The Express Tribune, May 18, 2014 GILGIT: A team of experts has begun investigating into what led to the collapse of an under-construction RCC bridge in Hunza Valley of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B). Engineer Ali Muzaffar, Superintendent Engineer Basharat and Hunza Assistant Commissioner Asim Raza were part of the investigation team formed on the directives of G-B Chief Secretary Sikandar Sultan Raja. Due for completion back in 2008, Hussainabad Bridge was supposed to connect Shinaki area of…
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By THOMAS FULLER in BANGKOK — A flare-up of resilient hostility toward China among its neighbors has infected central Myanmar, where a Chinese company operating a copper mine has local residents seething over what they call the operator’s arrogance and the project’s seemingly unbridled expansion plans. Villagers seized two Chinese employees of the mine on Sunday, and while the company’s demand that they be released was met late Monday, local residents said they remained embittered…
By DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON — By indicting members of the People’s Liberation Army’s most famous cyberwarfare operation — called Unit 61398 but known among hackers as the “Comment Crew” — the Obama administration has turned to the criminal justice system to reinforce its argument that there is a major difference between spying for national security purposes, something the United States does daily, and the commercial, for-profit espionage carried out by China’s military. The Chinese…
By Ellen Nakashima and William Wan, The Justice Department has indicted five members of the Chinese military on charges of hacking into computers and stealing valuable trade secrets from leading steel, nuclear plant and solar power firms, marking the first time that the United States has leveled such criminal charges against a foreign country. The landmark case paves the way for more indictments and demonstrates that the United States is serious about holding foreign governments…
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON — In the Obama administration’s most direct confrontation with China over its theft of corporate secrets, the Justice Department on Monday unsealed an indictment of five members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army and charged them with hacking into the networks of Westinghouse Electric, the United States Steel Corporation and other companies. The indictment named members of Unit 61398, which was publicly identified last year as…