From International Herald Tribune: A lawsuit that has been filed by one of China’s largest newspapers against one of the country’s leading Internet portals over the issue of massive copyright violations is being described here as the opening salvo in a media war. In the suit, which was filed in October and is expected to […]
Read MoreFrom Learning Cantonese Blog: A couple of weeks ago at one of the demonstrations against the Star Ferry demolition, I signed my name and cell phone number to a contact sheet that a student protester handed me on a clipboard. I can’t even remember how many times I’ve signed similar things thrust at me here […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai China Snippets: Positive solutions did a post on the things he missed when the Internet in China went back to the dark ages. A nice angle and I will blatantly copy his idea and spin it into telling you what I wish I had missed in this period. 1. Staring at my browser […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Hundreds of Zambian workers face losing their wages after a decision to close the country’s largest textile firm, the AFP news agency reports. Huge losses led Zambia China Mulungushi (ZCMT), run by Chinese firm Quingdao Textile, to shut up shop temporarily while searching for new investment. Some 700 workers are on unpaid […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: Taiwan will allow foreign-currency transactions on the island involving its currency and China’s yuan on a trial basis, until both sides sign a formal agreement on such exchanges, President Chen Shui-bian said on the Presidential Office’s Web site. He said the trial is necessary because Taiwan is likely to allow […]
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