CHINA

The lure of Apple iPad 2 compelled a teenager in China to sell one his kidney's to buy the iconic tablet.

The recent Gmail phishing scam that is alleged to be from Jinan, China, while it was relatively harmless according to Google, has given awareness to the online community to check their security status.

In a shocking announcement, Google said Chinese hackers have hacked into hundreds of Gmail accounts of senior US and South Korean government officials, military personnel, and Chinese political activists and journalists through a carefully targeted and sustained phishing scam.

U.S. stock index futures advanced on Thursday a day after suffering its biggest losses in nearly a year as investors waited for more clues on the strength of the economy ahead of Friday's jobs data.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Thursday are: Orbitz Worldwide, Devry, Joy Global, United Continental Holdings, Marathon Oil, Peabody Energy, ITT Corp, Limited Brands, Alpha Natural Resources, Century link and Gap Inc.

Suspected Chinese hackers tried to steal the passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders, including those of senior U.S. government officials, Chinese activists and journalists, the Internet company said.

A 17-year old student in Anhui Province in China sold one of his kidneys for 20,000 yuan only to buy an iPad 2, the ShanghaiDaily.com reported today.

Albania has asked China to invest in several projects and sought to strengthen its relations with Beijing.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde has proposed visiting China in early June and will meet leading officials from the People's Bank of China, China's foreign ministry said on Thursday, a visit during which she would discuss her candidacy to head the International Monetary Fund.

With 15 percent of the households possessing assets of $1 million or more, Singapore has the highest proportion of household millionaires in the world.

China has rejected allegations of involvement in a cyber attack that originated from the city of Jinan that selectively targeted key government officials in the U.S. and its allies.

China rejected the allegations of hacking Google-email accounts of US officials, military personal and journalist.

North Korea's National Defense Commission has reportedly forbidden all women aged 10 to 60 from traveling on trains and roads to the NK/China border.

The International Air Transport Association said on Thursday the global economy was recovering more slowly than expected, but was inching upward based on air traffic data, a key barometer of growth.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: SciQuest, CIENA, Velti, Brocade Communications Systems, and ServiceSource International. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Exide Technologies, Vera Bradley Designs, China-Biotics, United Therapeutics, and Copart.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde will visit China in early June and will meet leading officials from the People's Bank of China to discuss her candidacy to head the International Monetary Fund, China's foreign ministry said on Thursday.

First Sony, then Lockheed Martin and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and now none other than Google.... Hackers are spreading their malicious nets every nook and corner.

Asian stocks slid on Thursday, with a steady stream of weak U.S. data putting a damper on risk taking ahead of Friday's payrolls report, though valuations will probably in the near term limit a big decline in global share prices.

A cyber attack that originated from the Chinese city of Jinan that selectively targeted key government officials in the U.S. and its allies has focused uneasy limelight on China, even as the western governments are tinkering with their military rule books to call cyber attacks 'acts of war'.

Google said that Gmail email accounts in United States and Asia have been penetrated by hackers who stole the passwords through a phishing scam. Many of the accounts broken belonged to senior US government officials Chinese political activists, military personnel, and journalists.

Chinese hackers broke into the personal Gmail accounts of senior officials and military personnel of the U.S. government and it allies and stole sensitive data, setting the stage for an era of heightened cyber tension between the world's top military powers. The latest hack attack, which might bring Google and the Chinese administration into a fresh fist fight, was precisely planned and executed, raising doubts if the Chinese state had authorized it.