From World Socialist Website: “In the lead up to the UN-sponsored tsunami summit in Jakarta on January 6, the Beijing bureaucracy announced, with considerable fanfare, an unprecedented assistance package totalling $83 million for the victims of the disaster. President Hu Jintao told the press that the Chinese government would provide ‘any possible aid in its […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Canadian Business: “China’s inspection of audits of 181 major state companies’ financial reports found widespread cases of incomplete reporting, serious asset losses and outright fabrications, official Media reported this week. China has been boosting supervision of state-controlled enterprises – some of which are among the country’s biggest corporations – following scandals over […]
Read MoreFrom The Epoch Times, Tracey Zhu reports about “How the Chinese Communist Party Controls the Media in the Information Age.” In this era of high technology and globalization, can the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) still control the flow of information within its borders? According to one professor, the answer is yes. Not only does it […]
Read MoreFrom VOA News: “An international media rights group says China jailed 11 people for using the Internet to post stories of alleged prison torture and abuse of members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement. China says the stories are pure fabrication. Reporters Without Borders, the Paris-based rights group, says Chinese authorities have arrested 11 members […]
Read MoreFrom the Asia Times Online: “In a country where the Communist Party still tries – increasingly without success – to control just about everything, especially the media, the Internet is slipping beyond its grasp. Enraged, the party propagandists have declared war on the Internet deployed, it claims, as a weapon against the state. China has […]
Read MoreHere is the link to my article on Chinese bloggers in the New Scientist. In the current Chinese cyberspace, bloggers may not be as loud as their American counterparts. But they are potentially certainly no less subversive to the...
Read MoreWal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, has conceded to Chinese government demands that it allow branches of the All China Federation of Trade Unions to operate in its China stores. The superstore recently announced plans to open ten new stores in China. The ACFTU, a Communist Party controlled organization, had threatened to sue Wal-Mart if it […]
Read MoreIn the Taipei Times, a doctor writes about her experiences visiting China’s AIDS-plagued villages as a volunteer for Medicins sans Frontieres and the challenges facing doctors and patients in China: “This new anti-HIV/AIDS campaign, which the international community has lauded, is more open and proactive than before. But it must still operate in the context […]
Read MoreThe Globe and Mail has written an optimistic report about the influence of the Internet on China’s youth: ” ‘I love to read the negative news reports on-line, especially the common people’s complaints,’ one focus-group participant said. ‘Those brave reports could never be released by the traditional media; only on the Internet is it possible […]
Read MoreBBC quotes DSL Forum and reports that China has more DSL lines than any other country in the world. But the 13 million lines only reach 1% of China’s massive population. The story attributes the drastic development to growing online gaming community and the use of broadband in education. It also notices that the expansion […]
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