This report is from VOA: “Despite China’s staggering economic growth, the number of Chinese poor is on the rise. Beijing is promising relief as frustrated peasants demand a share of the country’s newfound prosperity. The number of Chinese living in abject poverty surged by roughly 800,000 last year. The government’s poverty task force disclosed last […]
Read MoreI just read from the Editorsweblog about independent news website launched in Zimbabwe. Now this disturbing news came in to my email box: “The Zimbabwe government is planning to acquire high-tech equipment from China for the purpose of bugging the internet. This is to enable it to interfere with the flow of information it considers […]
Read MoreThis is a very important news lead. I believe this story is worth further investigation by both domestic Chinese and international media. Epoch Times has published an expose of one of China’s uranium plants, which has been dumping large quantity of radioactive nuclear wastewater into China’s main rivers, illegally selling radioactive equipment on the open […]
Read MoreAFP used China Daily’s report in this news: “Lung cancer and traffic accidents have become the top causes of death in China, according to official research, reflecting the huge number of smokers and increasingly hazardous roads. The study by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences was based on data gathered between 1991 and 2000 and […]
Read MoreAccording to AFP: “China is gearing up for a nationwide crackdown on online computer games, including those with sensitive political content, officials said. The operation is the latest attempt by China to rein in what it perceives as the harmful influences of the Internet in a country where usage has exploded in recent years, with […]
Read MoreThis news is on today’s Straits Times. “The military doctor who blew the whistle on the Chinese government’s cover-up of Sars last year is among this year’s winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards, Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Dr Jiang Yanyong, who had called for a political reassessment of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident, […]
Read MoreVia the International Herald Tribune: Reuters reported that “a recent buying binge by some of the world’s leading Internet companies is rapidly changing China’s online landscape, driving local dot-coms to seek partners or risk being left behind. Foreign companies including Yahoo, eBay, Google and InterActiveCorp, along with some of China’s major players, have spent nearly […]
Read MoreThis is a press release from Sohu.com: “Sohu ……today unveiled its all-inclusive, proprietary search engine under the new brand name SoGou, which means ‘Search Dog’ in Chinese.” “Online search marketing has great growth potential in China. Among the 21.6 million SMEs in China, only about 1.2% have adopted search engines as a marketing method, according […]
Read MoreThe Straits Times had an article on emerging online public opinion in China. According to the report, some Chinese websites are “beating other media at reporting corruption, prompting speculation of high-level support.” Click here for the article.
Read MoreAccording to John Borland’s post on CNET, China now passes US in broadband subscribers.
Read MoreAFP reported today that ” China plans a multi-pronged approach to its fight against Internet porn, employing both high technology and sex education to stop young people from visiting lewd websites.” It quoted Xinhua’s report: “The government has kicked off a massive campaign to weed out pornography from the country’s rapidly growing Internet, but experts […]
Read MorePhilip Pan at Washington Post did a very good job covering the story of Cheng Yizhong, the Southern Metropolis Daily and the “new journalism” in China. “……The newspaper also began to distinguish itself with more critical reporting on such social problems as crime and corruption, causing a sensation, for example, with a report on restaurants […]
Read MoreFinancial Times (via: geoffmetcalf.com) had an excellent article today on the price of China’s growth. The site needs subscription but here is its main point and some strong quotation from Pan Yue: “Just as in the former Soviet Union, central planning, with its mantra of “produce first, live later” has wreaked untold damage. But in […]
Read MoreAP quotes Xinhua’s report for this news article (Via: SilicanValley.com):”Chinese authorities have shut down 700 pornographic Web sites in less than two weeks as part of a massive campaign to clean up the Internet, the official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday. Citing figures from the Ministry of Public Security, Xinhua said 224 suspects have been […]
Read MoreAFP reported this positive news on AIDS in China: “An unprecedented survey on homosexuals and homosexual HIV ( news -web sites ) carriers is being carried out in northeastern China, as the country struggles to contain an AIDS ( news -web sites ) explosion. The Heilongjiang province Centre for Disease Control and Prevention ( news […]
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