News

Chinese hacker/spy sentenced to U.S. prison

  Su Bin, a Chinese businessman who admitted being part of a group hacking  U.S. defense secrets, has been given nearly four years’ jail. He had been extradited from Canada. Su Bin was convicted of taking part in a multi-year plot  by Chinese military officers to...

Google tells patrons of 4,000 state-sponsored cyberattacks a month

Google senior vice president Diane Greene said on July 11 that the company was notifying customers of about 4,000 state-sponsored cyberattacks per month. The Internet search leader has led the sector in notifying users of government spying. Others, including Microsoft...

Abe pushes to end price deflation, boost economic growth

  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ordered Economic Revitalization Minister Nobuteru Ishihara  to draft a range of economic measures to end deflation and raise Japan’s growth potential. The program will include  a supplementary  fiscal 2016 budget. The...

China loses big South China Sea case

  The northern  South China Sea. China has lost an important international legal case over control of strategic reefs and atolls that it  asserts give it the right to control much of the South China Sea.  It has been rapidly militarizing some of  these features...

Video: Steps to discourage exits from the E.U.

  In this video, Bloomberg columnist Clive Crook presents some ideas on how the European Community can discourage other nations from following the United Kingdom's exit. To watch the video, please hit this link.