From The Associated Press: China has banned the use of new land for luxury villas and will tighten scrutiny of banks’ lending practices, expanding a campaign to rein in a building boom and cool economic growth, state media reported Thursday. Measures issued by the Ministry of Land and Resources also call on local officials to […]
Read MoreFrom MediaShift (link): When Google launched its web search engine in China, and admitted having to censor search results, we made a big stink about it here in the U.S. And when Microsoft admitted to censoring its MSN Spaces blogs in China, we made a big stink about it. And when any American technology company […]
Read MoreBelow is an article I wrote for the latest issue of Dangerous Assignments, the magazine of the Committee to Protect Journalists. The full issue, which also features a cover article on China’s Hidden Unrest, can be...
Read MoreFrom the EastSouthWestNorth blog (link): A national-level newspaper is a media brand name in China. Most of the local news bureaus around the country are not directly controlled by the newspaper headquarters itself. Here is how things look (warning: this is an illustrative example, but it does not mean that all local news bureaus are […]
Read MoreFrom the Ministry of Public Security (link), translated by CDT: A working meeting about the Internet management of public security agencies that ended on May 13 decided to expand the “virtual police” that is in practice in Shenzhen to eight other cities: Chongqing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Qingdao, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Chengdu. According to Vice Minister […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily (link): BEIJING police detained Dou WeiÔºàÁ™¶ÂîØÔºâ, a Chinese rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, for alleged arson this morning after he went out of control in the newsroom of Beijing News yesterday, and set fire to a car in front of the office, media reported today. Dou is also well known for being the […]
Read MoreFrom the USA Today (link) The visit United States: The Bush administration says Hu is here for an “official” visit rather than a “state visit” ” the most formal and prestigious welcome. Hu is staying at Blair House, the guest house for esteemed visitors, and gets a 21-gun welcome. He won’t have a formal state […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent (link) State-run internet news sites have stepped up their attempts to guard the Great Firewall of China by responding to a call for tighter control of the web with pledges to “self-censor”. The websites of China’s main publications, including the state news agency Xinhua, China Daily and the People’s Daily, agreed to […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times (link): In little more than a year on the job, Stanley Cheung, Disney‘s chief in China, can lay claim to this: “The Lion King” is coming to Shanghai this summer. “We have got to get our stories out,” says Cheung, a Hong Kong native who previously managed the Chinese operations of […]
Read MoreFrom IBN Live (Link): The completion of the first railway linking Tibet to other Chinese regions could fuel the spread of rat-borne diseases such as plague that mainly affect remote areas of northwest China, the state media said on Saturday. The railway, which will link the Himalayan region with the rest of China when it […]
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