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WASHINGTON - During his final weeks in office, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is making the case for strategic thinking about defense, as some members of Congress and some Obama administration officials want deep defense spending cuts to help reduce the federal budget deficit.  The issues are complex and they include decisions on what is needed [...] Amadeus, a leading transaction processor and provider of advanced technology solutions for the global travel and tourism industry, and Air China, China's national airline carrier, today announced a three year contract... Prisoners at a labor camp in northeast China were forced by guards to play online games in a moneymaking scheme, says one former prisoner. The s… A selection of the best images from around the world Like the 100 fellow American Red Cross volunteers and hundreds more disaster- relief volunteers flocking to this southwestern Missouri city of 50,000, Iowans want to help. The Guardian reports that prisoners in a Chinese forced-labor camp were required to "gold-farm" in multiplayer games, amassing credits and virtual objects that the guards could sell to other players. Prisoners allege that they were required to gold farm for 12 hours a day and were physically abused if they failed to make their quotas. It's alleged that many Chinese forced- labor prisons make their inmates gold farm. "Prison bosses made more money forcing inmates to play games than they do forcing people to do manual labour," Liu told the Guardian. "There were 300 prisoners forced to play games. We worked 12-hour shifts in the camp. I heard them say they could earn 5,000-6,000rmb [£470-570] a day. We didn't see any of the money. The computers were never turned off." Memories from his detention at Jixi re-education- through-labour camp in Heilongjiang province from 2004 still haunt Liu. As well as backbreaking mining toil, he carved chopsticks and toothpicks out of planks of wood until his hands were raw and assembled car seat covers that the prison exported to South Korea and Japan. He was also made to memorise communist literature to pay off his debt ... BEIJING, May 26 (Reuters) - Air China and other major Chinese carriers have raised their fuel surcharges for domestic routes for the third time this year to help offset cost pressure amid surging oil prices, the Shanghai Securities News reported on Thursday. 2031 GMT: UN chief Ban Ki-moon strongly defends air strikes on Kadhafi's forces in the face of growing criticism from doubters led by Russia and China. "There is no place called away." It is a statement worthy of Gertrude Stein, but University of Washington atmospheric chemist Dan Jaffe says it with conviction: None of the contamination we pump into the air just disappears. It might get diluted, blended, or chemically transformed, but it has to go somewhere. And when it comes to pollutants produced by the booming economies of East Asia, that somewhere often means right here, the mainland of the United States. Jaffe and a new breed of global air detectives are delivering a sobering message to policy makers everywhere: Carbon dioxide, the predominant driver of global warming, is not the only industrial by-product whose effects can be felt around the world. Prevailing winds across the Pacific are pushing thousands of tons of other contaminants—including mercury, sulfates, ozone, black carbon, and desert dust—over the ocean each year. Some of this atmospheric junk settles into the cold waters of the North Pacific, but much of it eventually merges with the global air pollution pool that circumnavigates the planet. These contaminants are implicated in a long list of health problems, including neurodegenerative disease, cancer, emphysema, and perhaps even pandemics like avian flu. And when wind ... Riz Khan: Future of power Is America's role as the world's "superpower" really on the decline? The dramatic economic growth of China, Latin America and India among others has some predicting a total shift in the balance of global p... Related Breaking News Stories: 1. Riz Khan - The nuclear power debate 2. Riz Khan - What does the future hold for Haiti? 3. Riz Khan - The political power of literature Plus will LinkedIn users stay with Nokia, IE9 and Safari cracked, who has the most successful search in the US and more A burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Bing.com searches increase 5% [in ratio] in February 2011 >> Experian Hitwise " Google accounted for 66.69% of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Feb. 26, 2011. Bing-powered search comprised 28.48% of searches for the month, with Yahoo! Search and Bing receiving 14.99% and 13.49%, respectively. The remaining 69 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis report accounted for 4.68% of U.S. searches." Slightly more interesting: "success rate", where a search leads to a website visit, is higher on Yahoo than on Bing (which ranked second) or Google. But wait, Yahoo search *is* Bing. How does that work? Mobile Trojan mimics Android clean-up tool >> The Register "Google pulled the [malware-infected] games from the marketplace. That stopped further infections from spreading but failed to help eradicate the infection from already compromised handsets; hence the decision to push an over-the-air update (theAndroid Market Security Tool). "But sneaky VXers have developed a backdoored version of this clean-up tool, ... Britain and Germany want EU emergency summit to call for Libyan leader to step down, as pressure grows over no-fly zone Britain is pressing for a European Union emergency summit declaration calling for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to step down, as pressure grows on the international community to impose a no-fly zone in Libyan airspace. In a joint letter with Germany, the British foreign secretary, William Hague, said the upheaval in the EU's "southern neighbourhood" presented Europe with a challenge and an opportunity on a scale matching the revolutions of 1989. The letter, sent to EU foreign policy chief, Baroness Cathy Ashton, said the union should agree a declaration that "the EU and its member states will not work or co-operate with Gaddafi and that he has to step aside to allow for a true democratic transformation of the country". The British government's calls for a declaration on Gaddafi came after Ashton told MEPs in Strasbourg that the dictator "should be sent back into the cold". After hosting talks in Brussels on Thursday with EU foreign ministers on the medium-term response to the crisis in Libya, Ashton will go to Nato headquarters to join alliance defence ministers, ... **Polyglot:** The staff of the International Trade Center serves all chapters in the South-West Texas Border SBDC network and employs staffers from China, Mexico, Uruguay, Spain and Argentina." />**Polyglot:** The staff of the International Trade Center serves all chapters in the South-West Texas Border SBDC network and employs staffers from China, Mexico, Uruguay, Spain and Argentina." />**Polyglot:** The staff of the International Trade Center serves all chapters in the South-West Texas Border SBDC network and employs staffers from China, Mexico, Uruguay, Spain and Argentina." />**Polyglot:** The staff of the International Trade Center serves all chapters in the South-West Texas Border SBDC network and employs staffers from China, Mexico, Uruguay, Spain and Argentina.'> **San Antonio Small Business Development Center ** 501 West Durango Blvd., San Antonio, Texas, 78752 SASBDC Website 210-458-2958 Contact Email **Name of Director:** Morrison Woods **No. of employees:** 20 **Hours spent with clients:** 12,427 **Capital Infusion:** $19 million in 2010 **What's Noteworthy:** Facilitating relationships across the Mexican border has helped generate $181 million in exported goods. **San Antonio is growing** at a dizzying pace, with a booming population and a lively, diversified economy that relies not only on the military, but also energy, tourism, finance and technology. Poised to add nearly 30,000 jobs ... Say it with me now: The White House does not set gas prices. The White House does not set gas… SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Global air travelers are expected to rise to 3.3 billion in 2014, up 32 percent from 2.5 billion in 2009, fueled by strong growth in China, the International Air Transport... **Chilton on China** The commander of the U.S. Strategic Command said in an interview that he supports the idea of holding strategic talks with China on nuclear, missile- defense, space and cyberwarfare issues. "I'm a firm believer in dialogue," said **Air Force Gen. Kevin P. Chilton**, who said he learned the ... China may have bought parts of US F-117 Nighthawk shot down over Serbia in 1999, say experts A Chinese stealth fighter jet that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority may borrow from US technology, it has been claimed. Balkan military officials and other experts said China may have gleaned knowledge from a US F-117 Nighthawk that was shot down over Serbia in 1999. "At the time, our intelligence reports told of Chinese agents crisscrossing the region where the F-117 disintegrated, buying up parts of the plane from local farmers," said Admiral Davor Domazet-Loso, Croatia's military chief of staff during the Kosovo war. "We believe the Chinese used those materials to gain an insight into secret stealth technologies ... and to reverse-engineer them." The Nighthawk was downed by a Serbian anti-aircraft missile during a bombing raid on 27 March 1999. It was the first time one of the fighters had been hit, and the Pentagon blamed clever tactics and sheer luck. The pilot ejected and was rescued. A senior Serbian military official confirmed that pieces of the wreckage were removed by souvenir collectors, and that some ended up "in the hands of foreign military attaches". Efforts ... BEIJING/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday that Western air strikes on Libya risked a "humanitarian disaster," adding to the chorus of criticism from big emerging powers over the U.N.-authorized campaign.
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