From The Register: China has ordered telcos to purge spam SMSes of smut and other “unhealthy” influences, including “superstitious content” like fortune telling. The Ministry of Information Industry made the pronouncement today on its website which declared: “Recently, there has been a lot of dirt hidden in the telecommunication networks. The situation is serious.” The […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: A recent survey shows that for about 39.3 percent of Chinese kids and youngsters, online activities are the preferred pastime, China Youth Daily reported Saturday. The online activities listed in the survey, jointly conducted by the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League of China and a research center […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Floods have forced around 286,000 people to flee their homes in northwestern China, where steady rainfall since late September has strained the banks of the Hanjiang and Weihe rivers, the China Daily reported on Friday. The rising water levels along tributaries to China’s two top rivers, the Yangtze and the Yellow river, affected […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Lu Li, a 23-year-old working with a foreign firm in East China’s Shanghai, has found surfing online indispensable in her daily life since she first accessed to the Internet seven years ago. “It has unfolded a new chapter in my life,” she says, adding that she can hardly imagine living without the Internet. […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor : A Chinese communist party meeting this Saturday will likely signal that President Hu Jintao has consolidated his position as leader of Asia’s largest power – a move that more formally ushers in the “Hu era” in China, a period that by party blueprint would last roughly until 2012. The […]
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