A senior official in charge of Internet security has claimed that the country has become the world’s biggest victim of cyber attacks.
In an interview with Xinhua over the weekend, Zhou Yonglin, deputy chief of the operations department of China National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team (CNCERT), also dismissed Google’s allegation that hackers traced to [...]

China’s Internet companies are excited at the prospect of increasing their presence on mobile platforms.
The sector is enjoying rapid development following the introduction of third generation (3G) networks. But before they can replicate their success or experiences with traditional Internet platforms, they are having to cope with new challenges.
Tencent Holdings, the owner of QQ, the [...]

China’s high national saving rate is the key hurdle for government to build a consumption-driven economy.
Encouraging people spending is quite essential to sustain a long-term and stable increase. Most of Chinese people save their money for precautionary spending. So building a social safety net by spending more on healthcare becomes government’s right direction to encourage [...]

We are at a moment when the range of uncertainties facing the global economy is unusually wide. We have just passed through the worst financial crisis since World War II. The only relevant comparisons are with the Japanese real-estate bubble, which burst in 1991 (and from which Japan has not recovered), and the Great Depression [...]

HONG KONG: The Legislative Council Finance Committee approved $66.9 billion ($8.6 billion) in funding for the controversial express rail link to Guangzhou on Saturday.
The Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Rail Link will form part of China’s national high-speed rail network and allow people to travel from Hong Kong to Guangzhou in 48 minutes, just under half the amount [...]

SHANGHAI: Chinese President Hu Jintao has called for more efforts to promote independent innovation and upgrading of the industrial structure during his inspection tour to Shanghai which ended Sunday.
Hu visited scientific research bases, industrial parks and workshops of enterprises during the four-day tour, making investigations and research on the transformation of the mode of economic [...]

Black Eyed Peas singe Fergie and her husband Josh Duhamel renewed their marriage vows on the eve of their first wedding anniversary.
Fergie and her husband Josh Duhamel have renewed their wedding vows.
The Black Eyed Peas singer made a second commitment to actor Josh – who she originally married on January 10 2009 – in a [...]

LOS ANGELES – James Cameron’s “Avatar” continues to race up the box office charts, remaining No. 1 domestically for the fourth straight weekend with $48.5 million and placing second among all-time top-grossing films worldwide.
The science-fiction saga from 20th Century Fox added $143 million overseas to raise its international haul to $906 million. With $429 million [...]

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – Writer-directors and special effects artists Peter and Michael Spierig’s gore-soaked shocker “Daybreakers” unfolds in a dystopian future where vampires constitute 95% of the world’s population and most humans are imprisoned in factory farms, systematically drained of blood and discarded when their veins run dry.
Despite the futuristic setting, the vampires are [...]

China will encourage private enterprises to play a bigger role in the publishing business, according to guidelines to be released by the industry watchdog.
Private enterprises will be allowed to publish books on science and technology, finance and economy, supplementary materials to textbooks, music and arts, and children’s books, says a document to be issued by [...]