From the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: The search engines of two of the most popular Web portals on the mainland have been blocked in a sign of intensified internet censorship, with millions of users expected to be affected. Sina and Sohu are the latest victims of Beijing’s increasing control of the internet […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: All this underscores, I think, that China is not the police state that its leaders sometimes would like it to be; the Communist Party’s monopoly on information is crumbling, and its monopoly on power will follow. The Internet is chipping away relentlessly at the Party, for even 30,000 censors can’t […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Now that Rupert Murdoch has proven that Western media companies can’t get ahead in China through flattery, nepotism and the back door, we at Danwei will have to have to find a new model for our business. In case you didn’t know, Rupert is the world’s last true media mogul – his company, […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: China’s continuous media censorship and a recent apparent upgrade of controls have led to widespread condemnation from media organizations around the world. There have been a number of recent announcements calling for boycotts and protests against China’s censorship combined with condemnation of western firms that cooperate with the Chinese government. The UK’s National […]
Read MoreFrom the Times Online: The vice-mayor of Beijing overseeing the construction of Olympic venues for the 2008 Games has built himself a pleasure palace filled with young concubines on the outskirts of the city. Details of Liu Zhihua’s colourful private life emerged today after he was sacked from his post when a foreign businessman reported […]
Read MoreFrom China Net: Beijing’s media observed on the streets that the lack of urgency when pedestrians crossed streets and roads was a major problem in road crossing etiquette. Experts also pointed out that Chinese take longer to cross streets than people overseas. According to expert analysis, the phenomena of pedestrians’ “watch cars but not traffic […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices Online: Under the party propaganda policies, no commemoration of the movement was allowed in public places and the newspapers and TV networks passed the day wthout any even implied mention of it. Like the...
Read MoreFrom The Associated Press: China has banned the use of new land for luxury villas and will tighten scrutiny of banks’ lending practices, expanding a campaign to rein in a building boom and cool economic growth, state media reported Thursday. Measures issued by the Ministry of Land and Resources also call on local officials to […]
Read MoreFrom MediaShift (link): When Google launched its web search engine in China, and admitted having to censor search results, we made a big stink about it here in the U.S. And when Microsoft admitted to censoring its MSN Spaces blogs in China, we made a big stink about it. And when any American technology company […]
Read MoreBelow is an article I wrote for the latest issue of Dangerous Assignments, the magazine of the Committee to Protect Journalists. The full issue, which also features a cover article on China’s Hidden Unrest, can be...
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