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Google quits China
Posted by Rob Jones on 23rd Mar 10
Concerns over censorship and hacking have meant that Google, the internet’s biggest search engine, has decided to withdraw its services in China. Traffic will now be passed through Hong Kong and the internet giant has announced that it will no longer be censoring searches in the region. China has accused Google of breaking a promise [...]
(Read More)UK Needs More Export to China
Posted by Michael Bond on 29th Jan 10
Recently China has been all over the headlines and not for positive things. Many are blaming the country for its part in the Copenhagen climate summit and most recently China has been in a row with Google over their alleged attempt to hack into the accounts of human rights activists. Nevertheless Gordon Brown made an [...]
(Read More)Chinese Google Copycat Appears Online
Posted by Kim Newbold on 29th Jan 10
Google has been engaged in a heated battle with the Chinese government over accusations that the site was hacked for the purposes of spying on human rights activists. Even though Google agreed to censor the internet in exchange for being allowed to operate in China, they have drawn the line at China using their site [...]
(Read More)Google Rift with China Continues
Posted by Michael Bond on 25th Jan 10
Since Google first starting operating in China, they have taken criticism over their decision to allow the internet to be censored. Some have lashed out at Google saying that the company was only concerned with getting control of the gigantic market in China and did so even though it meant allowing its company to be [...]
(Read More)Miliband Blames China for Summit Failure
Posted by Lucy Walters on 24th Dec 09
In the aftermath of the United Nations summit on climate change, which many are calling a complete failure, many people are trying to figure out exactly what went wrong. There were many prominent world leaders who predicted that the summit would fail, but optimism was raised in the weeks leading up to the Copenhagen summit, [...]
(Read More)Brown Promotes Increased Export to China
Posted by Kim Newbold on 14th Oct 09
In a discussion with some of the leading economists in the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Gordon Brown claimed the United Kingdom needed to step up its efforts to increase production and exports to countries like China. Brown said that the United Kingdom needed to make it a priority to convince China to import more of [...]
(Read More)International Students Flooding to UK
Posted by Steven Allen on 28th Sep 09
A recent report reveals that the total number of non European students coming to get their university degree in the United Kingdom has nearly doubled in the last decade. The study focused on the years between 2000 and 2006 to try and gauge trends in United Kingdom higher education. What the study showed is that [...]
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