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By John Terrett in Americas on January 26th, 2010
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We're witnessing round two of the spat between China and Google.
 
Two weeks after the California based search giant threatened to pull out of the country after finding emails of political activists had been pried into, Beijing is hitting back. 
 
On Monday, the ministry of information said: "Any accusation that the Chinese government participated in cyber attacks, either in an explicit or indirect way, is groundless and aims to discredit China."
 
It comes just days after Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, called on Beijing to investigate sophisticated cyber-spying and make its findings known. 
By David Chater in Asia on December 1st, 2009
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Biting into another Oreo made in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, I cannot escape that uncomfortable feeling I’ve lived through this moment before.

I'm sitting in much more comfortable circumstances than usual: a room in the 5-star Serena Hotel in the centre of Kabul, watching the outpourings of the cable channels across the world as President Obama’s moment of history approaches.

I began my career in journalism just as the war in Vietnam was ending. The images of that debacle - which only with hindsight now seems inevitable - did much to propel me into a career as a television correspondent and a check-in to the world’s conflict zones.

In the opening stages of the civil war in Sri Lanka I was staying in the Hotel Oberoi as the bloody pogroms against the Tamils were underway on the streets of Colombo.

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