Environmental consequences of China’s development don’t only affect the poor, according to a Xinhua report: Disputes over office air quality are on the rise in recent years. In some cases, employees have sued their bosses for provided an unhealthful work environment; in other cases, building management and furniture makers have been sued for using unhealthful […]
Read MoreA report in the Beijing News (link) has quoted an official with Google China, who says it is “very likely” that all searches from the unfiltered Chinese version of Google.com will be redirected to the censored Google.cn. As Letters from China points out, in recent Congressional testimony, Google said: We have recently launched Google.cn, a […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes.com (link): China’s State Council said it will allow private and foreign firms to buy stakes in rural financial institutions, as Beijing turns its attention to its most debt-ladened and politically sensitive lenders. The country’s cabinet said in a statement that rural financial institutions at county level will be able to diversify their ownership […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post (link): When Zhao Jing moved his blog to Microsoft’s popular MSN Spaces site last summer, some users worried the Chinese government would block the entire service. The censors had blacklisted the last site where the young journalist had posted his spirited political essays, and he seemed unwilling to tone down his […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post (link): A decade ago, China blocked access to three overseas Web sites — two pro-democracy sites and one devoted to Maoist ideals the government had abandoned in favor of capitalism, according to Michael Robinson, an American computer engineer who helped connect China to the Internet. Today, studies show thousands of Web […]
Read MoreFrom USA Today (link): The Internet and the ‘Axis of (Censored)’ During Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, the Pora youth movement mobilized thousands of demonstrators to protest fraudulent elections. In the revolution’s aftermath, Pora’s leaders were asked what single element was central to the movement’s role in Ukraine’s democratic transition. Was it money? International assistance? Trained organizers? […]
Read MoreFrom The Salt Lake Tribune (link): As one who believes in the liberating powers of information technologies, I hope the Internet companies won’t wait for government intrusion. I hope they will take it upon themselves to use their considerable leverage to stand up to China’s cyber-censors and tear down what many are calling the “Great […]
Read MoreWu Bao’an, the former Party Secretary of Yicheng county, Shanxi province is sentenced to 15 years for corruption for “selling official positions”, via news.online.sh.cn.
Read MoreFrom Reuters (link): Internet search giant Google Inc.’s (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) controversial expansion into China now faces possible trouble with regulators after a Beijing newspaper said its new Chinese-language platform does not have a license. The Beijing News reported on Tuesday that Google.cn, the company’s recently launched service that accommodates the China’s censorship demands, […]
Read MoreFrom OpenDemocracy (link): With the first public sign of dissent in senior ranks of the Chinese Communist Party, the tensions over China’s increasingly repressive approach to press freedom have burst into the open. In the last few weeks, Beijing has stepped up the pressure on China’s press, shutting down newspapers and picking off editors who […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Environmental watchdogs in China who abuse their authority will be punished under a special regulation that took effect yesterday. The provisional form of the regulation, China’s first on disciplining dereliction of duty, was released yesterday by the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) and the Ministry of Supervision. The regulation aims to curb […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Imagine 25 million men and women about the combined population of Australia and New Zealand pressing for new jobs. That is the daunting reality that the Chinese economy faces this year, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has reported. This is the country’s worst employment crisis ever, as the children of […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Before handing over to my colleague Jonathan Watts in 2003, I covered a range of important stories to which I had been alerted by excellent reporting in the Chinese press or TV. There were powerful exposes of mining and environmental disasters linked to official corruption, of the plight of migrant workers cheated […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Does a Ryvita make a better foundation than a ginger nut? Or a Hobnob? Or an Abbey Crunch? Obviously wafers would be useless, only good for walls. And Tuc crackers, you suspect, would be a disaster waiting to happen. These are the headaches occupying the mind of the multi-media artist Song Dong […]
Read MoreThis article is part of a series called The Great Firewall of China by the Washington Post’s Philip Pan. Pan will discuss this series on the Washington Post website on Tuesday at 11 am ET: Officials tolerated Wikipedia at first, perhaps because it seemed to be exactly what the party had in mind when it […]
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