UFO and alien events are becoming a daily event in China, causing panic amongst some citizens and provoking curiosity in others. In response to this situation the Chinese government has taken the unusual step of dispatching UFO researchers to schools across the nation in what many see as a step towards preparing the younger generation [...]
The Chinese government, which had been thought for some time to have been the source of the hacking of Google’s servers, leading to Google’s departure from China, was directed by China’s Politburo, according to diplomatic cables disclosed today by Wikileaks. The New York Times reports the role of the Chinese government in the Google attacks. [...]
TALKING POINTS – Relations between the American search giant and Beijing have been tense since Google stated it no longer wanted to cooperate with the Chinese government’s web filtering. Google closed its China-based search engine and rerouted users to its unfiltered Hong Kong site. But the company stopped the automatic switching this week. So is [...]
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Industrial & Commercial Bank of China is planning to enter the U.S. commercial real estate lending market, offering loans of more than $100 million to commercial clients, according to a published report Wednesday. In making the move, ICBC /quotes/comstock/22h!e:1398 (HK:1398 5.72, -0.04, -0.69%) /quotes/comstock/11i!idcby (IDCBY 36.49, -0.09, -0.25%) , which is [...]
Twitter, the net’s largest micro-publishing service, launched an advertising service Tuesday that will let advertisers — beginning with some of the world’s top brands such as Starbucks — have their tweets show up in the top of search results. It’s a first attempt by the service to make money from its users. Twitter’s ad model [...]