April 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 […]
Read MoreApril 4, 2004 “Internet cafes in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China’s Hebei province, will employ a number of network tutors, providing a more complete service to youthful net surfers. The tutors will be responsible for safeguarding youthful net users from websites concerning violence or pornography, and helping them to deal with malfunctions.” Click here to […]
Read MoreThis is a book review on today’s San Francisco Chronicle, written by Sandip Roy. “The image of the lone young man confronting the giant tanks rolling into Tiananmen Square in 1989 was at once so terrifying and so romantic that it seems to have become the lens through which the West still regards China. That […]
Read MoreThe Washington Post today reported on the crackdown at Southern Metropolis News. The article includes a quote from a speech by editor Cheng Yizhong, which he made before his arrest on March 19: “We are responsible for the news we report, no matter what the news is and no matter what the responsibilities are,” Cheng […]
Read MoreApr 3, 11:02 am ET By Rico Ngai and Jonathan Ansfield NPC officials began deliberating two clauses in Hong Kong’s Basic Law on Saturday that set out how its chief executive and lawmakers are chosen. Critics fear that Beijing’s re-interpretation of these two clauses will ensure a more compliant legislature and stifle Hong Kong’s pro-democracy […]
Read MoreApril 4, 2004 By Dexter Roberts China’s “Iron Lady” is Wu Yi, China’s vice-premier and the only woman in China’s 24-member ruling Politburo. She is also China’s top trade negotiator who will lead trade talks with White House officials in the middle of this month. The article captures this woman’s rise to power and gives […]
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 MoreProf. Joseph Bosco, a veteran author and journalist who now teaches at China Foreign Affairs University, commented on his personal Weblog on China Daily’s printing gruesome photos of the Fallujah attack on Americans. I and...
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