Unfortunately this one does not really count for anything but fun. You may remember that the League's DX Advisory Committee recently rejected a petition for new DXCC country status for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. DXAC members stated that it did not meet DXCC Criteria Point 1 operating to government. The station is set up at the International Congress Center in Kyoto, Japan, site of the conference. ITU officials attending the conference who are licensed amateurs are allowed to operate the station.
Japanese amateurs watch over the station and assist visiting amateurs.
The conference is scheduled to run until October 14. This story from Australia. Researchers at the University of Sydney say that they have made an interesting discovery that could yield major benefits in the areas of solar energy and optics and they owe it all to a fish. Unable to reach a conclusion, they went to a nearby Fish Market, bought the shiniest fish they could find, and took it back to the lab. In other words the cells are arranged in an apparently disordered manner, instead of neat arrays.