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...Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with New York City-based Human Rights Watch. "Especially now with the Lhasa protests," he says, "they are facing a pressure-cooker period." Beijing will have to keep a lid on Tibet, where rights groups say there are still sporadic protests despite weeks of virtual military law. But Beijing's problems are not confined to Tibet. There have also been rumblings of dissent in the far-western Xinjiang province, populated largely by the Uighur Muslim minority group. Protests by thousands of Uighurs over religious issues were reported by rights groups in late March. The Chinese...
...scan and monitored by cameras. Each room can hold up to 36 terminals--many of them with dual screens. The company never stores data locally. Rather, the lawyers work directly on the client's server and only over a secure line or via the Internet. The space becomes a "virtual extension of the company we're working for," says Abhishek Khare, head of the Gurgaon office...
...worlds,” Miller says. “In the original, it’s sort of the real world and the spiritual world. In my version it’s someone who’s trapped in between the world of reality and the world of virtual reality. It’s also negotiating disability and non-disability. And the piece itself is dealing in theater and cinema.”“It’s incredibly original and adventurous in every respect,” Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) professor Alfred Guzetti, Miller?...
...firm. All the same, it doesn't compare to design-world immensities like Norman Foster's sprawling operation in London or just about any branch of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. But last summer, this medium-size Manhattan-based company won a very big project?the new headquarters for Google, the virtual-world behemoth based in Mountain View, Calif...
...cheap flights between the two capitals. Tourism Ireland has since 1995 been promoting St. Patrick's Day parades in cities around the world such as Tokyo, Singapore and Moscow. This year two cities were added to the roster: Beijing, and the digital world of "Second Life," which hosted a "virtual parade...