Toxic smog that is spreading to Japan from China almost certainly exceeded the central government’s maximum limit in Fukuoka on Saturday, local officials said. The Fukuoka Municipal Government reported Saturday morning that the average amount of PM2.5 particulates — an air pollutant found in ...
Tokyo and Beijing agree to promote technical cooperation and to explore further measures for dealing with the dangerous air pollution levels in and coming from China.
When Kevin Mandia, a retired military cybercrime investigator, decided to expose China as a primary threat to U.S. computer networks, he did not have to consult with American diplomats in Beijing or declassify tactics to safely reveal government secrets. He pulled together a 76-page ...
The past few months have put the Japan Coast Guard and Air Self-Defense Force to the test, as they defend the nation’s territorial waters and airspace around the Senkaku islets in the East China Sea, a flash point for potential military clashes with China. ...
The fallout from Europe’s horse-meat scandal has spread far outside the continent, with an imported lasagne brand pulled from shelves in Hong Kong on Wednesday. A host of top players have been caught up in the spiraling scandal, including Nestle, the world’s biggest food ...
Call it a case of honey laundering. U.S. officials said Wednesday they had mounted a sting operation against two major firms illegally importing honey from China and selling it on the American market, avoiding $180 million in antidumping duties. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
China has a "deeply ingrained" need to spar with neighbors over territory, because the Communist Party uses the disputes to maintain strong domestic support, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says.
The White House announces new efforts to fight the theft of trade secrets, in a broad but relatively restrained response to an emerging global problem that was brought into sharp focus by evidence linking online stealing to China's military.
When Venezuela seized billions of dollars in assets from Exxon Mobil and other foreign companies, Chinese state banks and investors didn’t blink. Over the past five years they have loaned Venezuela more than $35 billion. Elsewhere around the Caribbean, as hotels were struggling to ...
Apple said it was hit by hackers who wormed their way into the company’s system but evidently failed to steal any data. The firm said Tuesday it is working with law enforcement officials to hunt down the hackers, who appeared tied to a series ...
Mandiant says it was able to track an extensive hacking campaign back to the Chinese military in part by exploiting China’s own Web restrictions. China’s “Great Firewall” blocks Web access to, among other things, Facebook and Twitter. People in China can get around the ...
The Chinese Army controls some of the most prolific hackers in the world, an Internet security firm that traced a host of cyber-attacks to an anonymous building in Shanghai reports.
