The South China Morning Post reports that the deadline has passed for charges to be filed against Southern Metropolis News editor Cheng Yizhong – indicating that he may be treated with leniency. The story also quotes “reports” that high level Guangdong officials may have intervened on his behalf. But Cheng’s lawyer says officials have six […]
Read MoreLast Saturday, Financial Times ran a hugely entertaining article called “Message in a bottle.” (The website requires registration! 🙁 ) The author is Tim Clissold. As professor Rudolf Wagner puts it: it is an “exceedingly interesting extensive insider article on the establishment, quandaries, and eventual demise of a joint venture with a Peking beer brewer. […]
Read MoreA rough translation of Jiao Guobiao’s essay about the Propaganda Department is now available here on the ZonaEuropa site. Thanks to the person at that site who did the translation and sent us the link. Jiao Guobiao, a journalism professor at Beijing University„ÄÇ (Doug Kanter/ Polaris for The New York Times)
Read More“Intelligent voice technology promises a wonderful prospect on the Chinese market in the coming five years and expects to play an important role in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. ” Click here to read the full article on eastday.com.
Read MoreJonathan Zittrain talked about this at the China’s Digital Future conference on Friday. Here is CNET’s new article on this ironical subject. Although, there is no need to be too ironical about this. All we need is common sense of proportion to see that U.S. blunder in this story is not really comparable with the […]
Read MoreJiao Guobiao’s essay condemning the Propaganda Bureau is finally getting some international attention (although Wang Feng reported on it here two weeks ago). In addition to the NYT article posted below, RFA has also reported on Jiao’s essay. I have not yet seen an English translation of his essay, which is being widely distributed online, […]
Read MoreHere is The New York Times report on an old story of China’s censorship. “But some see worrying signs that the leadership remains instinctively hostile to political discussion and more independent news media. Scholars say they now suspect that Mr. Hu is not as forward-looking as they had once hoped, and at any rate he […]
Read MoreUnder the guidance of Randy Kluver, of Nanyang Technological University, this panel revealed that the effect of the net on Chinese political culture is terribly similar to that in the United States. There’s a digital divide — Bu Wei, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said 28 percent of people in Beijing were net […]
Read MorePanel: John Gage, Sun Microsystems Izumi Aizu, International University of Japan Alex Zixiang Tan, Syracuse University Andrew McLaughlin, Google John Gage, Sun Microsystems Open Source or Closed? Mr. Gage said innovation in China is stifled by the requirement that people must get prior permission from the government to play with computer code — the same […]
Read MoreStanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig spoke about the “core blindness” on press freedom that exists in the United States. It is easy, he said, to see the core blindness in another culture, like China, with its well known attempts to monitor or limit access to the Internet. But it is harder to identify the blindness […]
Read MoreThe Chinese government has announced a partnership with Bill Clinton’s foundation to provide treatment for AIDS patients in China. Clinton’s efforts to distribute cheap AIDS medicine in developing countries are a slap in the face to the Bush administration’s cozy relationship with big pharmaceutical companies. The China-Clinton cooperation comes two weeks after the Chinese government […]
Read MoreThe Economist has an article about the oil war between China and Japan. This issue was also debated in many Chinese BBSs last year.
Read MoreFrom CDN blogroll this post on The Internet in Asia came to my notice. It is interesting that the People’s Daily is now reporting China’s e-government project with the title: “Nation desperately needs more CIOs to develop e-government.” I do believe that more professional knowledge is needed in the e-government project. More importantly though, this […]
Read MoreThe Christian Science Monitor reports today that environmental degradation may pose the biggest threat to China’s economic development: “This century, watch China. That nation’s explosive development is reshaping the global economy… Before it joins the world’s biggest economies, however, China faces two huge internal challenges. And surprisingly, the biggest one may be neither economic nor […]
Read MoreResponding to what is becoming a campaign issue, President Bush may accept a labor rights petition that could result in sanctions against China. Trade experts point out that Bush could accept the petition, which is backed by Democratic rival John Kerry, without taking any further action against China. The full report is here.
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