China shut down the Xiaoshan Airport early this morning after a UFO flew through the night sky, leaving a bright trail of light in its wake.
Over 30 flights had to be redirected or cancelled.
The UFO was first seen flying over the Zhejiang provincial capital Hangzhou.
Witnesses called local authorities claiming they had seen a “comet-like” fireball in the sky.
Says one witness: “The thing suddenly ran westwards fast, like it was escaping from something.”
Some experts have already said the sight was debris from U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile, and Chinese officials have stayed mum, given the “military” connection.
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The trial of four men accused of being accessories to illegal file sharing for their involvement with The Pirate Bay resumed this week in Sweden. There were no dramatic developments like the prosecutor’s decision to drop half the charges last week. Instead he concentrated on entertainment industry witnesses.
Perhaps the most notable witness was the one who didn’t make it. Police investigator Jim Keyzer made headlines last year when a possible conflict of interest became public. Keyzer was working Warner Brothers, one of the largest entertainment conglomerates in the world, while investigating The Pirate Bay.
After finishing his investigation Keyzer took a leave of absence from the police department to work exclusively for Warner. He returned months later, but the prosecutor was reportedly unable to contact him to testify.
Instead of Keyzer, a lawyer who works for the IFPI testified to downloading infringing content using a Pirate Bay tracker. But when questioned by the defense he admitted to using a feature of BitTorrent that would allow him to download with no tracker whatsoever.
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Suppliers of Liquid-crystal Display (LCD) components have witnessed a decline in sales during October. The decrease is what was expected with an industry-wide downturn which has forced panel makers to cut back productions. After consolidated sales of NT$3.38 billion (US$102.9 million) in September this year, backlight unit (BLU) maker Radiant Opto-Electronics reported a 10% drop in October and a 13.66% on year to NT$3.01 billion.
Radiant did report that its LED BLU shipments to the notebook/netbook segment grew sequentially in October, with LED BLU shipments to large-size notebooks reaching 463,000 units last month. The figure is up from 351,000 units in September. Shipments to medium-size netbooks grew slightly from 687,000 in September to 690,000 in October.
Wah Hong Industrial, an Optical film supplier reported an 17.26% rise in consolidated sales to NT$617 million back in September, and then suffered a decline of 15.7% in consolidated revenues to NT$520 million in October. Wellypower Optronics, a cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) maker announced that its October consolidated revenues fell 16.5% sequentially and 43.1% on year to NT$423 million.
Wellypower said shipments to the LCD TV segment accounted for 29% of total shipments for October.
