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From Reuters: A Chinese financial newspaper has said it will support two of its journalists being sued for defamation over a news report that alleged mistreatment of workers at a China plant manufacturing iPod music players. The case was brought by manufacturer Foxconn, a Shenzhen-based unit of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (2317.TW: Quote, […]
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Jimmy Wales, founder of the open-forum internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, vowed yesterday he would not go down the same path as search engine Google by bowing to pressure from Beijing to censor sensitive articles. Wikipedia, whose open invitation to write and edit articles has become increasingly popular […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China’s national audit office announced a new code of conduct after a macabre incident last week, when one of its auditors died of “excessive drinking and eating” at banquets hosted by the local electricity bureau whose books he was screening. His fellow auditors did not rush home in grief after their colleague’s […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: Many trends in today’s China have their roots in the late 1970s – the period after the nation had its slate wiped clean by the Cultural Revolution. Those cataclysmic years (1966-1976) offer insight into what pushed China’s pendulum toward capitalism and why democracy hasn’t followed. Or as the preface to […]
Read MoreFrom the Non-Violent Resistance blog, more on the FoxConn lawsuit against two China Business News journalists: Words in the Chinese press circles are, that FoxConn, therefore Hon Hai, had deliberately picked the two journalists from China Business News to sue in a painstaking plot to harrass and intimidate media outlets and journalists. After all, China […]
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