“China has become the third-largest automotive market in the world, behind only the United States and Japan. Car sales have risen so quickly that the government is trying to slow purchases by making it harder to get an auto loan. ” Click here to hear NPR’s Steve Inskeep and Paul Eisenstein, publisher of the Internet […]
Read More“Search giant Google and venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson ePlanet Ventures are among the new investors in Chinese search engine Baidu.com. ” Here is the CNET news.
Read MoreSumner Lemon, IDG News Service, Taipei Bureau writes: “Chinese censors have blocked access to an online encyclopedia called Chinese Wikipedia that was created as a free and open source of information for Chinese Internet...
Read More“China warns the city to forget democracy and get back to business. But many Hong Kongers aren’t listening.” Here is an article on Asia Times about this, written by Anthony Spaeth.
Read MoreThis article is from Economist.com. It provides some very useful data links in this subject, however, one needs to pay to have access to these pages . A question here seems is: ” Is China’s growth returning to earth? ” From the article, some challenges China’s economy is facing are: “growth is straining China’s infrastructure: […]
Read MoreAfter blogging the news “Chinese government creates web vigilante site,” I have made a comment about this on Many2Many site, where I am currently a guest blogger. Continuing this discussion, Adam Morris of Brainysmurf made a good analysis on this topic, much clearer than what I had said. Adam wrote: “a website that serves the […]
Read More“A number of government organizations including the Information Office of the State Council, the Ministry of Information Industry and the Bureau of Foreign Languages have launched a new website where netizens can report illegal or inappropriate information being disseminated online. The website will be run by the Internet Society of China (ISC). The new website, […]
Read MorePhilip P. Pan from Washington Post wrote about Du Daobin’s case on Saturday: “A mainland Internet essayist arrested last year after calling for greater democracy in Hong Kong was convicted of subversion but released with a suspended sentence Friday in an unexpected gesture of leniency by the Chinese government. ” The full article, entitled “China […]
Read More“Anti-spam detectives find Asian countries and territories such as China, India, South Korea and Hong Kong to be the biggest sources for these nuisance mails selling anything from casino tokens to magic potions that enlarge certain parts of the anatomy. China’s Internet servers received 150 billion junk e-mails last year, according to a Reuters report […]
Read MoreIn a new censorship move, China has “stipulated a set of rules on broadcasting DV (digital video) productions via TV stations, cinemas, film festivals or exhibitions, and the Internet, in a bid to step up regulation of their content”. The clamp-down is being imposed, “in a bid to step up regulation of their content, according […]
Read MoreA website run by Chinese lawyers advocating greater constitutional protections was closed down over the weekend. Essays on the site, Open Constitution Initiative, had recently called for the release of the Southern Metropolis...
Read MoreTwo editors with the Southern Metropolis News, who have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms on alleged corruption charges, have filed an appeal which is being heard today in Guangzhou. The charges against the two, and their colleague, editor Cheng Yizhong, appear to be retribution by local officials for the paper’s aggressive reporting on the […]
Read MoreThis is a good article. “Responding to an unprecedented boom in computer game popularity, China’s government established a censorship task force this week to monitor the content of imported games for offensive or politically sensitive content. Ministry of Culture officials said all online and wireless games produced outside the country will now be subject to […]
Read MoreThis profile of Wang Keqin, one of China’s most aggressive investigative journalists, gives a good portrayal of what journalists are now allowed to report on in China – and what risks they face for doing so.
Read MoreThe Ministry of Information Industry (MII) said recently that every four Chinese will have one mobile phone by the end of 2004. This Xinhua report is on mobil phone games: “With handsets popular enough in China and new devices like Short Message Service (SMS) being made full use of by younger subscribers, China’s mobile phone […]
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