Aug 22

The beauty of art + technology in the United States, upon integration in the Owen V11 perfectly. Meanwhile, the machine also has the OTG function, can read U disk or external hard drive file movement, the user need not worry about storage space. Coupled with FLAC, APE lossless music player double, PDF, TXT e-book reading, photo browsing, and many other functions, to apply a word, Owen V11 can meet all your high-definition MP4 imagination!

MP4 abilities of the points depends largely on the "HD" performance. Who is the first to have a more powerful video decode capabilities, whoever has the strength to stand out from the market. Look at Owen V11, the reason being attention of many high-definition players, the biggest bright spot is that 1280p over HD decoding performance. It represents the highest technical level of the current industry, even in driving the MP4 industry entered a "super-high-definition" era.

Review MP4 development process, from the standard definition 480p, 720p standard definition to 1080p full HD, then today’s 1280p super high definition, has gone through four stages of development. The first three stages, due to weak MP4 decoding, less compatible format, so that before use, the user need software to convert cumbersome and lengthy work. Owen aware of the problem, the introduction of innovative ultra-high definition, full decoding, high stream of V11 to counter it.

For wholesale mp4 player , MP3 player , 8GB MP4 Players , 4GB MP4 Players and cell phone about tamom.com and registration for a wholesale buyer account, visit http://www.tamom.com/MP4-players/

Over the years, the rapid rise of Apple’s iPod, will also aesthetic tastes of consumers to upgrade to an unprecedented level. But even if the iPod and Owen V11 put together, which does not seem worse, because it uses the latest fashion design, precision work, not only the visual effect is quite stylish, more ingenuity in the use of a 16 million color 4.3-inch Toppoly display, resolution up to 800 × 480. Even if the details of close observation V11, you will not find any flaws in workmanship, which adds to its weight in the minds of fashionable people.

In short, Owen V11 has the following advantages - has 1280p (1920 × 1280) of the decoding capability for 1080p full HD video performance to provide sufficient redundancy to achieve smoother playback; compatible with H.264, MPEG-2 , VC-1, RMVB, AVI, MKV, MOV, TS, M2TS, WMV, M4V, PMP, 3GP, VOB, DAT and other video formats, network video basically put the copy that is, without conversion; with 800 × 480 resolution rate of 4.3 inch high quality TPO screen, up to 170-degree viewing angle, display screen quality is far better than ordinary.

Jan 7

CHINA raised interest rates yesterday for the sixth time this year, the latest move in line with a tighter monetary policy to cool the world’s fastest-growing economy.

From today, the benchmark one year lending rate will increase 0.18 percentage point to a nine-year high of 7.47 percent, while the one-year deposit rate will be up 0.27 percentage points to 4.14 percent, the People’s Bank of China said on its Website.

“Inflation expectations are rising and the central bank really needs aggressive action to cool them,” said Stephen Green, senior economist at the Standard Chartered Bank (China) Ltd. “It will get more aggressive from now on.”

Different from the five previous rate increases, the central bank lowered by 0.09 percent the interest rate for demand deposits - those that can be withdrawn at any time - to encourage savers to tie up their cash for longer periods rather than having it readily available to shift into shares or property.

The move is to help “prevent the economy from overheating and the structural price rises from evolving into evident inflation,” according to the central bank.

Nearly half of China’s urban households feel current consumer prices are too high and unacceptable, according to a survey released yesterday on the central bank’s Website.

In November, China’s consumer prices climbed to an 11 year high of 6.9 percent from a year earlier.

The growth followed a 6.5-percent jump in October and pushed the combined figure for the first eleven months to 4.6 percent, leaving the central bank’s earlier target of three percent way behind.

Food prices, which make up about one third of the CPI basket, rose 18.2 percent in November from a year ago.

The cost of pork soared 56 percent, while meat and poultry prices swelled 38.8 percent from a year earlier.

To curb inflation and excess liquidity, on December 8, Chinese banks were asked to put 14.5 percent of their capital into the central bank, a move that comes into effect next Tuesday.

The one percentage point rise, the 10th increases this year, doubled the central bank’s previous reserve requirement increases, making it the largest requirement in almost four years.

“The tighter credit control should slow down the industrial sector which will mean less pressure on producer prices. The problem though is that food inflation may be with us for a while yet and most of it will be fairly immune to tightening moves, at least over the next six months,” said Green, who had said earlier that two more interest rate rises are likely in the first quarter of next year.

Li Maoyu, an macro-economic analyst with the Changjiang Securities Co, said that the continuous interest rate and reserve ratio rises mirror the central bank’s determination to contain inflation and prevent the economy from overheating.

Jan 5

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has asked its former director to lead an independent review of the bureau’s policies, practices and actions prior to the Fort Hood mass shooting.

FBI officials said on Tuesday that William Webster had been asked to probe into how the bureau had handled information about Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan who shot and killed 13 people and wounded 30 others.

“We must be sure that the systems we have in place give investigators the tools they need to carry out their responsibilities,” incumbent FBI director Robert Mueller said in a statement.

“At the same time, we must ensure constitutional protections and the confidence of the American public we serve.”

Hasan, charged with 13 counts of premeditated murders and 32 counts of attempted murder, came to FBI’s attention through part of an unrelated terrorism probe in December 2008, according to the federal agency.

Agents found Hasan had exchanged e-mails with a radical cleric in Yemen, but their correspondence “raised no red flags” that would have trained further scrutiny on him, senior FBI officials said in November.

The FBI has already conducted a preliminary review of the Fort Hood massacre. The Pentagon is also conducting its own investigation into whether any signs that could have warned of the rampage were missed.

The Army psychiatrist, 39, allegedly opened fire on Nov. 5 with two handguns on unarmed soldiers who were preparing for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan at a soldiers readiness area at Fort Hood, the country’s largest military installation at Killeen of Texas.

The shooting spree has been described as the deadliest at a U.S. military installation.

Hasan may face additional charges at court-martial.

Jan 5

Former FBI and CIA director William H. Webster was tapped to conduct an independent review of the information that Fort Hood shooting suspect had communication with an anti-American cleric in Yemen prior to the bloody rampage, according to media reports Wednesday.

FBI Director Robert Mueller asked Webster Tuesday to examine the agency’s policies, practices and actions prior to the Nov. 5 shooting at the Texas army base, which left 13 people dead.

The focal point is the emails that the accused shooter, military psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan sent to the cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been sympathetic to al Qaeda.

Investigators said last month that they reviewed Hasan’s correspondence, which began in late 2008, and decided that they were in keeping with Hasan’s academic work at the time, offering no hints that he was planning an attack or was following orders from anyone.

As a result, no formal investigation of Hasan was opened — a move that has been criticized by some in Congress.

In a statement, Mueller called Webster “uniquely qualified” for the job because he “has led independent reviews of various FBI systems and broader policies and provided valuable recommendations. In this case, Judge Webster will have complete access and whatever resources necessary to complete the task.”

The FBI said that Webster will coordinate his review with the Defense Department. No timeline was given for Webster’s review.

Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.

Dec 30

Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng Index ended lower Thursday, with Chinese banks leading the decline on concerns China may tighten credit further to cool its booming economy.

The blue-chip Hang Seng Index fell 673.24 points, or 2.44 percent, to close at 26,887.28 after trading between 26,864.13 and 27,223.71 during the session. Turnover totaled 90.14 billion HK dollars (11.56 billion U.S. dollars), up from 75.87 billion HK dollars (97.20 billion dollars) Wednesday.

Analysts said Friday’s U.S. non-farm payrolls report will provide a crucial reading on the chances of the U.S. economy sliding into recession after data disclosed Thursday showed the U.S. Institute of Supply Management’s December manufacturing index fell to 47.7 from 50.8 in November, the weakest reading in nearly five years.

All the four major categories lost ground. The Finance lost most at 2.75 percent, followed by the Commerce and Industry at 2. 36 percent, the Properties at 2.04 percent, and the Utilities at 1. 31 percent.

Chinese banks led Thursday’s declines. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China fell 6.3 percent to 5.22 HK dollars, China Construction Bank dropped 5.5 percent to 6.15 HK dollars and Bank of Communications fell 4.8 percent to 10.22 HK dollars.

Oil companies fell on rising oil prices. PetroChina, the world’s largest company by market capitalization, dropped 2.9 percent to13.20 HK dollars and Sinopec fell 4.5 percent to 11.10 HK dollars.

Bucking the trend, developer MTR Corp. rose 3.3 percent to 31. 80 HK dollars.

Chinese telecom stock China Mobile was down 2.57 percent, China Unicom down 4.85 percent, Netcom down 2.13 percent, and China Telecom down 1.61 percent.

The three insurers China Life, Ping An and PICC P&C trimmed 2. 97 percent to 4.71 percent.

Dec 29

A State Council meeting on Friday, presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao, called on the nation to make greater efforts to ensure economic and social stability in the face of persistent bad weather.

It said overcast days with snow, rain and icy rain will continue to haunt most parts of southern China for several days. The disaster is still developing.

“The most difficult period is still not over yet. The situation remains grim,” said the meeting.

It called on various localities and departments to take ample consideration of the difficulties and do more solid work to ensure economic and social stability and that people could celebrate the Spring Festival in a happy and peaceful mood.

According to the meeting, the top priorities at present are to keep road traffic moving, ensure power supply and guarantee people’s daily lives are normal.

It called the snow havoc an event that would test the will, resolution and capability of leaders of various levels to deal with crisis and overcome difficulties.

The meeting urged stronger effort to repair the crippling rail lines and give priorities to the transportation of coal and living necessities to supply Spring Festival market.

Power conservation is still vital. Party and government organizations should take a lead in saving energy to ensure power supply for people’s living, it said.

The meeting advised people to cut travel plans while pledging efforts to provide stranded passengers with food, warmth and medicine. Meanwhile, coal production should speed up, it said.

Jia Qinglin, Xi Jinping and Zhou Yongkang, who are members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, visited the havoc-stricken Anhui, Guizhou and Henan province respectively on Friday.

The heavy snow that has fallen since mid-January, the worst in 50 years in much of China, has paralyzed transportation, frozen the power grid and caused serious economic losses of about 53.8 billion yuan (7.5 billion U.S. dollars).

The Chinese government has dispatched 251,000 troops to battle the chaos caused by the worst winter in two generations. The PLA’s emergency response group also announced 772,000 militia and army reservists were participating in the anti-snow campaign.

Ice on power cables is so thick that it is impossible for the power cables to carry their weight and power pylons have collapsed.

A total of 18,000 tonnes of reserve meat is set to be put into market before Spring Festival to ensure pork supply, according to the Ministry of Commerce. Smooth shipment of vegetables and fruits between north and south will be guaranteed to cool down price hike resulted from the destroyed crops, Deputy Minister of Commerce Yu Guangzhou said on Friday.

The National Development and Reform Commission asked local authorities to step up price monitoring and curb arbitrary price hike of such basic necessities as instant noodles, biscuit and pure water.

China Meteorological Administration (CMA) on Friday issued an orange alert warning of another day of snowstorm and sleet in the south.

Jiang Liqun, senior manager of central China region of Walmart, said the severity of the disaster has been largely underestimated despite the early alarmings issued by the Hunan meteorological authority. People would not expect a temperature plunge of more than 20 centigrades and a prolonged snow of more than 20 days.

Jiang Hairu, expert with the China Meteorology Society, said although losses resulted from the vile weather is unavoidable, more research on relations between meteorology and disaster reduction could help us cut down economic losses if precautions are taken.

The insurance regulator has ordered all insurance firms on Friday to award compensation as quickly as possible.

Wu Dingfu, head of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC), clarified the compensation provision under the wild weather and pressed for more simplified and flexible compensation procedures.

All insurers have received a total of 505,000 claims of compensation from the disaster-hit area as of Jan. 31, and some 350 million yuan (48.6 million U.S. dollars) has been awarded. CIRC predicts the total will exceed 3.5 billion yuan.

Dec 26

Chinese president Hu Jintao will pay a state visit to Japan in the near term, the first visit by Chinese President to the neighbor in the new century, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said in Beijing Wednesday.

Yang said both Chinese and Japanese peoples expect President Hu’s visit to Japan in spring, which is a beautiful season in Japan.

“There is no such an issue as postponement of President Hu’s visit,” said Yang at a press conference on the sidelines of the annual parliamentary session. Foreign affairs departments of the two countries are discussing details of the visit.

He made the remarks when answering questions from a Japanese journalist on whether President Hu’s state visit to Japan, scheduled for this spring when cherries are in full bloom, would be postponed to some time after May.

“This visit will be a historic one, which will boost relations between the two countries,” Yang said.

Through the visit, China hopes to improve the mechanism of exchanges to place the bilateral relations between the two neighbors on a long-term, health and stable development track.

On the East China Sea issue between China and Japan, Yang said the case is complex and he believes that it is undesirable to set a deadline for bilateral consultation.

Chinese and Japanese leaders reached four new consensus on the issue during Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda’s visit to China and agreed to find early solutions that serve the overall interests, Yang said.

The foreign ministries of the two countries are building on the current progress and are discussing new solutions, he added.

Responding to the so-called “poisoned dumpling incident”, Yang suggested more cooperation between Chinese and Japanese police departments for an earlier and just clarification of the case.

“We hope relevant departments of the two sides, the police in particular, can have more communication and cooperation in a cool-headed, fair, objective and scientific manner to conduct coordinated investigation and find the truth as early as possible, ” said Yang.

He believed it necessary to establish a long-term China-Japan food safety cooperation mechanism to carry out more timely and effective cooperation, adding both Chinese and Japanese expect such a mechanism can be set up at an early date.

He stressed China had conducted very serious and responsible investigation into the incident and had timely released initial investigation results, adding that the Chinese government had been taking food safety very seriously for consumers at home and abroad.

China-Africa Cooperation

Commenting on China’s engagement and cooperation with Africa, Yang said the partnership and friendship is a driving force behind rapid African economic development.

Yang said that “if one wants to comment on China-Africa cooperation, he should first respect the will and views of the African people.” African countries and people welcome China, he noted.

“We’re committed to a new strategic partnership with African countries and this partnership is based on sincerity, friendship, equality, mutual support, and common development.”

The Chinese foreign minister said the African countries have the right to choose their own partners of cooperation, and they have the right to translate their advantage in resources into advantages in development, and to translate the potential advantages into real advantages through cooperation.

World athletes could try lucks in Beijing

Minister Yang said that air quality in Beijing is to become better and better, and he suggested world athletes “try their luck” in breaking world records during the coming summer Olympic Games five months later.

“The majority of the athletes who are going to participate in the Beijing Olympic Games are satisfied with the air quality, environment and sports facilities - they have full confidence in these conditions,” Yang said.

“It is up to debate whether China is a major sports country or a world sports power, but there is one thing for sure that many Chinese athletes have broken world records in Beijing. So if they can’t break world records elsewhere, maybe they can come to Beijing and try their luck here,” he said.

The minister said China takes climate change seriously and Chinese Government has taken a full range of effective measures to tackle climate change.

“I believe air quality will become better in Beijing and in China,” he said.

Last Saturday, Jacques Rogge,president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), said that China is making big strides in clearing up its air quality ahead of the 2008 Olympics.

Dalai Lama Issue

The Dalai Lama issue is not a religious or ethnic issue, but one concerning China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, said Yang.

More and more European countries have realized this, Yang said while evaluating the Sino-European relations at the press conference.

Germany has openly recognize that Tibet is an alienable part of China, and said it would not support any attempt to seek “Tibet independence”, Yang said.

More and more countries have realized the Dalai Lama’s conspiracy to split Tibet from China and his secessionist attempt is doomed to fail, he said.

Yang also express great confidence in the relationship between China and Europe.

Sino-European relations have moved forward in steady paces, he said. “We are pleased about the progress.”

The seventh Asia Europe Meeting will be held in China in August, which will be a grand gathering for over 40 heads of state and government from Asian and European countries.

Through this meeting, Yang said, China hopes to further improve the cooperation between Asia and Europe in international affairs as well as in economy and trade.

“We hope to promote the dialogue among different civilizations, ” he said.

Dec 24

China’s tax revenue rose 33.8 percent year on year to 1.51 trillion yuan (215.71 billion U.S. dollars) in the first quarter of the year, the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) said on Wednesday.

It was 8.3 percentage points higher than that of last year as the economy slowed to 10.6 percent between January and March, 1.1 percentage points lower than the same period for 2007.

The record quarterly tax revenue reflected the country’s steady and rapid economic development despite the severe winter weather and global economic slowdown, and thanks to the timely macro-control measures, the administration said.

Domestic value-added tax, along with consumption and business tax, surged 25.2 percent to 754.1 billion yuan, accounting for 39.7 percent of the total.

Corporate and individual income tax rose 34.5 percent to 381.4 billion yuan, taking up 25.6 percent of the total.

The stamp tax on security transactions soared 387.8 percent from a year ago, to 59.7 billion yuan after it was raised by the government on May 30 as a resolute measure to cool down the feverish market.

The eastern regions, with a 35.1 percent rise in tax revenue, ranked the fastest followed by the central and western areas.

China’s tax revenue has grown steadily as the quarterly figures increased by more than 25 percent last year.

An Tifu, a professor with the school of finance at the Beijing-based China Renmin University, said the price rise, which drives corporate sales revenue, partly explained the sharp taxation increase.

Sound corporate earnings also contributed to the rise. This reason, however, could not fully explain the hefty increase, he added.

The current tax rates was fixed at a time when tax dodging was much more pervasive, as the efficiency of tax collection improves, the rates should be cut, he said.

Cutting the tax rates is a controversial topic during China’s annual parliamentary session in March.

Dec 23

David Villa said he was happier about Spain’s emphatic 4-1 win over Russia in their opening Group D match on Tuesday than becoming the first player at Euro 2008 to score a hat trick.

“I’m very pleased about the way things went, but especially for the three points we’ve now got under our belts,” the 26-year-old striker told reporters.

“We all said it was vital to start with a win and we did just that. I’m also happy for the goals but that’s the job I have to do.”

Villa struck his first after 20 minutes, steering into the open net after strike partner Fernando Torres drew the ‘keeper and slipped the ball into his path.

He grabbed his second on the stroke of halftime when he darted on to a neat through-ball by Andres Iniesta and completed his hat trick with another cool finish 15 minutes from time.

“It is difficult for the team to win and for a player to score three goals, but that’s what happened,” he said. “It isn’t a dream and I’m very happy about it.”

But the Valencia striker, who has now scored 17 goals in 42 international appearances, was anxious to dispel any euphoria following the win.

“Now we have to keep on working because we’ve still got a long way to go,” he said. “We have done no more than just take one step forward.

“We could still be knocked out in the first stage despite this result … Until we are assured of going through then we won’t be thinking of anything else.

“I hope the best is yet to come.”

Spain continues its group campaign against Sweden on Saturday and finishes against holder Greece on June 18.

Stupid errors

Russia was guilty of making stupid mistakes in its 4-1 loss to by Spain, coach Guus Hiddink said.

“If you see the second goal, if you see the fourth goal, some school teams don’t make those errors,” the Dutchman told reporters.

“It’s not the members of the defense, it’s a matter of the whole team, knowing when the fire starts and knowing when to be firemen. To be honest I was rather angry at halftime because of this naive behavior.”

Hiddink said Russia made “stupid errors”, pointing to the fact it conceded a second goal just before halftime.

“We were rather naive in various situations,” he said. “We had a lesson in being punished by the counter-attack (for the second goal).”

Hiddink said Russia had to improve in its next matches against Greece in Salzburg on Saturday and against Sweden in Innsbruck four days later.

“At the end of the game in the locker room I said this is a tournament of three games,” said the Dutchman.

“We have to learn within hours not to be naive. If we can manage to learn fast we have chances in the other two games.”

Dec 20

The parties involved in the Korean Peninsula nuclear talks held intense bilateral meetings here to pave the way for the discussions between chief negotiators, which are scheduled for Thursday afternoon.

Kim Sook, chief negotiator of the Republic of Korea (ROK) delegation, met with his U.S. counterpart Christopher Hill and Chinese chief delegate Wu Dawei on Wednesday.

After the bilateral meetings, Kim told reporters that he felt neither “optimistic” nor “pessimistic” about the six-party talks, and each party needed to cool down and detail the relevant issues.

Hill, after meeting with the ROK side, said they touched upon issues including the verification process for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) denuclearization, fuel aid to the country, food shipments and other issues.

Hill said he is scheduled to have a breakfast meeting on Thursday with Russian chief delegate Alexei Borodavkin, after which there will be a trilateral meeting of China, the United States and Russia, with the aim of fully preparing for the six-party talks in the afternoon.

Hill met with the DPRK delegation soon after he arrived in Beijing on Tuesday afternoon, saying that denuclearization verification, including documents, site visits and interviews, would be a focal point in the upcoming meeting.

Under an agreement reached in October, the DPRK agreed to abandon all nuclear weapons and programs and declare all its nuclear programs and facilities by the end of 2007, in exchange for diplomatic and economic incentives.

The DPRK submitted its nuclear declaration to China on June 26 and demolished the cooling tower at the Yongbyon nuclear reactor on June 27, though it missed the deadline.

« Previous Entries