• Indian Gov. set to issue 1.15 billion biometric ID cards for citizens The Government of India plans to issue Unique Identification Card to all Indian citizens, under the national ID program, with an estimated to cost around Rs 150,000 cr. The project will be led by...
• China shuts down legal center, revokes licenses Beijing officials shut down a legal research center led by activist lawyers Friday, while China revoked the licenses of more than 50 lawyers, many known for their human rights cases.
The moves...
• As Unrest Spreads, Chinese President Skips Summit China calls for new reserve currency -- Worst outbreak of ethnic violence in China in 33 yearsThe CIA and rioting Uyghurs in XinjiangChinese President Hu Jintao canceled plans to attend a major...
• China calls for new reserve currency: Worst outbreak of ethnic violence in China in 33 years Comment: Far too many experts have avered that the U.S. is a toothless tiger, it's best not to pay attention to these self serving individuals. Ethnic tensions in China may run deep and well...
• China's Netizens Angry After Crackdown on Web Porn "This is flat-out corruption," wrote one infuriated netizen on China's popular website Tianya.com. "If a government keeps dumbing down its people like this, how can it ever be respected by the rest...
• Flu worries prompt China to isolate New Orleans mayor, wife Chinese authorities have quarantined New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and his wife in a Shanghai hotel after a passenger on their flight exhibited flu-like symptoms.
Nagin's office said the couple and a...
• China moves to censor home computers The Chinese government wants all computers sold in China after July to come with software that automatically censors the internet.
The move will give the government unprecedented control over what...
• China cracks down on Twitter, other social media Chinese authorities shut down blogs, Internet forums, and social media sites such as Twitter in an apparent attempt to stem online political discussion ahead of Thursday's 20th anniversary of the...
• Japan's stressed salarymen suffer halitosis epidemic during recession Japanese 'salarymen' are suffering an additional burden to the economic crisis: chronic halitosis.
As if looming unemployment were not enough to cause sleepless nights for legions of the country's...
• China Said to Threaten Licenses of Human Rights Lawyers In a marked departure from past practices, Beijing legal authorities have threatened to complicate or deny applications to renew the legal licenses of at least 18 of the city’s best-known...
• Swine Flu Forces More Schools in Japan to Close The deepening swine flu outbreak led Japan’s government to shut more than 4,000 schools and spurred the World Health Organization to urge drugmakers such as Sanofi- Aventis SA and...
• China sex theme park demolished China's first sex theme park, aimed at improving both the sex education and the sex life of its visitors, has been torn down before it even opened. The owners were "interested only in profiting from...
• China firing squad photos prompt calls for more executions of corrupt officials Excerpt: “There is no real death penalty for economic crimes now. It is obviously an exculpation for corrupted officials,” wrote an anonymous contributor to the Strong Country Forum on...
• Chinese ordered to smoke more to boost economy Comment: Population control?Local government officials in China have been ordered to smoke nearly a quarter of a million packs of cigarettes in a move to boost the local economy during the global...
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