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21 Nov 09
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Five ways Wal-mart in China is way different than America What ensued was an overstimulating experience that was probably far worse than bargaining away a chilly afternoon. Following are five observations I made on the differences between Wal-mart in China and the U.S., though I'm sure there are many more. |
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20 Nov 09
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Cyberattacks on U.S. military jump sharply in 2009 - Network The quantity of malicious computer activities against he United states increased in 2008 and is rising sharply in 2009," the report states. "Much of this activity appears to originate in China. |
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19 Nov 09
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Ahoy there! President Obama catches the eye of a sailor Heads were certainly turned during Barack Obama's goodwill tour of China as this cheeky sailor's expression reveals. |
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19 Nov 09
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USA, China Announce Electric Car Initiative The Chinese government and many Chinese businesses have been making pretty big bets on electric cars in the past few years. So it isn't surprising that electric cars were on the agenda during the meeting between Barack Obama and Hu Jintao |
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19 Nov 09
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How to Hack China for Just $1,800 A Chinese Web domain that could be misused by hackers is for sale. Its price: $1760. |
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18 Nov 09
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Cyberwarfare: The Issue China Won't Touch U.S. President Barack Obama's trip to China has a dirty little secret: cyberwarfare. It is issue Beijing refuses to acknowledge exists, but it has the potential to torpedo military relations between the two nations. |
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18 Nov 09
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Obama: Too much debt could fuel double-dip recession! BEIJING, Nov 18 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S.deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession. (Ya think?) ... |
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18 Nov 09
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iPhone to be Launched in South Korea Apple is set to launch the iPhone in South Korea this month after earning approval from the nation's telecommunications director Wednesday; and talks with carrier China Mobile remain ongoing. |
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18 Nov 09
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Husband Escapes Endless Cake Nightmare Husband escapes endless cake nightmare...A husband in China has left his wife after she forced him to eat cake for every meal. |
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18 Nov 09
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U.S. vs. China: Working Together on Global Warming? At loggerheads over several issues, the senior and junior superpowers (andcarbon producers) have lots of potential common ground on climate change. |
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18 Nov 09
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Red Carpet Treatment... China Style ***** |
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17 Nov 09
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U.S. vs. China: What Does the Future Hold? (PIC) While China cannot maintain its current level of growth without a global recovery, it is still poised to become the most important economy in the world, surpassing the U.S. in its share of the global GDP sometime around 2020. |
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17 Nov 09
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China Rules Microsoft Violated Intellectual Property Rights A Beijing court ruled that Microsoft violated a Chinese company's intellectual property rights in a case over fonts used in past versions of Windows. |
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17 Nov 09
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World Out of Balance The problem of international trade imbalances is about to get substantially worse unless China changes its weak-currency policy. |
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17 Nov 09
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China vs United States (INFOGRAPHIC) Comparison of both economic and financial indicators between the two countries. |
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17 Nov 09
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Taiwanese online hunk lures 20 women into bed A Taiwanese man has been cuffed for allegedly posing online as a "youthful male model" and persuading up to 20 females to have sex with his father, the China Daily reports. |
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17 Nov 09
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Whoa,,,,,,This just seems wrong [Disturbing Footage] The Chinese have developed a way of deep frying a fish so that it remains alive while you eat it. |
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16 Nov 09
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China joins supercomputer elite China becomes one of a handful of nations to own one of the the top five fastest supercomputers in the world. |
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16 Nov 09
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Cray blows by IBM in supercomputer speed ranking A Cray supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has regained the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer, overtaking the installation that was ranked at the top in June, while China entered the Top 10 with a hybrid Intel-AMD system. |
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16 Nov 09
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Obama Pushes for Internet Freedom in China Obama, speaking at a town hall meeting in Shanghai, told students the free flow of information makes societies stronger and holds political leaders accountable. |
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16 Nov 09
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China has now become the biggest risk to the world economy Far from taking over as the engine of growth from an exhausted West, China is making matters worse. Its "beggar-thy-neighbour" policies continue to play havoc with global trade and risk tipping the world into a second leg of the Great Recession. |
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15 Nov 09
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Obama visit stirs up racial debate in China As the country gets ready to welcome the first African American U.S. president the Chinese are confronting their attitudes toward race, including some deeply held prejudices about black people. |
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15 Nov 09
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World's most awesome cheap Chinese toy (VIDEO) My daughter earned this spinning top for selling wrapping paper in a school fundraiser. It plays the theme from Beverly Hills Cop and draws a laser circle on the floor |
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14 Nov 09
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China's Weather Manipulation Brings Crippling Snowstorm As Beijing suffers through its second major snowstorm this season, residents are growing weary of their leadership's control-freak tendencies. After all, while the storm came as a surprise to residents, the government knew about it all along. In fact, the... |
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13 Nov 09
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Obama in Beijing: How other US presidents handled the dragon From Nixon, to Ford, to Reagan, Clinton and both Bushes, dealing with China has never been simple. President Barack Obama begins his first trip to China Nov. 15, with his policy toward China still largely untested. He has said little about human rights in... |
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13 Nov 09
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Hunt On for Two Million Unsafe Condoms Police in central China have closed a factory producing fake and un-sterile condoms and are tracking down over two million of the unsafe contraceptives already on the market, state press says. |
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12 Nov 09
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China Data Shows Economic Rebound Picking Up Steam Among the figures out on Wednesday, industrial output and retail sales for October both topped analysts' expectations, with rises of 16.1 percent and 16.2 percent, respectively, from a year earlier. |
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12 Nov 09
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Smashing China's Great Firewall... through trade disputes? Who needs new laws or external pressure? A new paper argues that broad Internet censorship regimes might already be illegal under World Trade Organization rules about free trade. But no government seems eager to take on China at the WTO over the issue. |
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11 Nov 09
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Sports Triumphs and Failures as Seen by the Players [PICS] A terrific collection of pictures: surf the waves off Hainan, China, crunch through the snow during the Olympic torch relay in Inuvik, Canada, and ply the waters off France's Atlantic coast during the "Transat Jacques Vabre" sailing race (33 photos... |
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11 Nov 09
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Red Scare: Favorite Comic Book Communists It's about time credit was given to some of the great, evil, sexy, superhero, comic book characters from Russia and China and places where Communists rule...or ruled. A lot of fun stuff here -- from Black Widow and KGBeast to Red Ghost and His Super-Apes. |
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10 Nov 09
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US Exports To China By State [Infographic] Millions of dollars of American goods are exported to China every year. But do you know which states are exporting the most? Find out, along with more intriguing statistics. |
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10 Nov 09
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Chinese Drywall Findings: How Dangerous Is It Really? A multi-agency government task force was unable to establish a conclusive link between Chinese-made drywall and adverse health symptoms in home owners or corrosive effects on components of their homes. The Chinese drywall contained elemental sulfur as... |
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10 Nov 09
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7 Historic Hollywood Landmarks Whether it’s Grauman’s Chinese Theater or that iconic nine letter sign, Hollywood is rife with historical landmarks. Here are seven that had a small part in making Hollywood the movie capital of the world. |
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07 Nov 09
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Evergreen Solar To Move Jobs To China A solar panel company that received $58 million in state aid to build its factory in Massachusetts is now moving jobs overseas.Evergreen Solar is shifting some of its production, currently done at a plant in Devens, to China next year, after posting an... |
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07 Nov 09
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Want to buy 5,000 leftover Beijing Olympics condoms? The words “leftover” and “condoms” are not typically combined to start a sales stampede, but one Chinese collector of Olympic memorabilia is hoping he will be able to unload his 5,000 condoms from the 2008 Olympics at an auction. |
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07 Nov 09
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Portrait of a Polluted Land: Huge Smog Bank Covers China NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of a massive smog bank smothering huge portions of China today. This blanket of pollution has been hovering over the country for over a week now, exacerbated by cool air and smoke from fires. |
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05 Nov 09
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Cubicle Living: The Strangest Apartments in NYC 81 Bowery has been the home for at least a generation of Chinese laborers, men and women who work in the kitchens and on the construction sites of Chinatown. It's actually one of the longest-running and last remaining lodging houses in New York. The... |
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05 Nov 09
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China Bans Solitary Confinement for Internet Addicts - CIO China on Wednesday banned the use of physical punishment to treat Internet addiction after reports of beatings and at least one death in recent months at clinics for the condition around the country. |
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04 Nov 09
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Can we manipulate the weather? Chinese scientists claim to be able to control the weather. But is so-called geoengineering more than wishful thinking? And, if so, should we be worried? |
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04 Nov 09
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China's Economic Growth Causes Ten Times More Syphilis As China's economy grows, so do its rates of home ownership, debt -- and venereal disease. |
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04 Nov 09
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Could China's Economic Policies Trigger Another Crisis? Just before the global financial crisis exploded, the conference halls in China were alive with the rhetoric of economic reform. Hardly a week went by without some think tank or ministry in Beijing toasting the 30th anniversary of China's great opening to... |
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04 Nov 09
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This Is a Next-Generation iPhone 4 Part, China Ontrade Claim China Ontrade calls this the iPhone 4 Generation Midboard. Not very exciting, but the last time they announced a next-generation iPhone part, they were right. A month later, the iPhone 3GS appeared with exactly those parts. What could this mean? |
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02 Nov 09
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Space arms race 'an inevitability' says China commander A top China air force commander - Xu Qiliang- has called the militarisation of space an 'historical inevitability' in a wide-ranging interview in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Daily, marking an apparent shift in Beijing's opposition to weaponising... |
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02 Nov 09
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The Most Beautiful Places Of China [113 PICS] The Most Beautiful Places Of China including city districts, show caves, country towns, grasslands, marshlands, islands, forests, glaciers... |
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01 Nov 09
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Beijing's first snow of season 'artificially induced' Chinese meteorologists covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding clouds to bring winter weather to the capital in an effort to combat a lingering drought, state media reported. |
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31 Oct 09
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ICANN : Non-Latin domain names go truly global Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, and other characters are coming to Internet domain extensions thanks to a vote by ICANN. The organization said that the system has been in "intense" testing for years, and that it will help everyone reach more Internet... |
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30 Oct 09
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Male orders hymen Mohamed Al Rahhal: "When a Chinese company made artificial hymens available to the Middle East it caused uproar in Egypt. I just had to buy one." |
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29 Oct 09
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Chinese Paper Accuses Google Of Censoring its Website "Google Inc. faces a new controversy in China after a Web site run by the Communist Party's main newspaper accused the U.S. search giant of trying to keep Internet users away following its reports on a copyright dispute." |
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29 Oct 09
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China Mapping Bottom of the World in Awesome Detail Chinese scientists have shifted its focus from mapping the moon to completing the world's first land cover map of the Antarctica at the end of this year. The result will be the most accurate map of the continent ever published.... |
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28 Oct 09
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The Rise of China's Internet (GRAPHIC) The internet in China is HUGE. Here's how huge. |
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