A brand new hybrid bird flu in China has scientists worried
By Jennifer Welsh From Business Insider A new-to-humans flu virus killed a 73-year-old woman from the Jiangxi province in China, on Dec. 6. At the time, the doctors knew it was a H10N8 bird flu virus that killed her. But,…
Burdensome debt and elusive solutions
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean360 Average public debt levels for Caribbean small states now amount to about 84% of GDP with five countries experiencing debt-to-GDP ratios of close to 100% and higher. BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday February 6, 2014 –…
slaughter of whale sharks
Planet’s biggest slaughter of whale sharks exposed in PuQi, Zhejiang Province, China Report from Wild Life Risk HONG KONG, 27 January 2014 – Hong Kong-based wildlife conservation NGO WildLifeRisk has revealed that at least one factory in China’s Zhejiang Province …
How to capture the right kind of talent
By Alina Dizik BBC PHOTO: Participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images) Sony had a hiring problem. It wasn’t that the Japanese retailer, with more than 130 stores worldwide, including 38 in the US, couldn’t find…
Chinese banknotes stamped with QR codes breach great firewall
By Alex Magdaleno From Mashable Centuries of invaders couldn’t break the Great Wall of China, but a Chinese yuan can. Well, the “Great Firewall,” at least. A series of one yuan banknotes became a whole lot more valuable after being…
Apple’s iPhone sales, revenue outlook disappoint Wall Street as shares plunge
From Moneynews Apple Inc. missed Wall Street’s lofty target for iPhone sales over the crucial holiday shopping season and offered a weaker-than-expected forecast for this quarter, sending its shares down 8 percent on Monday. The world’s most valuable technology company…
iNews Briefs
Father and son sentenced on bank fraud, money laundering [Cayman] charges By Tom McLaughlin, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach Jan. 24 –Former Destin residents Gary Wayne Thomas and his son Brian Keith Thomas will serve federal prison sentences…
NOT GOOD: Chinese Manufacturing Unexpectedly Contracts
By SAM RO From Business Insider China’s HSBC Flash Manufacturing PMI fell to a six-month low of 49.6 in January. This compares to a 50.5 in December. This was worse than the 50.3 economists were expecting. And any reading below…
China’s elite caught storing riches in Caribbean offshore haven
Posted by sage From Golden Age of Gai By James Ball, The Guardian Relatives of political leaders including China’s current president and former premier named in trove of leaked documents from the British Virgin Islands. More than a dozen family…
The CIA’s 1971 secret report on the Senkaku Islands dispute
From Tofugu Tensions have started flaring up again in regards to the Senkaku Islands, though to be honest that’s been going on for a while now. I brought the islands up in my “Where is Japan?” post, quite a while…
