since everything is made in China and this country heavily depends on coal fuel for the major energy source.

Can't believe sand particles are only 2.5 micrometers.

Hi, everyone, here's the update on what happened to the two cheating lecturers (note they are not professors) in Jinggangshan Universion in China, (in Chinese)

http://www.infzm.com/content/39587

In short: In ten days after ACSE's report was release on Dec. 19 2009,, the two lecturers got fired by the Jinggangshan University. For folks who are not familiar with what kind of college Jinggangshan Univ is, think about a local community university in your neighbourhood and the Jinggangshan college is pretty much on the same level.

Indeed faking research results is rampant in China and there are cases busted occupationally but there are still a lot good research works going on in top universities, and their results got published and recognized by international communities.

I believe the bad trend has something to do with fierce competition to get fund in Chinese academics and government's sometimes overenthusiastic support to get as much research done as possible in a short time. There's a boom in published papers for sure but the number of 'bad apples' also grow proportionally. To make things worse, some corrupted researcher are taking advantage of the language/culture gap between Chinese academy and English (US, British) ones - it's hard for English reviewers to find and verify the details of referenced works in their papers and the stories of faked results usually take much longer time to spread to Chinese academic circle, where the punishment could be done. The solution could be inviting more prominent Chinese researchers to become paper reviewers who could do a better job to verify the results, since an English reviewer probably can't tell Jinggangshan University from Tsinghua (China's MIT), but a Chinese reviewers can easily tell the huge difference between the two colleges and will put more critical opinions in reviewing.

Also, there's no need to exaggerate the incident. I personally find the "Chinese approach to ethics" thing purely laughable.

What they have done was keeping other businesses (music search, gmail, etc) untouched, just moved the search engine's servers from China to another part of China. The R&D team and adv team are still hiring local people.

Agree. If you think the translated Chinese comments from KDS forum on ChinaSMACK represent what the majority of Chinese people think, you are horribly wrong. Read the racist nonsense from the same group of people on ChinaSMACK:

http://www.chinasmack.com/stories/shanghai-black-girl-lou-jing-racist-chinese-netizens/

Google's music download service in China:

http://g.cn/music

and their very cool music screener

http://www.google.cn/music/songscreener

It's launched successfully.

Check this video out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoKgvqhPHnw

or a longer version

http://news.qq.com/a/20080925/003662.htm