“If nobody can be safe, do we still want this speed? Can we drink a glass of milk that’s safe? Can we stay in an apartment that will not collapse?” China Imposes Blackout on Coverage of High-Speed Train Wreck – NYTimes.com.
The office will work to implement the policies of Internet communication and promote legal system construction in this field, it said. via China sets up office for Internet information management.
Overshadowed by news elsewhere in recent weeks, China has been rounding up writers, lawyers, and activists since mid-February, when calls began to circulate for protests inspired by those in the Middle East and North Africa. By now the contours are clear: according to a count by Chinese Human Rights Defenders, an advocacy group, the government [...]
Google finally kills Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Google has begun to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6, the browser identified as the weak link in a cyber attack on the search engine. The firm said from 1 March some of its services, such as Google Docs, would not work "properly" with the browser. It [...]
Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.” [...]
Is China crowing too soon? Private vs state business: It’s quite hard to compete when you’re playing against the referee. In his book ‘A Century of Ebb and Flow’, author Wu Xiaobo argues that entrepreneurs’ problems pre-date the founding of the Communist party 60 years ago. Under the Qing emperors and the Nationalists who succeeded [...]
How China 50 Cent Army Could Wreck Web 2.0 The CCP has hired thousands of freelance Internet propagandists whose job is to infiltrate chat rooms, message boards and comment areas on the Internet posing as ordinary users to voice support for the agenda and interest of the CCP. They praise China’s one-party system and condemn [...]
2-year-old smoker in China [video] Is this real? China's official stats: 350 million smokers and over 10,000 dying from passive smoking each year. (tags: cigarette China child baby kid smoke smoking crazy sick scary humanity video …)
What's Between Russia and China? Murderers in Mausoleums, his sixth book, is unmistakably Tayler. He travels from Moscow to Beijing, passing through the Kalashnikov-littered Caucasus Mountains and energy-rich Central Asia. Corrupt cops, insolent officials, pop-crazed kids and populations seething with frustration line the route. It is little wonder that democracy has failed to take hold [...]
Two face death over Chinese milk Two men have been given the death penalty for their involvement in China's contaminated milk scandal. (tags: milk China scandal melamine death penalty trial protein babies poison chinese news bbc …)
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