence to deny this is not the ancient mound of displace thistle. Thistle hill location is finalized, the need for further archaeological discoveries in the future to confirm this. Tang Sui and Tang dynasties the city during the thistle, thistle city in north China's military status is extremely prominent. Sui and Tang You state Zhuojun are the thistle as the legacy of the city, so the city has been referred to as thistle Zhujun or Youzhou. Emperor and the Emperor after the reunification of the country, have used the city as a base thistle, the crusade to the northeast, which is the powerful Han Dynasty in the Central Plains, they often attack the thistle as the base city of the typical examples. The provisional capital of Liao Liao ---- Nanjing City is the establishment of the Khitan tribe minority regime in the north. Khitan ethnic group is one of ancient China, eastern Inner Mongolia, had lived in the West today, the upper reaches of the Liaohe Xar Moron River basin. Khitan rulers of sixteen states in the annexation Yanyun soon after changed the country for Liao, capital Linhuang House (now the Inner Balinzuoqi), and established the city in the provisional capital of You state (outside the capital was built in the States.) Because it governs the territory in the provisional capital of the south, so called Nanjing, also known as Yanjing. Why Khitan established in the provisional capital city of Nanjing City, You state it? This happens for two reasons: one is to take advantage of this favorable geographical situation, the Central Plains as a base for attacking the south; the other reason is Yanyun Khitan took sixteen states then, it greatly expanded the rule of territory, and the new occupation region's densely populated, rich products, favorable natural conditions, economic and cultural development and production of the original is much higher than the activities of the Khitan tribe northern grassland. Therefore, in order to strengthen the rule of the new occupied areas and to plunder more treasure, You state the city has naturally become the political center of Liaoning in north China. Jin's ruling center in the capital when ---- Liao and [https://twitter.com/search?q=Song%20Tong&src=typd Song Tong] Harbour Lok-line along the north-south confrontation when the activities of the Songhua River in northeast called Jurchen a minority, growing strong and prosperous. Less than two years, Jin Liao Tian Zuodi the prisoners, unplug the scourge after another comeback, exploit a victory south to attack Song. Tainan Golden Army arrives under the Yanshan, the Northern Song Shoujun without a fight. So House of gold after the military occupation of the Yanshan drive straight, crossed the Yellow River, almost equal to the Northern Song capital Kaifeng. Then Huizong as frightened, and hurried to his son Zhao Huan Chuan-bit, that Song Qinzong. Jingkang first year (1126) capital city of Kaifeng was Kim Song Jun Gongpo, Hui and Qin Emperor and the imperial clan, bureaucratic order more than three thousand people have become prisoners under the Northern Song dynasty perished. After the Northern Song dynasty, Jin Huaishui sphere of influence once extended to the coast, it will rule on the North China Plain into a relatively stable state, so the rulers of the Jin capital from far put on the Songhua River Huining Prefecture (now White City in Heilongjiang Cheng son), moved to Yenching come. Jin Tiande three years (1151) in March, gold life master Wanyanliang Lianghan Chen, Kong Yan Yan Zhou and others on the basis of the capital expansion of the new capital, gold Zhenyuan first year (1153) Wanyanliang officially moved the capital, Yanjing is changed in both . Since then, the Beijing Center for China's feudal dynasty history, really began. King of all that is in Beijing, the site of the original settlement developed on the last of a big city, but also the transition to the national political center of the key; the same time in the history of urban construction in Beijing has also played a role in connecting link, and therefore deserves special attention. City ---- Han Yuan Dynasty in the 12th century, the early years of the 13th century, a nomadic people in northern China has become increasingly powerful forces ----- Mongolian, Mongolian in the Tang dynasty known as the " Mogul Shiwei ", the original activity of Heilongjiang Province Argun area today, the eighth century begins westward, nomadic WO difficult to Green River and the mood of even the river between the (now outside the area to the east Bator, Mongolia, Ukraine) . Formally established in 1206 AD, Kublai Mongolian government, the river came to the throne in WO hard sweat Mongolia, Genghis Khan is revered as ministries, led by Genghis Khan's Mongol nobles immediately launched a massive war in the south. AD 1211, Mongol forces attacked a large scale gold, two years later, another three-way south divide our forces surrounded the capital city, also occupied the capital of the South Plains in some places, when the Mongol horsemen scored gold in the capital, when the aristocracy of Mongolia Group have not the slightest intention here to establish the capital. So hurried retreat into, in both the Jin Dynasty palace city burned by fire, King -generation palace ruins. This time, the capital of Yanjing has been renamed, but Bale is a broken city. It took another forty years later, the situation has changed greatly, this time thirty years of Genghis Khan has died, it inherited a grandson Kublai Khan bit. In the same year (1260), holding the eradication of the Southern Song Dynasty Kublai ambition to unify China, from the capital of the Mongolian Plateau and Lin (now Hal and outside the forest area of ??Mongolia) came to swallow the capital, but this time the palace of the city has become a ruin, so Khan decided in the old capital of the northeastern outskirts of gold in a new site selection, construction of a new capital, used "dollars" for the country, and named the new capital mostly, Yuan eleven years (1274 years) completed a large capital city, this is what we often say that the Yuan Dynasty. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push(); Imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty against Mongol rulers of the Yuan Dynasty peasant uprising, such as violent storms swept across the country, the emperor annexed Rebel Chen Youqiong FRACTAL forces after the occupation of the southern half, and in dollars to positive twenty-seven years (1367) sent Xu Da, general, regular book Shuaishi the Northern Expedition, the first year of Hongwu August 2 (September 12, 1368), Xu Da Yuan Dynasty capture, will be a large capital renamed Peiping. Hongwu years (1370), the emperor Zhu Di, the fourth son of closure for the Yan Wang in Peking, in order to consolidate the North guards, the southern Mongolian defense committed, Hongwu thirty year (1398), the emperor died, Huangtai Sun Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, Jianwen reign, when Zhu Di Yan Wang has massive, deliberate win the right to rule and to punish the traitor into the name of Beijing to Nanjing into the soldiers, from the hands of his nephew won the position. Zhu Di ascended the throne after the Ming Dynasty in view of the major risk threat is still remnants from beyond the Great Wall Mongolian, first moved the capital to Peking, and the Peking renamed Beijing. Ming Beijing's construction, four years from the Yongle (1406) began to eighteen years of Yongle (1420) was largely completed before and after the continuation of fifteen years. The capital of the last feudal dynasty Qing Ming rulers completely followed the city of Beijing, there is no change, and even the Forbidden City, it is only done some renovation of buildings and the local, small-scale alterations, additional work. Generation between the Qing Dynasty in 200 years to meet the ruler of the enjoyed a large scale development of the Scenic Area northwest of Beijing, construction on an unprecedented scale, extraordinary beautiful palace buildings. This is commonly referred to as the northwest of the "Three Hills and Five Gardens", that is quiet, Yuquan Shan Ming Garden, Fragrant Hills Park, Providence, Qing Yi Park Longevity Hill (Summer Palace) and Chang Chun, the Summer Palace. Qing Emperor Ferris landscape here, dealing with affairs of state, as both the Forbidden City and Beijing City in the political center to another. Qing Dynasty many major historical events occurred in this area of ??the garden with the closely related. Some have called the Qing Dynasty Beijing is south and the north of the "Twins" system can be described as unreasonable. The future of the ancient city of Beijing Beijing has gone through the vicissitudes of 3040 years of history. The development of Beijing and throughout China's long history is closely related to both full of rich historical content, but also a new era full of vitality, the ancient city of Beijing also began to stride to the pace of first-class modern international city. In this new situation, how to give full attention to Beijing Urban Construction Protecting Cultural Heritage, to reflect the style of the ancient capital of traditional culture, which is every one of us love it, care for its people should think about deeply. 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Thousands Of People Listen To A Rabbit apos;s apos;soothing apos; Chewing Sound

2020-12-30T19:54:04Z

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A pet rabbit in [/news/china/index.html China] has become an internet[# Previous][# Previous] [# 1] [# Next] [/news/article-8556947/Australia-slams-Beijing-coercive-conduct-South-China-Sea.html Australia slams Beijing over its 'coercive conduct' in the...] [/news/article-8556257/Major-Chinese-port-city-locks-communities-enters-coronavirus-wartime-mode.html Major Chinese port city goes into coronavirus 'wartime mode'...] [/news/article-8556669/Chinese-sperm-bank-urges-male-citizens-actively-make-donations-facing-stock-shortage.html Chinese sperm bank urges male citizens to 'actively make...] [/news/article-8556753/Heroic-delivery-driver-uses-body-shield-girl-cleaver-wielding-stranger.html Heroic delivery driver uses his own body to shield a girl...] Share this article Share 349 shares The Chinese rabbit owner, who lives in China's north-eastern Heilongjiang province, said that she started posting videos in 2016 to document her female angora rabbit's daily life This type of content is also known as ASMR, a huge online phenomenon that is said to help calm people and even beat anxiety or insomnia. ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian response, is the feeling of a tingle-like sensation in the head, neck, spine and even legs that make people feel sleepy and relaxed, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] and can be [http://www.medcheck-up.com/?s=triggered triggered] by certain noises and visuals, including whispering and stroking. The triggers are bizarrely mundane, a fact that is borne out across the nearly 80 million videos dedicated to ASMR which are available on YouTube. Most of them involve people scrunching plastic, tapping surfaces, popping bubble wrap, folding laundry, whispering in different accents and even recording sounds of biting and chewing food. Others have produced the 'soothing' sounds by feeding their pets different kinds of snack, such as fruit, vegetables or raw meat.

Wuhan To Test Entire Population After New Virus Cluster: State Media

2020-12-30T13:22:23Z

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The planned tests come after Wuhan reported the first cluster of new COVID-19 infections since the city re-opened after a 76-day lockdown on April 8 Wuhan plans to conduct coronavirus tests on the Chinese city's entire population after new cases emerged for [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] the first time in weeks in the cradle of the global pandemic, state media reported Tuesday. Officials have been ordered to submit by noon on Tuesday plans to administer nucleic acid tests on all residents in the city of 11 million people, according to an official notice carried by news outlets. "Each district should make plans and arrangements to conduct nucleic acid tests on the entire population in its jurisdiction within a 10-day time limit," the notice said, although it was unclear when testing would begin. The plan come after Wuhan reported the first cluster of new COVID-19 infections since the city re-opened after a 76-day lockdown on April 8. Six new cases were reported on Sunday and Monday from a residential compound in Dongxihu District. But an official from the Dongxihu District epidemic prevention and control commanding office told AFP that they have "not yet received news about this notice". Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told state broadcaster CCTV it was "not necessary" for [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html tour du lịch quế lâm] every person in Wuhan to be tested. "Neighbourhoods without any cases don't need to screen every person," Wu said, while large-scale screening should focus on "key jobs" and other criteria. China has largely [http://edition.cnn.com/search/?text=brought brought] the virus under control, but it has been on edge about being hit by a second wave as it has lifted lockdowns and restrictions across the country. Virus clusters have appeared recent weeks in the northeastern provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang, which border Russia. With the virus taking hold in other nations, China has barred most foreigners from entering the country. Wuhan has reported 3,869 deaths since the novel coronavirus first emerged there in December, accounting for most fatalities in China. Scientists believe the virus jumped from [http://www.estateguideblog.com/?s=animals animals] to humans at a market that sold wildlife in the city.

Chinese Cyber Crime

2020-12-30T10:36:03Z

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