Stories about China from September, 2007
China: 17 Correlations for the 17th Party Congress
Wang Ling spoofs the 17 Party Congress in the coming October by listing out 17 correlations. For examples, 8 honors + 8 humiliations + harmonious society = 17; control the...
China: Getting Around GFW with Hotspot Shield
Granite studio introduces a new tool called Hotspot Shield to access websites filtered by Great Fire Wall.
China: Netizen Juries Fighting For Justice
Wenbin in V360 posts a report about an injustice prosecution (zh): a young person (Pan Yue) helped bringing an old lady who fell down in the bus stop to a...
China: Web 2.0 Resists Brain Washing
Songsoa notices that Web 2.0 is not only a technological development, it has the power to resist brain washing propaganda of mass media. The appearance of mu zi mei, hu...
China: Hackers
Recently there are reports saying that Chinese hackers have been attacking foreign websites, some speculate that the hackers are government sponsored. William long recently also has the experience of being...
Hong Kong: Incredibubble!
David Webb has a analytical article on the China stock bubble and its impact and implication for Hong Kong: When the mainland bubble bursts, it will accelerate the onset of...
China: Has Crazy English gone crazy?
“Stand up, those who refused to be slaves……,” This is what Chinese national anthem tells. But in a class by Li Yang in Crazy English, over 3000 students kneeled down to their teachers. Is this a real thanksgiving or just a brainwashing of how to be a slave?
China: Blogs ground down as National Congress gears up
The best approach the government was able to come up with to address any issues anyone might want to talk about as the Seventeenth National Congress draws closer was to pull the plug on entire IDCs. Tens of thousands of blogs gone already and still a month to go.
Hong Kong: Can Anson Chan Represent Pan-dem?
Anson Chan has announced that she will compete with Regina Ip on legislator's seat. The pan-dem tried to turn it into a battle for 2012 universal suffrage. Erynnyes wonders if...
China: A Free Speech Court Case
Liu Xiao Yuan, a lawyer, blogs about his lawsuit against a blog hosting company, sohu.com, for deleting his posts. The court dismissed his lawsuit on Sept 12 and he called...
China: A Censored Lung Cancer Story
Minjian released an exclusive investigative story (as it has been censored by the Propaganda Department) about 4 mysterious deaths from lung cancer (zh). The 4 victims were workers in a...
China: Zhujian Delta Worker Band
Tang Wei Shan introduces a worker band, Green Band, in Zhujian Delta. The band was started 4 years ago in Shenzhen when two of the members were playing guitars in...
China: River Crab With Three Watches
Rebecca explains the political meaning of “river crab with three watches” in China in RConversation.
China: Survey On Foreign Magazine
Fons Tuinstra from China Herald discussed a survey by Interfax China on attitude towards foreign invested magazines in China in which 83% of respondents believed that foreign invested magazines are...
China: CCTV Reporter Assaulted By Security Guards
ESWN translated a blog post which described how a CCTV reporter, Liu Yuchen, was assaulted by the security guards in the Xi'an International Studies University when he was gathering informations...
China: Senior sues would-be Samaritan
An older woman is knocked down as she tries to board a bus and breaks her collarbone. A young man, the first to have just exited the bus, helps her up and takes her to the hospital. After she accuses and successfully sues him, a moral debate sweeps across the blogsphere: are we to still lend a helping hand?
China: How about SMS Spam?
The Chinese government started to censor SMS against harmful message, such as political “rumors”, including death figures in flood. However, when it comes to commercial SMS spam, it seems that...
China: Popular Reporters’ Blogs Forced To Shut Down
Zuo Ai Chung wrote in v360 about the pressure reporter bloggers are facing these days. Many were forced to censor their own work (by deleting or editing their posts), some...
China, Russia: Deportation of Buryat Lama
Window on Eurasia writes on the deportation of a Buryat lama from China.
Deforestation in Ghana & What China can learn from France?
In these times of globalisation and world trade, the challenge of how to protect the environment while ensuring increased economic growth appears to be a problem facing many countries. In...
China: Banning Sexual Implication Content
Josie Liu from China in Transition blogged about the Chinese Government's effort in banning sexual implication content in T.V and radio broadcast. Despite the bans, there are more and more...
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