CHINA TROUBLES - Google's threat to withdraw stands out
China is a trouble for Google, or Google is a trouble for China or both are a trouble for each other? Why did Google enter Chinese market at all when it knew it's global practices won't work in China and why is it pulling out now? Cold business sense apart from the fact that Google got an opportunity: China hardly contributes to Google's overall revenue despite one of the world's largest market. To be sharp less than 2%! Also, Google knows well that Google is more important to China than China is to Google, at least as of now.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Haiti Quaked!!! What we must learn?
Haiti Chief Says Thousands May Be Dead - NYTimes.com
Well, this is not the time of talking about sustainable housing but to send whatever each of us can to the Haitiians. Still, the housing that most of us build today is a disaster in itself. I am worried, if a quake of this scale hits, how many of us anywhere would be safe! It is time, probably we seriously think of our housing patterns.
Well, this is not the time of talking about sustainable housing but to send whatever each of us can to the Haitiians. Still, the housing that most of us build today is a disaster in itself. I am worried, if a quake of this scale hits, how many of us anywhere would be safe! It is time, probably we seriously think of our housing patterns.
Google's about turn in China
BBC News - Google's about turn in China
via e-mail from Students for a Free Tibet
Google, the largest Internet search engine and one the world's most influential corporations, has announced that it would stop censoring search results in China. The decision came after Google discovered 'highly sophisticated and targeted attacks' on its corporate infrastructure from China. Dozens of Gmail users who are advocates of human rights in China were also targeted by the cyber attacks.
The statement on Google's official blog reads: "We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all."
Just hours after this statement was issued, journalists in Beijing were reporting that the censors had been lifted, a move that may result in Google.cn being shut down by the Chinese government and Google withdrawing from China altogether.
Four years ago, when Google created Google.cn, a custom-built search platform that adhered to Beijing's cyber restrictions, SFT publicly opposed the move. SFT members organized protests at Google offices worldwide, including at their headquarters in Mountainview, California. We also launched the 'No Luv for Google Campaign' and initiated an online boycott of the search engine. More than 12,000 people agreed to "break up" with Google on Valentine's Day. Watch an entertaining video of the Google "break up" in New York.
Thank you to everyone who took action opposing Google.cn in 2006 - your emails, phone calls, and faxes made a difference.
Google's decision to stand up to Beijing is a landmark victory for freedom of expression, freedom of information, human rights, and the Tibet movement and is likely to have implications for other western companies operating in China.
Let this be a wake-up call to corporations and political leaders everywhere: colluding with Beijing's repressive policies does not bring about positive change or greater freedoms in China and Tibet. As we applaud Google's breakup with Beijing, we call on other companies and governments to also stand up to the Chinese government's tyranny.
via e-mail from Students for a Free Tibet
Google, the largest Internet search engine and one the world's most influential corporations, has announced that it would stop censoring search results in China. The decision came after Google discovered 'highly sophisticated and targeted attacks' on its corporate infrastructure from China. Dozens of Gmail users who are advocates of human rights in China were also targeted by the cyber attacks.
The statement on Google's official blog reads: "We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all."
Just hours after this statement was issued, journalists in Beijing were reporting that the censors had been lifted, a move that may result in Google.cn being shut down by the Chinese government and Google withdrawing from China altogether.
Four years ago, when Google created Google.cn, a custom-built search platform that adhered to Beijing's cyber restrictions, SFT publicly opposed the move. SFT members organized protests at Google offices worldwide, including at their headquarters in Mountainview, California. We also launched the 'No Luv for Google Campaign' and initiated an online boycott of the search engine. More than 12,000 people agreed to "break up" with Google on Valentine's Day. Watch an entertaining video of the Google "break up" in New York.
Thank you to everyone who took action opposing Google.cn in 2006 - your emails, phone calls, and faxes made a difference.
Google's decision to stand up to Beijing is a landmark victory for freedom of expression, freedom of information, human rights, and the Tibet movement and is likely to have implications for other western companies operating in China.
Let this be a wake-up call to corporations and political leaders everywhere: colluding with Beijing's repressive policies does not bring about positive change or greater freedoms in China and Tibet. As we applaud Google's breakup with Beijing, we call on other companies and governments to also stand up to the Chinese government's tyranny.
10 "silly" questions often asked by Chinese traveling abroad !
10 "silly" questions often asked by Chinese traveling abroad - People's Daily Online
Are Chinese really so silly? Well,but, they have reason to feel different at least about the products in a foreign country because they themselves know best what they manufacture!
Are Chinese really so silly? Well,but, they have reason to feel different at least about the products in a foreign country because they themselves know best what they manufacture!
The World Bank 2010 Essay Competition
The World Bank 2010 Essay Competition
Another opportunity to showcase your writing skills if you can really something new.
Another opportunity to showcase your writing skills if you can really something new.
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