So why are we witnessing such fundamental changes? Well, the globalism and "free trade" that our politicians and business leaders insisted would be so good for us have had some rather nasty side effects. It turns out that they didn't tell us that the "global economy" would mean that middle class American workers would eventually have to directly compete for jobs with people on the other side of the world where there is no minimum wage and very few regulations.

China police 'mistakenly beat boss's wife'

Does this mean the police are not supposed to beat leaders' wives, but the ordinary people can be battered?

China on track to aim 2,000 missiles at Taiwan: report

The increase from today's estimate of 1,000 to 1,400 missiles could raise tensions after two years of upbeat dialogue between the rivals that has cleared the way for direct civilian flights and a free trade-style deal in June.

Death Grip Testing on iPhone Competitors Shows Mixed Results

The phones involved were the Apple iPhone 4, Motorola Droid X, T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide, Droid Incredible by HTC, BlackBerry Bold 9650, and the Samsung Captivate.

Warnings of Risks to China Banks

A report released on Wednesday by Fitch, the credit ratings agency, said Chinese banks were increasingly engaging in complex deals that hid the size and nature of their lending, obscuring hundreds of billions of dollars in loans and possibly even masking a coming wave of bad real estate and infrastructure loans.

400 sudden deaths caused by Chinese mushroom

For 30 years, during the rainy season, scores of villagers in Yunnan province have died suddenly of cardiac arrest.

China dairy products found tainted with melamine - again

Test samples showed the milk powder carried up to 500 times the maximum allowed level of the chemical.

Total solar eclipse crosses South Pacific

The eclipse started at 1815 GMT about 700km (440 miles) south-east of Tonga, and reached Easter Island by 2011 GMT.

China threatens dissident writer Yu Jie with prison

The officers had threatened him with a prison sentence if he went ahead with his plans for publishing the book, Mr Yu said.

China Jails Tibetan Environmentalist

A Chinese court on Saturday sentenced a Tibetan environmentalist who organized villagers to pick up litter and plant trees to five years in jail for inciting to split the nation, his lawyer said.

China trade deal has a sting in its tail for Taiwan

Critics, including former president Lee Teng-hui, say an influx of cheap Chinese goods could hit Taiwanese jobs, undermine local industries and inextricably lock Taiwan into a "one China" market.

Amnesty challenges China on Xinjiang riot accounts?

Amnesty International has challenged the official Chinese version of events in Xinjiang a year ago, when nearly 200 people were killed in ethnic clashes.

Skype Encryption (Partly) Revealed

Source code is available under a non-commercial license which details Skype's implementation of the RC4 cipher."

Witnesses offer support, opposition to Kagan

Just four months after taking the job as Harvard's dean, in October 2003, Kagan offered students her thoughts in a campus-wide e-mail, saying that to give recruiters equal access to the campus "causes me deep distress. I abhor the military's discriminatory recruitment policy." She called it "a profound wrong -- a moral injustice of the first order."

House passes landmark financial reform bill

Still, the 237 to 192 vote in the House marked a win for Obama and his fellow Democrats, who have made the most sweeping rewrite of Wall Street rules since the 1930s a top priority in the wake of the 2007-2009 financial crisis.

Putting a Private Detective in Your Laptop

In addition, some software can lock down the computer and display on-screen messages letting the user (who may not be the thief) know the device has been stolen and where to return it.

Apology to BP's Hayward triggers uproar

A Republican U.S. representative apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward on Thursday, saying BP was victim of a White House "shakedown" by having to set up a $20 billion Gulf oil spill fund, a comment that angered both Democrats and Republicans.

Obama's Twist of BP' Arm Stirs Debate on Frequent Tactic

But President Obama's successful move to force BP to establish a $20 billion compensation fund that the company will have no voice in allocating - just a down payment, the president insisted - mayhave been the most vivid example of what he recently called his determination to step in and do "what individuals couldn't do and corporations wouldn't do.

Taiwan's Harvard pride eyes his career in NBA

This year would be different for the immense NBA aficionados in Taiwan, a country that is perennially excluded from the annual talent competition. Jeremy Lin, a Harvard-trained combo guard whose parents are both Taiwanese expatriates in the US, had decided to examine his capability in the upcoming draft due June 24 (US time) after several satisfying test matches, according to Liberty Times reports.

Employee Monitoring

Yet most IT professionals never expected they'd be asked to police their colleagues and co-workers in quite this way

China stripped of 2000 gymnastics medal for underage athlete

China was stripped of a team all-around bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics on Wednesday because it fielded an underage gymnast. Dong Fangxiao was discovered to be 14 at the time of those Games, two years younger than the minimum age requirement.

How to face DPP comeback in Taiwan

Another surprise is that the DPP seems considerably more prepared to resume governance in Taiwan than most international and domestic pundits had imagined. Under steady and astute leadership from DPP Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen, the opposition party has overcome the blows to its morale from the electoral debacles in 2008 and has become rejuvenated by its series of electoral victories.

Kuomintang sued in U.S. court for recovery of stolen assets

International law expert Jonathan Levy has announced the filing of a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the business managers of the Kuomintang ruling party of the Republic of China in-exile to recover stolen assets.
The Chinese Nationalist Kuomintang has a long history of corruption and has accumulated billions of dollars.