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From Asia Times: Weblogs, or Internet diaries that allow individuals, groups or corporations to record their activities, thoughts or beliefs, providing a forum to allow site visitors to leave comments, have become increasingly popular among millions of ordinary Internet users in China. Now they are being joined by the bosses. Not only have celebrities and […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: Chen’s challenge to country justice makes him a kind of Rosa Parks of China. His standoff with Linyi authorities and Mayor Li Qun, who served briefly as assistant to the mayor of New Haven Conn., has captured the imagination of legal reformers here and top foreign legal eagles – raising […]
Read MoreFrom the Economist: YOU might think that China’s media have been having a hard time in recent months: editors sacked, reporters jailed, new curbs announced on what they can report, new clampdowns on the internet. But is it as bad as it sounds? Even as the authorities attempt to tighten controls, the media keep fighting […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: Tightening control of the release of land for development has emerged as one of Beijing’s key weapons to rein in the surge in investment behind economic growth of nearly 11 per cent in the first half of the year. The announcement of stricter rules for developing land coincided with the publication […]
Read MoreCentury China (‰∏ñÁ∫™‰∏≠ÂõΩÔºâ, a popular and influential discussion site, has been closed down by authorities. See this post (in Chinese) from Pu Zhiqiang’s blog. Global Voices has also translated a message from the site: We still don’t know the exact time the website will be shut down, because nobody is willing to carry out a […]
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