Today is the fifteenth anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, David Callaway from CBS MarketWatch wrote a op-ed piece entitled “Tiananmen hangs over China boom” Here are some quotes from his article: “The idea that a booming economy will push the hard line government into suddenly deciding to release its grip on power in exchange for […]
Read More“Police are quickly clamping down on attempts to mark the crackdown A leading Chinese doctor who criticised the Communist Party’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has disappeared on the eve of its 15th anniversary. Jiang Yanyong is one of several potential critics thought to have been taken from Beijing or put under house arrest ahead of […]
Read More“On the 15th anniversary of China’s suppression of student protesters in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, few in the West seem aware that Beijing is again confronting a growing volume of popular protest. Even more surprising, reports of this widespread protest are being confirmed by China’s own police forces, which used to routinely deny […]
Read MoreXinhua reported China’s two-month campaign on fraud by cell phone text messages or via Internet. In the article, an official from the Ministry of Public Security reminded the information industry department to step up supervision not only on text messages but also on phone number registrations, and urged it to block junk messages with special […]
Read MorePC World reported the Chinese wikipedia story today. An informal group of Chinese volunteers has been working on this project since May 2001. According to Hong Kong Scholar Andrew Lih, the Chinese language Wikipedia (http://zh.wikipedia.org) is still relatively small, with just over 6,500 articles, and ranks as the 12th largest just behind Esperanto and Italian […]
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