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• Teng Biao: Invalid Use of Testimony

  
  Justrecently's Weblog — Authority: 128
  Teng Biao (滕彪), a lawyer and one of the founders of the Open Constitution Initiative, has made a statement on a testimony to the Beijing Public Security Bureau  which was apparently used as “evidence” in the trial of Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), which ended on Friday with an eleven-year jail sentence. In his ...
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• Hu Jia: Two Years in Prison

  
  Justrecently's Weblog — Authority: 128
  Hu Jia (胡佳) will have served two years of his prison sentence on December 27. When his wife Zeng Jinyan (曾金燕) told a Vietnamese friend some time ago that Hu would probably be released on June 26, 2011, her friend sincerely congratulated her. Her enthusiasm sort of grabbed Zeng, and encouraged her to be ...
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• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
  2 weeks ago

• 32 Million Passwords Hacked! Thanks RockYou.com.

  
  Keystone Blog — Authority: 127
  A relatively popular social networking application site called RockYou! has been embarrassed non-stop over the past forty-eight hours . “Good,” you might say, “They deserve it.” But any user of this site needs to be aware that his or her information (including email and passwords) has been hacked. The site ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
  2 weeks ago

• Change must start from grassroots, Schwarzenegger tells COP15

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The COP15 conference on climate change will be a success even if no deal comes out of it, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday in Copenhagen. “It depends on what your definition of a deal is,” Schwarzenegger told the media. “The important thing is to move the agenda forward.” The ...
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• What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today’s expert panel discusses the question, “What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?” Join the discussion and let us know what you think. ************** Gidon Eshel , physics professor at Bard College: What can ordinary people do to slow climate change? A lot. Which is extremely important ...
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• Climate skeptic: We are winning the science battle

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  - Dr. Fred Singer is the President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project and Professor Emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia. The views expressed are his own - The International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) charter states that the organization’s purpose is to look for ...
  2 weeks ago

• SEA Games: Tears for U-23 football team, joy for shooters and bittersweet day for swimmers

  
  The Singapore Sports Fan Says... — Authority: 421
  Singapore won two more individual golds in swimming this evening but in a surprise twist, star swimmer Quah Ting Wen, was not the recipient of either.Instead, it was best friends Amanda Lim and Tao Li who delivered the goods in the 50m freestyle and 200m butterfly finals respectively.Constantly in the shadow of Ting ...
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• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
  2 weeks ago

• RockYou shakes up management ranks as it goes after brands

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 160
  Bookmark this categoryRockYou is shaking up its management team after it received a bunch of funding to go after brand partners in an effort to grow its app business and ad network on Facebook.In the restructuring, Lisa Marino will move from vice president of sales to chief revenue officer for the San Francisco ...
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• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
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• The answer could be blowing in the wind

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Well into the first week of the U.N. Conference on Climate Change, the haves and have nots of the world are still divided over who should pay for the cleanup of the planet. Poor countries want rich countries to cough up more ambitious goals for emissions cuts and developing technologies. From emerging wind and ...
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• JohnsonDiversey exec sees CO2 reductions good for businesses

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Some businesses in the United States will have to reinvent themselves as the Obama administration moves to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but theyll be better off in the long run, Pedro Chidichimo, president of JohnsonDiversey EMA, told Reuters.com on Thursday. Despite the inevitable short-term pain, Chidichimo said ...
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• Africans protest COP15, say “process manipulated”

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  In the most heated protest of these early days at COP15 in Copenhagen, African representatives accused the political leaders of the developed world of hijacking the conference to the detriment of developing nations. The marchers said the process of the talks had been manipulated by the developed worlds political ...
  3 weeks ago

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