From Xinhua, via China Daily: The Chinese Ministry of Information Industry has decided to temporarily close down all domestic web sites that fail to register with local telecommunications authorities before June 30. The decision was announced here on Friday according to China’s two official methods on the management of Internet Information Services and Registration of […]
Read MoreFrom the June 21 USA Today: All across the continent, Chinese companies are building dams, repairing roads and running telecommunications systems. The modern scramble for Africa resembles the late 19th century, when European nations carved up the continent as they searched for minerals and slaves. Now they have been joined by Chinese companies. With world […]
Read MoreESWN has translated portions of a document from the Guangdong Province Department of Telecommunications outlining self-censorship guidelines for BBS operators. The original document is here. From ESWN’s commentary: This type of delegation of the regular daily censorship duties should not be surprising.¬† It also occurs in the United States and elsewhere.¬† For example, if someone […]
Read MoreChina is looking for new sponsors for the 2008 Olympic Games, according to articles in People’s Daily and VOA: Beijing’s Olympic Organizing Committee (BOCOG) has unveiled a program aimed at attracting more sponsors as the Chinese capital prepares to host the 2008 Olympics… Beijing’s Olympic marketing director, Yuan Bin, is quoted by the Xinhua News […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: Falungong, which Beijing outlawed as an “evil cult” in 1999, disrupted television broadcast signals in most parts of China last week for about five minutes by jamming signal transmission via the satellite of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co Ltd (AsiaSat). One communications-technology expert, however, told Asia Times Online that such attacks could […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via The Washington Post: China – Canadian telecommunications equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp. said Wednesday that China’s Railways Ministry has chosen it to provide a digital wireless communications network on the world’s highest rail service, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. The decision followed a yearlong trial of Nortel’s GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) for […]
Read MoreFrom the Weekend Standard: India and China. Two giants of the developing world. Two very different models of social, political and economic development. An endless source of comparisons. Few people are better placed to give a fresh version of the strengths and weaknesses of the two behemoths than 63-year-old Arun Shourie. Until the Bharatiya Janata […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times, via Howard French’s A Glimpse of the World: Having become workshop to the world, is China poised to storm the bastions of its high-technology industries? Thanks partly to foreign expansion by Huawei, telecommunications equipment maker, and a few other Chinese companies, the idea is starting to be taken seriously abroad – […]
Read MoreFrom China Economic Net: “China may overtake the United States as the world’s largest broadband Internet market due to strong demand. A recent report by the UN’s International Telecommunications Union said in 2004, the United States had over 25 million broadband subscribers, while China has already added 11 million new users in 2003 to reach […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: “Foreign companies’ profits in China have increased rapidly in the past four years on the back of a strong economy but remain tepid compared with other countries with much smaller markets and slower growth. ‘ There is also another article entitled “China’s market is not so lucrative” (sub required) on the […]
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