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No help needed at Expo store

A 2010 Shanghai World Expo souvenir store with no shop assistants opened in the city yesterday. Instead, people will get product information and be able to buy the products by scanning barcodes using small hand-held computers. The organizer ...

From BOB YANG AND JANE CHEN, Shanghai Daily,  12 Oct 2009

Asian currencies gain on signs recovery may spur rate increases

Manila / Hong Kong: Asian currencies climbed against the dollar on Tuesday, led by South Korea’s won and Indonesia’s rupiah, on speculation regional economies will raise interest rates before the US does to damp inflation. Economic expansion: A stock ...

From CLARISSA BATINO AND BOB CHEN, livemint.com,  15 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Deutsche Bank,  Barack Obama,  UBS AG,  HSBC Holdings, plc.,  American International Group

China: Missing iPhone pressured mainland worker to suicide

Sun Dangyang, 25, was born in a small village. He earned his college degree in Harbin University and was then employed by Foxconn, a Taiwanese company and one of Apple’s largest contractors. His parents were proud of their son however they never ...

From BOB CHEN, Global Voices Online,  26 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Steve Jobs

China: Rio Tinto's trouble - commerical bribery or espionage?

More than a week ago, four employees of Rio Tinto were arrested on suspicion of ‘espionage, stealing state secrets and harming the nation’s economic interests and security.' Stern Hu, an Australian national who is in charge of iron ore trade in China ...

From BOB CHEN, Global Voices Online,  19 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Rio Tinto Plc,  BHP Billiton Limited,  Kevin Rudd

China: Call for tough response and resent of biased media

Although the official media keeps appealing for national and ethnic solidarity, the pictures and coverage of the riot presented to most Chinese indicate it is nothing but a hate crime directed at Han Chinese by Uygur gangs. Furious at that scores of ...

From BOB CHEN, Global Voices Online,  10 Jul 2009

China:The youngest mayor under questions

The youngest mayor in China is now believed to be Zhou Senfeng (周森峰). The newly elected mayor is only 29 years old. His resume shows the rapid promotion he got in the past 5 years. Right after he graduated from Qinghua University, one of the best ...

From BOB CHEN, Global Voices Online,  26 Jun 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress

China: More corpses found in Shishou hotel; disputes continue.

Rumor said that the chef, named Tu Yuangao (涂远高),was killed because he threatened to expose the drug dealings in the hotel after he failed to get his pay. Now, as more injectors were found inside the burned hotel, Shishou people’s suspicion grows. It ...

From BOB CHEN, Global Voices Online,  23 Jun 2009

China: Netizens stand with the waitress who killed an official

Deng Yujiao, a waitress in Hubei Province stabbed an official to death and injured another in resisting their sexual advances. Comments on the internet showed no sympathy with the dead official and generally support the 21-year-old girl, acclaiming ...

From BOB CHEN, Global Voices Online,  17 May 2009

China: The fear implied in a real-name internet

In China, the internet has become an important platform for citizens' participation in policy making and criticism of officials. The freedom of the internet is largely guaranteed by the anonymity it offers users. However efforts to deprive the users of ...

From BOB CHEN, Global Voices Online,  6 May 2009

China: He saw no conscience, no sympathy.

At the end of the blog entry, the professor and lawyer Xu Zhiyong (许志永) wrote down the line: I broke into tears. I called a taxi, went back home and kneed down on the floor, tears in my eyes again. I thanked God for letting me to come to the world to ...

From BOB CHEN, Global Voices Online,  3 May 2009

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