From today’s New York Times: “In keeping with the gold- and diamond-encrusted watches the Communist Party made to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth, Deng Xiaoping is being widely hailed as a visionary who freed China from its socialist straitjacket and created new wealth. Yet influential party elders have used the anniversary, which falls […]
Read MoreWashington Post had an article today about the current crack down on porn in Chinese Internet. “The party and government have launched what they call a people’s war against electronic pornography. They have decreed that, after a summerlong campaign, plugged-in Chinese must be back on the sexual straight and narrow by the time the country […]
Read MoreA Canadian research group, OpenNet Initiative has conducted some tests about Chinese search engine filtering. Here is their report.
Read MoreVia The World Economic Forum Weblog: blogger Fons Tuinstra is starting an interesting project called “Connecting China” “China will have at the beginning of 2005 100 million internet users, almost half of them connected to broadband. But outside China very few people know who is behind those astonishing figures, what are the Chinese doing with the internet […]
Read More“Internet giant Amazon.com Inc. will purchase China’s biggest Web retailer, Joyo.com, sources familiar with the deal said on Thursday. No details were available on the value of the deal, which analysts had expected to be in the tens of millions of dollars.” Read this Reuters’ news here.
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