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CHINA Sports, Feb 26, 2012

World Bank to China: Free up your economy or bust
CNN
By Annalyn Censky @CNNMoney February 26, 2012: 9:16 AM ET A worker rides a bicycle at a Sinopec oil refinery in China. State-owned enterprises, like Sinopec, account for roughly 40% of the country's GDP, according to estimates.
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Chinese Flock to Obama Website
Voice of America
February 26, 2012 Chinese Flock to Obama Website VOA News Hundreds of Chinese have flooded US President Barack Obama's Google-plus page with messages, after China seemingly unblocked the social networking service. Google-plus has not been available in ...
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Unblocked, Chinese flock to Obama Web page
Beaver County Times
... February 26, 2012 4:25 am | Updated: 6:01 am, Sun Feb 26, 2012.Chinese are flooding a Web page of President Barack Obama's re-election campaign on Google Inc.'s social networking service with comments, after China seemingly lifted long-standing ...
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Google+ Workaround Found By Chinese Critical of Internet Censorship
PCWorld
By Christina DesMarais, PCWorld Feb 26, 2012 6:11 AM The message: Governments can put up all the roadblocks they want to keep their people from communicating freely, but crafty technology buffs often find a way to break through those barriers.
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Chinese netizens flood Obama's Google+ page
Outcome Magazine (blog)
... DCon February 22, 2012. UPI/Andrew Harrer/Pool 02/26/2012 Hundreds of Chinese have flooded US President Barack Obama's Google+ page, apparently taking advantage of a glitch in China's censorship system to post about human rights and green cards.
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Outcome Magazine (blog)
Chinese flood Obama's Google+ page
Sky News Australia
Chinese flood Obama's Google+ page Updated: 18:38, SundayFebruary 26, 2012 Hundreds of Chinese have flooded US President Barack Obama's Google+ page, apparently taking advantage of a glitch in China's censorship system to post about human rights and ...
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Huawei adds home-grown K3V2 quad-core mobile CPU to its arsenal
Engadget
By Terrence O'Brien posted Feb 26th 2012 10:14AM Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Samsung and Huawei? The Chinese company is hoping to add its name to the list of major players in the mobile CPU game with the K3V2. The processor is a quad-core part ...
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The other face of a diplomat who translated Chinese to Tamil
IBNLive.com
PTI | 02:02 PM,Feb 26,2012 By ETB Sivapriyan New Delhi, Feb 26 (PTI) His chance reading of a Chinese poem that seemed similar to the age-old Sangam Literature of his mother tongue Tamil made this career diplomat adorn the hat of a full-time writer, ...
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Tennis birthdays – Feb. 26, 2012
Montreal Gazette (blog)
At the fairly advanced age of 28 two years ago, the Chinese player finally got into the top 10 and reached the Australian semi-finals. That set off a massive wave of stories about the “Chinese invasion,” that never really happened.
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Oscar Night Red Carpet Fashion Announcements: $400K Famous Diamond Clutch ...
Bradenton Herald
26, 2012 — PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Academy Award Nominee for Best Supporting Actress, Janet McTeer and "China's Leading Lady," Li Bingbing, will both wear individually-customized, American alligator and exotic leather, ...
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NKorea's Kim issues threat before SKorea-US drills
Boston.com
25, 2012. Davies met with North Korean nuclear negotiator this week in Beijing. (AP Photo/Kim Hong-ji, Pool) By Hyung-Jin Kim Associated Press / February 26, 2012 SEOUL, South Korea—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened to launch a powerful ...
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Boston.com
Caution required in deals with China
Victoria Times Colonist
By Iain Hunter, Times Colonist February 26, 2012 6:45 AM Raising alarms about environmental and global risk doesn't seem enough to stop the Enbridge pipeline. So more people are raising alarms about the nationalsecurity consequences of foreign ...
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China brings supermarket concept to North Korea
Huffington Post
JEAN H. LEE | February 26, 2012 12:00 AM EST | AP PYONGYANG, North Korea — In his last public appearance, late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il went shopping. He peered at the prices affixed to shelves packed with everything from Pantene shampoo to ...
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Free and Cheap NYC, week of Feb. 26, 2012
New York Daily News
MUSIC TO OUR EARS Explore the importance of music to the cultural expression of the Asian and Chinese-American diaspora. “Su Zheng — 150 Years of Chinese Music in NYC” is a lecture given by the associate professor of Music/East Asian Studies at ...
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New York Daily News
Ai Weiwei Discusses Life Under House Arrest
Slate Magazine
By Jamil Anderlini|Posted Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, at 7:00 AM ET Ai Weiwei's walled compound looks like a well-guarded fortress, with one minor incongruous detail. The prominent security camera on the wide street outside belongs to theChinese ...
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Slate Magazine
UFC 144 Morning After: Time for Ben Henderson vs. Anthony Pettis Rematch
MMA Fighting
Feb 26, 2012 - When Anthony Pettis unveiled his famous "Showtime Kick" to seal a victory over Ben Henderson for the World Extreme Cagefighting lightweight title in 2010, we knew we had witnessed a great fight. As it turns out, the fight was even ...
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Kung Fu Martial Arts Studio Opens in Berryville
Clarke Daily News
By News Staff on Feb 26 2012. Email This Article By Lacy Colley There are countless styles and systems of martial arts training available to a prospective student in the modern world. Most people associate these ancient arts of self-defense primarily ...
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Clarke Daily News
DIPLOMAT 2 LAST
IBNLive.com
PTI | 02:02 PM,Feb 26,2012 Four years later, luck smiled on the diplomat and he was Four years later, luck smiled on the diplomat and he was back in China when he got to read the poems compiled by none other than famous Chinese philosopher Confucius.
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Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
New York Times (blog)
By MARK MCDONALD | February 26, 2012, 3:43 am Banaras Khan/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesProtesters in Pakistan, angry over the burning of Korans in Afghanistan, burned an effigy of President Obama on Saturday. HONG KONG — The formal apology ...
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New York Times (blog)
Entertainment Art Gallery Listings: Feb. 26, 2012
Enterprise-Record
122 Broadway St. "Chinese Zodiac" art work by Darice Machel McGuire. 634 Orange St., (899-8267), next to the Chico Art Center. 196 Cohasset Road (343-4876, www.grillabites.com); open 11 am-8:30 pm Monday-Saturday. 10 am-3 pm Sunday.
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Talk of the Day -- Limit bars Chinese reporters from home visits
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Currently, journalists of China and Taiwan are allowed to cover stories in each other's countries in their private capacities, but the media organizations that hire them cannot set up offices on the other side of the strait. Chinesejournalists have ...
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Focus Taiwan News Channel
Protest reported from Serta on Tibetan New Year
Tibetan Review
(TibetanReview.net, Feb26, 2012) Tight Chinese security clampdowns, Stage managed celebrations, propaganda celebration reports, and protests marked the arrival of the Water-Dragon Tibetan New Year on Feb 22 on the Tibetan Plateau. China's military ...
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BMCPC - New Footpath at Junk Bay Cemetery Opens to Public
Einnews Portugal
HONG KONG, Feb. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Commissioned and constructed by the Board of Management of the Chinese Permanent Cemeteries (BMCPC), the New Footpath connecting Tiu Keng Leng MTR Station to Junk Bay Chinese Permanent Cemetery (JBC) ...
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Popular Tibetan comedian held in Lithang, whereabouts unknown
Tibetan Review
(TibetanReview.net, Feb26, 2012) A popular Tibetan comedian has been arrested in early Feb 2012 from a traditional Tibetan area that is now part of China's Sichuan Province. Athar, 33, who runs a general store and who otherwise gives satirical stage ...
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Independent Spirit Awards Pictures
Monsters and Critics.com
By James Wray Feb 26, 2012, 14:08 GMT US actor Chris Pine arrives for the 27th Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California USA, 25 February 2012. The Spirit Awards recognizes the achievements of American independent filmmakers and ...
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Monsters and Critics.com
NYPD surveillance of students called "disgusting"
CBS News
A man is dwarfed by the Columbia University Library as he sits outside the building, Feb. 25, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) NEW YORK - At Columbia University and elsewhere, the fear among students that the New York Police Department ...
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Southeast Asia in for a Wild Ride in 2012 — Vikram Nehru
The Malaysian Insider
FEB 26 — Some Chinese astrologers have pronounced that 2012, the year of the dragon, will be particularly volatile. But you do not have to believe in the Chinese zodiac to know that Southeast Asia is likely to have a tumultuous year.
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Obama's Google+ account occupied by Chinese users, Americans annoyed
TruthDive
Beijing, Feb 26 (TruthDive): American President Obama's Google+ account may have noticed a remarkable increase in the number ofChinese language comments on his posts the last two days. Google+ is normally blocked in China along with other social media ...
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Oscar Night Red Carpet Fashion Announcements: $400K Famous Diamond Clutch ...
PR Newswire (press release)
PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Academy Award Nominee for Best Supporting Actress, Janet McTeer and "China'sLeading Lady," Li Bingbing, will both wear individually-customized, American alligator and exotic leather, haute couture, ...
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Behind The Wall - 'Occupy Toilets' seeks double potty parity for ...
By Bo Gu, NBC News
'Occupy Toilets' seeks double potty parity for Chinese women. By Bo Gu, NBC News. BEIJING -- Chairman Mao famously said “women hold up half the sky,” but in today's China they are standing twice as long in restroom lines. It's a universal .... #1.3 - Sat Feb 25, 2012 7:26 PM EST. Comment author ..... Good idea, I always have to wait for my wife in airports and sometimes at sporting events and concerts the women's lines are so long they miss part of the show. I guess they could use ...
Newsvine - Behind The Wall - Articles
Chinese netizens flood Obama's Google+ page - In2EastAfrica ...
By In2EastAfrica
BEIJING (AFP) – Hundreds of Chinese have flooded US President Barack Obama's Google+ page, apparently taking advantage of a glitch in China's censorship system to post about human rights and green cards. Google+ — the US Internet ...
In2EastAfrica - East African...
Is Europe Becoming China's Sweatshop? | EconMatters
By EconForecast
Sunday, February 262012 ... And while labor equivalency betweenChina and the US likely still has a ways to go, we have now crossed a critical Rubicon, as Chinese and European wages, at least in one part of European Union, have caught up. Net result, as Spiegel reports, carmaker "Great ... Great Wall is China's largest manufacturer of sports-utility vehicles and operates plants in around a dozen countries, including Russia, Indonesia, Egypt and Ukraine. Yesterday Bulgaria, a ...
EconMatters
Unblocked, Chinese flock to Obama Web page - Sunday, Feb. 26 ...
Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012 | 12:53 a.m. - Chinese flood Obama campaign's page on long blocked Google Plus service _ because they can.
www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/.../as-china-obama-website/
China's new sports problem: Stop the Linsanity? | The Economist
(One must add to this the problem of endemic corruption in Chinese sport that also scares ... Xinhua, China's official news service, published a fanciful article urging Mr Lin to take ... yuzsef5489 in reply to sinosino Feb 26th 2012 4:57 GMT ...
www.economist.com/blogs/.../02/chinas-new-sports-problem
Nortel collapse linked to Chinese hackers - World - CBC News
Last Updated: Feb 16, 2012 10:44 AM ET. Brian Shields, the former senior systems security adviser at Nortel, says he has no doubt that extensive Chinese cyber ...
www.cbc.ca/news/.../nortel-hacking-shields-as-it-happens.html
In China, Air cheow-DAN Cries Foul - Yahoo! Finance
Sun, Feb 26, 2012, 8:53 AM EST - U.S. Markets closed ... QiaodanSports first registered for the rights to use Mr. Jordan's Chinesemoniker in 1997, when it ...
finance.yahoo.com/.../in-china--air-cheow-dan-cries-foul.html
Apple opens up 'sweatshop' Chinese factories to inspectors after ...
MailOnline - news, sport, celebrity, science and health stories ...Sunday, Feb 26 2012 12PM 1°F 3PM 7°F 5-Day Forecast ... Apple has opened up its Chinese factories to independent examiners after claims that workers .... MOST READ NEWS ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Apple-opens-sweatshop-Chinese-facto...
iPad Ban Sought By Shenzhen Proview In China Over Trademark ...
BEIJING -- A Chinese company said Tuesday it will ask customs officials to ban imports and exports of Apple's iPads due to a dispute over ... February 26, 2012 ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../ipad-ban-proview-china_n_1275...
Jordan sues Chinese sports company for using his name - Portland ...
Jordan sues Chinese sports company for using his name ... According to a news release, Jordan was first introduced to Chinese ... Sunday, February 26, 2012 ...
www.bizjournals.com/.../jordan-sues-chinese-sports-company-...
Dyersburg State Gazette: Local News: 3 teachers bring Chinese ...
3 teachers bring Chinese culture to US. Sunday, February 26, 2012. Dyersburg State Gazette. (Photo). From left, Kalli Lipke, Lisa Fischer, Jamie and Wendi ...
www.stategazette.com/story/1819775.html
Mainland firm using my name illegally, says Jordan | China News ...
Sunday, February 26, 2012 ... "Mr Jordan didn't know about thisChinese brand until recently," said Christine Kang, a spokeswoman for Jordan's legal team in ...
topics.scmp.com/.../Mainland-firm-using-my-name-illegally-sa...
Unblocked, Chinese flock to Obama Web page | lehighvalleylive.com
Get top news stories on Weather, Politics, Sports, Business, Entertainment, Health ... Feb. 26, 2012, 3:33 a.m. EST. AP. BEIJING (AP) — Chinese are flooding a Web ... service with comments, afterChina seemingly lifted long- standing blocks.
www.lehighvalleylive.com/.../f145d017ccb6491d852c59a332...
Karen Coleman: Our silence on China will bring jobs, but at a cost ...
Sunday, February 26 2012 ... Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and Taoiseach Enda Kenny shake hands .... News; National News; WorldNews; Sport ...
www.independent.ie/.../karen-coleman-our-silence-on-china-w...
Chinese push for tourism Tasmania News - The Mercury - The Voice ...
HANNAH MARTIN | February 26, 2012 12.01am. TOURISM officials hope Chinese visitors will be the ailing industry's white knight. Tourism Tasmania and the ...
www.themercury.com.au/article/.../304091_tasmania-news.ht...
Great Google+ Glitch: Chinese netizens get online ... - News.com.au
Last updated: February 27, 2012 ... From: AAP; February 26, 20125:45PM ... Hundreds of Chinese netizens flooded Obama's Google+ page after a glitch in ...
www.news.com.au/...get.../story-e6frfro0-1226281922158
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