“Police are quickly clamping down on attempts to mark the crackdown A leading Chinese doctor who criticised the Communist Party’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has disappeared on the eve of its 15th anniversary. Jiang Yanyong is one of several potential critics thought to have been taken from Beijing or put under house arrest ahead of […]
Read More“On the 15th anniversary of China’s suppression of student protesters in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, few in the West seem aware that Beijing is again confronting a growing volume of popular protest. Even more surprising, reports of this widespread protest are being confirmed by China’s own police forces, which used to routinely deny […]
Read MoreAsia Times looks behind the reasons why China recently backed down on enforcing its own standards for wireless technology, citing protests from both American businesses and Chinese consumers. The full story is here.
Read MorePhilip Pan reported in the Washington Post that Jiang Zemin has been wielding significant power behind the scenes to rein in moves toward democracy in Hong Kong and independence in Taiwan. In recent weeks, three prominent talk show hosts in Hong Kong have quit, citing pressure and threats they received from mainland officials.
Read MoreXinhua reported China’s two-month campaign on fraud by cell phone text messages or via Internet. In the article, an official from the Ministry of Public Security reminded the information industry department to step up supervision not only on text messages but also on phone number registrations, and urged it to block junk messages with special […]
Read MorePC World reported the Chinese wikipedia story today. An informal group of Chinese volunteers has been working on this project since May 2001. According to Hong Kong Scholar Andrew Lih, the Chinese language Wikipedia (http://zh.wikipedia.org) is still relatively small, with just over 6,500 articles, and ranks as the 12th largest just behind Esperanto and Italian […]
Read MoreAccording to Chi Lo in his new book, The Misunderstood China: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Bamboo Curtain, great ignorance of China’s economic issues runs unchecked in current world discourse, the implicit danger of which is that, should our misconceptions of China today be enacted in the form of, say, “raising anti-dumping and safeguard measures […]
Read MoreTaiwan’s National Security Bureau has said that documents allegedly proving that the ruling DPP has provided financial aid to Chinese dissidents overseas and recruited them to spy for Taiwan are forgeries, according to a report in the Taipei Times. Beijing released the documents one week ahead of the 15th anniversary of June 4. Dissident Yang […]
Read MoreCatherine Armitage wrote a story on Australian IT, interviewed mostly Hu Jia, Liu Xiaobo, Han Dongfang and other activists who has been using the Net to express themselves. It mentioned one of the Internet petitions last year: initiated by Liu Xiaobo and others for the removal of Mao Zedong’s body from its mausoleum in Tiananmen […]
Read MoreBeijing’s Alfa Lounge Wednesday night played host to the opening of
Read MoreClay Shirky’s latest essay is an edited version of a talk he gave last November at Beth Noveck‘s “The State of Play” [conference on Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds.] Taking the “Code is Law” equation at face value, Shirky wonders what it would take to design an environment where game players owned their game world, […]
Read MoreHow scared should corporate China be of Hu Shuli? asks The Economist. Dubbed the most dangerous woman in China, Hu Shuli is the managing editor of Caijing a business magazine that “combines investigative reporting with the sort of critical commentary that a decade ago would have landed its journalists in jail”. ¤
Read MoreXinhua reports that China’s Ministry of Culture has banned a computer game for “distorting history and damaging China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”. The PC game, “Hearts of Iron“, was accused of distorting historical facts in describing “Manchuria”, “West Xinjiang”, and “Tibet” as independent sovereign countries in the maps of the game. “All these severely distort […]
Read MoreIn a series of special reports for BBC World Service, Global Business reports on a second industrial revolution and the upheavals which are changing not only China but the whole world. The article pointed out that Chinese companies are hoping to lead the world in combining e-commerce with the world’s biggest mobile phone market – […]
Read More(Due to unexpected technical problem, CDN’s backend was down for ten days. ) Today, Xinhua quoted an official from the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), said “China is expected to become the largest information technology (IT) market in the world in the next five years.” According to this report, China will become the world’s largest […]
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