US testing new system to bypass web filters
The US government is testing a new technology in China that could soon give the country's 300 million web users another way to access information blocked by the Chinese government's filters.
The technology would pose yet another challenge to Beijing, which has been struggling to keep improper and violent materials, including pornography, away from its Internet users.
asahi.com(朝日新聞社):Internet scamsters fail to report 500 million yen income – English
Japan: At least 15 individuals and businesses failed to declare more than 500 million yen, and tax authorities ordered most of the perpetrators to pay penalties in addition to taxes due because they attempted to hide their wrongdoing, sources said.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess: Digital China: Ten Things Worth Knowing about the Chinese Internet – Politics on The Huffington Post
Digital China: Ten Things Worth Knowing about the Chinese Internet
Caretakers of the tangata (people), whenua (lands), moana (seas & waterways), plants, foods of land & the sea, manu (birds), waiata me korero (songs & stories), taonga (treasures), etc of the area known as Te Hiku o te Ika a Maui (the tail of the fish of Maui in the far far north of NZ. Te Hei Mauriora
The Jakarta Post – E-learning on tolerant Islam launched
An e-learning program is being introduced to Islamic boarding schools (pesantren) in a bid to promote an inclusive and tolerant brand of Islam in Indonesia, says a nongovernmental organization.
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The new witness in the Senate inquiry on the scrapped $329-million national broadband network (NBN) deal said Saturday he was forced to come forward and tell the truth after a former Malacañang official allegedly instructed him to lie.