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Eswn has translated a number of articles about the arrest of journalist Zhao Yan. While Zhao’s arrest has been linked to his work for the NY Times, several commentators link it to his previous reporting on peasants for the magazine China Reform.
Read MoreIn an op-ed in the International Herald Tribune today, Philip Bowring writes that despite its glitzy facade, Shanghai is representative of the endemic problems plaguing the Communist Party: “As well as the most shiny example of China’s new ‘socialist’ construction, Shanghai is also an example of vast waste of public funds and the locus of […]
Read MoreAccording to an AP report: “Canadian telecom giant Nortel Networks said Tuesday it had landed a contract with China Telecom to expand data networks across southern and eastern China.
Read MoreYesterday Google issued a formal response to accusations that the company has censored news sources on their new Chinese language news service. The statement, posted on the Google blog, is here.
Read MoreJournalist Zhao Yan, who was arrested this week in Shanghai, was also working as a researcher for the New York Times bureau in Beijing. He is accused of “revealing state secrets,” though it’s unclear so far whether his arrest is linked to his own journalism, which was critical of government policy, or to his work […]
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