Fear and Fascination in Cyber China

“Torn between Chinese dot-com IPOs with hot growth prospects and a too-hot economy, investors don’t know whether they’re coming or going For anybody who has followed the roller-coaster world of Chinese Internet IPOs this year, the pattern is already distressingly familiar. Last week, Tencent Holdings, an instant-messaging outfit based in the southern Chinese city of […]

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Taiwan, China gear up for arms race

CNN’s China analyst Willy Lam wrote yesterday: “China’s generals have stepped up efforts to seek approval from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership for more funds and “faster war preparation” in response to moves by Taipei to secure sophisticated weapons from the United States. ” Taiwan’s cabinet has approved a budget of $18.2 billion for […]

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China Will Not Back U.S. on Immunity from New Court

Reuters reported today that China will “abstain on a resolution giving the United States immunity from the new International Criminal Court, a decision that may leave Washington short of votes to pass the resolution. ” Beijing’s U.N. ambassador, Wang Guangya said that “the resolution would send a wrong signal in light of the Iraqi prisoner […]

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China strives to purify Internet content (Xinhua)

A report today by Xinhua has outlined a series of measures aimed at controlling “unhealthy” Internet content in China. The Ministry of Information Industry recently released a circular calling for strengthened control over bulletin boards and chat rooms and encouraging the development of security technology that, “shields the youngsters from unhealthy information on the Internet.” […]

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Wi-Fi Dead Zone: China Lags After an Early Lead

Technewsworld’ sreporter Nicola Clark wrote: “The Asia-Pacific region has 53 percent of the world’s hot spots, according to the San Diego-based wireless researcher ON World. But compared with many of its neighbors South Korea, for example, where the phone company KT expects to have 26,000 public hot spots at the end of this year, China […]

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Beijing wages cyberwar against DPP headquarters (Taipei Times)

Taiwanese officials have claimed that hackers from mainland China have broken into the computer systems of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party and stolen confidential information, including the personal itinerary of President Chen Shui-bian and information on visits to the US by high-ranking DPP officials. A Taiwanese cabinet official is quoted as saying: “The incident has […]

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China’s Car Boom (NPR)

“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 […]

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China’s economy

This 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: […]

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Blogger’s comment on censorship

After 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 […]

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Chinese government creates web vigilante site

“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, […]

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