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- China blocks Tiananmen talk on crackdown anniversary
- Hanoi opens 3 new sites for POW search
- 'Game of Thrones' Season 2 Finale 'Valar Morghulis' Sets The Stage For Season 3
- A Business Of One: 5 Strategies For Successful Freelancing
- Japan PM sacks five ministers to win tax-plan backing
- Rajan is Back And Little Better
- 6 'Game of Thrones'-Related Activities to Keep You Busy Until Season 3
- Why Is America Doing Absoutely Nothing on The Euro and Spain?
- Why Does Customer Service Suck?
- VIDEO: China's voices of dissent
- VIDEO: China's voices of dissent
- Vietnam to open restricted sites for MIA search: Pentagon
- China blocks Tiananmen talk on crackdown anniversary
- Telecom Weekly News Wrap June 3, 2012
- Planes, Trains And Automobiles: The Power Of Real-Time Mobile
- Prices Clear Markets: Manufacturing Edition
- Getting on Microsoft's Board of Directors
- U.S., Vietnam Exchange War Artifacts
- Vietnam to open restricted sites for MIA search: Pentagon
- VIDEO: Egypt protests over police trial
| China blocks Tiananmen talk on crackdown anniversary Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:42 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China's censors blocked internet access to the terms "six four", "23", "candle" and "never forget" on Monday, broadening extensive efforts to silence talk about the 23rd anniversary of China's bloody June 4 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. For China's ruling Communist Party, the 1989 demonstrations that clogged Tiananmen Square in Beijing and spread to other cities remains taboo, all the more so this year as the government prepares for a tricky leadership handover. ...
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| Hanoi opens 3 new sites for POW search Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:51 PM PDT
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| 'Game of Thrones' Season 2 Finale 'Valar Morghulis' Sets The Stage For Season 3 Posted: 03 Jun 2012 11:06 PM PDT HBO's season 2 of 'Game of Thrones' ends on an uncertain note, tying up some loose ends while cutting open new wounds. But has the show strayed too far from the books? Will the next season bring the story closer to the original?
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| A Business Of One: 5 Strategies For Successful Freelancing Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:48 PM PDT Guest post written by Fabio Rosati Fabio Rosati is CEO of Elance. For years, Americans have been subjected to a steady drumbeat of doom-and-gloom news about employment and the state of the economy. Scratch below the surface, and you'll find a revolution in the job market that's quickly changing the way people find and complete ...
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| Japan PM sacks five ministers to win tax-plan backing Posted: 03 Jun 2012 11:13 PM PDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda replaced five cabinet ministers on Monday hoping to smooth the way to a deal with the opposition on doubling sales tax in spite of a rift in the ruling party over the plan.
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| Rajan is Back And Little Better Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:48 PM PDT Raghu Rajan's has a new piece in the Project Syndicate that continues on a theme. The pieces are getting better, so this hints to me that we are working towards consensus. Let me focus on a few key issues from this latest rendition. First, he writes So why do these economists want the Fed to ...
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| 6 'Game of Thrones'-Related Activities to Keep You Busy Until Season 3 Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:39 PM PDT Season 2 of the epic fantasy series Game of Thrones has just finished, and Season 3 will likely air in February 2013. Who knows when George R.R. Martin will finish the next installment of his A Song of Ice and Fire series, The Winds of Winter???This means there's a whole lot of empty space that ...
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| Why Is America Doing Absoutely Nothing on The Euro and Spain? Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:37 PM PDT I think one photograph will come back to haunt . At least if I was Mitt Romney I would make plenty of it. I?d be saying things like: what was the leader of the free world doing as American investors were being burned by problems created by the Euro? That photograph dates back to the ...
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| Why Does Customer Service Suck? Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:34 PM PDT Guest post written by David Yarnold David Yarnold is CEO of ServiceMax, a provider of field service management software. I was speaking recently to the general manager of a $9 billion service subsidiary of a Fortune 50 manufacturing company, and I asked him the question in the headline of this post. He thought about it, ...
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| VIDEO: China's voices of dissent Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:48 PM PDT A small group of activists are continuing to call for political and legal reforms in China, despite the tight control of the Communist Party.
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| VIDEO: China's voices of dissent Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:48 PM PDT A small group of activists are continuing to call for political and legal reforms in China, despite the tight control of the Communist Party.
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| Vietnam to open restricted sites for MIA search: Pentagon Posted: 03 Jun 2012 09:55 PM PDT HANOI (Reuters) - The Vietnamese government has agreed to open three previously restricted sites to help the search for and excavation of the remains of U.S. servicemen listed as missing in action, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday. The agreement was unveiled at a meeting between visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and his Vietnamese counterpart Phung Quang Thanh, spokesman George Little said. He gave no details about the sites. ...
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| China blocks Tiananmen talk on crackdown anniversary Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:42 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China's censors blocked internet access to the terms "six four", "23", "candle" and "never forget" on Monday, broadening extensive efforts to silence talk about the 23rd anniversary of China's bloody June 4 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
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| Telecom Weekly News Wrap June 3, 2012 Posted: 03 Jun 2012 09:55 PM PDT Cisco Report: ????Global Internet traffic to quadruple in four years Cisco released its annual Visual Networking Index, one of the few reliable windows into the growth of the ?Net. As Stacey Higgenbotham at Gigaom points out,??despite the company?s record of dramatic predictions, if any anything, Cisco could be criticized for being too conservative in the ...
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| Planes, Trains And Automobiles: The Power Of Real-Time Mobile Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:13 PM PDT Guest post written by Stan Schneider Stan Scheneider is CEO of RTI, a Sunnyvale, California-based software company. The era of mobile computing is going far beyond smart phones and tablets. Just ahead: always-on planes, trains and automobiles.??This brave new world of smart, connected systems has implications as profound as the changes driven by land networks ...
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| Prices Clear Markets: Manufacturing Edition Posted: 03 Jun 2012 09:37 PM PDT I know my admonishments not to think of the economies as healthy or unhealthy or as having intrinsically good or bad states strikes some folks as annoying and pedantic. Here though I think is a good example, of why allowing good and bad thinking into your analysis ups the potential for confusion. From the Wall ...
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| Getting on Microsoft's Board of Directors Posted: 03 Jun 2012 09:31 PM PDT Everywhere we turn these days, we?re being told that it?s imperative to our economic recovery to get women serving on Boards. Studies tell us that three is the magic number to achieve immediate and measurable bottom line results but the She-Board needle isn?t moving. As??Personnel Today??recently observed when it [comes] to drawing up short-lists, women ...
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| U.S., Vietnam Exchange War Artifacts Posted: 03 Jun 2012 09:52 PM PDT Top U.S. and Vietnamese defense officials exchanged letters and diaries of fallen soldiers taken during the Vietnam war, the highest level exchange of artifacts since the normalization of relations 17 years ago.
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| Vietnam to open restricted sites for MIA search: Pentagon Posted: 03 Jun 2012 09:55 PM PDT HANOI (Reuters) - The Vietnamese government has agreed to open three previously restricted sites to help the search for and excavation of the remains of U.S. servicemen listed as missing in action, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.
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| VIDEO: Egypt protests over police trial Posted: 03 Jun 2012 09:09 PM PDT Demonstrations have continued in Egypt's Tahrir Square over six former police chiefs, who have escaped punishment because of a "lack of evidence".
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