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A police cordon is set up at the site of a ground collapse in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 5, 2024. A work team has been sent to Shenzhen in south China's Guangdong Province to guide rescue efforts after a ground collapse at a railway construction site left 13 workers missing, the Ministry of Emergency Management said on Thursday. The accident occurred at around 11 p.m. Wednesday at a construction site of a section of the Shenzhen-Jiangmen Railway in the city's Bao'an District. As of 10 a.m. Thursday, the workers remained missing, according to the ministry. Nearby residents have been evacuated and temporary traffic control has been implemented around the site. Local fire and rescue teams, consisting of 48 vehicles and 198 personnel, are on-site for rescue and emergency response operations, the ministry said. (Xinhua/Mao Siqian)

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Rescuers discuss the situation of a ground collapse at a railway construction site in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 5, 2024.

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Aerial drone photos show the site of a ground collapse at a railway construction site in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec. 5, 2024.

 

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SHENZHEN -- An explosion occurred Wednesday in a residential building in the city of Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, according to local authorities.

Local fire and rescue services said they received the report at 2:46 pm and sent 16 fire engines and 80 firefighters to the site in Nanshan district of the city.

Further investigation is underway.

 

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By Palden Nyima and Daqiong | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-12-11

The Intermediate People's Court of Chengdu in Southwest China's Sichuan province sentenced Ji Guogang, a former senior legislator of the Xizang autonomous region, to a 13-year prison term on Wednesday after convicting him of multiple bribery charges.

Ji, who served as the former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Xizang Autonomous Regional People's Congress, was fined 3 million yuan ($412,000). The illicit proceeds of bribery and interest linked to the bribery charge were confiscated and turned over to the state treasury.

From 2002 to 2022, Ji utilized his positions to facilitate entities and individuals in obtaining project approvals and equity transfers. In exchange, he, either directly or through his relatives, accepted money and property totaling more than 43.98 million yuan. He once worked at Fixed Assets Investment Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Development and Reform Commission of the Xizang Autonomous Region, and as chairman of the Xizang Development Investment Group Co Ltd.

Additionally, from 2016 to 2021, while serving as the president and legal representative of the Xizang Development Investment Group, he engaged in favoritism, abuse of power and has caused particularly significant losses to State interests.

Ji, aged 61, began working in 1983 and joined the Communist Party of China one year later.

The Intermediate People's Court of Chengdu held that Ji's actions constituted bribery and abuse of power in a state-owned company. Due to the exceptionally large amount of bribery and the significant harm caused to national interests by his abuse of power in a State-owned company, he should be punished according to law.

Considering the circumstances of attempted bribery, truthful confession upon arrest, voluntary disclosure of bribery facts unknown to the investigating authorities, confession and repentance, active return of illicit gains, and the full recovery of the proceeds of bribery, a lighter punishment was warranted under the law.
The court thus made the aforementioned judgment.

 

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China will crack down on unlawful fines and confiscations by local governments.

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Lovely leopard family:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1869216026069541057

 

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Lovely leopard family:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1869216026069541057

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1864062045748080708

Siberian Tiger was seen in Changbai Mountain National Nature Reserve for the first time in three decades.

with continues efforts from local authorities population of Siberian tiger are rapidly growing. there are now around 100+ Tigers in Northeast China.

Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park have 70+ Siberian Tigers and Amur Leopard population increased to 80.

In 2023, Park recorded the birth of 20 Siberian tiger cubs and 15 Amur leopard cubs.

 

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Huawei sued Netgear for patent infringement and won the case in EU. It is about an essential patent in WiFi 6 standards owned by Huawei.

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12月18日，华为在欧洲统一专利法院（UPC）公布的最新裁决中，对美国网件公司（Netgear）胜诉，后者侵犯了华为的WiFi6的标准必要专利（SEP），并有可能被UPC授予禁令。

涉案专利是EP3611989号“无线局域网信息传输方法和装置”，该专利是WiFi 6标准必要专利（SEP）。

这是UPC的第三个SEP裁决，也是慕尼黑地方分部发布的第二个SEP禁令。该禁令覆盖了德国、法国和意大利这三个最大的UPC成员国，以及比利时、丹麦、芬兰和瑞典。

如果华为执行禁令，网件公司具有WiFi 6功能的产品将不能在德国、法国、意大利、比利时、丹麦、芬兰和瑞典等七国销售。

市场分析指出，这一裁决对网件公司来说是一个重大打击，因为它是华为自2022年以来针对多个WiFi 6专利使用者发起的大规模诉讼中，唯一未达成和解的被告。其他被告，包括AVM、亚马逊和Stellantis，此前已与华为就WiFi 6争议达成和解。

2月，网件公司在加利福尼亚联邦法院起诉华为，声称华为未能履行其对IEEE（电气与电子工程师协会）的承诺，根据承诺，当一家公司的专利技术被纳入整个行业所采用的全球标准时，该公司必须以公平、合理和非歧视（FRAND）条款将这些标准必要专利许可给竞争对手。

现在，网件可以选择和解，或者继续提起诉讼，而这将增加成本，哪怕这不一定会降低它将来必须支付的许可费。

华为是WiFi 6标准的主要实施者，与拥有同样强大（多数情况下甚至更弱）SEP组合的公司相比，华为提出的专利使用费要求没那么激进。许多公司已经获得了华为WiFi 6标准必要专利（SEP）的许可，通常没有发生过诉讼，除了亚马逊，该公司后来采取了非常和解的姿态，以及德国路由器市场领导者AVM，双方也已经达成和解。

IP fray认为，这是UPC针对FRAND辩护的第二项SEP禁令，也是第一项具有商业意义的禁令，是UPC判例法体系发展的一个里程碑式的裁决。同时，此次判决也巩固了华为在涉及WiFi 6的FRAND谈判中的地位。

 

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i have never seen so many Koreans in Shanghai before. looks like we have serious Visa-Free policy impact.
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S.Koreans’ travel surges in China

bookings for Shanghai among South Korean tourists rose more than 180 percent yoy after the policy was introduced..

When the visa-free policy was first introduced, the surge in South Korean tourists made the hashtag "leaving work on Friday to go to China" a trending topic on social media.

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