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(27 Mar) - Credit alarm bells are ringing in China’s east. Earnings from three of the country’s top four lenders show that while the national ratio of bad debts to loans is still falling, stress is building in coastal regions. Problems in an area rich in private sector businesses and manufacturing could be a national... 

An outfit running a VPN service for Iranian clients announced that the attempts of the local authorities to block the service during the weekend have failed. The country tried to block VPN ports all across the country in order to prevent citizens from visiting banned websites like Facebook and Skype, but the owner of a Brazilian... 

[Written by Peidong Yang, a final year doctoral student studying at Oxford University. He is finishing a dissertation on 'foreign talents' in Singapore, with specific reference to the experiences of Chinese students receiving Singapore government scholarships] The daily use of the term 'PRC' can no longer be seen as innocent...