“Founded in the late 1990’s, the three Internet companies embraced e-commerce, online advertising and other revenue models but failed to turn a profit until 2002, when they began to provide Internet content, for a fee, to users of China’s nearly 200 million cellphones. On their phones, cellular subscribers can receive sports news, jokes or advice […]
Read More“China on Thursday banned new Internet bars near schools, saying “harmful cultural information” online was hurting children. New Internet services won’t be allowed within 200 meters of schools, the official China News Service reported. It didn’t say whether those already operating would be affected. Chinese leaders encourage Internet use for business and education, but have expressed […]
Read MoreRefuge in Shanghai: Film documents the story of European Jews who fled to China in the years before and during World War II By Dixie Reid — Bee Staff Writer “Manny Hirschel was 5 or 6 years old when his father took him to a parade in Berlin. He remembers the Nazi soldiers marching in […]
Read MoreAssociated Press March 4, 2004 SHANGHAI, China (AP) – Give my regards to … Drama Avenue? “Once the nightlife capital of Asia, Shanghai hopes to revive some of its former glamour with a downtown theater district, newspapers reported Tuesday. Called Drama Avenue, city officials are touting it as Shanghai’s answer to London’s West End and […]
Read MoreChina’s New Priority Is Farmers and Land By TED ANTHONY, Associated Press “BEIJING – After two decades of pushing progress in its cities and training a new generation of globalized capitalists, China’s leadership signaled a significant shift Friday, turning attention and resources to the hundreds of millions of citizens who work the land. For Communist […]
Read More“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 […]
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