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(EyesOnSci)CHINA-SHAANXI-XI'AN-SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER & ENTREPRENEUR (CN)

(240229) -- BEIJING, Feb. 29, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An ultra-fast laser micro-machining device engraves characters on a match head at a workshop of MICROMACH in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 19, 2024. Yang Xiaojun is director of the Photonic Manufacturing Systems and Application Research Center of Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He was employed by the institute after graduating with a Ph.D degree in 2008, and led his team to incorporate the MICROMACH company in 2015 to speed up the industrial application of his achievements in ultra-fast laser manufacturing research. Over the years, the company's workforce has grown from around 30 to over 450 employees. According to Yang, entrepreneurship requires self-evolution that keeps overthrowing pre-existing knowledge and ideas. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)

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(EyesOnSci)CHINA-SHAANXI-XI'AN-SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER & ENTREPRENEUR (CN)

(240229) -- BEIJING, Feb. 29, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Yang Xiaojun shows a new type of turbine blade processed at a workshop of MICROMACH in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 19, 2024. Yang Xiaojun is director of the Photonic Manufacturing Systems and Application Research Center of Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He was employed by the institute after graduating with a Ph.D degree in 2008, and led his team to incorporate the MICROMACH company in 2015 to speed up the industrial application of his achievements in ultra-fast laser manufacturing research. Over the years, the company's workforce has grown from around 30 to over 450 employees. According to Yang, entrepreneurship requires self-evolution that keeps overthrowing pre-existing knowledge and ideas. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)

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(EyesOnSci)CHINA-SHAANXI-XI'AN-SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER & ENTREPRENEUR (CN)

(240229) -- BEIJING, Feb. 29, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A worker shows the words engraved on a match head with ultra-fast laser micromachining technology at a workshop of MICROMACH in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 19, 2024. Yang Xiaojun is director of the Photonic Manufacturing Systems and Application Research Center of Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He was employed by the institute after graduating with a Ph.D degree in 2008, and led his team to incorporate the MICROMACH company in 2015 to speed up the industrial application of his achievements in ultra-fast laser manufacturing research. Over the years, the company's workforce has grown from around 30 to over 450 employees. According to Yang, entrepreneurship requires self-evolution that keeps overthrowing pre-existing knowledge and ideas. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)

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Scottish bar owner sees business reviving in China's Nanjing

STORY: Scottish bar owner sees business reviving in China's Nanjing DATELINE: Feb. 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:06 LOCATION: NANJING, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Ian Ross working at his bar 2. SOUNDBITE (English): IAN ROSS, owner of the Finnegans Wake Bar, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province STORYLINE: Scotsman Ian Ross, who owns a bar in a historical district of China's Nanjing, has welcomed the return of the usual bustle after measures to optimize the country's COVID-19 response were implemented. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): IAN ROSS, Owner of Finnegans Wake Bar, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province "Happy New Year! Welcome. My name is Ian Ross, I'm from Scotland. I came to Nanjing around 20 years ago. We opened the bar in 2008. When we opened the bar, it was very difficult. Because it's very difficult to reach our audience. In 2008, it was very unusual to have Chinese people come and see them drink whisky the way that you would do in Scotland. Now it's very accepted." As China announced a new set of measures to opt

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Destroyer primary cause of collision with boat: tribunal

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo shows the bow (in front) of the fishing boat Seitoku Maru drifting in the Pacific off Chiba Prefecture on Feb. 19, 2008, after it split in two following the collision with Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Atago equipped with the high-tech Aegis defense system. The two crewmembers on the fishing boat went missing. The Yokohama Marine Accident Tribunal on Jan. 22 determined that the destroyer was the main cause of the collision.

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Emobile to launch new mobile phone service, 1st in 13 years

TOKYO, Japan - Sachio Semmoto, chairman and CEO of Emobile Ltd., announced at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 19 that his company will launch a new mobile broadband service next month, with mobile phone service to follow in 2008. Emobile, the first company in 13 years to launch a new mobile phone service in Japan, will offer a fixed rate for its broadband service.

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Emobile to launch new mobile phone service, 1st in 13 years

TOKYO, Japan - Sachio Semmoto, chairman and CEO of Emobile Ltd., announced at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 19 that his company will launch a new mobile broadband service next month, with mobile phone service to follow in 2008. Emobile, the first company in 13 years to launch a new mobile phone service in Japan, will offer a fixed rate for its broadband service. (Kyodo)

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Destroyer primary cause of collision with boat: tribunal

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo shows the bow (in front) of the fishing boat Seitoku Maru drifting in the Pacific off Chiba Prefecture on Feb. 19, 2008, after it split in two following the collision with Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Atago equipped with the high-tech Aegis defense system. The two crewmembers on the fishing boat went missing. The Yokohama Marine Accident Tribunal on Jan. 22 determined that the destroyer was the main cause of the collision. (Kyodo)

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Football: Lionel Messi

Barcelona's Lionel Messi (19) scores during the second half against Celtic in the first leg of their European Champions League round-of-16 tie in Glasgow, Scotland, on Feb. 20, 2008. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo