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Why BSNL Banned Chinese Vendors From Bidding on GSM Expansion Deal

admin — Mon, 31 May 2010 04:09:32 +0000

State Owned Telecom Giant BSNL has banned Chinese Vendors Huawei and ZTE from bidding for its Rs 2,000-crore contract for supply of 55 lakh GSM lines for its Northern and Eastern zones. BSNL has confirmed that only three Western vendors — Ericsson, Nokia Siemens and Alcatel Lucent — can participate in the bidding process.

Indian Industrialist are not happy with the Government decision. As products from western vendors are much more expensive than Chinese vendors. According to Indian Government directive, equipments from Chinese Vendors can not be installed in circles that share international boundaries.

It seems to me that Government don’t trust telecom equipments from Chinese Vendors as it can use for hacking and surveillance purposes. But Since Indian President is on China’s tour it could be a setback for diplomatic negotiations

Whose Economy is Better India or China?

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:31:07 +0000

China has completed surpassed India in the recent comparisons economists and businessmen make between Asia’s two rising giants. Studies showed that the Chinese government policies of implements new strategies with blinking speed is making India’s fractured political system appear sluggish and chaotic.

The sagging infrastructure of New Delhi and Mumbai stands nowhere when compared with shining airports and wide roads of Beijing.

Though India still can’t compete on top-line economic growth — the World Bank projects India’s gross domestic product (GDP) will increase 6.4% in calendar 2009, far short of the 8.7% rate China announced in mid-January – India’s economy looks to be rebounding from the downturn in better shape than China’s. India doesn’t appear to be facing the same degree of potential dangers and downside risks as China, which means policymakers in New Delhi might have a much easier task maintaining the economy’s momentum than their Chinese counterparts. “The way I see it is that the growth in India is much more sustainable” than in China, says Jim Walker, economist at Hong Kong-based research firm Asianomics.

India’s edge is due to the different stimulus programs adopted by the two countries to support growth during the downturn. China implemented what Walker calls “the biggest stimulus program in global history.” On top of government outlays for new infrastructure and tax breaks, Beijing most significantly counted on massive credit growth to spur on the economy. The amount of new loans made in 2009 nearly doubled from the year before to $1.4 trillion – representing almost 30% of GDP. The stimulus plan worked wonders, holding up growth even as China’s exports dropped by 16% in 2009.

The Indian economy is not immune to risks. The government has to contend with a yawning budget deficit, and last year’s weak monsoon rains will likely undercut agricultural production and soften rural consumer spending. But rapid growth is expected to continue. The World Bank forecasts India’s economy will surge 7.6% in calendar 2010 and 8% in 2011, not far behind the 9% rate it predicts for China for each of those years. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, when speaking about his country’s more plodding pace of economic policymaking, has said that “slow and steady will win the race.” The Great Recession appears to have proved him right.

China trying to hack Indian PMO emails

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:13:52 +0000

Google allegations of Chinese Government trying hacking the email accounts of Chinese activists and its threat to leave China have created an intense debate. But a media report, which reveals that hackers from China have targeted computers in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) have fueled the issue further.

According to Report Chinese hackers aimed email accounts of National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan, Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrashekhar, PM’s Special Envoy Shyam Saran and Deputy National Security Advisor Shekhar Dutt and 26 others.

The spyware was in the form of PDF file which contains a trojan horse programmed to download files, access email accounts and passwords of desktop from a remote location.

The PMO office has denied reports of security breaches in PMO official emails and called these allegations rumors

Google May Stop Its Operations in China

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:43:12 +0000

Internet Giant Google has created a buzz by making an announcement, that it could quit China after hackers broke in to Google China and tried to access the email accounts of Human Right Activists of China.

China is the biggest Internet Market in the world with more that 350 million users and search revenue of more than $1 billion. China is one of those marketing where Google is not the leading search engine. Google only have 30% market share of search engine market in china whereas its main competitor Baidu has 60% of market share.

Google announcement comes after the meeting between representatives of Internet Giants like Google, Twitter, Microsoft and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Hilary Clinton is set to announce the new technical policy of United states next week to help citizens around the world have access to an uncensored Web.

Anyone doing business in China must adhere to strict Chinese Censorship rules that ban discussion or display of pages on sensitive topics ranging from Tibetan independence to the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement. All companies like Google, Baidu and Sina have to follow these rules, but none of them speak publicly about it.

Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond said ” We have uncovered the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the Web. These sophisticated attacks were made on the email accounts of human right activists, which made us to think about our decision to continue our operations in china.”

Shares of Google fell by 1.3 percent after this announcement whereas Baidu Shares jumped 6.8 percent. Sina shares gained 1.3 percent.

A Google spokesperson said the company was still investigating the attack and would not say whether Google believed Chinese authorities were involved.

“We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all,” Drummond said.

Edward Yu, chief executive of Beijing-based research firm said ” This is really a shocking news as we would be left with fewer choices in China , if Google decided to quit. Also, these rules would prevent big Internet players from investing in to Chinese Market.”

Baidu Hacked By Iranian Cyber Army

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:54:56 +0000

Chinese Search Engine Baidu Was Hacked on Tuesday By an Iranian Groups of Hackers around 10:30 a.m. local time (9:30 p.m. Monday EST).

The group of Hackers, Who call themselves Iranian Cyber Army defaced the Homepage of .com version of Baidu by the banner of Iranian Cyber army filled with Logos of various Iran groups and slogan in Farsi.

Below a sentence in Farsi read, “In reaction to the US authorities’ intervention in Iran’s internal affairs. This is a warning,”

This group had also hacked Popular web 2.0 service Twitter Last month in the same way. The Iranina Cyber army has also hacked Iranian reformist Web site few days back.

Baidu released a statement “This morning, Baidu’s domain name registration in the United States was tampered with, leading to inaccessibility. Baidu has been resolving this issue and the majority of services have been restored. Visitors are suggested to use www.baidu.com.cn instead ”

According to Chinese media, the Site was under attack for at least four hours and there is no evidence that the group which hacked the website is from Iran.

Baidu is the China’s biggest search engine, had 63.9 percent of China’s search engine market as of the end of September, followed by 31.3 percent for Google China, according to Internet research firm Analysys International.

China Grabbing The Indian Land in Substantial Amount

admin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:25:21 +0000

According to an official Report, China had grabbed a substantial amount of Indian land over the last two decades along the line of Actual Control . The report was released in recent meeting at Leh, which was attended by officials from the Jammu and Kashmir government, Ministry of Home Affairs and Army.

It was agreed in meeting, that there is difference of area in maps of various agencies and a proper and adequate mapping of area is needed. Everybody agreed on the fact that, We are going back from the actual LAC and our area shrunk a lot in the period of twenty years. Although the Process is very slow, But we lost a substantial area during this period.

The main agenda of meeting was to ensure proper protection of normadic people in the area who move with their cattle to Dokbug area of Nyoma sector during the winter months every year. In December 2008, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had damaged their tents and threatened them to vacate the land.

According to Report filed by Sub Divisional Magistrate (Nyoma) Tsering Norboo ” Chinese threatened the nomadic people who had been using Dokbug area (in Ladakh sector) area for grazing since decades long, in a way to snatch our land in inches. A Chinese proverb is famous in the world – better do in inches than in yards”

Zhong Shan – China Would be Largest World Exporter Overtaking Germany

admin — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:43:17 +0000

2009 Was a tough year for all countries, But According to Report, China has managed to emerge as World biggest exporter in 2009 replacing Germany which was earlier on the top of this list.

Zhong Shan, vice minister of Ministry of Commerce (MOC) of China Said that ” China’s exports in 2010 will grow, and there’s no doubt about that”

China’s exports were hit hard by 18.8 % in this year due to decrease of sales in other countries but despite of that market share of china for various products has increased according to Zhong.

According to Zong exporting 30 million t-shirts is more beneficial for the Chinese economy as compared to exporting one Boeing. Zong explained that Exporting 30 million t-shirts would create 10,000 new job that would support 30,000 people , therefore Chinese Government would Support labor extensive industries which create more job opportunities for Domestic People

China did not like Manmohan Singh Visit To Arunachal Pardesh

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:43:21 +0000

China Foreign Affairs Department issued a statement that Indian PM should not Visit Arunachal Pardesh as the area comes under the border dispute between Both Countries.

Indian Prime minister , Mr. Manmohan Singh had visited China on October 3,2009 for election Campaigns , The Statement from china is really shocking as Arunachal pardesh is an integral state of India since 1947.

The Indian Government is taking this issue very seriously as today S.M.Krishna , an leader of External affairs said that China has no right to comment on Prime minister Visit in any part of country.

He also added that Arunachal Pardesh would always be part of Country. Also the Ambassador of China in India had been called by Indian Government to condemn this act of China