A Google question-and-answer page for Chinese users was inaccessible from mainland China on Tuesday less than a month after the search giant’s Internet license was renewed amid a dispute over online censorship. The company found no technical problems with the Hong Kong-based service, said a Google Inc. spokewoman, Courtney Hohne, in an e-mail
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Google’s China answer page inaccessible
Malaysia will tighten visa requirements for tourists from countries including China and India after many foreigners took advantage of easy entry procedures by overstaying, an official said Tuesday. Immigration Director General Abdul Rahman Othman said authorities will stop issuing visas on arrival to visitors from various countries starting Aug
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Malaysia tightens visa requirements to curb abuse
Political analyst Jeremy Sear, tasked by Crikey with exposing “the intellectual dishonesty, the flimsy arguments and the distorted data wherever they appear in the mainstream media”, is a Greens supporter who thought the first televised debate as a waste of time , yet wants additional televised debating , preferably including Greens supremo Bob Brown. Both big parties are spectacular hypocrites, and this is illustrated again this week with the proposing of another debate (despite earlier refusal) by Labor, and the refusal of same (despite earlier pleas) by the Liberals.
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Election 2010: Political analysis – major parties ‘douchebags’
James Cook University Brisbane (JCU Brisbane) is the newest campus of James Cook University (JCU). It is located in the vibrant centre of the Brisbane CBD in Queensland, an attractive location for both its local and international students who enjoy a cheaper cost of living than Sydney or Melbourne and a great natural environment close to fantastic beaches and lush hinterland areas
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James Cook University Brisbane (JCU Brisbane)
I’m always reluctant to criticize people excessively for things they say on Twitter — it’s one hundred and forty characters, for God’s sake, and people trying to squeeze a real, adult thought into that space invariably cut logical and analytical corners. But lately I have come across two (actually, three) gems that really take the cake which I must highlight.
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The idiocies of Indian right-wingers need to be pointed out
The depiction of the human soul is not a task every artist can handle. For Zhang Huan, one of the most recognizable names in Chinese art and a man acclaimed for “getting naked in the name of art,” his attentions have turned to the exploration of the soul, a journey symbolized by the medium of incense ash. A former performance artist, the 45-year-old is now fully clothed and his solo exhibition, which was two years in the making and named Free Tigers Return to Mountains, was featured until July 20th at the Pace Gallery in the 798 art district
Gunmen went on killing sprees in Pakistan’s largest city after the assassination of a lawmaker, killing at least 37 people by Tuesday. Dozens of vehicles and shops were set on fire as security forces struggled to gain control as Karachi seethed
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Officials: 37 gunned down in Pakistan’s Karachi
North Korea’s military threatened Tuesday to retaliate against South Korea over its planned naval drills this week near their disputed sea border. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said that the military would crush the naval drills with a powerful physical blow and warned all civilian ships to stay away from areas near the sea border. South Korea plans to hold five-day naval drills in the Yellow sea, including near the border, beginning Thursday in response to the March sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on North Korea
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NKorea threatens to retaliate against SKorea
Yani Tseng, the 21-year-old Taiwanese golfer who won the Women’s British Open on Sunday, has received lavish praise at home, with one newspaper hailing her as the island’s Tiger Woods. Tseng made a 6-foot putt on the last hole to win the title by one stroke, holding off Katherine Hull of Australia to capture her third major championship.
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Tseng hailed as Taiwan’s Tiger Woods
Indonesian lawmakers and journalists got a shock when an online porn video blazed across dozens of computer monitors outside the press room at Parliament. Witnesses say it took security guards 10 minutes to shut down the computers Monday. The touch-screen monitors are used by visitors to check the Parliament agenda and other political activities.
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Porn site airs at Indonesia’s parliament
I think that about sums it up from the News Daily article featured over at The Marmot’s ; everybody’s favorite buffoon Lee Eun-ung also has a starring role. …
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Report: Itaewon is hive of scum and villainy; also full of dirty foreigners
A U.S.-based rights group urged the Philippines on Monday to reform a tough anti-abortion law that it says has spawned widespread underground procedures that kill about 1,000 women each year in the predominantly Roman Catholic country. An estimated 560,000 women in the Philippines in 2008 sought abortion involving crude and painful methods such as intense abdominal massages by traditional midwives or inserting catheters into the uterus, said a report by the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights.
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Rights group slams Philippine abortion ban
Thousands of workers from the garment industry demonstrated Monday near the Bangladeshi capital over a new minimum wage they call too low, defying government warnings against moves that might jeopardize the country’s top export earner. At least 25 protesters were injured when security officials charged with batons to remove them from a major highway at Ashulia and Savar, a major industrial hub just outside Dhaka that supplies international chains including Wal-Mart, Gap and Marks & Spencer.
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Defiant Bangladesh garment workers protest anew
North Korea opened this year’s massive dance and gymnastics performance known as the Arirang Festival, turning to propaganda to unite its people amid new U.S. sanctions on the isolated country to squeeze its nuclear program. Named after a traditional Korean love song, the show typically features thousands of gymnasts in synchronized maneuvers and giant mosaics formed by children turning pieces of colored paper
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North Korea begins massive dance performance
The Bangkok Post has an excellent and detailed article looking at the politicisation of the Internet, and particularly social media, in Thailand – ‘Political Battles Go Online’ – which is worthy of a read, and not just because yours truly and this blog are (albeit briefly) referenced. The article can be found here , while a few selected excerpts are below: Then there are those who prefer to silence rather than debate those who do not share their views. In some cases these “digital witch-hunters”, as some social critics call them, have grouped together and literally hunted down those who dare express views different from their own They extract photos, names, phone numbers, email addresses, the names of workplaces and other personal information of those they disagree with and expose them in an incriminating and derogatory manner for all to see.
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The politicisation of the Internet in Thailand
Pakistan summoned the top British official in the country Monday amid a diplomatic spat over comments by Britain’s leader suggesting the South Asian nation exports terrorism. British Prime Minister David Cameron’s comments last week were amplified by the fact that he made them while visiting Pakistan’s nuclear rival, India. The two countries have fought three wars since they gained independence from Britain over 60 years ago.
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The Indian government plans to import cheetahs from Africa and introduce them into the country’s grasslands, six decades after the fleet-footed feline was hunted here until it disappeared, officials said Monday. Two wildlife groups have already carried out a feasibility study on bringing the cats to three reserves that will total more than 4,500 square miles (about 12,000 square kilometers) in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan states, India’s ministry of environment and forests said Monday
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India to reintroduce cheetahs into grasslands
Pakistan dispatched medical teams to the deluged northwest amid fears that cholera could spread after the worst floods in the country’s history that have already killed up to 1,200 people. The disaster has forced 2 million to flee their homes.
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Risk of disease rises amid deadly Pakistan floods
Intense flooding has swept thick layers of garbage down the Yangtze River that are threatening to block the gates of the Three Gorges Dam, state media reported Monday. “The large amount of waste in the dam area could jam the miter gate of the Three Gorges Dam,” dam official Chen Lei told the official China Daily in an interview, referring to the dam’s huge shipping locks.
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Flood-borne trash threatens Three Gorges gates
MiamiHerald… Large-scale skimmer begins testing in Gulf By the CNN Wire Staff New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — A ship billed as the world’s largest skimming vessel has begun testing its effectiveness in the Gulf of Mexico, a spokesman for its owner, Taiwanese company TMT Shipping, said Saturday
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