Sources have revealed that Taiwan's Wei family has reached an agreement to acquire majority control of China Network Systems (CNS) for nearly $2.4 billion (1.44 billion pounds) including debt from private equity firm MBK Partners. The Wei family is famous for controlling Hong Kong-listed noodle maker Tingyi Cayman Islands Holding Corp. However, the company is now looking forward to venture in telecoms and media.

At a ceremony organized at the Pakistan-China border at the Khunjerab Pass, Chinese officials handed over 200 black pond turtles to a Pakistani delegation having Sindh wildlife department and officials from World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P).

South China University of Technology's young graduate, Hu Zhenyu and his team has successfully launched liquid-propellant rocket engine at a courtyard in a suburb of Gaoyou City in east China's Jiangsu Province. It is very different from the kind of launch vehicle that carries heavy satellites into space.

The Chinese government announced on Sunday about its latest space programme. Later this year, it is going to launch its first recoverable moon orbiter, which will travel to the moon before coming back to earth, affirmed the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND).