Hundreds of thousands of people in Hong Kong took to the streets today to call for democracy, according to a BBC report. In the lead-up to the protest, pro-Beijing groups tried to disrupt the plans: “There were attempts to scupper the march entirely, according to its organisers, the Civil Human Rights Front. Computers hackers used […]
Read MoreThe author of this essay is an American who works in China for CCTV. Ann Condi is a pen name. Princeton professor Perry Link’s words: it is “the most penetrating analysis I have seen on the psychology of the...
Read MoreOpinion piece in the The Asian Pacifc Post slams Canadian government for “forking out tax dollars to companies like Nortel which is accused of helping China’s army of cyber cops round up and jail Internet...
Read MoreUnder the guidance of Randy Kluver, of Nanyang Technological University, this panel revealed that the effect of the net on Chinese political culture is terribly similar to that in the United States. There’s a digital divide — Bu Wei, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said 28 percent of people in Beijing were net […]
Read MoreRichard Baum, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies In 1978, there were 600 mainframe and microcomputers in China, all based on Soviet design. Eight years later, in 1986, he wrote the first article about computing in China for a...
Read MoreThe Hong Kong-based, Chinese language Yazhou Zhoukan (Asia Weekly) magazine has published a lengthy article about the recent crackdown on Southern Metropolis News (Nanfang Dushi Bao), in which two employees of the newspaper were sentenced to lengthy terms for alleged corruption and the top editor was arrested and is awaiting trial. Chinese journalists have called […]
Read MoreApril 2, 2004 Ma Yalian, who posted an article on Chinese legal affairs Websites critical of the government’s handling of public grievances, has been sentenced to 18 months in a labor camp. This case was first reported in the U.S. by the New York-based Human Rights in China. Click here for the full article.
Read MoreBy Mure Dickie in Beijing Published: March 31 2004 9:09 | Last Updated: March 31 2004 11:34 China on Wednesday tightened rules for issuing visas to US citizens in retaliation against Washington’s insistence on fingerprinting Chinese travellers to the US. The new measures, which include requiring diplomats travelling for personal reasons to apply for an […]
Read MoreMarch 26, 2004 The France-based NGO, Reporters Without Borders, has issued an “awards list” for those countries practicing “online repression.” China wins its grand prize, though notably a number of Western nations, including the United States, Canada and France are listed as being on “probation.” Regarding China, Reporters Without Borders, notes: “Golden Palm¬†: China An […]
Read MoreThe New York Times reports that China’s thirteen new constitutional amendments address property and human rights concerns. However, “Chinese legal experts and even lawmakers said the changes, which were decided in closed-door sessions of the governing Communist Party last fall and formally approved Sunday, would not remove government restrictions on protest. China’s Constitution is subordinate […]
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