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Breaking News Mon, 8 Feb 2010
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Chinese use computers at an Internet cafe in Beijing Thursday Feb. 8, 2007. China, regarded as the world's leading source of illegally copied movies and software, had only limited success during a four-month crackdown on Internet piracy and copyright infringement, an official said Thursday.
Attacks   Beijing   Cyber   Photos   Washington  
 Asia Times 
Beijing beefs up cyber-warfare capacity
| 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 expecte... (photo: AP / Greg Baker)
Haikou skyline, Hainan Province, China
Fears   Hainan   Photos   Property   Shanghai  
 Asia Times 
Hainan fears real-estate bubbles - again
| 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 i... (photo: Public Domain / Anna Frodesiak)
Morgan Stanley Building  The New York Times 
After Buying Spree, China Owns Stakes in Top U.S. Firms
| SHANGHAI - Flush with cash despite the global economic downturn, China's sovereign wealth fund quietly snapped up more than $9 billion worth of shares last year in some of the biggest American corpo... (photo: creative commons/ mreid0183)
Bank   China   Photos   Shanghai   US  
Philippine opposition Senator Panfilo Lacson, left, joins a prayer vigil for the safety of Rodolfo Lozada Jr., a witness in a Senate corruption inquiry that has implicated President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's husband, in front of the Senate building in suburban Manila on Wednesday Feb. 6, 2008. Lozada was facing an arrest warrant from the Senate for failing to attend last week's hearing when police whisked him out of Manila airport after he returned from an official trip abroad, authorities and his family said. Sign at right reads "Cannot bare this rotten government!" (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)  The Daily Tribune 
Ping’s ‘asylum’ an option
| By Michaela P. del Callar | 02/09/2010 | Lawyers for the senator on the run, Panfilo “Ping” Lacson, in a TV interview yesterday, brought up the idea of the senator seeking political asylum in a fore... (photo: AP / Aaron Favila)
Asylum   Crime   Philippines   Photos   Warrant  
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Coca Cola -Softdrinks Breitbart
Earnings Preview: Coca-Cola 4Q results
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 th... (photo: WN / sweet)
Coca   Earnings   Opinion   Photos   Related  
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left), flanked by by Kai Eide, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), addresses staff members of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) during a one day visit to express his support for the work of the mission, as well as to covey his condolences regarding the latest terrorist attack in Kabul which claimed the lives of five UN staff members. The Times
World Agenda: Ban Ki-moon hopes to make his reputation in North Korea
| Ban Ki-moon got his job as United Nations Secretary-General because of one item on his curriculum vitae. | The former South Korean Foreign Minister had served as Seoul'... (photo: UN / Eric Kanalstein)
Korea   Photos   Politics   UN   World  
Roman Polanski speaks at a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday Sept. 29, 2005. The 72-year-old Polanski, director of the Oscar-winning film "The Pianist," was in Warsaw to promote the film. The film is based on Dickens' classic tale of a young orphan turned pickpocket in the squalor of Victorian London. Syracuse
Polanski, Scorsese Films to Debut at Berlin Festival
| (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-... (photo: AP / Maciej Macierzynski)
Berlin   Films   Photos   Polanski   Scorsese  
A man walks past a screen showing the European stock markets fall in Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. The Paris stock exchange briefly suspended calculating the benchmark CAC-40 index on Wednesday amid a massive influx of sell orders that caused it to plummet nearly 8.2 percent, an exchange spokeswoman said. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)hg3 Breitbart
European stocks stabilize but debt fears linger
| People stand in front of the electronic stock board of a securities firm... | LONDON (AP) - Markets stabilized in Europe on Monday, but fell in Asia and the U.S., as in... (photo: AP / Thibault Camus)
Asia   Greece   Market   Photos   US  
Yukio Hatoyama, leader of Japan's main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, smiles surrounded by red rosettes attached on victorious candidates' names during the ballot counting for the parliamentary elections at the party's election center in Tokyo Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009. Zeenews
Ozawa has political responsibility over funds scandal: Hatoyama
Tokyo: Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said on Sunday that while Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa has political responsibility for a funds scandal t... (photo: AP / Itsuo Inouye)
Funds   Japan   Photos   Political   Tokyo  
Japan Taiwan
- Car wars
- JAL to stay with American, end Delta talks-source
- Nikkei hits 2-mth low as exporters fall, Toyota dips
- Fans boo cancellation of soccer broadcasts
Coca Cola -Softdrinks
Earnings Preview: Coca-Cola 4Q results
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- NBI looks for Lacson in China, Taiwan
- United States and China Need Each Other
- Government touts water conservation
- First few days of Lunar New Year will be chilly
In this May 17, 2007 file photo, Taiwanese military maneuver U.S.-made M60 battle tanks during the annual Han Kuang military exercises in Hsinchu, northwestern Taiwan.
Taiwan sees no China backlash over US arms deal
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China Vladivostok
- Report: NKorea's Kim Reiterates Disarmament Pledge
- Car wars
-  More tainted milk powder found in China
- FEATURE - Iran's resistance keeps up cat-and-mouse web g
Chinese use computers at an Internet cafe in Beijing Thursday Feb. 8, 2007. China, regarded as the world's leading source of illegally copied movies and software, had only limited success during a four-month crackdown on Internet piracy and copyright infringement, an official said Thursday.
Beijing beefs up cyber-warfare capacity
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- Loving the tiger to death
- Flashy campaigns aside, existing conservation money must be
- China marks year of tiger with drive to save biggest cat
- Hatoyama vows to resolve territorial row with Russia, calls
Tiger - Animal - Wildlife
China marks year of tiger with drive to save biggest cat
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Seoul Pyongyang
- N. Korea threatens South amid push for talks
- N. Korea accuses S. Korea of plot amid push for nuclear talk
- Be the next Mr. World Philippines!
- Art
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left), flanked by by Kai Eide, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), addresses staff members of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) during a one day visit to express his support for the work of the mission, as well as to covey his condolences regarding the latest terrorist attack in Kabul which claimed the lives of five UN staff members.
World Agenda: Ban Ki-moon hopes to make his reputation in North Korea
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- Coronation Street and Kim Jong-Il's Comedy Club
- Hillary is proud being a Mother of the Bride
- Non-singing Simon says: You're rubbish, then pockets a p
- Toyota's Recall Woes
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hillary is proud being a Mother of the Bride
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Politics Terrorism
- Report: NKorea's Kim Reiterates Disarmament Pledge
- Li urges artists, writers to work for cultural prosperi
- Xi urges further study of scientific development theory
- N. Korea threatens South amid push for talks
Morgan Stanley Building
After Buying Spree, China Owns Stakes in Top U.S. Firms
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- FEATURE - Iran's resistance keeps up cat-and-mouse web g
- China mounts fight on fake invoice crackdown
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- Crackdown on kidnap scams nets 17 suspects
Chinese use computers at an Internet cafe in Beijing Thursday Feb. 8, 2007. China, regarded as the world's leading source of illegally copied movies and software, had only limited success during a four-month crackdown on Internet piracy and copyright infringement, an official said Thursday.
Beijing beefs up cyber-warfare capacity
more