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Chinese antics have India fuming
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| Chinese antics have India fuming |
| Asia Times | May 5, 2009 | By Sudha Ramachandran |
| BANGALORE – China’s blocking of India’s application for a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has raised hackles in Delhi, marking the first time Beijing has dragged a bilateral territorial dispute with India into a multilateral financial institution.
China asked for a postponement of an ADB board meeting on March 26-27, which was set to discuss the 2009-12 strategy for India. On the table was an Indian request for a US$2.9 billion loan approval. What appears to have got China’s goat |
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| Haruhiko Kuroda President and Chairperson, Board of Directors Haruhiko Kuroda is the President of ADB and the Chairperson of ADB’s Board of Directors. He was elected President by ADB’s Board of Governors in November 2004 and was reelected in November 2006 for a new five-year term. |
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Chinese and American ships clash again in Yellow Sea
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A US destroyer docks in the northern Chinese port of Qingdao. Relations between the two countries’ navies remain tense |
| Chinese and American ships clash again in Yellow Sea |
| Times Online UK | May 06, 2009 | Jane Macartney in Beijing |
| China demonstrated its growing naval confidence again in the latest standoff between American and Chinese ships.
The fifth such incident in two months occurred on Friday in the Yellow Sea when a US Navy surveillance ship turned its fire hoses on two Chinese fishing vessels. |
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China reveals big rise in gold reserves
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| China reveals big rise in gold reserves |
| FT dot com (Financial Times UK) | Apr 24, 2009 | By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing and Javier Blas in London |
| China has quietly almost doubled its gold reserves to become the world’s fifth-biggest holder of the precious metal, it emerged on Friday, in a move that signals the revival of bullion after years of fading importance. read more |
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Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up
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| Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up |
| The Sunday Times (UK) | Apr 26, 2009 | John Harlow |
| Internet users face regular “brownouts” that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace, according to research to be published later this year.
Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 per cent a year, will start to exceed supply from as early as next year because of more people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry websites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC’s iPlayer. |
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Conficker virus begins to attack PCs: experts
| People attend a workshop at a web conference in Madrid April 20, 2009.
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| Conficker virus begins to attack PCs: experts |
| Reuters | Apr 24, 2009 | By Jim Finkle |
| BOSTON (Reuters) – A malicious software program known as Conficker that many feared would wreak havoc on April 1 is slowly being activated, weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm, security experts said. |
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COLUMN-Killer robots and a revolution in warfare:Bernd Debusmann
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| COLUMN-Killer robots and a revolution in warfare:Bernd Debusmann |
| AlertNet — Reuters | Apr 22, 2009 | By Bernd Debusmann |
| WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) – They have no fear, they never tire, they are not upset when the soldier next to them gets blown to pieces. Their morale doesn’t suffer by having to do, again and again, the jobs known in the military as the Three Ds – dull, dirty and dangerous.
They are military robots and their rapidly increasing numbers and growing sophistication may herald the end of thousands of years of human monopoly on fighting war. “Science fiction is moving to the battlefield. The fut |
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A ‘Copper Standard’ for the world’s currency system?
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| Copper is priced in dollars and cents per pound, and warehouse stocks are given in thousands of short tons, with a “short ton” being the name for a US ton (2,000 lbs), equivalent to 0.907 metric tons. |
| A ‘Copper Standard’ for the world’s currency system? |
| Telegraph.co.uk | Apr 16, 2009 | By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard |
| Hard money enthusiasts have long watched for signs that China is switching its foreign reserves from US Treasury bonds into gold bullion. They may have been eyeing the wrong metal. read more |
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Chaos as Thai protestors storm Asia summit
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Anti-government protestors from Thailand hold placards while demonstrating near the venue for the 14th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit being held in the Thai resort city of Hua Hin, about 200 km (125 miles) south of Bangkok February 28, 2009. |
| Chaos as Thai protestors storm Asia summit |
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| Thai protesters smashed their way into a major Asian summit on Saturday, forcing the country’s embattled prime minister to cancel the meeting and evacuate foreign leaders by helicopter.
Premier Abhisit Vejjajiva declared a state of emergency in the beach resort of Pattaya after thousands stormed the summit, which was supposed to focus on the financial crisis and North Korea’s rocket launch. |
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Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies
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Robert Moran monitors an electric grid in Dallas. Such infrastructure grids across the country are vulnerable to cyberattacks.
Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies
Wall Street Journal | Apr 08, 2009 | By SIOBHAN GORMAN
WASHINGTON — Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, according to current and former national-security officials.
The spies came from China, Russia and other countries, these officials said, and were believed to be on a mission to navigate the U.S. electrical system and its controls. The intruders haven’t sought to damage the power grid or other key infrastructure, but officials warned they could try duri. . . read more
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World’s hungry ‘close to one billion’
A fate too horrible to contemplate… yet we must!
World’s hungry ‘close to one billion’
Financial Times, By Javier Blas, Commodities Correspondent Published: December 9 2008 10:04
The food crisis has pushed the number of hungry people in the world to almost 1bn, in what the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation described on Tuesday as a “serious setback” to global efforts to reduce mass starvation.
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