| New terrifying dino species discovered in China A British Phd student has discovered a terrifying new species of dinosaur in China, an eight-foot long creature with scythe-like... | |
| Tollywood producer says no race bias against Indians in Australia Producers of the Indian movie Orange, which is being shot in Melbourne in the Telugu language and is primarily spoken in the southern India state of Andhra Pradesh, have said that their objective is to send out a message that there is no racial bias against Indians in... |
| Obama delays Australian trip till June U.S. President Barack Obama has cancelled his upcoming trip to Australia in order to garner support for the healthcare bill - the centrepiece of his domestic... |
| US to employ a hard-line approach for China following Google deadlock Chinese experts believe that the deadlock over the Google case would give a golden opportunity to the US to employ a hard-line approach towards China and shift focus from its "smart diplomacy" - coined by Secretary of State Hillary... |
| India, China become leading nations to move urban population out of slums With India and China lifting more and more of their urban population out of slum-like conditions every year, 227 million people across the world have moved out of urban slums over the past decade, according to a UN-Habitat report on the state of the world's... |
| India and China need to team up to deal with environmental problems A Michigan State University (MSU) scientist and colleagues have said that China and India need to collaborate to slow global warming, deforestation, water shortages and other environmental... |
| Google may cease operations in China by April 10 Internet search engine Google could cease operations in China by April 10, according to a Chinese... |
| Japan refuses to compensate victims of colonial rule Japan has refused compensation for South Koreans who suffered during its colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula 1910-1945, Prensa Latina... |
| Japan Pm Hints At Leaving Disputed Us Base On Okinawa TOKYO (AFP) - Facing mounting pressure from Washington, Japan's centre-left Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Friday suggested a disputed US military base could stay on the southern island of... |
| Southern Pacific Takes Stakes In 2 Canadian Oil Blocks Southern Pacific Resource has signed a definitive agreement with its working interest partner, Bounty Developments, to acquire Bounty's entire 20% working interest in 59 sections of land in the McKay... |
| Report Claims Google Exiting China On April 10 Posted on: Friday, 19 March 2010, 12:15 CDT An unverified report in Friday's edition of the China Business News states that Google will end its Internet presence in the country on April 10.The... |
| China Warns U.s. Not To Politicize Yuan Debate China urged the United States Friday not to politicise a row over the value of its currency as it announced a top official would travel to Washington for talks on the issue and other trade... |
| Net Produces New Generation Of China Activists It is the latest example of Chinese Internet users being targeted for their budding grass-roots activism - ordinary people spreading the word about grievances from every corner of the country with... |
| No Death In The Afternoon At South Korea Bullfight Two bulls enter the oval arena, bellowing loudly, and exchange momentary glares. Then they clash head to head - and there's not a matador in sight.Centuries after the tradition began, Korean... |
| Hbo's 'the Pacific' Joins 'band Of Brothers' Ranks Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg swapped other people's war stories to groundbreaking, heartbreaking effect in "Saving Private Ryan" and "Band of Brothers."The unsparing and visceral depiction of... |
| Melco China Resorts Reports $66.8m Loss In Q4; Down From $136m Loss In 2008 BEIJING - Melco China Resorts Ltd. (TSXV:MCG) cut its net loss in half in 2009 despite what it called a "challenging year" brought on by the economic downturn. The company, which has its... |
| Report: Google Eyes Departure From China On April 10 departure from China . “I have received information saying that Google will leave China on April 10, but this information has not at present been confirmed by Google,” the newspaper quoted an... |
| Scenarios: What's Next For Google's Operations In China? SHANGHAI (Reuters) — Two months after Google shook the world with its threat to leave China on censorship and hacking concerns, there are increasing signs that an exit is imminent as the two... |
| China Won't Budge On Closed Court The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) today said Chinese authorities had officially informed Australia's embassy in Beijing that it would not change its mind and allow access to... |
| Standard Pacific Buys Final 106 Lots At Mulberry Park Standard Pacific Corp. has bought the rights to the remaining 106 homesites at the Mulberry Park townhouse community near Brier Creek. Standard Pacific’s’ Carolinas subsidiary, based in... |
| Rio Case Won't Hurt China Trade: Australia Chinese colleagues , with the booming resources sales that have made China its top trading partner."The two matters are separate," Crean... |
| North Korea Spurns Un Push To Stop Executions And Torture The North Korea ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva denounced its recommendations just as reports emerged that the North had executed the official responsible for a ruinous currency... |
| Video: Japan Cheers Tuna Vote Outcome Japan is relieved that the blue fin tuna ban has been averted at the CITES meeting but says has to find ways to manage the falling fish... |
| Hitler Had Once Played Cricket: Book LONDON: Adolf Hitler, the German dictator, had once played cricket and had wanted to "Nazify" the game by rewriting its rules, according to a new book. The book says that after the game, the... |
| No Foreign Monitors During General Elections: Lankan Election Commission COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's Election Commission has turned down the demand for presence of foreign poll observers at the counting centres for the upcoming parliamentary polls. The demand was made by... |
| Middle East Quartet Tells Israel To Halt Settlements MOSCOW: The Middle East Quartet urged Israel on Friday to stop building settlements and set a bold target for a final deal with the Palestinians by 2012 as it tried to kickstart the stalled peace ... |
| Chinese Man Eats Child's Brain To Cure Epilepsy LONDON: In a gory incident, a Chinese man has allegedly killed an 11-year-old boy and ate his brain to cure his epilepsy, a media report said. Wang Chaoxu of Qixian village in Yunnan, south... |
| Speculation Grows On Google’s Future In China Google ’s legal structure in China will allow the company to continue operations in the country even if it closes its local search engine, local employees and industry and legal experts say.The... |
| Drought Continues In China, 51 Million People Affected BEIJING, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Severe drought has affected 51 million Chinese and left more than 16 million people and 11 million livestock with drinking water shortages, China's State Commission of... |
| Fire Worship Of Yi Ethnic Group This photo taken on March 18, 2010 shows an Axi man, a branch of the Yi ethnic group, jumps over a bonfire during a fire worship ceremony in the Xiyi Town of Mile County in southwest China's Yunnan... |
| China's Zheng/chan Phased Out At Indian Wells Zheng Jie (L) of China and her partner Chan Yung-Jan of Chinese Taipei react during the women's doubles semi-finals against Kveta Peschke of Czech Republic and Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia at the... |
| Burma's Election Preparations Undemocratic, Say Rights, Exile Groups Members of Free Burma Coalition display posters of detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi (R) during a protest in front of Burmese embassy in Manila, 19 Mar 2010 to denounce Burma's recently... |
| Chinese Graduates Grow Restless In Beijing's Low-cost 'ant Colony' China's Economy to Grow 9.5 Percent in 2010 On the outskirts of China's capital Beijing is a bustling ghetto dubbed the ant colony - a vast community of young professionals forced to live in tough... |
| Internet, Twitter Helping To Create New Generation Of Human Rights Activists In China BEIJING - Lin Xiuying believes her daughter bled to death after being gang-raped two years ago by a group of thugs that had ties to the police in their southern Chinese town. For more than a year,... |
| China – Africa African Stories: Where The Chinese Put Their Life At Risk To Enrich Beijing Two men convicted of murdering Chinese workers are executed in Sudan. Seven Chinese fishermen are released after they were abducted in Cameroon. Through its companies, China is increasingly raising... |
| China: Beijing Thinking About Revaluing The Yuan In response to repeated US pressures, the Chinese government has started stress tests for 12 industries to see the possible effects of revaluing its currency. Results will be especially crucial for... |
| China: Beijing Tightens Controls Over Religious Groups, Now Required To Declare Each Financial Transaction New rules force religious groups to account for each financial operation in an annual report to the authorities. Many fear that the new regulations will allow the government to interfere even more in... |
| China Sky One Medical Receives Ce Mark Approval For Myocardial Infarction And Urine Microalbumin Diagnostic Kits /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Sky One Medical, Inc. ("China Sky One Medical" or "the Company") (Nasdaq: CSKI), a leading fully integrated pharmaceutical company producing over-the-counter ... |
| I.h.t. Op-ed Contributor : The Problem Is Not China The Americans are desperate, and with good reason. They have successfully stabilized the U.S. economy after the financial crisis, but the problem is far from over. Despite a moderate recovery, the... |
| Students Discover Clawed Dinosaur In China A claw sticking out of a cliff face in Mongolia, China, turned out to be the tip of the dinosaur —the skeleton of a 6-foot-long agile predator that preyed on its own... |
| Also In Global Health News: Drought In S. China; Images Of Tb; Kenya's Population Growth, Poverty; Sanitation Problems In Cambodia; Drug Development Over 20M In S. China Face Water Shortages Due To Drought Chinese state media on Thursday reported regions of southern China "are suffering from the worst drought in decades, leaving millions of... |
| Newmarket , China Crescent , Numobile And Nova Announce Greenfield Financial Report Preview NWMT ) today announced a Greenfield Partnership Program Webcast has been scheduled for release Thursday, March 25, 2010 to preview participant companies' upcoming financial reports for fiscal year... |