RIO DE JANEIRO Wholesale NCAA Shirts , Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer Tuesday unveiled the first prototype of the largest self-made military transport plane.
Defense Minister Celso Amorim, Brazilian Air Force (FAB) commander Lt. Brigadier Gen. Juniti Saito and diplomats from 30 countries witnessed the unveiling of the KC-390 aircraft at the company's Gaviao Peixoto production hangar in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo.
"This significant milestone of the KC-390 Program demonstrates Embraer's ability to manage such a complex and high-technology project and to perform it on track," said Jackson Schneider, the company's president and CEO of defense and security.
The KC-390, to be used by FAB, is the result of a nearly 2 billion-U.S.-dollar deal between Embraer and FAB in 2009 on the production of two types of military planes.
In May Wholesale NCAA Hoodies , FAB signed a 2.9 billion-dollar contract to purchase from Embraer 28 of the planes, which will eventually substitute the force's aging fleet of U.S.-built Hercules C130s.
"The KC-390 will be the backbone of the FAB's air transportation network," Saito said.
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In addition to the FAB purchase contract, Embraer has tentative orders for another 32 KC-390s from other countries.
The plane will go into testing before a second prototype is built, with the first delivery of the aircraft due in early 2016.
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‘Unprecedented’ regulation part of stricter Internet management: experts
The Chinese government is stepping up efforts to strengthen management of the Internet with the recent drafting of an "unprecedented" regulation on Internet domain names, observers said.
According to a draft regulation on Internet domain names issued by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Internet domain names with access to China should be provided by domestic Internet domain name registration services, which should in turn be managed by Chinese institutions. Service providers that are not under the management of Chinese institutions cannot offer domain names with access to China.
The draft added that violators can be punished with a penalty of up to 30,000 yuan ($4,628). Their violations will also be announced in public notices and rectifications will be demanded.
Authorities are soliciting public opinions on the draft until April 25.
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Zhu pointed out the regulation is only necessary in the short term to ensure "national security and ideological security."
Lokman Tsui, a scholar of telecommunication policy at the School of Journalism and Communication of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told the Global Times on Monday that the regulation is "unprecedented."
Under the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20), China pledged to strengthen the precise administration of cyberspace and to build a multilateral Wholesale College Hoodies , democratic and transparent Internet governance system.
Observers noted that the draft regulation is the latest measure taken by Chinese authorities in the nation's campaign to build up the management of cyberspace.
On February 4, China's State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued new regulations to strengthen supervision of online publications.
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On February 28, the Cyberspace Administration of China closed the social media accounts of several online celebrities for "violating principles of the Constitution and harming national interests," Xinhua Daily reported.
Meanwhile, Chinese Internet police in 50 cities and regions have launched social network accounts since 2015 to identify illegal and harmful information on the Internet and deter and prevent cyber crimes.
The Obama administration will likely soon release at least part of a 28-page secret chapter from a congressional inquiry into 911 that may shed light on possible Saudi connections to the attackers.
The documents, kept in a secure room in the basement of the Capitol Cheap NCAA Hats , contain information from the joint congressional inquiry into "specific sources of foreign support for some of the Sept. 11 hijackers while they were in the United States."
Bob Graham, who was co-chairman of that bipartisan panel, and others say the documents point suspicion at the Saudis. President Barack Obama has hinted the administration might soon release at least part of the documents, noting that James Clapper, national director of intelligence, has been reviewing the classified pages.
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