Paper says school computers can harm learning in early grades From The Canadian Press Time spent in front of a computer could be better spent learning basic literacy skills and interacting with the teacher, says the four-page brief. The Media Awareness Network, a non-profit group based in Ottawa and Montreal, says children start using the computer at home at an early age, and need to be taught how to use it responsibly. There are five students for every computer across the country, he said, and there are better uses for the money spent on technology in the classroom - $26...

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China military paper urges long-term defence budget rises From Reuters BEIJING, Feb 26 (Reuters) - China needs to increase defence spending to keep pace with economic growth and overcome historic shortfalls, the military's newspaper said on Tuesday. China's official defence budget for 2007 was $45 billion, a rise of 17.8 percent on the previous budget that continued a string of double-digit military spending rises for a decade. But in an unusually blunt piece of public lobbying, China's Liberation Army Daily warned of grave consequences if increases in defence...

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Elderly care 'set to deteriorate' From BBC News Elderly care services could go from "bad to worse" unless the government provides more money and overhauls the system, a charity has warned. Age Concern says the 1% annual real-terms increase in local government budgets fell well short of the expected 4% rise in the cost of providing social care to an increasingly elderly population. While the report welcomed ministers' promise of 520m to modernise services, along with a Green Paper on social care, it said the government had failed to factor...

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China's Ping An to carefully consider share sale- paper From Reuters Quote, Profile, Research ) will prudently consider the size and timing of a planned multi-billion dollar share sale after the country's securities watchdog warned companies against big share sales, the Shanghai Securities News reported on Tuesday. China Securities Regulatory Commission, in a fresh effort to prevent a stock market crash, warned companies late on Monday against making big issues of new shares that could push down the market.

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Telekom Malaysia CEO to head Maybank - paper From Reuters Rumours that Abdul Wahid would leave Telekom have been circulating in the local stock market since late last year, after Telekom announced plans to spin off its mobile phone businesses into a separately listed company called TM International. Abdul Wahid is set to replace Maybank Chief Executive Amirsham Aziz, whose contract expires in April, the Edge Financial Daily said in a report quoting unidentified sources.

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