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Emerging economies meet, agree to rely less on U.S. dollar
Juliana Liu Sep 22, 2011
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa concluded their one-day summit in China today. The so-called 'BRICS' countries are calling for changes to the global financial syste.
El Cinco coming in September, White Whale this month
John Moe Apr 14, 2011
Latest Apple gadget roundup for people who obsess over such things. The white iPhone, originally hunted by an obsessed Captain Ahab on the high...
Panda Express going to China
Tess Vigeland Sep 21, 2011
And this final note, from the desk of carrying coals to Newcastle. Anyone who's been to China will tell you that actual Chinese food bears little...
Is Russia cracking down on the Internet?
John Moe Apr 13, 2011
Last week, we reported on the outage of blogging site Live Journal that left President Dmitry Medvedev miffed. This week, Reuters is reporting that...
China and the U.S. have dueling human rights reports
John Moe Apr 11, 2011
Sunday night, China released a report detailing human rights abuses in the U.S. This came just after the U.S. released a report on human rights...
Facebook goes to China
John Moe Apr 11, 2011
Facebook will reportedly open a new social networking site in China in collaboration with Baidu, the most popular search engine there. The site...
In China, paying others to sweep ancestors' tombs
Rob Schmitz Sep 22, 2011
Today is the annual tomb-sweeping holiday in China, when, traditionally, people clean family tombs. But some Chinese are paying others to do the job.
Google getting edged out of China
John Moe Mar 30, 2011
Google search was yanked out of China a year ago. Recently, Chinese users have been seeing slowed Gmail service (which Google claims is the result...
Google tests fate in China after multiple shutdowns
Rob Schmitz Sep 22, 2011
Analysts expect Google Maps is the next application to be banned in China, following a block of the search engine and its e-mail service by the government.
El Cinco delayed
John Moe Mar 29, 2011
Oh man. When I said that we would keep you updated on rumors of the impending iPhone 5, which we call El Cinco (and encourage you to do the same),...
