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From Straits Times, via Asia Media (link): A journalist who reported on alleged local government corruption in central China’s Hunan province will go on trial next week without having been able to prepare his defence, his wife said yesterday. The trial of Yang Xiaoqing, who was charged with extortion following his investigations into corruption in […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua (link): China is expected to have nearly 100 million bloggers in 2007 with the fast increase in the number of netizens, according to a recent report. The number of bloggers in the country this year is predicted at more than 60 million, said the report released by the research center of media management […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor (link): The mayor of China’s top manufacturing city is hosting a “swimathon” this summer in the local Pearl River. Cleanup efforts to reverse years of industrial pollution have been so successful, claims mayor Guang Zhangming, that the Pearl is once again safe to swim. To prove it, he plans to […]
Read MoreHeavy Metal band “Hollow” performs at Harley’s in Shanghai, by monkeyking
Read MoreFrom MarketWatch.com (link): EBay Inc. executives said Thursday the company’s Internet-based phone service, known as Skype, has seen explosive growth in China and that the country is now one of Skype’s biggest market. Speaking to hundreds of analysts and investors gathered at eBay’s San Jose, Calif., headquarters, Skype president and former eBay chief financial officer […]
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