Google is once more in conflict with China, this time over a new hacker attack affecting the e-mail accounts of hundreds of people, including senior U.S. officials, journalists, and Chinese political activists. The Internet giant says the scheme to steal user passwords from G-Mail accounts originated in Jinan in eastern China. It gave no details […]
China, Google Clash Over Reported New Hacking Attack
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 5:25 am (UTC-5)
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US Senator Expected in Rangoon to Meet Aung San Suu Kyi
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 5:00 am (UTC-5)
U.S. Senator John McCain was due in Rangoon Thursday for a meeting with Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. An opposition spokesman told VOA’s Burmese service the senator was also slated to see representatives of five small ethnic parties. His visit to Rangoon follows meetings Wednesday in the administrative capital, Naypyidaw, with Vice President […]
NATO Says Forces Capture Bin Laden Associate in Afghanistan
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 4:45 am (UTC-5)
NATO says Afghan and coalition troops have captured an al-Qaida facilitator who was a former associate of terror leader Osama bin Laden. In a statement Thursday, NATO said the man was captured in the Nahr-e Shahi area of northern Balkh province, but did not give his name. It said the Pakistan-based man planned attacks and […]
Pyongyang Strips South Korean Firm of Tourist Mountain Monopoly
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 4:25 am (UTC-5)
North Korea has unveiled a new law that would allow foreign investors to invest in a mountain resort once operated exclusively by a South Korean corporation. The law calls for transforming Mount Kumgang into a special zone for international tours. It also ends Hyundai Asan’s monopoly over the resort, which attracted scores of South Korean […]
Seoul Acknowledges Secret Beijing Meeting With North Korea
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 3:50 am (UTC-5)
South Korea has acknowledged its officials attended a secret meeting with North Korean officials in Beijing, but challenged details in Pyongyang’s account of the meeting. Unification Minister Hyun In-taek was questioned about the meeting in parliament Thursday, a day after the North’s official KCNA news agency provided an account of last month’s meeting. KCNA said […]
Chinese Crime Wave Reported After Pre-Universiade Crackdown
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 3:35 am (UTC-5)
Chinese state media say residents are reporting increased crime in the southern city Dongguan, which has become a haven for thousands of people expelled from the nearby city of Shenzhen ahead of an international sporting event. The Communist Party-controlled Global Times said Tuesday that more than 80,000 “high-risk” people have been expelled from Shenzhen in […]
Kan Offers Future Resignation as Party Faces Possible Defeat
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 2:40 am (UTC-5)
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan offered to resign in the coming months, speaking hours before a parliamentary vote that failed to bring down his government. Mr. Kan said at a meeting of his Democratic Party of Japan Thursday that he would like to hand over power to a younger generation once the prospects for dealing […]
Xinhua President Calls for Global “Media UN”
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 2:05 am (UTC-5)
The president of China’s official Xinhua news agency is calling for the formation of a new non-governmental organization to coordinate the world’s news media, serving as a sort of media United Nations. In an opinion article in the New York-based Wall Street Journal, Xinhua President Li Congjun argues that the rules and practices governing the […]
Pakistani General Rules Out North Waziristan Offensive
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 1:55 am (UTC-5)
Officials in northwestern Pakistan say militants have killed at least 23 security forces in an attack on a checkpoint that has lasted for more than a day. The attack began Wednesday in the town of Shaltalo, when police say about 200 militants crossed the border from Afghanistan’s Kunar province into Pakistan’s Dir tribal area. It […]
Contaminated Water Poses Latest Threat at Japanese Nuclear Plant
Posted June 2nd, 2011 at 1:30 am (UTC-5)
Workers at Japan’s crippled nuclear plant are urgently seeking new places to store highly radioactive water as levels rise toward ground level in utility trenches near two reactors. The Tokyo Electric Power Company said Wednesday that water levels were less than 35 centimeters from the top of the trenches. Japanese media said the levels continued […]
