Agence France-Presse | BEIJING – China’s state media on Sunday accused Google Inc of pushing a political agenda by “groundlessly accusing the Chinese government” of supporting hacker attacks and by trying to export its own culture, values and ideas. In a commentary signed by three Xinhua writers, the state news agency also sought to defend [...]

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft on Tuesday warned that hackers are targeting a freshly-uncovered weakness in some earlier versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser software. Microsoft said it is investigating a hole that cyber attackers are taking advantage of in IE 6 and IE 7. “At this time, we are aware of targeted attacks [...]

A survey released on Monday showed that the Philippines was rated the fourth most corrupt of 16 major Asia-Pacific investment destinations. Indonesia Cambodia Vietnam Philippines Thailand India China Malaysia Taiwan South Korea Macau Japan United States Hong Kong Australia Singapore

The 49th Miss International pageant will take place at the Sichuan International Tennis Hotel, Chengdu, Sichuan, China on November 28, 2009. Argentina Mercedes Viaña Aruba Christina Trejo Australia Kelly Louise Maguire Bahamas Aisha Delaney Belarus Yana Supranovich Belgium Cassandra D’Ermilio Bolivia Laura Olivera Brazil Rayanne Morais Canada Chanel Beckenlehner China to be determined Chinese Taipei [...]

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Agence France-Presse|PARIS – The World Digital Library, a website offering free access to rare books, maps, manuscripts, films and photographs from across the globe, launches Tuesday at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Bringing together priceless material, from ancient Chinese or Persian calligraphy to early Latin American photography, it is the world’s third major digital library, after [...]

The $16.43 billion that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) sent home last year placed the country in the fourth spot in the world’s top recipients of remittances, the World Bank said. The top three are India ($45 billion), China ($34 billion), and Mexico ($26 billion). Landing in fifth place is Poland with $11billion, followed by Nigeria [...]

Global Internet usage reached more than 1billion unique visitors in December, with 41.3 percent in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a report released Friday by ComScore. The study looked at Internet users over the age of 15 who accessed the Net from their home or work computers. Europe grabbed the next largest slice of the [...]

BEIJING (Reuters) – A man in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou has been infected with bird flu and is in a critical condition in hospital, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. It is the sixth human case of bird flu to be reported in China this year. The Chinese Health Ministry said on its [...]

Agence France-Presse|PARIS – A few lucky people in the Indian Ocean will be treated to a rare event on Monday when an annular solar eclipse will transform the Sun into a dark disc with a blazing ring-shaped corona around its rim. In solar eclipses, the Moon moves between the Sun and Earth, casting its shadow [...]