Senate confirms Locke as ambassador to China (AP)

WASHINGTON – The Senate has unanimously confirmed Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as U.S. ambassador to China.

Locke, a former two-term governor of Washington state, will be the first Chinese-American to serve as ambassador to China, the largest nation in the world and a major trading partner. It is also the top foreign holder of U.S. debt.

Locke was approved by voice vote and replaces Jon Huntsman, who resigned in April to explore a GOP presidential run against President Barack Obama next year.

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Senate confirms Locke as ambassador to China (AP)

WASHINGTON – The Senate has unanimously confirmed Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as U.S. ambassador to China.

Locke, a former two-term governor of Washington state, will be the first Chinese-American to serve as ambassador to China, the largest nation in the world and a major trading partner. It is also the top foreign holder of U.S. debt.

Locke was approved by voice vote and replaces Jon Huntsman, who resigned in April to explore a GOP presidential run against President Barack Obama next year.

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Kaspersky Lab patents advanced technology for combating malware epidemics

Kaspersky Lab has patented a groundbreaking piece of technology in the USA that allows the potential scale of malware epidemics to be accurately predicted in order to prevent them from spreading.

Today's malware has the capacity to spread like wildfire, with millions of computers infected in an instant as an epidemic sweeps across the Internet. This can take down huge swathes of infrastructure, bringing information highways to a standstill and leaving systems vulnerable to data leakage which in turn opens the door to large scale fraud. Detecting malware on every computer that is infected during an epidemic has little or no effect. What is needed is a reliable method for estimating the potential scale and direction of an epidemic, an early warning system, and that is exactly what the new technology developed by Kaspersky Lab's Yury Mashevsky, Yury Namestnikov, Nikolay Denishchenko and Pavel Zelensky, is capable of doing. The technology was granted Patent No. 7743419 by the US Patent and Trademark Office on 22 June, 2010.

Miss Singapore 2010

Finalists of the Miss Singapore Pageant pose for photographs in swimwear by a pool in Singapore on August 6, 2010. The grand finals will be on August 21 from which the top 10 selected will be tested on their passion for the Earth.
      
       The grand finals will take place at the Hotel Intercontinental Singapore at 7:00 pm. 23 contestants will compete for the Miss Singapore 2010 title. The winner will represent Singapore in the Miss World 2010 contest in China.
      
       Miss World this year occurs in Sanya, China's Hainan province. The final is set to take place on October 30.

Indian group denies sale of Aman resorts to Singapore firm

Singaporean luxury resorts chain Banyan Tree is in talks on buying a majority stake in fellow high-end hotel group Amanresorts, India's Financial Express newspaper reported Monday.

The daily quoted a person familiar with the matter as saying that DLF, the Indian real estate firm that owns Aman, was in advanced talks to sell most of the business for about 350 million dollars.

Banyan Tree has a range of interests, from hotels and resorts to spas, shopping centres and golf courses around the world.