The records include UFO sightings and psychic experiments from the Stargate programme, which has long been of interest to conspiracy theorists.The move came after lengthy efforts from freedom of information advocates and a lawsuit against the CIA.The full archive is made up of almost 800,000 files.They had previously only been accessible at the National Archives in Maryland.The trove includes the papers of Henry Kissinger, who served as secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, as well as several hundred thousand pages of intelligence analysis and science research and ...
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The first university e-sports department in China has announced that it will start accepting applications in 2017. The major is being offered at Communication University of China (CUC) in Beijing.CUC wrote on its official Sina Weibo on Jan. 15: “Are you obsessed with League of Legends, Overwatch, World of Warcraft? Do you want to build the best e-sports team in China? For students who love video games: Welcome! As China’s first e-sports major, we are recruiting new members for the first time. Do you dare to be the first?”The university set up its e-sports analysis major under the category of a...
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China’s population of high-income earners, who have emerged since the reform and opening-up policy launched in 1978, stands at 72 million people, according to a report from sina.com.cn.48 million of them are managers or technicians at private and foreign-funded companies, 14 million from intermediary organizations and social organizations, 11 million are freelance, and 10 million work at new media. Some people have two or more occupations.In Beijing, high-income earners account for 8.4% of the city’s population. The number is 14.8 percent in Shanghai, and 13.6% in Guangzhou, according to a blu...
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McDonald’s is selling off most of its China business in a deal worth as much as $2.1 billion.Citic, a massive Chinese financial firm, is taking the majority stake in McDonald’s (MCD) operations in mainland China and Hong Kong.U.S. private equity giant The Carlyle Group, is also buying into the investment combo, taking a 28% stake. McDonald’s will hold the remaining 20% of the business.McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook said the fast food company’s new partners would bring a better understanding of the Chinese market.The deal is the latest move in Easterbrook’s efforts to overhaul the global burg...
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Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba will take control of domestic department store Intime through a $2.6 billion privatisation scheme, the companies said Tuesday, sending shares of the mall operator surging.Alibaba, and Intime founder Shen Guojun have together offered to pay HK$10 per share to buy the shares they do not already own of the Hong Kong-listed chain.The deal will increase Alibaba’s stake from 28 percent to 74 percent after it first invested $692 million in the firm in 2014.News of the deal sent Intime’s shares soaring 35.7 percent to HK$9.54 in Hong Kong Tuesday.The maximum cash requi...
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