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Chinese 'to overtake US net use'.
Market analysts predict that Internet users in China will exceed the 137m US users by 2008.
Climatologist scoops major prize at Institute of Physics awards.
Her work helps researchers working on climate change understand how our activities today could affect the climate of tomorrow.
Iran: Journalist and weblogger arrested.
Reporters Without Borders has called for his immediate release.
Software patents likely to be passed by EC Agriculture and Fishery Ministries.
The EU Software Patent Directive is to be adopted without a vote at a meeting on 24 January. This would introduce US-style unlimited software patentability.
Nepal: Illegal killings on the increase.
An Amnesty Report claims that killings are going unpunished, despite promises by the government and Maoist leaders to uphold human rights.
Government web snooping to add costs for Internet users.
European Council of Ministers proposals appear to mean the EU will tell ISPs what data to collect and store as well as defining how long it must be kept.
UK blogger sacked for keeping job diary.
Waterstone's worker says he was dismissed without warning for "gross misconduct" and "bringing the company into disrepute".
Tsunami Serves As Wake-Up Call to Bridging the Digital Divide.
An ex-worker at a telecenter in India who's now living in Singapore received word of the tsunami well before anyone in S. India did.
The war on copyright communists.
Bill Gates wants software patents to protect his profit, not protect the public.
Reaching people on the Ground:
Increasing concerns are being raised about how to reach the people that the main Tsunami relief efforts have so far missed. The following information about groups organizing relief efforts in Asia was compiled by colleagues at Human Rights Watch, to raise the necessary support for relief and rehabiliation efforts in Asia.