IDG News Service published a group of articles, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of China being connected to the Internet. These reports range from “A brief history of the Internet in China” to “Chinese Internet users work to make knowledge free.”
Read More“Despite Beijing’s Net censorship, the country appears to be playing host to thousands of the sites spammers want you to visit.” The Business Week reported this story here.
Read More“A seminar on the firth birthday of “Strong China Forum”, dubbed “the first Chinese forum online”, was held in Beijing on May 12. People including responsible persons of departments concerned, scholars and netizens attended the seminar. Since born in 1999, “Strong China Forum” has had over 280, 000 registered clients with 12, 000 posts per […]
Read MoreThe Columbia Political Review, published by students at Columbia University, has posted an essay on the Internet in China called Repression.com. The article concludes on an optimistic note: “While the picture may still be bleak today, there is hope for the future. Chinese people are beginning to push against the government online, and the government […]
Read MoreThe BBC has compiled clips from the Chinese press about the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Read it here.
Read MoreShanghai Blogger Philip Sen recently wrote a short article called “State of blogging.” (I mistakenly attributed this article to Joseph Bosco this morning. Thanks to Andrea for pointing out my error.) Topku, one of the blogging pioneers in China is quoted in this article, saying “……the function of blogging as independent media is slowly emerging […]
Read More“The torrid pace of China’s industrial growth has generated serious over-investment in factories and other ventures that are straining the country’s resources. Electricity and water shortages are mounting, transportation bottlenecks are developing, and the first hints of inflation are showing up in official data.” “For Asia, a China slowdown would dent more than just trade […]
Read MoreThe BBC and the AP have reported on the arrest of freelance journalist and Internet essayist Liu Shui, who has been sentenced without trial to two years of “custody and education” in Shenzhen. The original news release from the Committee to Protect Journalists is here. Many of Liu Shui’s writings (in Chinese) are available here. […]
Read MoreThis is tech news, a press release on Yahoo Finance page. “Telecom Communications, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TCOM -News ) announced today that its China Operation, IC Soft Limited, has entered cooperation with Tencent Company, Limited , which was recently an ongoing IPO in Hong Kong Exchange. Tencent is one of the first Internet Instant […]
Read More“China has about 117 boys for every 100 girls, with nearly 13 million more boys than girls under the age of nine, the official Xinhua news agency said. If that trend continues, by 2020 China could have as many as 40 million men who cannot find a spouse, Xinhua quoted an official of a key […]
Read More“How is democracy possible without ending one-party rule, without popular suffrage? Return the people’s rights to the people!” Is this quote from a new dissident writing online? No. It is from the Xinhua Daily, mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China on September 27, 1945. Asia Times had a comment article titled “China ready for […]
Read MoreAccording to Baker and McKenzie’s Global eLaw Highlights newsletter, “A Chinese citizen has appealed a decision of the Beijing Haidian District Court to dismiss her suit against the China Internet Network Information Center for automatically installing monitoring software when she visited its website.” No more details are given, though a contact name is provided for […]
Read MoreThis Financial Times op-ed is now available in PDF format on the Foreign Policy Centre. The former Foreign Editor of Time magazine Joshua Cooper Ramo argues that “there is a new “Beijing Consensus” emerging with distinct attitudes to politics, development and the global balance of power. It is driven by a ruthless willingness to innovate, […]
Read MoreThe Chinese government has announced new “urgent” measures to help stop the spread of AIDS, International > Asia Pacific > China Announces Plan to Curb Rapid Spread of AIDS” href=”http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/09/content_1459260.htm”>reported by Xinhua today, “Those officials breaching duty or hiding epidemic reports will be severely punished.” For more news stories from local Chinese press about HIV/AIDS, […]
Read MoreThere are two articles about China in the British Observer today. One is titled “the great mall of China“, which praises: “China, in short, is a world event – a continent on the move with a distinct approach to capitalism. ” The other article addressed the shadowside of this “distinct approach,” entitled “Mao’s promised land […]
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