Articles on Government

Who is ultimately responsible for the planet? - Oct 30, 2009

Blogs The other day, I went for a talk about changing world views. I learned that in the past, people did not consider it to be the Government's responsibility to provide welfare ... Read story »

Screaming in cyberspace... - Oct 20, 2009

Blogs ...Seems to be a waste of time when it comes to the Government of Malaysia. Because it appears they're rather deaf when it is about what the citizenry has to say, ... Read story »

Singapore showcases its first Zero Energy Building - Oct 27, 2009

Crave Going by the axiom that action speaks louder than words, the Singapore authorities have on Monday unveiled the country's first Zero Energy Building as a project to test the waters. ... Read story »

One-third of Internet users in India carry out digital transactions--good growth - Nov 30, 2009

Blogs Last week, Mr R Chandrasekhar, who happens to be Secretary of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in the Indian Government, made public some startling finds ... Read story »

Mobile phone costs in India among the cheapest--and gets cheaper - Dec 21, 2009

Blogs Most would agree that mobile phone tarrifs in India are by far the cheapest in the world. Usually it costs about INR 0.60 for a 1 min call (that's approx US$0.012 ... Read story »

Google told to remove porn by Chinese government - Jun 22, 2009

Crave Google has acknowledged that the Chinese government asked it to disable a search feature with the goal of censoring pornography, but it still won't say whether the government ordered tighter censorship ... Read story »

The Last Word on Malaysian broadband... uncut + final cut - Nov 4, 2009

Blogs My very first blog for CNET Asia was on February 5, 2007. And I wrote about broadband. I wrote about how lousy the broadband was. How expensive it was for the ... Read story »

1W PC is coming, Korea government expands law of standby power limits to PC. - Aug 9, 2009

Blogs As we see there is rising consumer (and business) awareness of energy efficiency globally. Governments are responding, by mandating energy efficiency.� Korea has become the first nation globally to make standby ... Read story »

No new BlackBerrys until RIM opens local office in Indonesia - Jun 26, 2009

Blogs For Research In Motion (RIM), its successful Indonesian BlackBerry market is a "magic business". Despite the fact that there are more than 400,000 BlackBerry users, they don't even have a local ... Read story »

Harmonization goes one step further, soon to be on all Chinese PCs - Jun 9, 2009

Blogs Well, it's June 9--five days after that anniversary of events that "never happened"--and Internet access is limping back to normal here in the PRC. Twitter is unblocked and Flickr is... erm... ... Read story »

China blocks sites prior to 20th anniversary of Tiananmen - Jun 4, 2009

Crave Almost 20 years ago exactly, on June 4, 1989, the Chinese military opened fire on prodemocracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, resulting in the loss of hundreds--if not thousands--of innocent lives. Most ... Read story »

Katrina Halili-Hayden Kho sex video: Filipino officials, bloggers weigh in on scandal - May 21, 2009

Blogs As you might expect, the Katrina Halili-Hayden Kho sex video scandal is one of the hottest topics in the Philippine blogosphere. After all, this latest video that has been leaked online ... Read story »

TOT sets date for 3G auction - May 13, 2009

Blogs Finally, after what seems like decades, some light coming through the 3G tunnel in Thailand. TOT has inked July as the time frame when it will hold bids for contracts to ... Read story »

Can Malaysians adopt a strict trash policy? - Oct 20, 2009

Blogs A few years ago, the Government of Malaysia wanted to build an incinerator--a large, technologically advanced furnace--to burn our refuse. However, the residents protested as they didn't want an incinerator in ... Read story »

Knock, knock--brand new Web site for the Indian Army - Nov 10, 2009

Blogs Looks like the Indian Army has finally taken a leaf out of other government departments' books in India. The IT/Telecom Ministry has asked all government departments to maintain an online presence ... Read story »

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