From Infoworld.com: After outrage from many of its own employees over its abrupt censoring of a Chinese blogger, Microsoft has formulated a new policy to deal with requests from a government that alleges posted material violates its laws. The measures were detailed by Microsoft’s (Profile, Products, Articles) top lawyer, Brad Smith, at the Government Leaders […]
Read MoreFrom Time Europe: The sheer ubiquity of the Indian presence didn’t focus the spotlight just on the subcontinent, but on the race between India and China for growth, prosperity and investment. So the question most discussed at Davos this year soon became: Which of the two is ahead now, and which is likely to win […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Microsoft on Tuesday called for internet companies to adopt a common approach to dealing with official publication restrictions in China and elsewhere, as it continued to struggle with the fall-out from a decision to block an internet blog by a well-known Chinese dissident. The US software company also modified its policy […]
Read MoreFrom Chiu Yung’s Web: (translated by CDT): (Let me first say Happy New Year to everyone! After the energetic growth and endless disruptions of the blogosphere last year, let’s start over again on this clear day. ) Some blogger let out a long sigh over the google.cn event before the New Year, I see this […]
Read MoreESWN has translated a list of Top Ten Sayings in China, from 6Park.com: At the end of 2005, there are many collections of top ten famous this or famous that of the year. Below is a list of ten famous sayings, which are all-time...
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: I work in an industry that Google may half-destroy, but last week I sympathized with the gobbler of all ad revenue. Google was beaten up in the media for bowing to censorship in China, even though plenty of news organizations sell their wares in countries where they get censored. Meanwhile, the […]
Read MoreCDT wants your photos of China to include in the CDT slideshow on flickr. When you upload photos onto flickr, just add a tag called “chinadigitaltimes,” and they will appear in the CDT slideshow. We will provide a link to the slideshow on the front page of CDT, so all CDT readers can enjoy your […]
Read MoreA former monk and his grandson; by Witzmsc411 from the CDT Slideshow.
Read MoreFrom The Standard: Other interests are now emerging which may compete with those expressed by party apparatchiks. Widespread social unrest, caused in large part by dodgy local government policies over, among other things, land access, is awakening the Chinese masses. Out of this, new political forces are beginning to emerge, as those organizing hitherto unheard-of […]
Read MoreFrom The Age: India is Asia’s tortoise, plodding along as China races off with a leading chunk of the world’s direct foreign investment. Its infrastructure is an embarrassment, its bureaucracy a major economic headwind and its crushing poverty a reminder of challenges facing the world’s second-most populous nation. For all its warts, India boasts a […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg, via the Vancouver Sun: From his 16th-floor office on Beijing’s Avenue of Eternal Peace, distressed-debt specialist Jack Rodman has a grandstand view of the $160-billion US worth of construction that will add the equivalent of three Manhattans to the skyline by 2008, when China’s capital will host the Olympic Games. To the east, […]
Read MoreFrom searchengingwatch.com: Plenty are writing and writing about Google’s agreement to censor results for China. But pictures perhaps better illustrate the differences that Google now endorses. Google Images Censors Too in China from Google Blogoscoped shows you how a search for [tiananmen square] on Google Images China provides happy scenes while over at uncensored Google […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: As China builds a military to match its growing economic power, its neighbors and potential rivals including the United States have puzzled over a key question: When will the Chinese Navy launch an aircraft carrier? For decades, senior Chinese military and political officials have argued that for the country to […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: Lunar New Year Allows Migrant Workers to Leave Jobs in Cities for Rural Homes. On almost every other day, Cai Weilan wakes up hundreds of miles away in a cramped factory dormitory, facing another long shift making sweaters for strangers across the ocean. On this day, she wakes up at home. […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via BREITBART.COM: The leading US-based Internet companies are showing little interest in attending a Congressional briefing on worries that the firms are bending to the wishes of China’s censors. Microsoft and Cisco Systems have refused to attend the event, while Google and Yahoo are non-committal, officials said. The firms were asked to attend […]
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