AFP – The monks of China’s Shaolin temple, famous for centuries for their martial-art skills, are also experienced users of the internet. The temple, in central China’s Henan province, has had its own website since 1997 — long before the country’s major portals started business, the Xinhua news agency reported. The agency, reporting from an […]
Read MoreThe illegal market of wang bas (Chinese Internet cafes) is successful despite government restrictions. But, often these “cafes” are grimy, smoky dens without proper bathroom facilities or fire exits. Parents of juveniles who frequent these cafes are calling for a government crackdown on these illegal, unsafe establishments, as their children frequent them to play endless […]
Read MoreSome portion of the Chinese version of Hillary Cliton’s new book was edited or altered because they reference sensitive issues related to China. Hillary was said to be furious at the changes. Source at bbc.com.
Read MoreOne area that would be interesting to monitor is the impact the 2008 Beijing Olympics will have on China’s technical developments and policies. The following asia.cnet article suggests that there is a lot of work brewing. China, Japan and South Korea have agreed to work on information technology (IT) logistics for the 2008 Beijing Olympic […]
Read MoreYet another survey from xinhua.net on China’s Internet usage.
Read MoreCompanies are bending over backwards to win the Chinese market. Several questions immediately come to mind. Is China’s clout in driving technological developments real or perceived? Are there real profits to be realized in China? Is there room for small businesses to succeed when it seems like the big companies are muscling in? The following […]
Read MoreThis story broke on Yahoo! News at 9pm today. Details are a little light but so far a chinese government official from Dazhou has been arrested on charges that he was communicating with dissidents abroad on Internet chatrooms. Article from Yahoo!
Read MoreCisco is making it’s presence in the Chinese market by winning the contract to upgrade the backbone communications infrastructure of Sinopec, China’s Petroleum & Chemical Corporation. One interesting quote in the article from stockhouse.com was that Sinopec’s decision to go with Cisco was the global expertise which was important to the company in its “move […]
Read MoreJust as in the fledgling years of the internet in the United States, China’s usage of the web for pornography is causing a huge swell in internet portal companies such as Sohu.com, Sina Corp. and NetEase. This article also mixes in some of the additional services that these portals provide such as matchmaking using the […]
Read MoreUS has GPS (Global Positioning System) technology. EU is developing its own, called Gallieo system. now China joins in the project, and will invest 230 million euros. the whole network will consist 30 satellites, expected total...
Read MoreConsiderable human and technical resources have been applied to filtering the Internet in China by the Chinese government. These filters are updated constantly, as evidenced by “high-profile sites” (like CNN) that are not always blocked. Furthermore, blocking is achieved primarily at the “router level, and on the basis of IP address”, which can cause a […]
Read MoreWhen the Chinese government chose to adopt Red-Flag Linux–an open source computer operating system–vice closed source operating systems supplied by Microsoft, it may have chosen the most bug-free product. A recent study posted by Newsfactor.com concludes that open source software is more secure. Source at Newsfactor.com
Read MoreYears of computer-use may be eroding the ability to write the Chinese language by hand. Though this phenomenon hasn’t been formally studied, it is widely talked about in China, and some are concerned that this is a cultural loss. The cause of this concern is use of a “Roman alphabet keyboard.” Source at NY Times
Read Moresimply googling “china internet” yielded an incredible amount of results. obviously, this is a hot topic. and obviously, there is no one good site to go to. i did not go through the weblogs that john posted, trying to focus more on news websites/publications/research groups. i tried to not list the usual sites that people […]
Read Morehere is a very recent on-line protest regarding to war crimes of japan. this kind of web enabled signature campaign has become quite frequently since last year.
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