This article appeared in Asia Times today. The author, Jayanthi Iyengar is a senior business journalist from India. Here are some subtitles in her article : “Two sides: Expansion of Internet, repression of content”, “Booming digital China is not about politics” , “Average Internet user: educated, young, male “, “Lessons from SARS – shop at […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: ” A Chinese internet dissident who has been in detention since October has been formally arrested on charges of subversion. The official Xinhua news agency said Du Daobin had written 28 internet articles aimed at the overthrow of China’s socialist system. ” It is very unusual for Chinese authorities to publicly announce the […]
Read More“Increasing numbers of teenagers in China are being admitted to hospital, suffering from what doctors call ‘Internet Syndrome’. Symptoms include delirium, paranoia and psychosis. Dr. Yu Haiting, the vice president of the No. 8 People’s Hospital in Zhengzhou, says he sees one or two cases per week. ” This article is from the Register.com.
Read MoreFrom IDG News Service: ” While China’s large online population and growing economic development represent an irresistible lure for many IT vendors, any technology they provide that helps the Chinese government impose Internet censorship makes them partially to blame for human rights abuses, a new report by Amnesty International (AI) claims. …… The group specifically […]
Read MoreAP reported from Beijing that the Chinese government has launched a fight against junk e-mail, fearful that the spam bombarding its citizens’ in-boxes may contain pornography, anti-communist sentiments or other material objectionable to the Beijing government. According to state media, the ministries of public security, education and information industry will work together to combat junk […]
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