THE relatively low-profile Toyo Ventures Holdings Bhd recently came into focus for its US$3.23bil Vietnam power plant contract after a long 12-year wait.
The group surprised the market recently with an announcement that it had finally executed the build, operate and transfer (BOT) contract with Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) for the development of the US$3.23bil (RM13.05bil) Song Hau 2 Thermal Power Plant project. The project was first announced in 2008.
The project, known as the Song Hau 2 thermal power plant, involves two electricity generation facilities of 1,060MW each and will be developed on land of 117.39ha.
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor was arrested and charged Thursday with conducting secret work for the Chinese government while also collecting research funds from the federal government.
Gang Chen, 56, an engineering professor specializing in nanotechnology, was charged with accepting U.S. taxpayer research funds while simultaneously working for the People’s Republic of China.
“It is not illegal to collaborate with foreign researchers. It is illegal to lie about it,” Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling told reporters following the arrest.
Since approximately 2013, Chen’s research at MIT has been funded by more than $19 million in grants awarded by various U.S. federal agencies.
A former employee of the Ohio-based Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Research Institute has pleaded guilty to selling American research secrets in China.
Yu Zhou, 50, formerly of Dublin, Ohio, admitted to conspiring to steal scientific trade secrets related to research, identification and treatment of a range of pediatric medical conditions.
“The Chinese government has created a large-scale, sophisticated system to steal American ingenuity,” said U.S. Attorney David DeVillers in a statement following Zhou’s guilty plea. “We hope this conviction demonstrates that we will fight this system.”
Zhou and his wife, Li Chen, 47, both spent a decade working in separate labs at Nationwide. During this time, Zhou set up a separate business in China seeking to profit from the trade secrets he took from the research institute related to exosomes and exosome isolation.
100th joint patrol on Mekong highlights success in stabilizing region (Xinhua) 10:06, December 13, 2020 KUNMING, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) Four Chinese patrol ships returned to Jingha Port in southwest China s Yunnan Province on Friday after completing the 100th Mekong River joint patrol led by China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand. More than 200 law-enforcement officers and eight vessels from the four countries joined the mission that started on Tuesday, the latest edition of an ongoing operation that has boosted regional security over a period of years. The monthly joint patrol was inaugurated in 2011 to conduct random inspections along the Mekong and crack down on drug trafficking, smuggling and other cross-border crimes in the region. The patrols have proceeded as usual this year despite the raging COVID-19 pandemic.
12:41 PM MYT KUNMING, Dec 13 (Xinhua): Four Chinese patrol ships returned to Jingha Port in southwest China s Yunnan Province on Friday after completing the 100th Mekong River joint patrol led by China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand.
More than 200 law-enforcement officers and eight vessels from the four countries joined the mission that started on Tuesday, the latest edition of an ongoing operation that has boosted regional security over a period of years.
The monthly joint patrol was inaugurated in 2011 to conduct random inspections along the Mekong and crack down on drug trafficking, smuggling and other cross-border crimes in the region. The patrols have proceeded as usual this year despite the raging COVID-19 pandemic.