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From China Economic Net: A US judge is to decide whether to issue an order barring a former Microsoft executive from heading computer industry rival Google’s planned China research center, court officials said, AFP reported. Microsoft attorneys have asked a judge in the western state of Washington to stop Lee Kai-Fu from doing the job […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China plans to “vaccinate” the younger generation against the evil of corruption by teaching a new class, as part of the on-going nationwide anti-corruption campaign, reported the Oriental Outlook Weekly… The new education program is aimed at protecting the young fromthe “bad influence” of certain corruptive concepts and phenomena from the West, says […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times: It’s been a big year for Chinese environmentalists. They’ve seen the hitherto somnambulant government environmental watchdog, under the stewardship of a feisty vice-director, score some rare victories and begin to wake up. The triumphs include taking on the powerful Big Dam industry over shoddy environmental auditing standards, and winning. There’s been the […]
Read MoreThe World Socialist Web Site is publishing this on-the-spot report it received from a correspondent in Beijing: Beijing provides one with a glimpse of the economic, social and political tensions building up in China. Everywhere throughout this massive city I can see glaring contrasts between rich and poor, old and new, modern technology and primitive […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: The US and five Asia-Pacific states have announced a surprise pact to cut greenhouse gases which falls outside the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. China, India, South Korea, Japan and Australia and the US account for nearly half of world greenhouse gas emissions.
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