China

Skype unaware Chinese partner was monitoring and storing messages

Beijing - Skype, the online text message and voice service, acknowledged Friday that its Chinese partner had been archiving politically sensitive text messages.

Skype president Josh Silverman said the company was unaware that the internet chat of users in China, especially political discussions, was being stored on computer servers by Chinese mobile firm TOM Online, a unit of Hong Kong-based TOM Group Ltd.

In a statement, Silverman said the US company owned by auction giant eBay was "very concerned" about the monitoring and storage as well as a security breach that was discovered by Canadian researchers.

China’s CP Secure Acquired By Netgear For $17.5 Million

Recently, it was announced by Netgear Inc., a networking-equipment maker, that CP China’s CP Secure Acquired By Netgear For $17.5 Million Secure Inc., a provider of security solutions would be taken over by them though a deal of $17.5 million. CP Secure Inc, that provides security, basically protects against Internet-originated web and email based malware threat. 

To acquire CP Secure’s assets, Netgear, a California based company will pay $14 mn in cash and if in case CP Secure hits unspecified objectives before the closure of the acquisition, it will be paid additional $3.5 mn. 

Brussels keeps anti-dumping measures on Chinese, Vietnamese shoes

Brussels - The European Union's executive decided on Thursday to launch a formal review of current anti-dumping measures against Chinese and Vietnamese leather shoes, effectively keeping those measures in place despite opposition from EU member states.

"The European Commission today decided to launch an expiry review into the (anti-dumping) measures. The practical implication means the measures will continue for the duration of that review," Peter Power, spokesman for EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson, said.

"The review could last anything up to 12-15 months, but we will try and expedite this," he said.

Taiwan's China Airlines hit by turbulence over Thailand, 21 injured

ThailandTaipei - A Boeing 747-400 jetliner of Taiwan's major carrier China Airlines was hit by severe air turbulence on its way from Hong Kong to Bangkok Thursday, resulting in the injury of 21 people, the airlines said.

"Flight CI 641 arrived in Bangkok safely, and the injured, including, 5 crew members and 16 passengers, received hospital treatment," the airlines said in a news statement.

A total of 147 passengers and 18 crew members were on board the plane when the turbulence occurred without warning over Thai airspace, the airline said.

China's version of Skype monitors and stores messages

Beijing  - A Skype joint venture in China monitors and archives certain internet text conversations that include politically charged words, according to a report published by a group of Canadian computer security researchers Thursday.

TOM-Skype, a joint venture between TOM Online, a unit of Hong Kong-based TOM Group Ltd, and Skype, a unit of US-based eBay, was found by researchers at Ottawa-based Citizen Lab to monitor and store millions of records containing personal information of users of the Chinese service, as well as those who participated in voice calls using the service.

Skype is a software that allows users to make telephone calls, send text messages or transfer files over the internet.

China limits citizens' trips to Macau as money flows into casinos

Hong Kong - China has clamped down on permits to visit Macau after seeing huge amounts of money flood into casinos in the resort, some of them American-owned, a news report said Thursday.

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