Cheap fake goods from China will soon be wiped out, the head of Chinese international trade said in Perth yesterday.
In a sign of the Chinese Government’s intention to crack down on the black market, there were about 1 million people employed to remove fake goods from Chinese streets, according to the vice-chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Wang Jinzhen.
China is arguably the counterfeit capital of the world, attracting much criticism from high-profile designers and entrepreneurs for the proliferation of replica items as vast as t-shirts, CDs and DVDs, handbags and jewellery.
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The United Nations is set to release its UN Population Fund report that highlights the population numbers on our planet. The report suggests that the Earth’s population will hit seven billion by Oct. 31.
Global population levels have been a serious issue for many. With depleting resources, an increase in poverty numbers and a high demand for commodities, some are putting forth population control ideas.
According to demographers, the world population first hit one billion in the year 1804. 123 years later, the global number of human inhabitants reached two billion. By 1959, the number hit three billion, four billion in 1974, five billion 13 years later and then six billion just 11 years later.
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Google has updated its Government Requests tool with a lot more data, specifically the number of government requests and the exact amount of users or accounts requested. Thanks to TheWeazmeister for the link.
Today we’re updating the Government Requests tool with numbers for requests that we received from January to June 2011. For the first time, we’re not only disclosing the number of requests for user data, but we’re showing the number of users or accounts that are specified in those requests too. We also recently released the raw data behind the requests. Interested developers and researchers can now take this data and revisualize it in different ways, or mash it up with information from other organizations to test and draw up new hypotheses about government behaviors online.
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Washed ashore on Siesta Key Beach Tuesday morning was an 8-foot-tall Lego man, his shirt emblazoned with an enigmatic and grammatically challenged message: “NO REAL THAN YOU ARE.”
Jeff Hindman was walking the beach and first saw the 100-pound figure in the pre-dawn light. Thinking it was marine life, washed ashore overnight and left in the gentle ankle-deep surf, Hindman got closer and discovered the statue was made of fiberglass, like a boat hull.
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Attention one and all, Grand Theft Auto 5 has officially been announced! Grandstanding politicians, psychotic lawyers and big media have another game to blame for everything bad happening anywhere in the world.
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