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CHINESE hackers have attacked the Melbourne International Film Festival website in an intensifying campaign against the screening of a documentary about exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer.

The hackers replaced festival information with the Chinese flag and anti-Kadeer slogans

"It is obviously a concerted campaign to get us because we've refused to comply with the Chinese Government's demands."

new kinds of social media are challenging those traditional levers of state media control and allowing Iranians to find novel ways around the restrictions.

But it appears they are finding ways around Big Brother.

A DIPLOMATIC row between Australia and China

with Australia’s ambassador called to a dressing-down by China’s Foreign Ministry.

Vice-Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun told Mr Raby that Australia must ‘‘immediately correct its wrongdoings’’ and cancel Ms Kadeer’s visa

Twitter taken down to silence one man New York August 9, 2009 CYBER attacks on Twitter and other popular web services last week disrupted the lives of millions of internet users, but the real target was one man: a 34-year-old economics professor from the republic of Georgia.

The attacks were ''the equivalent of bombing a TV station because you don't like one of the newscasters'', said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at internet security company F-Secure.

The hackers used a botnet, a network of thousands of infected personal computers, to direct massive amounts of junk traffic to Cyxymu's pages on Twitter, LiveJournal, YouTube and Facebook in an attempt to disable them.The millions that were affected were, in a sense, simply bystanders, experiencing shrapnel from an internet blitzkrieg that took aim at one person and knocked out an entire community.

Australia's greatest social challenge is the condition of its indigenous people -- every government recognises that

He has also continued the Howard government's intervention into Northern Territory indigenous communities and used earlier COAG meetings to win co-operation from state governments to lift their spending and remove red tape hindering proper delivery of services

"I look forward to being part of the discussions about how governments together can deal with some of those long-term issues amongst indigenous Australians -- that's a high agenda item."

A group of Aboriginal people has asked the United Nations to register them as refugees,

people of the Alyawarra Nation have been left with no choice because the federal intervention in the Northern Territory has taken away their rights.

The community was protesting about their living conditions, including broken septic tanks in their government-owned houses, and about intervention policies.

"There's a lot of discrimination, there's a lot of young Africans who don't have a sense of belonging in this country,"

"I know my friends love this country more than anything else. Some of them say, 'yes, I don't have the opportunity but this country gives me the things I need to live my life.' If you go to Somalia, you only go for one reason, to die. Because you can't live there."

"The victim mentality is decreasing rapidly. When people meet racism, they say 'what do you mean? I'm Australian like you'."

the oriental "neglect'' of the mouth can lead to more mistakes in interpreting a person's emotion, said the study, describing how feelings can be ``lost in translation.''

Asian participants had difficulty recognising facial expressions of fear and disgust, mistakenly interpreting them as surprise and anger instead

mulling an Internet filtering system similar to China’s controversial “Green Dam” project

Government has called for a tender for a system that could block “undesirable websites.”

The MSC Malaysia Bill of Guarantees specifies that the Internet will not be censored to ensure the success of the MSC Malaysia initiative

We need to be prepared for whatever surprises this capricious new virus delivers next... constant random mutation is the survival mechanism of the microbial world

WORLD Health Organization chief Margaret Chan today urged governments to prepare for a likely second wave of swine flu cases, cautioning they will face tough decisions on how to dispense vaccines.

Authorities in Venezuela say they will punish TV stations if they continue to broadcast episodes of cult US animation Family Guy.

the show should be banned because it promotes the use of marijuana

messages that go against the whole education of boys, girls and adolescents

showcasing Malaysia's cultural and ethnic heritage.

Malaysia's cultural and ethnic heritage.

biggest Malaysian student cultural show

Each of these flavours of English has its own local properties. If you know something about the pronunciation of the languages of these countries, you can often identify the speakers' nationality by their English.

These Englishes can show a variety of errors of grammar and vocabulary. Sometimes this is caused by interference from the homeland language. Sometimes it is just a feature of the local English that has become established

does it really matter? After all, the Australians, the British and the Americans routinely announce "all trains cancelled".

Crazy Noonga' website sparks racism outrage FRAN RIMROD September 24, 2009 A website set up by a Perth student about a fictional Aboriginal character has been shut down and is being investigated by police amid racism claims. The website, which Radio 6PR reports was created by a 19-year-old Curtin University student, features audio excerpts  of a character called "Nigel the crazy Noonga", who prank calls businesses and fast-food outlets with a fake Aboriginal accent. The portrayal of negative Aboriginal stereotypes has sparked outrage from the Aboriginal community. Craig Somerville, lecturer at the Curtin University Centre for Aboriginal Studies, told 6PR he believed the material on the website had crossed the line between humour and racism.

The Facebook "Just for fun" group set up for "Nigel the crazy Noonga" has 317 members and describes "Nigel" as "your friendly neighbourhood Noonga". It also pokes fun at the character's fictional solvent abuse, describing it as his own personal "dreamtime". Sergeant Greg Lambert said police were aware of the website and were investigating.

The United States, France and Britain have presented "detailed evidence" to the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog that "Iran has been building a covert uranium enrichment facility," President Obama said Friday.

Iran "is taking the international community on a dangerous path," Sarkozy said.

U.S. and French intelligence officials have known about the facility for several months, the source said. When Iran discovered that Western nations had knowledge of the facility, it sent the letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency.