EBay Hops the Fast Boat To China (Washington Post)
“Auction giant eBay is going tete-a-tete with search engine powerhouse Yahoo in a race to tap China ‘s growing appetite for online auctions. ” Here is the full article.
Read MoreShanghai will monitor Internet (AP)
” Authorities are installing video cameras and high-tech software in Shanghai’s Internet cafes and bars to make sure customers don’t look at forbidden Web sites, a state-run newspaper reported Thursday. The new controls – part of a crackdown also aimed at keeping children out of such places – will begin in all of Shanghai’s 1,325 […]
Read MoreChina backs down on Wi-Fi Standards (CNET news)
China agreed today to indefinitely delay implementation of government encryption standards for new wireless equipment, which would have allowed the government to decrypt personal communications over wireless networks. CNET writes: “China is softening efforts to establish its own Wi-Fi security standard and will adopt stringent new piracy prevention policies as part of a broad trade […]
Read MoreThe grass-roots greening of China (IHT)
In an opinion piece in today’s International Herald Tribune, Elizabeth Economy writes that: “Throughout China, people have become energized by their desire to contribute to the protection of nature. In so doing, they have also set the pace for the advance of civil society and the development of democracy.” The full article is here.
Read MoreWireless security tops U.S.-China trade talks (EE Times)
“China and the United States will square off in Washington on Wednesday (April 21) for the annual U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, a forum where officials haggle over trade disputes and promote commercial agendas. For the technology community, this week’s meeting has taken on added importance in light of recent clashes between the […]
Read MorePublish and be Damned
Three more articles about the crackdown on Southern Metropolis News: Publish and Be Damned, from today’s Guardian; China Tries Again to Curb Independent Press in South, from yesterday’s New York Times; and a translation of an article from the Chinese magazine Caijing.
Read MoreProfessor lashes out against censorship watchdog
Jiao Guobiao, a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Peking University, published an essay in late March on the Internet blasting the “Central Propaganda Department”, an arm of the Communist...
Read MoreCourt to deal with Internet crimes (Xinhua)
“A local court in Beijing recently set up a workgroup to deal with cases associated with the Internet as an effort to probe into the legal issues relating to cyberspace.” The full article is here.
Read MoreProfiting From Benchmarks: Reasons Behind China’s Rush To Develop Standards (Part Two) (ChinaTechNews)
April 15, 2004 “China’s standards development process continues to be unclear and lacks transparency, planning, and open channels for international input. There is an unmistakable tendency on the part of the Chinese...
Read MoreChina’s ‘Big Mamas’ in a Quandary (Yale Global Online)
Yale Global reports on the tensions between the Chinese government’s desire to control Internet content, and Chinese netizens’ increasing determination to evade these controls: “BEIJING: Over the past 18...
Read MoreChina poised to join nuclear supplier group (FT)
This is from today’s Financial Times: “China is poised to join the multilateral group controlling the export of nuclear materials and technology next month, the government has said. Beijing’s expected entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group coincides with the visit to Beijing on Tuesday by Dick Cheney, the vice-president of a US administration that has […]
Read MoreChina fears boom and bust cycle ?BBC)
“The Chinese government has issued a new warning that too much bank lending for real estate and certain industrial projects could lead to supply gluts and trigger a financial crisis. The country’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China, has taken fresh measures to try to curb the amount of money that Chinese banks are […]
Read MoreHow’s China Doing? Yardsticks You Never Thought of (New York Times)
April 11, 2004 “Is China, with its mix of raw capitalism and tattered Leninist politics, edging toward a more liberal, middle-class state or is it hurtling toward a political seizure?” “Following is an...
Read MoreTree Planting in the Desert: Wisdom or Folly? (New York Times)
April 11, 2004 “According to government statistics, 42 billion trees have been planted since 1982. Last year alone, the effort involved more than 560 million people. In the latest phase of the effort, announced two years ago, China plans to plant trees in an area of 170,000 square miles ” just over the size of […]
Read MoreOnline gaming is proving to be a lucrative business in China (Aljazeera)
“Eyes glued to the screen, 15-year-old Wang Li is mesmerised as his assembled army masses for what will prove to be the final attack. Playing Starcraft, a popular sci-fi strategy game, Wang Li is quite literally joining millions of other fans for an afternoon of internet gaming. Last year boasting 13.8 million gamers (non-official figures […]
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