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by wrdos
28 Jul 2008 10:56
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Let us Understand the Chinese
Replies: 395
Views: 160085

Re: Let us Understand the Chinese

Dear Rishirishi So far as I know, you have been posting around your prediction that India will surpass China one day for quite a long period. But as a serious author, don't you think it is necessary to give some sound date for your prediction? We know India will surpass China, eg by GDP or by the po...
by wrdos
26 Jul 2008 09:21
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

Re: PRC Economy News and Discussions-II

From the Erotic Domain, an Aerobic Trend in China Shiho Fukada for The New York Times Students taking a lesson at Lolan Pole Dancing School in Beijing. The school has five studios and plans to open six more this year. Article Tools Sponsored By By JIMMY WANG Published: July 25, 2008 http://www.nytim...
by wrdos
26 Jul 2008 09:20
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

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China Surpasses U.S. in Number of Internet Users http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/business/worldbusiness/26internet.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin Article Tools Sponsored By By DAVID BARBOZA Published: July 26, 2008 SHANGHAI — China said the number of Internet users in the country reached ...
by wrdos
22 Jul 2008 10:45
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

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China Begins Pulling Soldiers Out of Quake Zone http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/world/asia/22quake.html?scp=2&sq=china&st=cse http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/21/world/21quake-600.jpg Children waved to departing soldiers on Monday in Deyang, China. Article Tools Sponsored By By ...
by wrdos
18 Jul 2008 06:18
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

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China's economy grows 10.4 percent in first half of 2008: govt http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080717/bs_afp/chinaeconomygrowth_080717035158 Wed Jul 16, 11:51 PM ET BEIJING (AFP) - China's economic juggernaut slowed but still maintained double-digit growth in the first half of the year as it battled d...
by wrdos
14 Jul 2008 10:15
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

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In Changing Face of Beijing, a Look at the New China http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/arts/design/13build.html?_r=1&scp=6&sq=china&st=nyt&oref=slogin Article Tools Sponsored By By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF Published: July 13, 2008 BEIJING — If Westerners feel dazed and confused upon exitin...
by wrdos
03 Jul 2008 08:37
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

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China in clampdown on ‘hot’ money http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2348a726-4872-11dd-a851-000077b07658.html By Geoff Dyer in Beijing Published: July 2 2008 22:47 | Last updated: July 2 2008 22:47 China announced a major strengthening of capital controls on Wednesday in an attempt to limit the amount of sp...
by wrdos
03 Jul 2008 06:38
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

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China's Rebuilding Effort Takes On Breakneck Pace by wsj.com http://chinese.wsj.com/photo/NA-AR155_REBUIL_20080701210034.jpg Time is running short. It has been nearly two months since a massive earthquake in China's Sichuan province leveled towns and left millions homeless. Government officials have...
by wrdos
02 Jul 2008 10:21
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

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China's Export Machine Threatened By Rising Costs wsj.com As a sign over its main boulevard proclaims, Honghe is 'China's Famous Town for Sweaters.' But the economy of sweater town is unraveling, providing an early sign that China's manufacturing sector may be entering middle age. Over the past two ...
by wrdos
30 Jun 2008 09:27
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

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Capital inflows to China Hot and bothered http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&story_id=11639442 http://media.economist.com/images/20080628/CFN512.gif Jun 26th 2008 | BEIJING From The Economist print edition Despite strict capital controls, China is being floode...
by wrdos
30 Jun 2008 08:14
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

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Chinese Riot Over Handling of Girl’s Killing Kyodo News, via Associated Press http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/world/asia/30riot.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/30/world/30riots-span-600.jpg A police building burning Saturday in Weng’an County in ...
by wrdos
26 Jun 2008 13:01
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

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For Chinese, the Reality of Higher Gas Prices Reuters http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/21/business/21gas-span-600.jpg Cars lined up Thursday at a gas station in Wuhan, China, before the government let companies increase prices up to 18 percent. Article Tools Sponsored By By JIMMY WANG Pub...
by wrdos
20 Jun 2008 06:58
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

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China increases energy prices http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c9f469b4-3e0b-11dd-b16d-0000779fd2ac.html By Geoff Dyer in Beijing and Javier Blas in London Published: June 19 2008 15:35 | Last updated: June 19 2008 20:03 China raised energy prices across the board on Thursday in a big policy shift that ris...
by wrdos
20 Jun 2008 06:56
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

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China Sharply Raises Energy Prices http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/world/asia/20china.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin Article Tools Sponsored By By KEITH BRADSHER Published: June 20, 2008 HONG KONG — Faced with increasingly severe fuel shortages and the prospect of power failures during the summe...
by wrdos
19 Jun 2008 06:55
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

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Flooding in Southern China Claims Scores of Victims http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/world/middleeast/18china.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=china&st=nyt&oref=slogin http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/18/world/18china-span-600.jpg SHANGHAI — Torrential rains that have caused some of th...
by wrdos
19 Jun 2008 06:53
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

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Investors Seek Asian Options to Costly China http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/18/business/18invest600.jpg When it comes to multinational manufacturing, Vietnam is fast becoming the new China. The electronics maker Samsung is building a factory in Yenphong Industrial Park, in Yenphong, Vie...
by wrdos
17 Jun 2008 08:47
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/world/asia/17china.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin Booming, China Faults U.S. Policy on the Economy http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/17/world/asia/17china.600.jpg A steel factory in Kunming. China’s economy has generally maintained strong growth while th...
by wrdos
16 Jun 2008 14:51
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

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China Increases Lead as Biggest Carbon Dioxide Emitter http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/world/asia/14china.html?scp=14&sq=china&st=nyt Article Tools Sponsored By By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Published: June 14, 2008 http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/14/world/china.650.jpg Beijing, shrou...
by wrdos
16 Jun 2008 14:49
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

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une 16, 2008 nytimes How Angel of Sichuan Saved School in Quake By EDWARD WONG http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/world/asia/16quake.html?scp=11&sq=china&st=nyt http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/15/world/quake.650.jpg Classes at Sangzao Middle School, where all 2,323 students surviv...
by wrdos
04 Jun 2008 07:43
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Replies: 3933
Views: 794743

Parents’ Grief Turns to Rage at Chinese Officials

Parents’ Grief Turns to Rage at Chinese Officials http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/world/asia/28quake.html?pagewanted=1&sq&st=nyt&scp=27 http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/28/world/28quake02_650.jpg http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/28/world/28quake-ledeinline-650.j...
by wrdos
27 Mar 2008 13:41
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitical thread
Replies: 3955
Views: 608637

Boundary agreements in 1895 and 1907 gave Russia the Pamir mountains and established the Wakhan Corridor - the slender eastern tongue of Afghanistan that borders China - as a buffer to Britain. But rather than cede East Turkestan (Uighurstan) to the Russians, the British financed China's recapture ...
by wrdos
27 Mar 2008 12:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitical thread
Replies: 3955
Views: 608637

Co-post from the Tibet Watch. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/20.../25/china.tibet Just like America, China is building a multi-ethnic empire in the west Tibet and Xinjiang have the misfortune of having resources the Asian giant wants, and being on the path to resources it needs Parag Khanna...
by wrdos
12 Mar 2008 14:31
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: China Military Watch
Replies: 3944
Views: 1360766

Pair of Chinese fighter planes form PLAAF’s high-low mix

Pair of Chinese fighter planes form PLAAF’s high-low mix http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-...Hash=11b9605731 By David Donald February 21, 2008 Aircraft China’s march to overhaul its front-line fighter fleet is making good progress, thanks to two major indigenous production programs invo...
by wrdos
06 Mar 2008 07:06
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: A Nation on the March
Replies: 897
Views: 379048

often been pointed out that in the Chinese word for crisis is also the Chinese word for opportunity Sigh this is worng but continues to spread. Maybe a Chinese lurker can confirm this Crisis is "WeiJi" in Chinese, while "Wei" means "dangerous" and "Ji" "...
by wrdos
05 Mar 2008 08:02
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: China Military Watch
Replies: 3944
Views: 1360766

Q&A: China's military budget

Q&A: China's military budget http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7277382.stm http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44467000/gif/_44467796_china_mil_spend02_416gr.gif China has announced another huge increase in its military budget, and the US and other nations have expressed concern over wha...
by wrdos
20 Aug 2007 15:05
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: PRC Political News & Discussions
Replies: 847
Views: 225298

Man detained in attack on giant Mao portrait The man, identified as Gu Hai'ou , from the northwestern city of Urumqi, tried to burn the portrait of China's first communist leader on Saturday afternoon, the Xinhua News Agency said. Early Sunday, authorities replaced the portrait, which had a small s...
by wrdos
12 May 2006 06:05
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: India's Shipping Sector
Replies: 453
Views: 193628

Reliance to spend $1.1 billion / Rs.5000cr on 25 ship fleet I hope Indian shipbuilders get a big part of these, rather then sending it all to Hyundai Heavy Industries or Mitsubishi Shipyards. Going by the rather excruciatingly slow build times in Indian yards, I suspect that Hyundai Pohang, or Kure...
by wrdos
02 Apr 2004 16:03
Forum: BR Nostalgia Archive
Topic: Top 100,000 Websites: Bharat Rakshak!!!
Replies: 75
Views: 100122

Re: Top 100,000 Websites: Bharat Rakshak!!!

:) Take it easy, my friend... So what language do you speak other than English? Is it even included in this list of languages that http://www.alexa.com/ has an interest to investigate? It seems that they have more interest on a language as small as Finnish is, than on some languages spoken by maybe ...
by wrdos
02 Apr 2004 15:51
Forum: BR Nostalgia Archive
Topic: Top 100,000 Websites: Bharat Rakshak!!!
Replies: 75
Views: 100122

Re: Top 100,000 Websites: Bharat Rakshak!!!

Hehe, you need updating your post. Now the second most popular site in the world is a Chinese site, right after the hotmail. http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?catid=16&ts_mode=subject&lang=none And among the top 50, more than 25 are now Chinese sites, if the 5-6 Taiwan/Hong Kong sites a...
by wrdos
14 Mar 2004 10:25
Forum: BR Nostalgia Archive
Topic: Top 100,000 Websites: Bharat Rakshak!!!
Replies: 75
Views: 100122

Re: Top 100,000 Websites: Bharat Rakshak!!!

Among the top 50 most visited websites, about 20 are in Chinese language.