“China’s government keeps watch over the Internet and blocks controversial websites. But some Chinese webusers won’t be deterred. They’re surfing past Beijing censors with help from the outside. The World’s technology correspondent Clark Boyd tells how some Chinese are hacking through the great firewall of China. ” Listen to the audio report here. Scroll down […]
Read MoreChinese Ambassador to New Zealand Talks Up FTA Prospects – Report WELLINGTON -(Dow Jones)- New Zealand has a “strong chance” of becoming the first Western nation to sign a free-trade agreement with China, the communist state’s ambassador to New Zealand has told a local newspaper.
Read MoreThursday, March 4, 2004 “BEIJING: A Chinese activist who helped organize the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and later co-founded a democracy party was released from prison Thursday and left for the United States, a human rights activist said. The medical parole of Wang Youcai, which followed the release of another prisoner and a sentence reduction […]
Read MoreThe L.A. Times reports that a Chinese political representative’s unusual appeal to her constituency resulted in hundreds of calls — citizens expressing their opinions on everything from political reform to migrant workers’ rights. By Mark Magnier, Times Staff Writer When National People’s Congress representative Zhou Xiaoguang took to the airwaves recently with a simple request, […]
Read More“WASHINGTON — In an unusual letter signed by three U.S. cabinet secretaries, the Bush administration urged China to drop a regulation that would limit the import of wireless technologies ranging from pagers to laptop computers.” … “In the letter, delivered to senior Chinese officials late Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, Commerce Secretary Don […]
Read MoreChina touts new churches, but rules crimp faithful Government still controls religion By Michael A. Lev Tribune foreign correspondent Published March 3, 2004 “BEIJING — Government officials and local Christian leaders showed off plans Tuesday for the first new churches being built in the capital in more than 50 years–evidence, they said, of the freedom […]
Read More“India’s mobile phone industry which sells two million new connections each month is poised to give neighbouring China a fight for foreign investment, officials said… ‘The big hardworking Indian elephant has finally hit the dance floor and is going to make it rumble and shake. The Chinese dragon will have to watch its tail,’ [Vijay […]
Read MoreYoung Chinese are experiencing a revolution in their ideas and practices of sex, but the sex education lags behind in China. According to a study by Shanghai No. 2 Medical University. 29.4 percent of local high school students have started dating. About 3.5 percent have had some sexual experiences. While another survey conducted by the […]
Read MoreMar. 3, 2004 By Di Fang Most of the HIV/AIDS victims in Central China’s Henan Province have been receiving free medical treatment in the past years thanks to the central and local governments’ enhanced efforts in fighting the deadly virus. According to a news release from the central government’s Information Office, 4,352 out of the […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: “In China today, some believe a husband cannot “rape” his wife, and some wives erroneously believe they cannot report their husbands for sexual or domestic abuse. However, as domestic violence is apparently drawing wider attention in China, more and more Chinese women are coming forward to expose the physical and emotional sufferings […]
Read More“On Monday, Beijing published a blacklist of Hong Kong political groups accused of being too hell-bent on undermining Chinese rule to serve in local government. On Tuesday, it issued a warning that Hong Kong’s political system would collapse altogether if those who would exclude the Communist Party take control of the local legislature.” Click here […]
Read More“Japanese Embassy officials in Beijing say Chinese news and commentary on the Internet are setting back already tough efforts to improve relations between the two countries, but Chinese Net watchers reject the claim. Internet news and often anonymous user views on web portals, which are a common source of information for millions of Chinese students […]
Read More“China’s cultural minister has called for tighter controls on the Internet including 24-hour surveillance and urging people to tell on each other. During a recent national meeting on “rectifying” Internet bars or cafes, Sun Jiazheng hinted that the government’s efforts to manage soaring Internet use had not been sufficient, the Xinhua state news agency website […]
Read More“A Hong Kong-based company that began as a comic-book publisher now promises to revolutionize the Chinese personal-computer (PC) market with its new, low-cost, Linux-based, Chinese-language central processing unit (CPU). Culturecom Holdings Ltd says its new V-Dragon CPU, which retails for only US$15-$30, will reduce the price of PCs and appliances by anywhere from 50-70 percent, […]
Read MoreFrom channelnewsasia.com: “A Paris-based media rights group has slammed new Chinese regulations aimed at policing the Internet and accused a US-based Internet management company of colluding with the government to stifle activism on the web. Reporters Without Borders said that since new regulations on Internet chatrooms were issued on February 23, many news groups had […]
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