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Happy Chinese New Year! Please download the free App "Happy Chinese New Year" at the Apple Store. (PRNewsFoto/CAV Television Production Co., Ltd) 22 Jan 2012 15:00 Africa/Lagos "Happy Chinese New Year" for The Whole World BEIJING, Jan. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Tomorrow (23 January, 2012) is the first day of the lunar new year in China. When you see your Chinese friends, please remember to wish them a "Happy Chinese New Year". "Happy Chinese New Year" is a fun, free, interactive application for the iPad that has been available at the Apple Store online since 29 December, 2011. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120122/CN25428 ) This App has five components: "Happy Chinese New Year", "Chinese Shows in the World", "Greeting", "Cultures" and "Link". With multimedia texts, images, video, animation, sound files, and other media, the application introduces Overseas "Happy Chinese New ...

16 Dec 2011 11:38 Africa/Lagos Saxo Bank Releases 10 Outrageous Predictions for 2012 LONDON, December 16, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Saxo Bank has today released its annual Outrageous Predictions. Among the unlikely events predicted by the Bank are that Australia will go into recession, Basel III and regulation will force 50 bank nationalisations in Europe and Apple shares will plummet 50 percent from their 2011 high. In its Outrageous Predictions, Saxo Bank focuses on events that are unlikely to happen, but at the same time are far more likely than the market appreciates. The predictions are not meant as forecasts, but it is important for investors to consider events with under-recognised probabilities. Should any of them come to pass, they would have a significant impact on the markets. Saxo Bank's Outrageous Predictions for 2012: 1. The stock of Apple Inc plummets 50 per cent from 2011 high Going into 2012 Apple will find itself faced with multiple competitors such as Google, Amazon,...

The World Bank has noted that Nigeria is at a crossroads in a special Growth Employment and Markets in States (GEMS) Project report. The country can choose to tackle the distortions that have reduced incentives for investment and productive activity and move towards sustainable and diversified growth. It can also build on islands of success and promising cluster initiatives and enclaves that can then pull along the rest of the economy (successfully achieved in China and India) or it can ignore the reform imperatives and pay the price of having a highly distorted, rentier economy, once oil prices fall. Click here for the full report Tweet

Iara Lee Dear Iara Lee, I read your "Obstructing Business": South Koreans on the March posted on 8/29/11 08:57 PM ET of the Huff Post World . Your observation of the human rights abuses in South Korea are surprising to us in Nigeria, because we thought South Korea is a more civilized country compared to communist North Korea and other Machiavellian governments in the world. We are disappointed by the maltreatment of human rights activists in Jeju-do and other parts of South Korea. The "Island of the Gods” is the island of peacemakers and not a base for warmongers. It has been reported that the naval base is estimated to cost 958.7 billion won, a civilian-military port complex that could simultaneously dock about 20 warships, including Aegis warships, and two 150,000- ton cruise ships. WOW! South Korea wants to launch a super power tussle with Japan and China or ready for a showdown with North Korea? The South Korean government should stop playing to the gallery of the US...

China and Nigeria lead others in software piracy according to a Business Software Alliance (BSA) study. The other major regular software pirates come from Vietnam, Ukraine, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Mexico. 7 Sep 2011 13:30 Africa/Lagos Nearly Half of the World's PC Users Acquire Software Illegally Most or All the Time, BSA Reports PR Newswire WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2011 32-country study finds opportunity for education, enforcement WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nearly half of the world's personal computer users — 47 percent — acquire software through illegal means most or all of the time, and in developing economies the figures are much higher, according to the most extensive survey ever undertaken on PC users' behaviors and attitudes toward software piracy and intellectual property rights. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) today released detailed findings from the groundbreaking study on its official blog, BSA ...

Mrs. Peju Adebajo, the young Managing Director/CEO of Mouka Limited Wanted: More Ambitious Women for Nigerian Men Until you break out of the shell, you can never excel to rule your world. You wonder why many women and men are still single and searching in Nigeria? We do not have enough ambitious women. Most of our women have little or nothing to offer the men. We need ambitious women who can make a great difference in our lives. Nigerian women like Mrs. Peju Adebajo, the young Managing Director/CEO of Mouka Limited, whose dignity, integrity, nobility and humility make her the pride of her husband and family and a blessing to Nigeria. We need more women like her in Nigeria. Women who can make us proud, and not liabilities. Highly recommended is The daughter also rises on http://www.economist.com/node/21526872?fsrc=nlw|mgt|08-31-11|management_thinking. ZHANG YIN (also known by her Cantonese name, Cheung Yan) was the eldest of eight children of a lowly Red Arm...

Chinese President Hu Jintao and Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir 17 Jun 2011 12:42 Africa/Lagos China must arrest Sudanese President LONDON, June 17, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The Chinese government should immediately withdraw its invitation to Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, and arrest him if he travels to Beijing, Amnesty International said today. Omar Al-Bashir is due to meet Chinese President Hu Jintao and other high-ranking officials as part of a visit from 27-30 June The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued two arrest warrants for Omar Al-Bashir for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur. The warrants, issued in 2009 and 2010, charge him with criminal responsibility on 10 counts, including murder, extermination, forcible transfer of population, torture and rape. “If China welcomes Omar Al-Bashir it will become a safe haven for alleged perpetrators of genocide”, said Catherine Baber, Deputy Asia Pacific Director at Amnesty Internati...

Photo Credit: IT PVOIP BLOG 16 Jun 2011 08:01 Africa/Lagos Microsoft Survey Reveals Extent of Emerging Internet Phone Scam Criminals targeting English-language markets, expected to go global. PR Newswire LONDON, June 16, 2011 Bill Mullins Files LONDON, June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today released findings of a survey* into an emerging form of Internet scam that targets English-language markets and costs victims on average $875 (U.S.). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO) The scam works by criminals posing as computer security engineers and calling people at home to tell them they are at risk of a computer security threat. The scammers tell their victims they are providing free security checks and add authenticity by claiming to represent legitimate companies and using telephone directories to refer to their victims by name. Once they have tricked their victims into believing they have a problem and that the caller can help, the scammers are bel...

1 Jun 2011 14:35 Africa/Lagos Nigerian President Jonathan Meets with Chinese President's Special Envoy BEIJING, June 1, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- On May 30, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan met in Abuja with Chinese President Hu Jintao's special envoy and Minister of Railways Sheng Guangzu, who was here to attend Jonathan's presidential inauguration. Jonathan thanked Sheng for attending his presidential inauguration ceremony as President Hu's special envoy. He said China is a great friend of Nigeria and that he is satisfied with the friendship and cooperation between the two countries. Nigeria is now witnessing a new period of development, he said, adding that he expects more Chinese enterprises to take part in railway and other infrastructural construction in Nigeria and offer assistance for Nigeria's economic development. Jonathan said Nigeria hopes to continue getting China's support in the United Nations and other international affairs. S...

• Gray-market handsets are cell phones manufactured in China that are not recognized or licensed by government regulators. Makers of these products generally do not pay China’s value-added taxes and, therefore, profit illegally from their participation in the market. • China’s gray-market cell phone shipments will amount to 255 million units in 2011, up 11.8 percent from 228 million in 2010. This compares to a rise of 43.6 percent in 2009. 13 Apr 2011 18:00 Africa/Lagos Gray-Market Handsets Continue to Plague AME Mobile Markets, Pyramid Finds PR Newswire CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 13, 2011 CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The number of gray market handsets sold across AME will remain steady through 2015, however the sharp increase in legitimate handset sales during that period will reduce the percentage of gray market handset units sold in AME to 13 percent, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com). Squashing Gray Markets for Mobile Handsets describe...

Photo Credit: Robert L. Peters . The Tears of Chairman Mao What is going on in the People's Republic of China (PRC), today will make Chairman Mao turn in his grave, because the Great Wall of the Red Empire is crumbling fast as capitalism undermines communism in the laissez-faire of free market economy and made China the country with the second largest population of billionaires in the world, just behind the US. So, how can the so called communist leaders explain that to us? How can a socialist state with a so called communist manifesto boast of billionaires while millions of their compatriots are ravaged by poverty? Who is following whom? Is someone not robbing Zedong to pay Deng? While the rich Deng is smiling all the way to the bank, the cheated, exploited and oppressed poor Zedong is gnashing his teeth and biting his cracked lips sweating in the factory earning only $1 daily. One of the oldest civilizations in the world that once prided herself as an invincible communist stat...

Artists underneath movable boxes perform during the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics at the National Stadium on August 8, 2008 in Beijing. (Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) 27. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. ~ Matthew 23:27 (King James Version) Yes, it was definitely the most spectacular opening ceremony so far in the history of the Olympic games and China surpassed the expectations of the rest of the world with the grandiose panorama of Chinese Arts and Culture in an awesome opera in the Beijing National Stadium in Beijing , People's Republic of China . I saw the colourful faces of the people in the stadium beaming in ecstasy, but thousands of prisoners of conscience were languishing in Chinese jails while the rest of the world were dazed and fazed by the dazzling three-hour razzmatazz of the openi...