An oil-addicted ex-superpower Asia Times | By Michael T Klare | Nineteen years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall effectively eliminated the Soviet Union as the world's other superpower. Yes, the USSR as a political entity stumbled on for another two years, but it was clearly an ex-superpower from the moment it lost control over its satellit...
Muted alarm over Olympics coverage International Herald Tribune | : With the Beijing Olympics looming, 150 journalists and human rights activists from 40 countries gathered here over the weekend for some coaching on covering the Games. They learned an early lesson in the challenges ahead when someone at a computer in Hong Kong sent infected e-mails to conference...
An oil-addicted ex-superpower Asia Times | By Michael T Klare | Nineteen years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall effectively eliminated the Soviet Union as the world's other superpower. Yes, the USSR as a political entity stumbled on for another two years, but it was clearly an ex-superpower...
Bank loses server stuffed with customer records The Inquirer | HSBC BANK HAS lost a server from a branch in Hong Kong that contained the records of 159,000 customers. | It is almost exactly a month since the bank lost a computer disc with the details of 370,000 UK life assurance customers. | The admitted today...
HSBC in further data loss The Register | Security-incident prone bank HSBC has admitted losing a server containing transaction data on 159,000 Hong Kong-based account holders. | The bank said on Wednesday that the kit went missing during renovation work at a Kwun Tong district branch on 2...
New offer threatens Iran's 'red line' Asia Times By Kaveh Afrasiabi | Iran has been quick to play down the supposed new initiative by the international community over its nuclear program. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mohammad Ali Hosseini said that Iran has not yet officially received the ...
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Li Ka-shing makes big impression on Facebook The Times | Doubts over the valuations of social networking websites were assuaged yesterday after Sir Li Ka-shing, one of Asia's most successful investors, doubled his stake in Facebook, un...
$770m cargo terminal planned for Hong Kong airport NZ Herald | Cathay Pacific has been given the green light to build a new air cargo terminal at Hong Kong International Airport. | Freight through Hong Kong's airport is growing by 4.5 per ce...
Tata Motors gets $3 billion loan from Citi, JPMorgan The Boston Globe | HONG KONG (Reuters) - India's Tata Motors Ltd <TAMO.BO> has signed a deal to receive a $3 billion one-year bridge loan from <C.N> and JPMorgan <JPM.N> to help f...
Sideswipe: Thursday NZ Herald | Blenheim's library staff love people to read, but just not in the loos. | * * * | Kung-Fu action hero Jackie Chan warned any protesters planning to stop him carrying the Olympic torch that he will come out fighting. The Hong Kong hard man is due to...
Crisis Asia Times | By Julian Delasantellis | It was in 1992 that Bruce Springsteen sang his song of lamentation over the fact that, when he sat down to watch some TV, what he found was "57 channels and nothing on". Well, I've got a whole lot more than 57 channels to ...
AP Executive Morning Briefing Lexington Herald-Leader | The top business news from The Associated Press for the morning of Monday, April 14, 2008: | Wachovia 1Q Loss, to Raise $7B Capital | CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Wachovia will slash its dividend and raise $7 billion in a share sale after reporting a sur...
Support for interstate movement of padi The Star | PUTRAJAYA: The gradual lifting of the restriction on interstate movement of padi and the guaranteed minimum price for padi farmers to stabilise the supply of rice in the country has received the support of MCA Selangor’s Modern Agriculture and Biotechnology Bureau and Traditional Agriculture Bureau. | Bureau chief Liew Yew Fook said this would al...
Nuclear boom in developing world Australian Broadcasting Corporation | This is a transcript from AM. The program is broadcast around Australia at 08:00 on ABC Local Radio. | You can also listen to the story in and and formats. | Nuclear boom in developing world | AM - Tuesday, 13 May , 2008 08:18:00 Reporter: Ashley Hall TONY EASTLEY: The soaring price of oil is helping to drive a revival of interest in nuclear powe...
