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POPSChina to house shipwreck in underwater museum China to house shipwreck in underwater museum Archaeologists say the ship is China's most exciting underwater excavation. Named the Southern Sea Number One, it lies under 24 metres of water and two metres of sand and soil. Archaeologists took more than 6,000 treasures from one small room on the ship in 2002. "We've estimated the ship to contain a total of 60,000 to 80,000 pieces of treasure," says Wei Jun, director of the Guangdong Province Underwater Archeology Institute. The Guangdong provincial government has now allocated £10 million to building a five hall underwater museum to preserve the wreck.
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POPSUS rebukes Yahoo over China case Shi Tao - who was jailed for 10 years - but it has since emerged that other Yahoo employees had a document stating it was to do with the "suspected illegal provision of state secrets". He also questioned how Mr Callahan could not have known of the document referring to "state secrets" - a charge commonly used to prosecute dissidents and pro-democracy activists. Yahoo's Michael Callahan wrote a letter to "beg the forgiveness" of Shi Tao's mother. Shi Tao was jailed for sending on to foreign websites an e-mail from the ruling Communist Party warning journalists not to cover the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 2004.
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POPSSadr City Sadr City will be the site of Iraqi contracts with Iran and China that concern U.S. In a time of possible conflict with Iran, there is fear that Iranian commercial investments can mask military activities. Word of the project worth 1.1 billion, prompted serious concerns among American military officials.
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POPSChampion Imperils Himself
Wu Lihong, an activist who crusaded for decades about the pollution of Lake Tai, the center of China’s ancient “land of fish and rice.” Mr. Wu, however, bore silent witness. Shortly before the algae crisis erupted in May, the authorities here in his hometown arrested him. In mid-August, with a fetid smell still wafting off the lake, a local court sentenced him to three years on an alchemy of charges that smacked of official retribution. Senior officials have tried to address environmental woes mostly through pulling the traditional levers of China’s authoritarian system: issuing command quotas on energy efficiency and emissions reduction; punishing corrupt officials who shield polluters; planting billions of trees across the country to hold back deserts and absorb carbon dioxide. But they do not dare to unleash individuals who want to make China cleaner. Grass-roots environmentalists arguably do more to expose abuses than any edict emanating from Beijing. But they face a politica
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