Channel NewsAsia reports that Central Singapore CDC launched a website on cultural dos and don'ts to allow youths to glean more information on races and to appreciate different cultures. Right now, the information appears to consist entirely of customs and etiquette for Singapore.

This is probably one of the more interesting phenomena to appear as a result of globalization and the internet. As more online games and virtual worlds appear and grow in their complexity, you are left thinking that the Chinese gold farmer is just the tip of a bizarre new iceberg. While most of the gaming companies have sought to ban the practice of gold farming, the fact that it is a $7-12 billion industry won't escape the eyes of many who are not gaming purists.

Google may be getting high marks for its highly localized web site, but according to this blogger, the customer service, online or otherwise, stinks in China. This is a transcript/translation of a video where Chinese was spoken, but I think the blogger's point comes across clearly enough.

In the U.S., we look to China for new business opportunities, and China looks to...Africa.

 ...China is pursuing its own interests. Just as surely, much of what it is attempting will not pan out, or will have deleterious effects, particularly since no distinction is made between governments that are relatively clean and representative and those that are odious.