Published on April 25, 2010 by admin
News4u-News Desk- Yoga studios have cancelled classes, Luxury hotels are turning away guests, Shopping malls and office buildings are shut down as Thailand’s political turmoil enters its seventh week, the economic toll is spreading
Ordinary workers, parents and shoppers often reach their destinations to find signs that say: “Sorry, closed due to political unrest.”
The “Red Shirt” protesters have occupied various parts of Bangkok since 12th March to demand the government’s resignation. Twenty-six people have died in the political violence.
The protests are concentrated now in about a square mile of the Thai capital. In early April, protesters pitched tents along the city’s swankiest shopping street – the equivalent of Paris’ Champs-Elysees or New York’s Fifth Avenue.
Thousands of supporters have slept on sidewalks ever since.
Four luxury hotels and a half-dozen towering shopping malls in the area have closed, losing millions of dollars a day.
Thailand turmoil shuts down scores of businesses
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Published on April 17, 2010 by admin
News4u-News Desk-Moscow, (PTI) Russia today shut down its last weapons grade plutonium in the Siberian city of Zheleznogorsk, after 46 years of its successful operation.
The ADE-2 reactor situated in Zheleznogorsk town of Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia was shut down at noon (0930 IST) by pressing ‘STOP’ button and process for its de-commissioning has begun, ITAR-TASS reported.
The ADE-2 was the world’s oldest and last reactor for producing weapons grade plutonium and during his speech at the recent Nuclear Security Summit in Washington President Dmitry Medvedev had announced plans to close it.
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Published on February 9, 2010 by admin
News4u-News Desk-China has closed what it claims to be the largest hacker training website in the country and arrested three of its members, domestic media reported monday.
The ”Black Hawk Safety Net” website taught hacking techniques and provided malicious software downloads for its 12,000 members in exchange for a fee, the Wuhan Evening News newspaper reported this weekend, citing police in Huanggang, just east of Wuhan.
Hacking from China has received international attention since Google Inc threatened to quit China last month after a serious hacking attempt originating from China, resulting in the theft of its intellectual property.
China has denied involvement in the hacking episode and said it does not condone hacking.
The website was shut in late November and three of its members arrested on suspicion of criminal activity, the newspaper reported, without saying why the news was only released now.
Wuhan happens to be home to the Communication Command Academy, which trains hackers, according to US congressional testimony by cyber expert James Mulvenon in 2008.
The popularity of hacking in China, and hackers’ use of multiple addresses and servers, in Taiwan and elsewhere, makes it hard to prove how or by whom they are coordinated.
Would-be hackers in China do not have to look far to figure out how to do it, thanks to a healthy hacking industry and sites such as Black Hawk Safety Net (www.3800hk.com), which was unavailable Monday.
China shuts down largest hacker training website
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