Good news! This is from Reuters today: “Jiang Yanyong, the military doctor who exposed China’s SARS cover-up last year, has been released after seven weeks in custody during which he underwent “study sessions”, family members say. Jiang, 72, who had been taken into custody on June 1 months after calling for a political reassessment of […]
Read MoreAFP reported today: “China has launched a “people’s war” against pornography on the Internet, giving websites a deadline until September to rid themselves of indecent content, state media said. Officials have so far identified 500 websites across China that carry pornographic pictures and film clips, the China Daily reported. Zhou Yongkang, the minister of […]
Read More“The shifting fortunes of China’s Internet portals are likely to take a turn for the worse as short-messaging services (SMS) are gradually becoming less of a goldmine. From stricter government regulation to lower charges for voice calls, the hitherto lucrative SMS business is facing multiple dangers in the months ahead, the China Business Weekly newspaper […]
Read More“China’s Internet users send 46 million emails and receive 67 million each day, according to the latest figures provided by CCID Consulting, a think tank for the Ministry of Information Industry. But nearly half of the emails in circulation are junk mail, according to CCID Consulting, also one of the leading domestic IT market research […]
Read MoreVia New York Times: “China’s economy grew at a 9.6 percent pace in the April through June period, a weaker pace than expected, data showed Friday, suggesting that Beijing may be achieving a soft landing for the economy. The number was a slackening from the 9.8 percent pace in the first quarter of the year. […]
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