Tag Archives : Asia

As is known, in recent decades China has grown rapidly, becoming an economic powerhouse. In fact, China is now the second largest economy. Of course this growth has brought benefits and forced the local government to invest in infrastructure to accommodate the millions of workers moving to the thousands of factories wide spread by large cities. There [...]

The sale of applications for devices such as newspapers iPad, Apple is cannibalizing sales of physical newspapers, said James Murdoch, chief operating officer of News Corp Europe and Asia, on Friday. News Corp. closed the site’s free daily the Times of London, in June this year. The “Times”, its Sunday version Sunday Times and News [...]

Intel today opened its first factory in China, a project whose inauguration took place several years after the U.S. company made the announcement of initial investment of $ 2.5 billion. Construction of the factory in northeast China, required a long-term Chinese standards. The announcement of the project’s first production unit of Intel chips [...]

A large deposit of amber 50 million years found in India can change the Earth’s geological history and anticipate the emergence of some species on the planet. All because the insects found trapped in the material show that the subcontinent was not as isolated as previously thought. Indian, Americans and Germans researchers spent two years in [...]

The number of Internet users will exceed two billion this year, bringing it closer to a third of the world. However, developing countries need to strengthen access to this vital tool for economic growth, said a UN agency on Tuesday. The number of users doubled in the last five years, and compares to an estimated world population of 6.9 billion people, [...]

In the hope that workers can have more comfort and safety in the intense heat of summer in the country, authorities in southern India began a competition to encourage the creation of a jacket to cool. According to the site PhysOrg, the Kerala state will pay one million rupees to the winner, about $ 37,000, but might be a person or a research group. [...]

According to a survey recently released by comScore, only in June Twitter‘s website was accessed by more than 93 million users, an increase of 109% compared to last year. With this, the microblogging service earns the status of a social networking more accessible worldwide. “Today, almost three among four global Internet users accessing [...]

Researchers Ken Aplin, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia, and Kris Helgen, the Smithsonian Institution, U.S., found at an archaeological site in East Timor bones of a mouse that would have weighed 6 pounds, which would be largest animal of this species that we know today. Analysis done by the scientists indicated [...]

A fleet of warships from the United States and South Korea began today in the Sea of Japan, military maneuvers in the face of North Korea. U.S. military denied that the maneuvers are a provocation, but admitted that they are intended to send a strong message to the communist regime and are a response to the sinking of a warship South Korea in March [...]

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), a Geneva-based body, warned that ‘the world must prepare for a mass increase in climate-linked migration.’ Deemed as a certain reality in the foreseeable future, it is what leaders who wrangled deals at the Copenhagen Climate Conference failed to be alarmed about. The United Nations Climate Change [...]