From Xinhuanet on Dec. 25 : ” East China’s Jiangsu Province has established a specialized website in the provincial capital, Nanjing, to standardize the management of Internet cafes. Officially opened Wednesday, the www.njwx.cn was established bythe Nanjing Internet Service Association, founded in December 2002. An official with the association said the website would providea platform […]
Read MoreDirectly from Peoples Daily yesterday: “Huicong International Information, which determined to be the world’s largest Chinese search engine provider announced at a release conference on December 23 the birth of the professional search brand “China Search Online” (www.zhongsou.com), a latest progress made by this provider who aims to challenge Google. ”
Read MoreChina Economic Net had a good article on December 17, 2003, which contains useful data such as the number of domestic websites and the bandwidth of China’s internet international outlet and inlet. Statistics are very encouraging but there are also problems such as a digital and economic divide within the country. The article started with […]
Read MoreThis Regional Briefings on China from Winds of Change is a very informative summary of China related online information last month.
Read MoreReuters’ Beijing corespondent wrote a article called “A mobil revolution in China.” Here are some excerpts from the article: “While operators in more developed economies struggle to grow in saturated markets, China’s mobile users are likely to double to 500 million by 2007, surpassing the population of the United States. ” “Major international equipment producers – […]
Read MoreWith the 2008 Olympics looming, a minister from the British Foreign Office has urged China to facilitate Chinese access to the BBC. Chinese officials won’t cop to intentionally blocking BBC radio waves and website content, but they’re not denying it either. The Communist Party is notorious for quashing news that doesn’t jibe with its message. […]
Read MoreXinhua’s entertainment page is not where I usually surf to. But today I received an email which contained this link on boingboing. The link pointed to China View’s entertainment page today, entitled “Amazing colored paintings on human bodies” The email said: “not sure If you want to post this but it’s interesting.” I clicked the […]
Read MoreOne can loosely translate the Chinese word “Guanxi” as “social connections.” Many scholars have written books about this subject. In this e-everything time, what can be more natural than using the Internet and wireless technology to offer social networking services in China? So here it is: ” Silicon Valley-based cross-Pacific venture capital and consulting firm […]
Read MoreI came across this Hong Kong based ChinaTechNews site. One of today’s news on the site was about China’s gaming championship. It said: “ Organizers of the second China Internet Gaming competition in Shanghai, China’s top computer gaming championship, announced during the final that they hope to replace the South Korean-based World Cyber Games as […]
Read MoreDan Gillmor on how China is cutting its own path: “But China, unlike other developing nations that lack its growing clout on the global stage, isn’t planning to keep paying these taxes. It’s political-economic establishment is absolutely determined to set its own path in the Digital Age.”
Read MoreAn op-ed in today’s Boston Globe puts the issue of Internet censorship in a global perspective, and points China out for special mention. The piece concludes: “The Russian authorities, like the Chinese or the Tunisians, could have followed Cuba’s example and shut off all public access to the Internet. But that would be tantamount to […]
Read MoreHere is a new article from smartmoney.com, MAO MUST BE turning in his grave. It says “shares of Chinadotcom (CHINA ) surged 11% to $8.67 after the Chinese technology provider announced plans to spin off its mobile and Internet businesses. The Hong Kong-based company expects to hold an initial public offering sometime during the first […]
Read MoreNicholas Kristof had a column on NYT today, started from his experiment/experience in Chinese chat rooms. He tried several versions of criticism on Wen Jiabao to test the tolerance of China’s online censors. His conclusion? “…that’s (the Internet) the frontier of free speech in China in the information age, and it reflects real progress. ” […]
Read More“Twenty-five percent of Chinese city dwellers (especially small cities) are regular Internet users… Nearly 85% of them were below the age of 35. ” This is from the recent CINNIC survey. Xinhua’s English site China View had a article entitled “2003: Lifestyles of the young.” Here are some quotes from it. “The ever-expanding group of […]
Read MoreThis is not about Internet, but China. I got up early this morning (5 am) and the first unopened email in my mailbox was this link, sent from an emailing list I subscribed. It is a collection of photographs of poor and disadvantaged people in China, posted in one of the China’s literature BBSs. I […]
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