Beijing beefs up cyber-warfare capacity Asia Times | By Willy Lam | While the furor over cyber-attacks against Google has lapsed somewhat, the Sino-American confrontation over the larger issue of Internet security and global digital warfare is expected to intensify in the near future. | This is particularly in light of the deterioration of bilateral...
Hainan fears real-estate bubbles - again Asia Times | By Stephen Wong | SHANGHAI - Money has flooded into the tropical Chinese island province of Hainan for property speculation in the few weeks since the central government unveiled a plan to turn it into an international tourist resort. | More than 100 developers, including publicly listed China Van...
Li urges artists, writers to work for cultural prosperity China Daily | BEIJING: Senior leader Li Changchun has called on Chinese artists and writers to help promote the prosperity of socialist culture and contribute to the Chinese nation's rejuvenation. | "The promotion of prosperity of a socialist culture is facing a...
Xi urges further study of scientific development theory China Daily | BEIJING: Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Monday stressed knowledge of the Scientific Outlook on Development through study of senior leaders' insights into the transformation of the economic growth mode. | Xi, a member of the Standing Committee...
China ends building lighthouses in East China Sea China Daily | BEIJING: China has completed construction of 13 permanent facilities - stone tablets and lighthouses - on islands and reefs in the East China Sea, in an effort to clarify its territorial waters' baseline in the oil-rich area. | A naval survey team ...
Quiet manners, silken dreams China Daily | Raymond Zhou takes you on a tour of his typical 'south of the Yangtze' home-town of mulberry trees and paddy fields | While I was growing up, it never occurred to me that my hometown would someday be a source of endless fascination. One's hometown ...
China mounts fight on fake invoice crackdown China Daily | BEIJING: China's police departments will launch a 30-day campaign starting Wednesday to hunt down fugitives who are suspected of having committed a crime known as fake invoice fraud. | The campaign will have a code name known as "spring thunder", s...
The climb in labor costs China Daily | Chinese enterprises should become acclimated to rising labor costs as soon as possible because the country is striving to embrace a consumer-led growth. | The coming of the Chinese new year reminds us of the bleak employment situation the country f...
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MetroPac units to consolidate hold on Meralco Inquirer | Most Read Business Hyundai boss must pay $60 million for losses to firm Damned lies and statistics Gov't seen losing P55.5B in 2010 BPO sector generates $7.2B in revenues Citigro...
Earnings Preview: Coca-Cola 4Q results Breitbart NEW YORK P)—Coca-Cola Co. reports earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter on Tuesday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period. ...
Polanski, Scorsese Films to Debut at Berlin Festival Syracuse | (AP) - c ()-2010, Bloomberg News | BERLIN-Roman Polanski, holed up in his Swiss ski chalet and facing possible extradition to the United States on a 30- year-old child-abuse case...
Updated at The News International | Tuesday, February 09, 2010 | Second F-22P frigate inducted into Pak Navy | By Azeem Samar | KARACHI: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday said Pakistan does not want to be engaged in an arms race with any country. | Speaking as chief gu...
Seeing How Far $100, and a Bit of Creative Generosity, Can Go The New York Times | Andrew Marantz paid strangers to walk through Bryant Park holding hands and sharing secrets. Joshua Krafchin walked up and down a B train begging people -- to take his money. Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times | Courtney Martin, right, the foun...
China finds 170 more tons of tainted milk powder Arab News | Associated Press | BEIJING: Officials say they've found yet another case where large amounts of tainted milk powder from the country's 2008 scandal that should have been destroyed were instead repackaged. | China ordered tens of thousands of milk p...
N. Korea threatens South amid push for talks Arab News | Hyung-Jin Kim | AP | SEOUL: North Korea warned South Korea that any attempt to bring down the communist country would draw "strong measures" from its military, a threat issued Monday even as Pyongyang embarked on a flurry of diplomacy with Seoul, W...
US firms eye Asian market as Beijing threatens sanctions Daily Star Lebanon | Over 100 firms led by Boeing take part in Singapore Airshow | By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Wednesday, February 03, 2010 | - Powered by | Bernice Han | Agence France Presse | | SINGAPORE: US firms remained bullish on the Asian market as an international aerospace trade show opened Tuesday under the shadow of a US-China spat o...
UAE pavilion at Shanghai EXPO 2010 on track Khaleej Times ABU DHABI - With only 100 days to go before the largest ever World Exposition opens in Shanghai all the participating countries are on a fast track for completion of their pavilions and installation of the many and varied entertaining exhibitions that they will house. | The United Arab Emirates is on track to deliver all aspects of its complex proj...
