culture label

Welcome to the 'culture label' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'culture label'.

Are you an expert about 'culture label'? Do you want to be the Technorati authority on 'culture label'? You can write a description that will appear right here: Join Blogcritics!

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “culture label”

 

• EU, US leaders launch trade talks, France digs in on culture

  
  — Authority:
  The United States and the European Union launched talks on Monday to create one of the world’s most ambitious free-trade zones, as France again underscored its determination to protect its movies and culture. A trans-Atlantic free trade agreement was first considered three decades ago but was knocked down by France ...
  1 day ago

• White House sidesteps Edward Snowden ‘traitor’ debate

  
  — Authority:
  The White House on Tuesday stopped short of branding Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old American who leaked details of a vast US telephone and internet surveillance programme, a “traitor”. US President Barack Obama’s spokesman Jay Carney fended off all questions about Snowden, who was last known to be in Hong Kong, ...
  1 week ago

• China inflation slows to 2.1pc, lending falls point to economic weakness

  
  — Authority:
  The National Bureau of Statistics said China’s consumer inflation slowed to 2.1 per cent, the lowest in three months, while producer prices fell 2.9 per cent from a year earlier, the lowest since September. Read the original: China inflation slows to 2.1pc, lending falls point to economic weakness The post ...
  1 week ago

• Nicaragua canal fast-tracked with Chinese boost

  
  — Authority:
  MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — For centuries, tycoons and adventurers alike have dreamed of building a canal through Nicaragua between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and riding a boom in international trade to new riches. Up until now, however, all comers were forced to admit defeat when faced with the sheer challenge ...
  1 week ago

• Thousands join Turkey protests defying PM

  
  — Authority:
  Thousands of angry Turks took to the streets on Saturday to join mass anti-government protests, defying Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s call to end the worst civil unrest of his decade-long rule. From the early morning, protesters began arriving in Istanbul’s Taksim Square with food and blankets to settle in ...
  1 week ago

• Top US spy warns phone surveillance leak could harm national security

  
  — Authority:
  America’s top spy chief James Clapper warned on Thursday that leaks of secret court documents about a scheme to capture millions of phone records risked US national security. In a statement, Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, said “the unauthorised disclosure of a top secret US court document ...
  1 week ago

• Growing fear of brutality in police cells

  
  — Authority:
  Truck driver N. Dhamendran entered a Malaysian police station on May 11 to record a statement over a scuffle he was involved in. He never came out alive. Ten days later, police produced the 32-year-old’s battered corpse, his ears grotesquely pierced with a stapler, and said he died of a heart attack. The rest is ...
  1 week ago

• China, Mexico vow broad co-operation but no free-trade pact soon as Xi visits

  
  — Authority:
  China and Mexico promised broad co-operation on issues ranging from energy to mining and infrastructure during a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, but any free-trade pact between the emerging market powers is still some way off. Original post: China, Mexico vow broad co-operation but no ...
  2 weeks ago

• Growing trend of Hollywood’s ‘artistic surrender’ to please China

  
  — Authority:
  In Hollywood, the screenwriter William Goldman once observed, “nobody knows anything”. Now, however, everybody knows at least one thing: whatever you do, be nice to China. If your movie features a Chinese villain, change his nationality. If your plot omits a scene in China, insert one – preferably with gleaming ...
  2 weeks ago

• Asian stock markets choppy after US lukewarm data

  
  — Authority:
  BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets were choppy Friday after lackluster U.S. economic reports raised expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve would stick to its aggressive stimulus policies. U.S. unemployment claims rose and first-quarter growth was revised lower Thursday, which in a perverse turn of events was ...
  2 weeks ago

• Xi visits Trinidad in key trade region

  
  — Authority:
  When Chinese President Xi Jinping begins a tour of Latin America and the Caribbean on Friday, he will see a region split between nations with trade bonds with Beijing and those that recognise Taiwan. Xi will begin his trip in the oil-rich Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago before heading to Costa Rica and Mexico. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cambodia PM seeks law to punish Khmer Rouge denial

  
  — Authority:
  The Cambodian prime minister said he wants a law to punish people who deny that atrocities occurred during the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime, apparently trying to link his political opponents to the widely despised movement. Hun Sen’s appeal to Parliament on Monday comes ahead of a July 28 election his Cambodian ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cash did not stay long in accounts: witness

  
  — Authority:
  A number of high-value cash transactions were conducted through Birmingham City football club owner Carson Yeung Ka-sing’s bank accounts with no apparent cause, a forensic accountant told a court yesterday. It is one of the hallmarks that prosecution witness Roderick Sutton, a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Two men appear in British court over diverted Pakistan plane

  
  — Authority:
  Two British men accused of threatening to blow up a Pakistan International Airways (PIA) plane and kill its passengers and crew were remanded in custody following a court hearing on Monday. Continue reading here: Two men appear in British court over diverted Pakistan plane The post Two men appear in British ...
  3 weeks ago

• EU foreign ministers seek solution on Syria arms

  
  — Authority:
  The European Union nations remain divided on Monday whether to ease sanctions against Syria to allow for weapons shipments to rebels fighting the regime of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. See the original post here: EU foreign ministers seek solution on Syria arms The post EU foreign ministers seek solution ...
  3 weeks ago

Comments about culture label