China Daily. Feb.24,2004 From Xinhua News Agency. Some 70 percent of Chinese Internet users like chatting on the net with leisure-time hobbies ranking as the No. 1 topic, a recent survey on Chinese cultural websites reveals. Personal affairs, work status, political and academic issues came after as the most popular topics for the netizens, according […]
Read MoreThe official Xinhua news agency reported that five people were sentenced to between 5 and 14 years for “libeling the government” after they distributed news online about abuse of an imprisoned Falun Gong practitioner. The court said that their writing, “severely damaged the regular work of governmental departments and tarnished the images of the government […]
Read MoreAFP from Beijing: ” China’s Internet police has published a blacklist of 656 spam servers across the world, setting a deadline for them to stop sending junk mail, state media reported. ” The full article is here.
Read MoreThis is a transcript from Correspondents Report. The program is broadcast around Australia on Sundays. John Taylor in Beijing talked about the media control in China.
Read MoreFrom Fox News.com: “Zhang’s (Shengqi) arrest appeared to be related to police suspicions that he helped church historian Liu Fenggang post information on the Internet about the Hangzhou crackdown. Liu, a veteran pro-democracy campaigner, has also been detained in Hangzhou on state secrets charges… Zhang’s case could be more complicated because it brings together two […]
Read MoreAgain from Asia Times, Peter Morris wrote: “With growth in China’s advertising market expected to reach 18.3 percent this year, Google has jumped on the bandwagon with the introduction of its new Chinese AdWords advertising service. The service, which began operating last Wednesday, gives advertisers the chance to bid for ad placement on pages linked […]
Read MoreThis article appeared in Asia Times today. The author, Jayanthi Iyengar is a senior business journalist from India. Here are some subtitles in her article : “Two sides: Expansion of Internet, repression of content”, “Booming digital China is not about politics” , “Average Internet user: educated, young, male “, “Lessons from SARS – shop at […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: ” A Chinese internet dissident who has been in detention since October has been formally arrested on charges of subversion. The official Xinhua news agency said Du Daobin had written 28 internet articles aimed at the overthrow of China’s socialist system. ” It is very unusual for Chinese authorities to publicly announce the […]
Read MoreLast week, Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the opening of its Agilent Semiconductor Solutions Center (ASSC) in Shanghai and a wholly owned subsidiary, Agilent Technologies Trading (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., for the purpose of “growing its market position and fostering its long-term presence in China.” Read Agilent’s press release here.
Read MoreThis is a website provided by the U.S. Commercial Service that gives a background and a guide for potential business opportunities in the Beijing 2008 Olympics. It goes without saying that this is a site for firms and businesses who are looking to do business in the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Also, there are many project […]
Read MoreThis is an interesting governmental website that works to allow American business to have an equal footholding in China’s marketplace. It provides briefings, reports, and many links to the resources regarding to trade in China.
Read More“Increasing numbers of teenagers in China are being admitted to hospital, suffering from what doctors call ‘Internet Syndrome’. Symptoms include delirium, paranoia and psychosis. Dr. Yu Haiting, the vice president of the No. 8 People’s Hospital in Zhengzhou, says he sees one or two cases per week. ” This article is from the Register.com.
Read MoreGoogle will be providing its AdWords service in Chinese in an effort to tap into the Internet market in China, according to a CNET report.
Read MoreFrom movies, fashions to pop music, mainland Chinese have for decades taken cues from their more affluent and cosmopolitan Hong Kong cousins. A new editorial in the Asian Wall Street Journal suggested that the Chinese may now be able to copy another formerly unlikely trend in their fast changing society: civil liberty.
Read More” . . . The sight of the public security agent clumsily pursuing three students, a monk and an old woman was almost comically out of step with the times. But there was nothing funny about the risks they were taking. Ducking into a tatty old dormitory in one of Beijing’s most prestigious universities, the […]
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