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01 Jan 2010 11:44

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World: China’s hardcore porn crackdown saw a lot of victims in 2009

  • 5,394 animal-like people were arrested throughout the year
  • 4,186 criminal investigations; that’s 4x the amount of 2008 source
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29 Dec 2009 09:56

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World: China’s got enough fraud going around for everyone

  • $35 billion, or $27 per person, in the last 11 months source
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24 Dec 2009 23:47

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World: Top Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo jailed for “subversion”

  • 11 years for the freedom-pushing political activist source
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22 Dec 2009 09:17

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World: China’s trying to block all the things that make the Web awesome

  • If they do not take up proper actions, they will be held for the breach of duty. In those serious cases, the corporate representatives will be forced to apologies to the public and promise to correct their wrong-doings in public.
  • The Chinese government • In a statement regarding the blocking of mobile porn sites. China’s trying really hard to assert control over the ‘net, specifically blocking porn and social networking to keep its people at bay. The Iranian protests, in particular, showed them the power of social networking, and now they’re trying to put that genie in the bottle. We hope their attempts fail. source
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22 Dec 2009 08:37

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World: Fighting words: Britain’s climate secretary blames China for failures

  • Ed Miliband sounds frustrated here. But in other comments he made about the giant ball of failure that was the Copenhagen summit, the British Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change sounded pissed off specifically at China, which he argued used its power to veto a stronger climate agreement despite the fact that the strongest restrictions would not have directly affected them (but would have affected the countries suggesting them). Miliband and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown are the leading voices in saying that the process of diplomacy on climate change is broken and needs to be fixed. source
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19 Dec 2009 10:28

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Politics: Copenhagen: Did Obama save the day or dilute the deal?

  • He came. He did a quick deal. He left. That was how US President Barack Obama intervened in the global warming conference in Copenhagen and whether he saved it from total deadlock or condemned it to issuing a powerless piece of paper depends on your point of view.
  • BBC Correspondent Paul Reynolds • Discussing the nature of Obama’s quick deal-making in Copenhagen. A few interesting things about the conference: Obama dealt with China and a few other large but unexpected countries – India, Brazil, South Africa – but left Russia and the EU out of it (shockingly). Also, the forum may have just been the wrong choice for something this monumental. Family reunions this big tend to fall apart due to lots of infighting. source
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15 Dec 2009 21:20

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Tech: Microsoft: Uh, yeah, we totally Plurked that code. Sorry.

  • The company blames a Chinese vendor for the theft. A day after basically getting emasculated by a small developer called Plurk, Microsoft admitted that some of the code for their new Chinese microblogging program, Juku, had been taken from the company. “In the wake of this incident, Microsoft and our MSN China joint venture will be taking a look at our practices around applications code provided by third-party vendors,” they said. Probably a good idea. source
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30 Nov 2009 10:17

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World: China charges a bunch of people with covering up a mine disaster

  • 58 were charged in the cover-up – including 10 journalists source
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27 Nov 2009 09:16

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World: Iran gets its hand slapped by much of the world over its nuke program

25 large countries – including, by the way, Russia and China – censured Iran for its secret nuclear program, which could lead to future sanctions. source
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21 Nov 2009 10:44

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World: A gas explosion kills dozens of Chinese mine workers

  • 528 people were working in the mine at 2:30 a.m. China time
  • 400 were able to get out safely without injury
  • 42+ were killed, and another 66 are still trapped in the mine source
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