He shows up late for meetings or not at all. And when he does make it, his laid-back outfits haven't helped, coming off as shlubby. "Mark and his signature hoodie: He’s actually showing investors he doesn’t care that much;

In China, English teaching is a whites-only club

“In Beijing this is the general pecking order in terms of a company's recruitment (by Chinese managers): 1. White Americans/Canadians; 2. White British; 3. White Australians/New Zealanders and South Africans; 4. European Nonnatives/Black Americans/Black British; 5. American Asians/Black Aussies (Australians) and Kiwis (New Zealanders)/Filipinos/Africans”

Taiwan leader fined for Facebook post

Ma, who won re-election to a second term earlier this year, was on Wednesday ordered to pay T$500,000 (US$16,666) by the island’s Central Election Commission for posting a message to his Facebook campaign page on the day of the election.

Chinese alarm over formaldehyde-tainted cabbages

Correspondents say that China's wholesale vegetable dealers are not required to use refrigerated trucks for produce, and few can afford it.

Google guilty of infringement in Oracle trial; future legal headaches loom

The results aren't clear going forward. Both sides are going to write briefs arguing how to proceed from here, with Google likely arguing the verdict needs to be thrown out, while Oracle somehow tries to hang on to its win on question 1A, the fundamental question about whether Google infringed copyright.

Tomari shutdown leaves Japan without nuclear power

Demonstrators carried banners shaped as giant fish. The "Koinobori" banners, traditionally the symbol of Children's Day, have been adopted by the anti-nuclear movement.

Harvard and M.I.T. Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses

But Harvard and M.I.T. have a rival — they are not the only elite universities planning to offer free massively open online courses, or MOOCs, as they are known. This month, Stanford, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan announced their partnership with a new commercial company, Coursera, with $16 million in venture capital.

Chinese Dissident Is Released From Embassy, Causing Turmoil for U.S.

But even as Americans were releasing photographs of a celebratory send-off of Mr. Chen from the embassy, his friends questioned the reliability of any Chinese promises to allow him to live openly in China, and Mr. Chen later said his decision to give up American protection had not been fully voluntary.

IPad Onslaught Sends Taiwanese Laptop Makers to the Cloud

Sales of cloud-computing products, including servers, tablets such as Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Internet routers, at Quanta will account for 13.4 percent of revenue this year from 8.7 percent last year

Health Insurance Rebates on the Way

Thanks to a provision in the health care reform law, millions of consumers will be receiving rebates from their insurers this summer.

How to delete yourself from the Internet

The Internet companies that power your online life know that data equals money, and they're becoming bolder about using that data to track you. If they get their way, your every online step would be not only irrevocable, but traceable back to you.
What to Think About Before You Hit ‘Send’

Master of the Media Spotlight Is Now Its Victim in China

What caused Bo Xilai's downfall?
Not in decades has such a widespread and finely tuned propaganda campaign been rolled out during the purge of an official. In the last two major purges, in 2006 and 1995, party leaders did not flood the media with nearly so much propaganda.

Unused e-waste discarded in China raises questions

"Half of the e-waste currently being processed in China is generated in China," he says.

China crackdown on Tibet 'worst since Cultural Revolution'

Thirty-two self-immolations have occurred over the past 12 months with the majority dying as a result of their injuries.

Taiwanese-style night market takes over Pasadena

"In Taiwan, it's really special because it's all the way from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m.,” said Tina Tang, who grew up in Taiwan. “And it's somewhere we would go. You know, people in America go clubbing nighttime. That's called nightlife. But for us, night market is our nightlife.”

Taiwan’s Chen makes solid Orioles debut, Yankees win game

"I pitched in Japan before, but this is totally new. The New York Yankees are a real tough line-up and a really good team, but tonight I realised our team is better."

Master of the Media Spotlight Is Now Its Victim in China

Not in decades has such a widespread and finely tuned propaganda campaign been rolled out during the purge of an official. Mr. Bo's removal and the murder investigation aimed at him and his wife would deepen a now evident split between the Communist left and the more moderate right wing.

Popular herbal remedy blamed for high urinary tract cancer rate in Taiwan: study

A toxic ingredient in a popular herbal remedy is linked to more than half of all cases of urinary tract cancer in Taiwan where use of traditional medicine is widespread, said a US study Monday.

Justice Dept. Sues Apple and Publishers Over E-Book Pricing; 3 Publishers Settle

It was Mr. Jobs who suggested to book publishers that they sell e-books through Apple with the technology company taking a 30 percent commission — a strategy called the agency model.

The Earth is full

This is not a philosophical statement; this is just science based in physics, chemistry and biology. There are many science-based analyses of this, but they all draw the same conclusion -- that we're living beyond our means.

China Said to Detain Returning Tibetan Pilgrims

Hundreds of Tibetans who attended an important Buddhist ceremony in January in India have been detained without charge by Chinese security officers on their return to Tibet.

World is ignoring most important lesson from Fukushima nuclear disaster

Fukushima's most important lesson is this: Probability theory (that disaster is unlikely) failed us. If you have made assumptions, you are not prepared. Nuclear power plants should have multiple, reliable ways to cool reactors. Any nuclear plant that doesn't heed this lesson is inviting disaster.

Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi wins by-election: NLD party

"It is the people's victory! We have taught them a lesson," one shopkeeper wearing an NLD T-shirt told the Associated Press news agency.

Taiwanese beef store to open in southern Taiwan

A store selling Taiwanese beef exclusively is set to open in Yunlin County, southern Taiwan, in response to a government call for consumption of local produce amid the recent dispute over U.S. beef imports

Tibet self-immolation activist in India 'very critical'

Mr Yeshi doused himself in fuel then set himself alight during a protest against an upcoming visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao later this week.

How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work

Why can't that work come home? Mr. Obama asked.
Mr. Jobs's reply was unambiguous. "Those jobs aren't coming back," he said, according to another dinner guest.

The Future of Taiwan's Single-payer system

When Taiwan's single-payer system is 50 years old, like Medicare is today, it's more likely to look like a failure than a success. Voters hold the line on premium increases, but have no control over system-wide spending. It's a recipe for disaster.

Kuomintang sued in U.S. court for recovery of stolen assets

International law expert Jonathan Levy has announced the filing of a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the business managers of the Kuomintang ruling party of the Republic of China in-exile to recover stolen assets.
The Chinese Nationalist Kuomintang has a long history of corruption and has accumulated billions of dollars.