CHINA has started scanning text messages in the latest move to step up censorship. SMH | Jan 18, 2010 by Malcolm Moore and Peter Foster Customers of China’s two largest mobile phone networks, China Mobile and China Unicom, have had their texting service blocked after sending risque messages, state media says. The disclosure comes as [...]
Photo shock … the FBI said it used ‘‘cutting edge’’ technology to update its composite image of Osama bin Laden, left. But it turned out to be little more than cutting and pasting features of a Spanish politician, Gaspar Llamazares, right. ”It’s almost like out of a comedy…” SMH | Jan 18, 2010 by FIONA [...]
An Iraqi woman looks at a blood-splattered car where two women were allegedly shot dead by private guards in Baghdad AFP | Nov 10, 2009 WASHINGTON — Executives at US security firm Blackwater approved secret payments of about one million dollars to Iraqi officials to “silence their criticism” after company guards killed 17 civilians in [...]
