China checks suspected cases (BBC)
Acoording to BBC today, the Chinese health ministry says it is investigating at least four new suspected cases of the potentially deadly SARS virus. Here is the full report.
Read MoreChina Commits To Major Steps To Reduce Copyright Piracy
“The U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, an intergovernmental forum for addressing trade and commercial problems between the two countries, today announced several important, new initiatives that the government of China will undertake to address copyright piracy. Piracy of CDs and tapes has been, and continues to be, rampant in China. Internet piracy is […]
Read MoreA Saga of Sacrifice and Betrayal (Washington Post)
In today’s Washington Post, Philip Pan has written a detailed report on the New Youth Study Group, a small group of Beijing college students who met occasionally to discuss political and social reform, and to write and distribute articles on these topics online. Four of their members, including the most prominent, Yang Zili, are now […]
Read MoreBig Bad Web
Exposure to the Internet leads to family turmoil, virtual kidnapping and death, according to “China’s Official Gateway to News & Information”. Several stories in April share a similar alarmist tone: a mother gets addicted to the Internet, and runs off with her “Cyber Boyfriend”; a high school boy must be “rescued” from an Internet cafe […]
Read MoreInternet media industry magazine debuts (China Daily)
China’s first official media industry Internet magazine debuted earlier this week in Beijing. The China Foreign Languages Publishing and Distribution Administration sponsors the site, which intends to address all aspects of Internet policy and development. I was not able to find an English link to the site; someone with Chinese typing capabilities would probably be […]
Read MoreEBay 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...
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