{"id":728,"date":"2006-03-03T15:36:58","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T20:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=728"},"modified":"2006-03-07T19:57:42","modified_gmt":"2006-03-08T00:57:42","slug":"linked-into-the-far-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"Linked Into The Far East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terra Nova has a post relaying some interesting news. From the entry (<a href=\"http:\/\/terranova.blogs.com\/terra_nova\/2006\/03\/far_east_news.html\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DoNews is reporting that several Wengzhou companies are recruiting gamers to play online games. &#8230; The basic salary for these gamers is 800 Yuan per month, said the report &#8230; For comparison, 800 yuan is 99.50 US at today&#8217;s exchange rate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And if you read the second half of the entry, one can imagine that these gamers might wind up using hijacked accounts. It&#8217;d certainly be one way to get a pharming business up and running.<\/p>\n<p>I read something over on BusinessWeek yesterday about people in Asia being especially innovative in a system with few safety nets. Quite a few people who commented took issue with that observation. But I guess that word can be broadly applied. Until we walk in their shoes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terra Nova has a post relaying some interesting news. From the entry (Link): DoNews is reporting that several Wengzhou companies are recruiting gamers to play online games. &#8230; The basic salary for these gamers is 800 Yuan per month, said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=728\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}