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China Says No More Shark Fin Soup at State Banquets

China said Tuesday that it would prohibit official banquets from serving shark fin soup, an expensive and popular delicacy blamed for a sharp decline in global shark populations. The ban, reported by Xinhua, the state-run news agency, could take as many as three years to take effect, and it remains unclear how widely it will [...]

Jul 4 2012 | Posted in China,Ecology,Environment | Read More »

Oldest astronomical instrument discovered in China

An artwork shows the gnomon with template and a pair of overlapping lacquered disks - Credit: Yunli Shi

Chinese scientists have proposed that an object collected 35 years ago from a tomb of the Western Han Dynasty in Fuyang city and called “lacquerware of unknown names” could be a gnomon with template. In 1977, archaeologists unearthed a great number of precious relics, including the unknown object, in the tomb of Xiahou Zao (the [...]

May 8 2012 | Posted in Antropology,China | Read More »

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