Sophie Beach is CDT's Operations and Communications Manager. From 2003-2021, she served as Executive Editor of CDT English. She lives in Berkeley, California.
From Reuters, via CNet: The number of Web users in China, the world’s second-largest Internet market, grew by 18 percent in 2005 to 111 million, the Economic Daily reported Wednesday. Some 8.5 percent of the country’s 1.3 billion people now have access to the Internet, the newspaper reported, citing a survey released by the China […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: As of March 1, 2006, China’s procurators will dispatch special technicians to make live recordings of the interrogation of criminals suspected of job-related crimes, so as to ensure that confessions be not extorted by torture. The information was disclosed by Wang Zhenchuan, vice procurator-general of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) at an on-going […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese President, held talks in Beijing with Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the National Defense Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). […]
Read MoreFrom Search Engine Watch: Despite trailing Chinese traffic leader Baidu, Google is rated the best search engine in China, according to new research from Keynote Systems. The study focused on the user experience of the four leading search engines in China: Alibaba/Yahoo!, Baidu, Google China and Sohu/Sogou. The study observed the searching habits of more […]
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: As the “year of the dog” arrives in China, a new fad for those partaking in China’s success is weekend skiing. Office groups migrate to one of eight new ski “villages” outside Beijing. Many arrive in SUVs, the current “it” car also used for fashionable expeditions to outbacks in Gansu […]
Read More
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
CDT is a non-profit media site, and we need your support. Your contribution will help us provide more translations, breaking news, and other content you love.
