Jailing of tabloid managers a slap in Hu’s face (SCMP)

According to today’s South China Morning Post: “A group of mainland legal and economic experts has called for a retrial of two managers of a popular Guangzhou tabloid who were jailed last month for corruption. They said the convictions by the Dongshan court were ‘a slap in the face’ for the central government’s pledge to […]

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Lucent fires four senior staff in China (Financial Times)

By Paul Taylor in New York Published: April 6 2004 17:04 | Last Updated: April 7 2004 0:28 “Lucent Technologies, the leading US telecommunications equipment manufacturer, has fired four senior employees in China after discovering potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act which bans the payment of bribes overseas. Lucent said it fired the […]

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Profiting From Benchmarks: Reasons Behind China’s Rush To Develop Standards (Part One) (ChinaTechNews)

April 7, 2004 “Why all the concentration on standards now? China’s leaders realize that if they are ever to turn the corner from being a “developing” manufacturing base for the world’s low-end products, to taking their place among the world’s developed economies, then it will be crucial to control the “business” of new technology development.” […]

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China Stamps Its Authority on Hong Kong (Washington Post)

Reuters Tuesday, April 6, 2004; 4:10 AM By Alison Leung and Carrie Lee Click here for full article. “The Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) passed an interpretation of Hong Kong’s Basic Law giving Beijing full control over the territory’s political reform. The leaders of China’s parliament interpreted two clauses in Hong Kong’s […]

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China Is Paying a Price of Modernization: More Beggars (New York Times)

April 7, 2004 “For many years, beggars were rarely seen in the showcase cities of this country that still calls itself a socialist state. Image-conscious city officials ordered the police to arrest panhandlers and other homeless people, many of whom had traveled illegally from the destitute countryside. But in the past six months, the number […]

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Constitution helps man fight for home (Xinhua)

April 6, 2004 “At 63, Huang Zhenyun says the newly-passed amendment to the Constitution is the key to keeping his house from being torn down — at least for a while…Huang said he held up a copy of the document as he stood at the gate of his house on the early morning of April […]

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Information security system to be built (China Daily)

April 6 A national information security system will be built in five years and the central government will reduce the requirements for market access to information security products, officials said. A new regulation on information security products manufactured at home and abroad will come out in the near future, further widening market access for software […]

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Superpower: China’s Choices Echo Around The World (Information Week)

Today, Paul McDougall and John Foley wrote on the Information Week: When the Chinese government makes technology decisions, it impacts businesses around the world. “China’s always wondering, ‘Are we going to have our own standards, or are we going to follow world standards?’” says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. “And it’s one of the few countries […]

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Beijing steps up arrests of Tiananmen activists (The Sydney Morning Herald)

+By Hamish McDonald April 6, 2004 The article reports, “Chinese security agencies are continuing arrests of activists seeking official forgiveness of participants in the pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and elsewhere in China that were suppressed with massacres from the night of June 3-4, 1989.” As the 15th anniversary of Tiananmen approaches, the government […]

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Korea, China, Japan Unveil Operating System & Cell Phone Collaboration

April 4, 2004 In a pair of related announcements, China, Japan and South Korea have announced that they will collaborate on developing their own open-source alternatives to Microsoft’s Windows operating system, and on a 4G cell phone standard “expected to enable throughput of 100 megabits per second–equivalent to the speed of fiber-optic communications…to allow users […]

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Internet tutors employed in north China province to improve cafe service (People’s Daily)

April 4, 2004 “Internet cafes in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China’s Hebei province, will employ a number of network tutors, providing a more complete service to youthful net surfers. The tutors will be responsible for safeguarding youthful net users from websites concerning violence or pornography, and helping them to deal with malfunctions.” Click here to […]

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Four books about Changing China

This is a book review on today’s San Francisco Chronicle, written by Sandip Roy. “The image of the lone young man confronting the giant tanks rolling into Tiananmen Square in 1989 was at once so terrifying and so romantic that it seems to have become the lens through which the West still regards China. That […]

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