This is from Xinhua’s website: www.chinaview.cn. “Shanghai Internet penetration rate ranked the second in China’s mainland, next only to Beijing, said a report released yesterday. Shanghai’s net users increased to 4.32 million last year, a 2 percent increase compared to the previous year. The penetration rate was up to 26.6 percent, second only to Beijing […]
Read MoreBy JOSEPH KAHN Published: April 8, 2004 BEIJING, April 7 – When asked why China, with its surging economy and rising power, has not yet begun to democratize, its leaders recite a standard line. The country is too big, too poor, too uneducated and too unstable to give political power to the people, they say. […]
Read MoreApril 7, 2004 “On Oct. 14, 2003, well-known Internet dissident Luo Yongzhong was sentenced to three years in prison by the Changchun Intermediate Court for publishing an article on the Internet, commenting and criticizing on China, and placing blame on the Chinese government. Luo was formally charged with and convicted of “instigating rebellion against the […]
Read MoreAccording to today’s South China Morning Post: “A group of mainland legal and economic experts has called for a retrial of two managers of a popular Guangzhou tabloid who were jailed last month for corruption. They said the convictions by the Dongshan court were ‘a slap in the face’ for the central government’s pledge to […]
Read MoreBy Paul Taylor in New York Published: April 6 2004 17:04 | Last Updated: April 7 2004 0:28 “Lucent Technologies, the leading US telecommunications equipment manufacturer, has fired four senior employees in China after discovering potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act which bans the payment of bribes overseas. Lucent said it fired the […]
Read MoreApril 7, 2004 “Why all the concentration on standards now? China’s leaders realize that if they are ever to turn the corner from being a “developing” manufacturing base for the world’s low-end products, to taking their place among the world’s developed economies, then it will be crucial to control the “business” of new technology development.” […]
Read MoreReuters Tuesday, April 6, 2004; 4:10 AM By Alison Leung and Carrie Lee Click here for full article. “The Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) passed an interpretation of Hong Kong’s Basic Law giving Beijing full control over the territory’s political reform. The leaders of China’s parliament interpreted two clauses in Hong Kong’s […]
Read MoreApril 7, 2004 “For many years, beggars were rarely seen in the showcase cities of this country that still calls itself a socialist state. Image-conscious city officials ordered the police to arrest panhandlers and other homeless people, many of whom had traveled illegally from the destitute countryside. But in the past six months, the number […]
Read MoreApril 6, 2004 “At 63, Huang Zhenyun says the newly-passed amendment to the Constitution is the key to keeping his house from being torn down — at least for a while…Huang said he held up a copy of the document as he stood at the gate of his house on the early morning of April […]
Read MoreApril 6 A national information security system will be built in five years and the central government will reduce the requirements for market access to information security products, officials said. A new regulation on information security products manufactured at home and abroad will come out in the near future, further widening market access for software […]
Read MoreApril 5, 2004 “Zhao Ziyang, a former Communist Party chief who became a potent symbol of thwarted political reform after he was purged during the crackdown on dissent in 1989, is critically ill and is being kept alive by a respirator at his home in Beijing, people close to Mr. Zhao’s family said Monday. Analysts […]
Read MoreToday, Paul McDougall and John Foley wrote on the Information Week: When the Chinese government makes technology decisions, it impacts businesses around the world. “China’s always wondering, ‘Are we going to have our own standards, or are we going to follow world standards?’” says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. “And it’s one of the few countries […]
Read More+By Hamish McDonald April 6, 2004 The article reports, “Chinese security agencies are continuing arrests of activists seeking official forgiveness of participants in the pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and elsewhere in China that were suppressed with massacres from the night of June 3-4, 1989.” As the 15th anniversary of Tiananmen approaches, the government […]
Read MoreApril 5, 2004 “U.S. tech companies are rapidly expanding their partnerships with China. They are eyeing the nation’s huge domestic market and tapping its cheap labor for skilled manufacturing and, increasingly, the brainpower for creating tech innovations. At the same time, the American tech companies are looking warily at an emerging rival.” For the full […]
Read MoreApril 4, 2004 In a pair of related announcements, China, Japan and South Korea have announced that they will collaborate on developing their own open-source alternatives to Microsoft’s Windows operating system, and on a 4G cell phone standard “expected to enable throughput of 100 megabits per second–equivalent to the speed of fiber-optic communications…to allow users […]
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