From AP via Examiner.com: The Chinese government is launching a new crackdown on online pornography, complaining it has “perverted China’s young minds,” a state news agency said Friday. The Ministry of Public Security says the six-month campaign will target cyber strip shows and sexually explicit images, stories and audio and video clips, according to the […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Japan’s almost unparalleled dependence on imported resources to drive its economy has long forced it to focus on weaning itself off foreign oil, gas and coal. In the 1930s and 1940s its preferred – and ultimately disastrous – method was to grab those resources by imperial expansion in China and south-east Asia. […]
Read MoreFrom Keralanext: Beijing has corrected over 6,500 traffic signs and will next target public toilets, museums and menus as it erases bad English translations before the 2008 Olympics, a city official said Wednesday. The host city is taking aim at sloppy and often hilarious translations that dot the city to avoid Olympic-sized embarrassment over menu […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Examiner.com: China surpassed the United States as the world’s second-largest exporter in the middle of last year, according to figures released Thursday by the World Trade Organization, and the Asian country is pulling further and further ahead. Export growth from China boomed 27 percent last year, outpacing all other major trading nations, […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Tokyo and Beijing are set to resume military exchanges this year with the goal of holding mutual naval visits that would bring Japanese warships into Chinese ports for the first time since the second world war, Japanese officials said on Monday. The renewed effort to build ties between Asia’s two most powerful […]
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