Barrack Obama

China was pressed by US President Barack Obama and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to strengthen their policies directed to implement intellectual property rights across the country. Ballmer met with Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday at the White House to address the issue.

"So we were just in a meeting with business leaders, and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft pointed out that their estimate is that only one customer in every 10 of their products is actually paying for it in China," Obama told a news conference in Washington.

According to a recent poll conducted by Reuters/Ipsos the US President Barack Obama is again getting approval by American people. Still Americans want Obama to focus on reducing debt and spending.

The survey shows that Obama’s job approval increased to 50% up from 45% in December. It is the first time Obama has achieved 50 percent approval in this poll since last June.

Meantime, many Americans disapprove Obama’s job performance with 47% of respondents expressing their negative attitude which is up from 46% last month.

On Wednesday Congress has finally approved bill under which the unemployed people will get payments. According to the official statistics almost 3 million people have no job for half a year and longer. The bill was approved by a 59-39 vote. 

It was announced that those Americans who failed to get a financial support due to Senate’s idleness will get payments as early as next week in some states. The rest of the states will get help a bit later.