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From Time Asia: Christopher Hill, it turns out, does his best work by moonlight. The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and chief negotiator at the six-party North Korean nuclear talks had a Chinese draft proposal in hand that could jump-start the long-stalled negotiations… So at a lavish Mid-Autumn Festival party on Sept. 17 hosted by […]
Read MoreFrom the San Jose Mercury News (registration required): China is not a democracy and China’s government remains firmly committed to controlling what information reaches its citizens, a reality reinforced earlier this week by a new crackdown on freedom of speech online. That’s a growing problem for Silicon Valley companies, which desperately want to be a […]
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times: Is China’s political environment loosening up, or is the government cracking down? It’s hard to tell. Chinese President and Communist Party General Secretary Hu Jintao (ËÉ°Èå¶Êø§) sometimes seems to be going both ways simultaneously. For example, Hu has decided to honor the memory of his mentor, former general secretary Hu Yaobang […]
Read MoreFrom Infoworld.com: ISM Gmail is a free Web-based e-mail service offered by Beijing ISM Internet Technology Development Co., a small Chinese e-mail provider and domain registrar based in western Beijing. Like Google’s own free Web e-mail service, the ISM Gmail service employs a logo comprised of blue, yellow, red, and green letters. And the sign-in […]
Read MoreFrom the Boston Globe: Zhang Huan is the type of artist whom many outside the rarefied world of performance art label a crackpot. He has covered his naked body in honey and fish oil and sat in a public toilet, attracting flies. For his piece “Zhang Huan: Seeds of Hamburg,” documented in a series of […]
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