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Radio Free Asia Responds to China Blocking Google Searches with the Letters `RFA`

"It’s time for China to stop exerting draconian control of its cyberspace" -RFA's Libby Liu

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Radio Free Asia President Libby Liu responsed to the news that China’s Great Firewall temporarily blocked all Google searches in China, due to an unintentional association with the long-censored term “rfa.”

According to Google, the phrase “gs_rfai,” which began appearing in the URL’s of Google searches globally, triggered the problem.

Operation `Aurora` Hit Google, Others

The current bumper crop of malware is very sophisticated, highly targeted, and designed to infect, conceal access, siphon data or, even worse, modify data without detection.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - McAfee Labs has been working around the clock, diving deep into the attack we are now calling Aurora that hit multiple companies and was publicly disclosed by Google on Tuesday.

We are working with multiple organizations that were impacted by this attack as well as the government and law enforcement.

Repercussions Expected Over Google`s China Operations

Cyber-attacks directed against Google draw a response from the company and questions from U.S. officials.

(HONG KONG) - Google's announcement this week that it will quit filtering its Web-based searches in China and may leave the country altogether may affect the operations of other foreign firms in China, sources said.

“Google has posed a tremendous challenge to the Chinese government,” Internet research expert Isaac Mao said on Twitter.

Google Rebels Against China`s Internet Censors

China, which is on the list of countries identified by Reporters Without Borders as “Enemies of the Internet,” with the world’s biggest prison for netizens, with a total of 69 bloggers and cyberdissidents detained.

(BEIJING) - Reporters Without Borders hails US Internet giant Google’s announcement yesterday that it will stop censoring the Chinese version of its search engine, Google.cn – a move that could lead to Google.cn’s closure and Google’s withdrawal from the Chinese market.

The company said it took the decision following sophisticated cyber-attacks on Gmail accounts coming from China.

Amnesty International Says China`s Censorship of the Internet Must Stop

"...censorship measures adopted in China are not in the best interests of their customers and do not help promote freedom of expression or the right to information" -Roseann Rife, Amnesty International

(BEIJING) - Amnesty International has again urged the Chinese authorities to end censorship of the internet.

The matter hit the news after online firm Google raised concern about the hacking of human rights activists’ email accounts.

Japanese Whalers Ram Sea Shepherd Ship Ady Gil

Famed trimaran is sinking in the Southern Ocean; six crewmembers rescued by the Sea Shepherd Ship Bob Barker.

(ANTARCTICA) - In an unprovoked attack captured on film, the Japanese security ship Shonan Maru No. 2 deliberately rammed and caused catastrophic damage to the Sea Shepherd trimaran Ady Gil.

Six crewmembers, four from New Zealand, one from Australia, and one from the Netherlands were immediately rescued by the crew of the Sea Shepherd ship Bob Barker. None of the crew Ady Gil crew were injured. The Ady Gil is believed to be sinking and chances of salvage are very grim.

China Jails Tibetan Filmmaker

The India-based Tibetan government-in-exile estimates that 220 Tibetans were killed and 7,000 were detained in a subsequent region-wide crackdown.

(HONG KONG) - Authorities in the northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai have handed down a six-year jail sentence to a Tibetan filmmaker who returned from exile to make a documentary about his homeland, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

The Xilin People’s Court handed down the sentence to Dhondup Wangchen, the producer of the documentary “Leaving Fear Behind,” in a secret trial that found him guilty of “splitting the motherland,” Tibetan sources told RFA’s Tibetan service.

Strong Earthquake Rocks Tajikistan

Earthquakes are relatively frequent in Tajikistan, which is one of the poorest of the former Soviet nations.

(PAMIR MOUNTAINS, Tajikistan) - At least 10,000 people have been left homeless in Tajikistan after an earthquake hit the Gorno-Badakhshansky region in the east of the country.

The Emergency Situations and Civil Defence Committee said no casualties were reported after the magnitude 5.3 quake struck about 10 villages in the Pamir Mountains.

Taliban Sends Open Dispatch to General McChrystal, US Commander in Afghanistan

Applying all the forces; ousted in culmination.

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - A group Salem-News.com is closely associated with, Veterans Today Military Veterans & Foreign Affairs Journal, is constantly turning up news that other media fails to examine and address.

Our writer Gordon Duff is one of the main players with this group, and their work led to this dispatch from a group claiming to be or at least speak for, the Taliban.

Economic Crisis Behind Increase of Sex Shops in Salem, Oregon`s Ukrainian Sister City

Our Correspondent in Simferopol, Ukraine, reports that the city is experiencing an economic crisis, and an explosion in sex shops. WARNING: Explicit photos.

(SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine) - When the first sex-shop appeared in Simferopol, it was as a symbol of “perestroika” – we have even “it”, and people knew, where it is located - on Pushkin street, near the museum.

The cherished door was located on the back side of the shop – and with expected inscription, «Adults only».