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China irked by US plan to base 2,500 Marines in Australia

China irked by US plan to base 2,500 Marines in Australia

By Thu, Nov 17, 2011 10:36AM UTC View Comments China irked by US plan to base 2,500 Marines in Australia

China has “questioned” a plan by the U.S. to station 2,500 marines in Australia in the next five years, Reuters reports. US President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard recently announced an initial stationing of 250 Marines in Darwin. The deployment is part of a strategic military plan to “maintain security” in Asia, Reuters...

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Report: 512 million mobile internet users in Asia by 2015

By Wed, Aug 24, 2011 12:00PM UTC View Comments An Indian woman holds a child in her arm as she talks on a mobile phone in Allahabad, India, Friday, April 9, 2010. Pic: Ap.

Regular readers will recall how I’ve often lamented how the failure of certain web analytics firms to include mobile internet usage in their statistics renders their research and data fairly useless in Asia. To help prove my point, eMarketer has an neat data set looking at the use of mobile internet in the content. Quick...

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