Topic: China
A top Google executive told US lawmakers Wednesday that the Internet giant is prepared to leave China if Beijing says it must censor Web searches or quit the world's most populous online market. "Google is firm in its decision that it will stop censoring our search results for China," Google vice president and deputy general counsel Nicole Wong told ...
China's hunger for oil is set to drive global demand in the coming years as consumption in the industrialized countries may not regain pre-economic crisis levels, experts say. "Chinese demand will continue to grow at a relatively high rate," said Kefeng Yang of research firm IHS CERA, the organizer of an energy conference this week in Houston in the ...
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: March 6 Loveland (Colo.) Daily Reporter-Herald, on early warning systems in disaster planning: The tsunami waves that followed Chile's huge earthquake on Feb. 27 may not have been as devastating as feared, but the ...
