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Panda Express going to China
Apr 13, 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?
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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
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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
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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
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Rob Schmitz
Apr 5, 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
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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
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Rob Schmitz
Mar 30, 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.
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Survey: China's economic power concerns developed nations
Mar 28, 2011
The BBC's Rebecca Singer explains the latest finds from a survey conducted by the BBC, measuring public concern over China's economic power.
MID-DAY UPDATE: Production gap widens in Japan, Op-ed calls attention to budget woes
Mar 24, 2011
Here are some of today's headlines from the Marketplace Morning Report and around the web.
Portugal's prime minister stepped down after rival ...
That's a Whole Lot of Renminbi!
Mar 23, 2011
If you happened to keep an eye on the currency markets, you may have noticed that it's been a banner week for China's renminbi. The Chinese...