From Global Voices Online: Because of the earthquake in southern sea of Taiwan on 26 of December, 2006, two major internet cables in the Pacific Ocean have been broken. Hong Kong is a major affected areas and many bloggers and internet users are forced to live through a few days without internet at year end. […]
Read MoreThe Daisann blog dissects storied Apple Daily political columnist Mr. Lee “Eight Directions”: Today’s Apple Daily adds a devilish bit of gossip that I missed at yesterday’s protest event It seems that when Alan Leong arrived at the LSD demo, dear Mr. Long Hair offered the fellow a choice between riding in the wheelchair or […]
Read MoreFrom AFP via Channel Newsasia: Taiwan’s independence-leaning President Chen Shui-bian has insisted that the island’s sovereignty lies in its own hands, rejecting Beijing’s “one-China” policy in his New Year’s message. China and Taiwan split in 1949 at the end of a civil war but Beijing still considers the island part of its territory, to be […]
Read MoreFrom keralanext.com: The health of an ethnic Mongolian Chinese political prisoner has seriously deteriorated, his wife said on Monday, pleading with the outside world not to forget her husband and keep pressuring Beijing. Hada was tried behind closed doors in China’s northern Inner Mongolia region in 1996 and sentenced to 15 years in jail for […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, on Monday used New Year remarks to stress his aim of building a “mutually beneficial, strategic relationship” with China in a further sign that improving Sino-Japan ties will be a priority of his premiership. In a statement in which he also placed emphasis on his goal of […]
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