Chang’e-5 lunar probe China plans to launch the Chang’e-5 lunar probe next year, which is expected to bring lunar samples back to the Earth, according to Pei Zhaoyu, deputy director of the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration. While addressing a space conference on April 24, China’s Space Day, Pei said that the Chang’e-5 lunar probe will be very complex, containing four parts: an orbiter*, a returner, an ascender and a lander. The orbiter and returner then head back to the Earth, separating from each other when they are several thousands of kilometers from the Earth. Finally, the returner will make its way back to the Earth. China-funded university The China-funded University of Kracheh was inaugurated in Kratie Province, Cambodia on April 25. Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen and Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Xiong Bo jointly unveiled the university, which cost US$12 million, of which US$10 million was from a grant from the Chinese Government. The rest was from a fund from the Kratie Foundation for Higher Education Organization. Arson suspect Police have arrested the suspect allegedly responsible for a fire in a KTV bar that killed 18 people and injured another five in Guangdong Province on April 25. Liu Chunlu, 32, who lives near the karaoke TV lounge in Qingyuan City, is suspected of starting the fire. Liu suffered burns to his hips in the blaze, according to local police. Liu confessed when he was arrested at his home in Yingde City, according to the city government. “I was drunk and had had a fight with unknown people [before the fire],” Liu told police. Super-sized mosquito A Chinese entomologist* has found a giant mosquito with a wing span of 11.15 centimeters. Zhao Li, curator of the Insect Museum of West China, said the mosquito, which belongs to the world’s largest mosquito species, Holorusia mikado, was found in August last year during a field trip to Mount Qingcheng in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province. (SD-Agencies) |