Although most likely just a coincidence, it had to raise a few eyebrows when on the same day a local Chinese newspaper reported Mozilla’s interest in gaining a 20% market share in China’s browser market, the nytimes runs a piece about Mozilla’s independence or lack of independence on Google; in response to a question about where funding mi...

Who says inflation can’t kill? As Jamil Anderlini writes in the Financial Times, three people were killed and 31 injured in a stampede at a Carrefour supermarket in the western Chinese city of Chongqing over the weekend as shoppers slugged it out over five-litre bottles of rapeseed oil going at a 20% discount.The promotion came after wholesale vegetabl...

-China’s inflation probably increased in October as food prices continued to rise. While many believe that China’s inflation will be short-lived the central bank is taking no chances and over the weekend raised the reserve ratio requirement in all banks by 0.5 percentage points to 13.5%, which is the ninth time this year the ratio has been raise...