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21 Mar 10
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Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize Winner who Threatens the World Paul Krugman, an American economist, wants to start a trade war with China. It would be worse than the 1930s, says Jeremy Warner of the Telegraph. |
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21 Mar 10
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Wikipedia now on the menu at Chinese restaurants - WTF? Would you be inspired to order a steaming plate of Wikipedia? Or buy a loaf of Wikipedia bread? |
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20 Mar 10
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Tigercide The Chinese are breeding tigers for their parts. |
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20 Mar 10
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As China's Pollution Toll Grows, Protesters, Media Push Back In recent months, protests over the severe illnesses caused by China's heavy industries have resulted in a crackdown on polluters. Leading the charge has been the state-run media, which the central government is now using to gain control over corrupt... |
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19 Mar 10
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WOW! Do Your Crayons Look Like This? (PIC) Crayons carved into the 12 symbols of the Chinese zodiac Artist Diem Chau usually works in porcelain, but she sometimes steps it up and uses crayons as her medium. This post has lots of photos showing her carvings of the 12 symbols of the Chinese zodiac.... |
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19 Mar 10
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Who Will Profit When Google Exits from China? Microsoft's Bing is sharpening its knives over Google China's potential exit over the search-engine censorship issue, but so are the aggressive, ambitious companies Baidu, Tencent and Sohu.com |
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19 Mar 10
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Op-Ed: Why the Internet Should Win the Nobel Peace Prize This year, a Chinese dissident and a Russian human rights advocate -- recent nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize -- are joined by an unlikely, nonhuman |
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19 Mar 10
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Google in China: A Complete Timeline of Recent Events Google looks set to leave the Chinese market. If, as is expected,Google shuts down its Chinese-language search engine later this month,it will be the culmination of years of tension between the onlinemedia giant and the Chinese authorities. Here's a... |
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18 Mar 10
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China: The Coming Costs of a Superbubble China may seem to have defied the recession and the laws of economics. It hasn't. When China's bubble bursts, the global impact will be severe, spiking US interest rates. |
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18 Mar 10
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Chinese ad partners beg Google for information Twenty-seven advertising partners in China also ask Google how they will be compensated if the company goes ahead with a threatened withdrawal. |
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18 Mar 10
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Agony and Ivory -Elephants Butchered For Chinese Lust-[pics] The Chinese lust for ivory has led to the vast killing of Africa's elephants. Is it too late to save them? Story report,followed by-Slideshow of Dominic Nahr's photographs. |
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17 Mar 10
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In virtual world, China consumers best the U.S. Beijing sales manager Wang Min spends at least 15 hours a week playing online video games. His favorite is a multiplayer adventure game called "Perfect World." |
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17 Mar 10
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Twitter Will Be Available in China…Someday While most of the world happily enjoys Internet’s free services such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Google, in China these are either inaccessible or might become so in the following months. |
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17 Mar 10
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Get poisoned in China, go to jail More than 50 villagers suffering from lead poisoning have been in custody for six months after the bus taking them to the doctor was stopped by police. Chinese authorities have defended the six-month detention of lead poisoning victims who were seeking... |
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16 Mar 10
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Google appears to drop censorship in China Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square protests could all be accessed through Google's Chinese search engine Tuesday in defiance of Beijing's censorship rules. |
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16 Mar 10
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Bacon of Fortune [PIC] Ahh, the infinite wisdom of the Chinese... |
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15 Mar 10
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Taking On China It’s time for America to confront China about the undervaluation of its currency, which is adding to the world’s economic problems. |
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15 Mar 10
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19 Interesting Ways We Use Bamboo Humanity’s relationship with bamboo is extensive, stretching across a myriad of cultures and spanning thousands of years. Considered a symbol of fertility in Chinese culture and a symbol of friendship in India—has been utilized in a multitude of ways ... |
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15 Mar 10
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Chinese girl freaking the hell out of people walking into .. ***** |
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15 Mar 10
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So Many Men!1000's Answer College Girl's Plea For Boyfriend She was probably hoping at least one, possible two, might respond. But when a Chinese student posted a message at college saying she wanted a boyfriend, they came in their droves.Instead of looking down from her balcony on a romantic scene as her... |
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14 Mar 10
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China Developing 'Combustible Ice' as New Energy Source "Buried below the tundra of China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a type of frozen natural gas containing methane and ice crystals that could supply energy to China for 90 years" |
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13 Mar 10
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Google 99.9% Sure It's Out of China Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday. |
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13 Mar 10
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China warns Google as Internet row deal seen soon China warned Google, the world's largest search engine, against flouting the country's laws on Friday, as expectations grow for a resolution to a public battle over censorship and cyber-security.||The chief executive of Google,... |
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13 Mar 10
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Eleven rare Siberian tigers die at Chinese zoo Eleven rare Siberian tigers die at a zoo in north-eastern China, rising fears over treatment of captive animals in the country. |
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12 Mar 10
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China Warns Google - " Bear The Consequences" A Chinese minister made the government's strongest statement yet on Google's future in the country, warning that the U.S. Internet company will have to bear the consequences if it stops censoring its Chinese search site. |
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11 Mar 10
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Dalai Lama: China aims to annihilate Buddhism The Dalai Lama said Wednesday that Chinese authorities had rebuffed all his efforts to reach a compromise over Tibet and had instead engaged in systematic repression as part of a plan to "annihilate Buddhism" there. |
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11 Mar 10
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China Promises Not to Use Massive US Debt for Political Gain Chinese military officials had suggested using Beijing's vast holdings of US government debt to pressure the US. However, a top Chinese official said Tuesday that Beijing won't use the debt for political gain -- just a few days after a forecast projected... |
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11 Mar 10
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Countries Fighting For More Internet Privacy Rights Because so many new technologies involve the handling of our most personal information, online privacy has never been in more jeopardy. China may be making headlines with its highly controversial internet censorship laws and taut surveillance systems,... |
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10 Mar 10
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MisFortune Cookies I think China's trying to send us a message... |
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10 Mar 10
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Actual Homeless Man Inspiring Fashion in China (Pic) Apparently the personal style of a homeless man living in Ningbo, China has sparked the interest of "thousands of online fans". |
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09 Mar 10
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Woman grows 6cm goat-like horn on forehead A 101-year-old woman in China has baffled doctors after growing a huge goat-like horn on her forehead. |
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09 Mar 10
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Europe Outsourcing CO2 Emissions to Developing Economies A new study tracks CO2 emissions using data while accounting for imported and exported goods, and finds that some European countries are outsourcing up to half of their emissions. China is now the largest emitter of CO2 on the planet, as it powers a large... |
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08 Mar 10
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China herdsmen jailed for killing snow leopard But at least they got proper prison sentences! |
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08 Mar 10
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Four in five believe Web access a fundamental right - Yahoo! Four in five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right -- with those feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China -- and half believe it should never be regulated, according to a global survey. |
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08 Mar 10
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China has declared a cyber war: NATO NATO diplomatic sources have told The Times that the Chinese have become very active with cyber-attacks.“We’re now getting regular warnings from the office for internal security,” they said, adding that the number of attacks had increased signifi... |
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06 Mar 10
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China’s Human-flesh Search Engines: Online Vigilante Justice Human-flesh search engines have become a Chinese phenomenon: they are a form of vigilante justice in which Internet users hunt down people who have attracted their wrath. The goal is to get them fired from their jobs, shamed in front of their neighbors,... |
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05 Mar 10
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Chinese youth too fat to fight Japanese in a Future War China must urgently address the physical fitness of the nation's youth or run the risk of raising a generation incapable of fighting the Japanese in a future war, the head of the country's top sports university said Thursday. |
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02 Mar 10
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China Seeks To Make Money From Global Warming A Stockholm research institute said Monday that China has started exploring how to reap economic and strategic benefits from the ice melting at the Arctic due to global warming. |
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02 Mar 10
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Nepal: Caught Between China and India As it struggles with its grave political issues, Nepal must also deal with the attempts of Beijing and New Delhi to gain an edge in the Himalayan nation |
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02 Mar 10
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Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese hackers or greedy anti-net neutrality ISPs, it's Michael McConnell, former director of national intelligence. McConnell is the nice-seeming guy who is willing and able to use fear-mongering to... |
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02 Mar 10
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Does China Really Have a New Economic Model? Many observers believe China has developed a “new paradigm,” a superior economic model that challenges the dominance of Western ideas about economies. But I have a question for tanboontee, and for anyone else who wants to jump in on this discussion ... |
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28 Feb 10
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Chinese Gymnastics Team May be Stripped of Bronze from 2000 The international gymnastics officials who cleared China's team of age violations during the Beijing Games now say the country should return an Olympics bronze medal it won 10 years ago because one of its athletes was only 14 at the time. |
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28 Feb 10
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Apple admits: Chinese 'Kids' were used to build iPods etc Apple has admitted that child labour was used at the Chinese factories that build its computers, iPods and mobile phones. At least eleven 15-year-old children were discovered to be working last year in three factories which supply Apple. |
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26 Feb 10
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Rupert Murdoch's Take on Paywalls, Print Media and the iPad In this wide-ranging interview, Murdoch discusses his rise from proprietor of the Adelaide News at age 22 (on the death of his father) to international media mogul. Weighing in on topics as varied as capitalism, feature films, China, and Google, the... |
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25 Feb 10
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Lassila's comeback ends with gold in aerials Lassila soared through the mist to win the women's aerials on Wednesday night, posting a score of 214.74 to beat China's Li Nina by 7.5 points and win Australia's second gold at the Vancouver Games. |
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25 Feb 10
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The Facts Behind "Climate Engineering" Chinese and Russian scientists claim to make it rain or snow on command. But can we slow global warming with massive operations called geoengineering? A growing number of experts say yes—and that radically altering our environment may be our last, be... |
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25 Feb 10
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G.M. to Close Hummer After Sale Collapses Hummer, the brand of big sport-utility vehicles that became synonymous with the term "gas guzzler," is being shut down after a deal to sell it to a Chinese manufacturer fell apart, General Motors said Wednesday. |
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25 Feb 10
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Inside Apple's Chinese Fortress of Secrets The massive manufacturing complex in the South China city of Longhua resembles an industrial fortress. To enter the facility, workers swipe security cards at the gate. Guards check the occupants of each vehicle with fingerprint recognition scanners. |
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25 Feb 10
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Breaking: GM to shut down Hummer; sale of brand cancelled Less than a month after General Motors extended its contract to sell its Hummer brand to China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines Co., Ltd., the Detroit automaker has announced that it will not complete the deal. |
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24 Feb 10
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BUSTED! Google Hackers Linked To Chinese Government US analysts believe they have identified the Chinese author of the critical programming code used in the alleged state-sponsored hacking attacks on Google and other western companies, making it far harder for the Chinese government to deny involvement... |
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