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Mobile use in China climbs 13%

From Ireland online: “The number of mobile phone users in China, already the world’s biggest market, has risen by nearly 13% over the past six months to 305 million. Mobile phone users sent just under 100 billion text messages in the first half of this year, the Xinhua News Agency said. ” The full article […]

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Bad Press” Causing Headaches for Beijing

YaleGlobal published the following article by Paul Mooney. The article is entitled “Bad Press” Causing Headaches for Beijing. “Journalists and scholars continue to speak out and the government finds it increasingly difficult to be the sole guardian of the truth. Aggressive young journalists continue to dig into a growing array of sensitive news, from the […]

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Bloggers, BBS and The Rising Tide of Internet Public Opinion

Asia Times just had an article called “A blogger’s tale: The Stainless Steel Mouse.” Strictly speaking, Liu Di, the Stainless Steel Mouse, is a online writer, not a blogger. She did not have a weblog and most of her writing appeared in online forums and bulletin boards (BBS). I recently wrote a short essay about […]

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Free market generates (some) media freedom

Asia times just published an article written by James Borton, on the subject of newly gained press freedoms in China due to the economic reform. “China’s free-market economy is generating unprecedented but not unlimited press freedoms, and there’s momentum. As Beijing embraces a market economy, its proliferating news media too are becoming privatized, more commercial, […]

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