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The Bat Lady should be the Robert Oppenheimer or Edward Teller, of Virology, as the inventor of a contemporary, biological "neutron bomb", for working to depopulate North America with a custom designed WMD that leaves Han Chinese people asymptomatic, a whole "race" of Typhoid Mary's, killing all other ethnic groups. I guess I'm stupid, or wearing a tinfoil hat, as a scientific layman, to think that this is what has happened? "No Symptoms, Big Problems: "Scientists Still "Puzzled" by Asymptomatic Coronavirus Cases", NBC News. Oh, right, I'm too simpleminded, I don't get the ivory tower nuances, right? I'm stupid and...

Orkney Islanders have Siberian relatives Last Updated: 12:01am BST 23/05/2008 A new study on ancient human migrations suggests that Orcadians and Siberians are closely related, writes Roger Highfield. Orkney Islanders are more closely related to people in Siberia and in Pakistan than those in Africa and the near East, according to a novel method to chart human migrations. The surprising findings come from a new way to infer ancient human movements from the variation of DNA in people today, conducted by a team from the University of Oxford and University College Cork, which has pioneered a technique that analyses the...

Good morning cool kids! What’s poppin’? Star Wars, man! I still can’t believe there is going to be another another trilogy. I’m not going to lie, I was one of those who were of the opinion that all the recent Star Wars news was a tad overkill. I wanted to disconnect my internet until 2015. I thought lots of folks felt the same way I did. Boy was I wrong. I took an informal twitter poll and asked my followers if they wanted Star Wars scoops. The response was overwhelming. Even my inbox got bombed like never before. Man, y’all...

A pair of papers in the American Journal of Human Genetics today are highlighting the genetic and genomic variation present within the Han Chinese population. In the first of these papers, a Genome Institute of Singapore-led team developed a genetic map of the Han Chinese population by genotyping thousands of individuals from across China. The genetic variation they detected is providing insights into Han Chinese population structure and evolutionary history — for instance, revealing North-South population structure in China. And down the road, researchers say, the results should pave the way for genome-wide association and other studies in the population."By...

Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) city ruins have been discovered in Wuyuan County, Hetao Plain, China's Inner Mongolia. It's said that the scale of the city ruins is rarely seen in Hetao Plain. The city ruins are located in Taal Town of Wuyuan County, Bayannaoer City in China's Inner Mongolia and once covered with grassland. The city wall was about 2 km long and 1 km wide and is made up of compressed earth. The east wall is 2 meters high and remarkably preserved, while, the south wall has already collapsed and is now a road base 80 centimeters high...

Anyways, take these xenophobic tendencies that have been created for over the past 1300 years (or more than 5,000 years, depending on your source) and then brutally colonize the country for thirty six years. Then, add in a devastating civil war (the Korean War) that wasn't allowed to see its natural conclusion - a war ending with there being two rival Korean states is definitely unnatural (or just look at the fact that the armistic isn't even a peace treaty, but a cease fire signed by China, North Korea, and the U.S.). That's at the heart of my argument. And,...

What recently happened with Uighurs? There are four possible narratives about the Uighurs. (1.) This is not about separatism; (2.) This *is* about separatism; (3.) This started as harmonious, but it may lead to separatism; and (4.) This started out about separatism, but it will lead to harmony. In a process of elimination, we can immediately rule out narrative # 4. Nobody is feeling very harmonious about what recently happened. This article will analyze narratives # 1, 2, and 3. #1. This is not about separatism. In this case, to understand the Urumqi incident of 7.5 [July 5, 2009], it...

CHINA'S President Hu Jintao has abandoned plans to attend a G8 summit in Italy, returning home early to deal with ethnic violence in the north-western region of Xinjiang that has left at least 156 dead in China's . The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on its website that Mr Hu had left for China "due to the situation" in energy-rich Xinjiang, which borders central Asia, where 156 people have been killed, 1080 injured and 1434 arrested in unrest between Han Chinese and Muslim Uighurs since Sunday. Late yesterday, mobs of Han Chinese wielding clubs, metal bars, cleavers and axes had melted...

Rioters in China's far west Xinjiang region burned vehicles and blocked traffic in the regional capital Urumqi, and police rushed to the scene to impose order, the state news agency reported on Sunday. Restive Xinjiang is divided between the largely Muslim Uighur people and Han Chinese...

BEIJING -- Ethnic tensions between workers at a toy factory in southern China sparked a brawl that left two dead and 118 injured, state media and a government spokesman said Saturday. The official China News Service said hundreds of workers at the Xuri Toy Factory in Shaoguan City fought for two hours before more than 400 police restored order early Friday morning. A spokesman from the Shaoguan City government said the brawl was due to tensions between Uighurs - Turkic-speaking Muslims - and Han Chinese, who make up most of China's population.

2,000 police putdown riotin Hebei Muslim-Han clash injures 100 people Minnie Chan South China Morning Post (c) 2009 South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved. About 2,000 armed police were sent to a Hebei province town to put down a riot in which hundreds of Muslims clashed with Han Chinese, officials and a rights group said yesterday. A spokeswoman for the government of Mengcun Hui Muslim Autonomous County, 250km southwest of Beijing, confirmed an incident had taken place a week ago in Niujinzhuang township, where 10,000 Hui Muslims live in a village of the same name...

SEOUL, South Korea -- They came from all over the world, poles in hand, and feet ready to inch more than half a mile across a high wire strung over the Han River in a spine-tingling battle of balance, speed and high anxiety.As part of its annual city festival, the South Korean capital staged Thursday what was billed as the world's first high-wire championship, drawing 18 contestants from nine countries for three days of supreme feats of concentration.Each acrobat must navigate the 1.2-inch-thick wire that spans the river, with the top prize of $15,000 going to the person crossing it...

Muslims, Han Chinese clash in north China - group 04 Sep 2007 04:25:00 GMT Source: Reuters Alert Me | Print | Email this article | RSS [-] Text [+] BEIJING, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Thousands of Han Chinese and members of the Muslim Hui ethnic minority group clashed over a dispute in north China, resulting in one death, a Hong Kong human rights group said on Tuesday. Relations between the Han, who make up more than 90 percent of China's 1.3 billion population, and the 10-million-strong Hui Muslims have long been sensitive. Huis complain about offences to their religion and...

Roman-style column bolsters Han Dynasty tomb Archeologists excavate near a Roman-style column in a newly found Han Dynasty tomb (202 BC - 220 AD) in Xiao County, east China's Anhui Province, April 3, 2007. (newsphoto) Nearby villagers look on at the stone entrance of a newly found Han Dynasty tomb (202 BC - 220 AD) in Xiao County, east China's Anhui Province, April 3, 2007. (newsphoto) An archeologists cleans carved stones in a newly found Han Dynasty tomb (202 BC - 220 AD) in Xiao County, east China's Anhui Province, April 3, 2007. (newsphoto)

Underground passages reveal power struggle in ancient Han capital Chinese archaeologists said underground passages in the ruins of an ancient Chinese capital near Xi'an might have been dug during complex power struggles in the Han Dynasty 2,200 years ago. "The underground passages are the first ever discovered in the ruins of an ancient Chinese capital," said Liu Qingzhu, a researcher with the Chinese Institute of Archaeology in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). "The tunnels were mostly discovered under the palaces where the royal women lived, including the emperor's mother, the empress and the emperor's concubines," Liu said. Historical...

Valuable Han Dynasty tomb discovered A large scale Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - 25 AD) tomb was discovered at Fengpengling in Wangcheng County in Hunan Province. Piles of yellow cypress wood were found between the coffin and tomb wall, evidence of a typical Western Han Dynasty burial style reserved for a king during that period. Experts who excavated the Mawangdui Han Dynasty Tomb in Changsha said that after examining the tomb at Fengpengling they believe the status and rank of the buried person in the tomb and the scale of burial have exceeded that of Mawangdui, another famous tomb...

(Note: This is a PAID subscription. Please do not copy and paste the full contents from The Horses Mouth to FR)   A Chinese general has elevated the Taiwan issue to one of national strategic survival by claiming that any move to form an independent nation dominated by Han nationals would undermine the Mainland's stability. Maj. Gen. Peng Guangqian from the Academy of Military Sciences said that Taiwan is a "strategic issue bearing on the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." Peng accused Taiwanese officials and other forces of pressing for independence, which will "eventually lead to the disintegration of China."...

Inner Mongolia Yields New Discoveries More than 80 leading archeological experts are participating in an international conference in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, to exchange the latest information on Hongshan, a prehistoric relics site. Relics excavated at the Hongshan ("Red Mountain") site originated around 5000 BC to 6500 BC. Now a part of Chifeng City, the site was discovered in 1935. Some of the relics found at Hongshan have led archeologists to conclude that the heads of Chinese dragons may have been inspired by boars in addition to horses and cattle. Primitive people who struggled to survive by fishing and...

On Old Silk Road, Condos, Mosques and Ethnic Tensions URUMQI, China, March 12 — On a big public square dominated by this city's huge gold-domed theater, taxis honk their way through slushy, chaotic streets, stopping to take on passengers laden with bundles of walnuts, almonds, dates and dried plums purchased at open stalls.Others disembark to pray at one of a score of mosques that dot the inner city, walking past vendors' tables displaying DVD's with Arabic titles about the Persian Gulf war of 1991.The sidewalk diners at a nearby restaurant, biting away at heavily spiced skewers of lamb kebab and...

New Han wooden strips discovered in Inner Mongolia www.chinaview.cn 2003-12-07 21:54:30 HOHHOT, Dec. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- New historical records from Xin (8-23 A.D.), a short-lived regime at the end of the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-24), were discovered on wooden strips from Han at Juyan, in Ejin Banner of North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The discovery was made after nearly one year's research by archaeologists with the state and local archaeological institutions on more than 500 wooden strips excavated from 1999 to2002. "From these wooden strips, we found abundant historical recordson Xin, the historical materials of which had been...