Google’s main English-language website was inaccessible for more than two hours in China, state media reported, as Beijing continued to pressure the Internet giant to eliminate pornography.
The outage occurred Wednesday night, the China Daily newspaper said, adding that its Chinese-language website google.cn was unaffected.
A Google China spokesperson could not immediately be reached by AFP.
However, the [...]
Pop star Michael Jackson’s death is being seen as a watershed event for the Internet with a website, TMZ.com, scooping “old media” and millions around the world finding out about it online.
TMZ – a joint venture of Time Warner’s Web portal AOL and Telepictures Productions – left more established media outlets in its dust, publishing [...]
因涉及行骗的Nasdaq股票市场公司前董事会主席Maddoff（麦道夫），被法庭下令没收1700亿美元财产。检方认为，这一处罚数目与流入麦道夫欺诈活动主要账户的资金数额相当。
法官定于29日宣布对麦道夫的量刑裁决。而美国联邦检察官认为，这一案件规模之大、持续时间之久，麦道夫应获判终身监禁。
“没收”财产
纽约曼哈顿地区法官命令剥夺麦道夫名下所有财产所持权利，同时授权司法部下属执法官局出售麦道夫持有的多处房产、汽车、名贵游艇和部分住宅内其他个人财产。 检方调查后提出，麦道夫多年来从事涉嫌诈骗活动的涉案总额达到1700亿美元，应依法全部予以追索。
美联社评论说，这一天价“罚单”更多具有象征意义，表明法院将没收麦道夫现存所有个人财产。现年７１岁的麦道夫涉嫌利用对冲基金，以虚设投资项目和 高收益为诱饵，骗取金融机构和个人投资者数百亿美元钱财。他今年３月对证券欺诈、邮件欺诈、电讯欺诈、洗钱、伪造财务报表、作伪证等１１项刑事指控认罪。
麦道夫曾请求检察机关允许他的妻子保留她名下的大约7000万美元财产。他说，这些财产与他的诈骗行为无关。法院判处麦道夫之妻也必须上交名下8000多万美元资产，仅获准保留250万美元财产。
麦道夫涉嫌欺诈案进入司法程序后，至今未发现妻子卷入欺诈。然而去年12月麦道夫遭逮捕前，他的妻子从银行账户提取1550万美元，引起检方关注。负责这一案件的检察官今年3月向法庭提交法律文件，要求冻结她名下1亿多美元财产。
“麦道夫诈骗案”牵扯非常大，检察官递交上法庭的一份文件中说，“至今所查明欺诈活动给投资者造成的损失超过130亿美元，是终身监禁最低量刑标准所设定数额的32倍多。”
检察官说，麦道夫致使数以千计投资者、慈善组织和非营利机构蒙受损失，从而陷入经济困难。“这起案件的合理量刑裁决应是150年监禁，或是既能确保麦道夫 在狱中度过余生、又能起到警告作用的数年刑期，”检方说。麦道夫的辩护律师则曾致信法官，请求法院排除情感因素，作出合理裁决，判处麦道夫12年监禁。
Michael Jackson, the show-stopping singer whose best-selling albums — including “Off the Wall,” “Thriller” and “Bad” — and electrifying stage presence made him one of the most popular artists of all time, died Thursday, CNN has confirmed.
Michael Jackson, shown in 2008, was one of the biggest pop stars in history.
He was 50.
He collapsed at [...]
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The biggest movie of the summer is finally here, but that’s the problem with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – it’s just too bloody big. Epic, spectacular but unfortunately far, far too long; the film proves that when it comes to Michael Bay blockbuster movies, you can have too much of a good thing.
The first [...]
Jon and Kate are promoting the June 22 show by saying they have an announcement. Will Jon and Kate announce a divorce – I sure hope not. I for one will be pissed! You have more than yourselves to think about! They just renewed’ their vows, so that their kids know “they aren’t going anywhere.” [...]
A lot of people are commenting and e-mailing to tell me about a letter read by radio talk show host Glenn Beck either today or yesterday (I don’t listen to much talk radio, unfortunately). The letter was written by a woman named Janet Contreras. She’s from Arizona, and is a lifelong Democrat who, like so [...]
iPhone 3G buyers line up on launch day last year.
Despite the intense amount of interest in Apple’s third-generation iPhone, this Friday’s launch of the device may not bring out the hordes of Apple fans like it has in years past.
The first days that the original iPhone was on sale in June 2007 (and the iPhone [...]
The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) has appointed Lim Siong Guan as group president and chairman of its asset management arm.
He will oversee the Public Markets Group and will be in charge of the organisational development of GIC’s three operating subsidiaries – GIC Asset Management, GIC Real Estate and GIC Special Investments
These subsidiaries are [...]
Wide-eyed, apprehensive and eager, the North Korean football team were the first athletes to arrive in Singapore for the inaugural Asian Youth Games from June 29-July 7, when their China Airlines flight touched down at Changi Airport’s Terminal 1 at 9.40pm on Wednesday night.
They reached the baggage claim area at 10.17pm.
The 17-man squad were accompanied [...]
It did not take much to convince top-selling American boy-band group Backstreet Boys to perform again in Singapore.
When they heard that their gig would be held at the Padang during the SingTel Singapore Grand Prix night race, they gave a resounding yes.
The best-selling boy band – with record sales of over 100 million records [...]
Manchester United have agreed to sell Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid for a world record 80 million pounds (130 million dollars, 94 million euros), the club said on Thursday.
“Manchester United have received a world-record, unconditional offer of 80 million pounds for Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid,” said a statement on its website, under the headline [...]
Lines for the new Palm Pre were far shorter than those that snaked around Apple stores for its first hugely popular iPhone two years ago, but many consumers said they were eager for the new product.
The Pre smartphone is regarded as Palm’s best chance to claw back market share from the Apple iPhone [...]
Developers of programs for the iPhone have already managed to make a decent living selling hundreds of thousands of copies of games from their living rooms or garages.
But now, a new way to profit from writing software for the iPhone is emerging: Sell the apps, then sell your company.
With the number of downloads through Apple’s [...]
A North Korean court Monday sentenced two US women journalists to 12 years in a labour camp for an illegal border crossing and an unspecified “grave crime,” state media reported.
A five-day trial “confirmed the grave crime they committed against the Korean nation and their illegal border crossing,” the Korean Central News Agency said.
The Central Court [...]
Seventeen bodies recovered from a remote part of the Atlantic where an Air France jet came down a week ago were being transported by ship Monday to this Brazilian archipelago, officials said.
Those remains, and dozens of structural components from the plane also plucked from the waves, were expected to arrive in Fernando de Noronha on [...]
If you’ve been tinkering with thoughts of a new PC but holding out for a device that will come loaded with Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 7, the good news is – your dilemma is resolved.
Microsoft has revealed that it will offer an upgrade option so that PC makers can offer customers the ability to [...]
The success of “Singapore Idol” can only be spelt in two words – Hady Mirza. So it’s no surprise that the 2009 season will see the winner of the Singapore talent search and also Asian Idol, joining the stellar line-up.
Playing the role of ‘big brother’, Hady will share his first-hand experience that should prove to [...]
US President Barack Obama arrived in this eastern German city Thursday at the start of a solemn two-day mission of World War II remembrance, and a fresh round of transatlantic diplomacy.
Air Force One touched down at 8:50 pm (1850 GMT) in Dresden, three-quarters of which was destroyed by Allied bombing in February 1945 but whose [...]
Ambassadors of seven UN powers made progress in closed-door talks here Thursday but are still chasing an agreement on new sanctions to punish North Korea for its recent nuclear test, diplomats said.
“We are making the best possible efforts to narrow the area of disagreement,” Japan’s UN Ambassador Yukio Takasu told reporters after meeting for [...]
Singapore has confirmed its 12th case of Influenza A (H1N1). The patient is an 18-year-old Singaporean.
He went to Melbourne on May 16 and returned on June 1 on Emirates EK405 at 11.50pm. He was seated at row 18.
The Health Ministry said he was sent to hospital at about noon on Thursday by ambulance via 993. [...]