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In China, They Are 'Renting' White People In China, white people can be rented, according to CNN. For a day, a weekend, a week, up to even a month or two, Chinese companies are willing to pay high prices for fair-faced foreigners to join them as fake employees or business partners. Some call it "White Guy Window Dressing." To others, it's known as the &q ...

China Is Feeling The Pressure To Support The Punishment Of North Korea  According to The Associated Press,  pressure is rising on China to support the efforts to punish North Korea over sinking one of South Korea's warships.China showed no signs publicly Saturday of joining South Korea and Japan in rebuking Pyongyang, but Premier Wen Jiabao said he hoped their summit would help achieve peace. ...

Hillary Clinton Urges China For Greater Access For American Businesses  According to CNN, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed for greater commercial access for American businesses in China on Sunday, urging Beijing for a "level playing field."Clinton spoke to American and Chinese business executives in Shanghai, where she had finished touring the World Expo. She was headed to Beijing for two days of talks that will touch on a w ...

China Hackers Steal Google Code According to FoxNews.com, hackers who breached Google Inc.'s systems last year  recently gained access to a computer code for Google that authenticates users of Google's email, calendar and other online programs, according to a person familiar with the matter.The hackers retrieved  the code in a repository along with Google's online applications& ...

Geithner Headed To China Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will meet with a top Chinese official this week, possibly to discuss the value of China's currency. "The Secretary and Vice Premier have been working together to find an opportunity to meet in person for some time," Treasury spokesman Andrew Williams said in a statement to CNN. The focus of the talks is unclear. However, it's expected that the value of the yuan could be the main topic of their discussion. ...

Nine Miners Trapped In A Flooded Coal Mine Have Been Rescued According to NPR, nine trapped miners were pilled into safety early Monday after spending more than a week trapped in a flooded coal mine in northern China. The nine men-among the 153 trapped since March 28th were wrapped in blankets, placed in ambulances and rushed to a hospital where teams of doctors and nurses had been ...

Obama's Senior Economic Advisor Say's The Government Is Taking It's Time Checking China's Currency Manipulation According to CNN, President Obama's senior economic advisor said Sunday the government was delaying a report to Congress in order to provide more time to address China's alleged currency manipulation. Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council, told the CNN program "State of the Union" ...

Chinese Refiner Runs Into Australia's Great Barrier Reef According to The New York Times, a Chinese Freighter slams into the Great Barrier Reef this morning. A large Chinese freighter carrying coal to China ran aground late Saturday on a section of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, raising fears that it might leak engine fuel on coral in its immediate vicinity. The Shen Neng 1 crashed in ...

China Leads The World In Executions, Report Says The New York Times reports that China executed more people last year than the rest of the world combined, according to a report published Tuesday by Amnesty International, as the rights group called on Beijing to divulge how many executions it carries out. ...

Why Google chose Hong Kong
Wed, 03/24/2010 - 00:02
CNN's Kristie Lu Stout looks at why Google choose Hong Kong. ...