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The threat to Hong Kong’s international status

By AP News Tue, Jun 18, 2013 12:03PM UTC

Nationalism and bureaucratic folly make life tougher for foreigners, writes Asia Sentinel’s Philip Bowring Foreigners and mainlanders who live in Hong Kong are seeing that despite its still-abundant attractions it is becoming gradually less open to them, a blow to the territory’s crucial role as the international center for the

China calls for explanations of US surveillance

By AP News Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:01AM UTC

BEIJING (AP) — China on Monday joined calls for Washington to provide explanations following disclosures of National Security Agency programs which collect millions of telephone records and track foreign Internet activity on U.S. networks. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters that Washington needs to heed international concerns expressed since

Chinese supercomputer named as world’s fastest

By AP News Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:49AM UTC

BEIJING (AP) — China has built the world’s fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous U.S. holder and underlining the country’s rise as a science and technology powerhouse. The semiannual TOP500 official listing of the world’s fastest supercomputers released Monday says the Tianhe-2 developed by the National University

China: The No. 1 destination for global waste

By Graham Land Mon, Jun 17, 2013 9:09PM UTC

China is a massive importer of plastic and paper waste, and scrapped electronic products like mobile phones and old computer hard drives. As with jobs, manufacturing and carbon emissions, it’s often cheaper for highly developed countries to outsource their waste management. So is China becoming a global “dept of waste”?

Chinese activist says he’s being forced out by NYU

By AP News Mon, Jun 17, 2013 12:26PM UTC

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, who was allowed to travel to the U.S. after escaping from house arrest, said Monday that New York University is forcing him and his family to leave at the end of this month because of pressure from the Chinese government. The university denied