Stories about China from August, 2007
China and Hong Kong: Yahoo HK and Shi Tao
Chinese Law Prof Blog gave some update on the Shi Tao's case, a Chinese journalist arrested and imprisoned for 10 years because Yahoo provided the Chinese government Shi's user information. The blogger pointed to a document that showed it was Yahoo (HK) not Yahoo (China) that provided the information. Soon...
China: Chinabiz Project
Fon described the Chinabiz speakers project (China business information center) in the China Herald.
China: Sundried Tomato from Xinjiang
The Opposite end of China described the best quality of sundried tomato from Xinjiang.
Kyrgyzstan: Chinese Flattery
Kyrgyz Report reports that now that the Chinese delegation has arrived in Kyrygzstan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, the Kyrygz president Kurmanbek promptly signed a declaration that Taiwan is an “inalienable part” of China. Mirsulzhan Namazaliev comments: “I think President Bakiev hasn't even understood what he signed, as he...
China: Create a harmonious society and receive 5,000 yuan!
Chris O'Brien blogs about a writing competition organized by Chinese Internet operators for creating a harmonious society.
China: Kidnapped and sent to the mines
Joel from DANWEI translated the kidnapped case of a 17 years old boy, Wei Wenlin. He was kidnapped from Hebei on 6 of Aug and sent to a mine in Shanxi, working there as slave. According to Beijing News, in Shanxi Province alone, there were 36,286 unlicensed work units, making...
China: Faked News Reporter in Jail
Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated and summarized reports and comments on the sentence of Zi Beijia, the mastermind behind the fabricated investigation into cardboard baozi that aired on Beijing TV, into one year imprisonment.
China: Traffic Jam Fee
Shenzhen will be the first city in China to introduce traffic fee to vehicle to increase the cost of driving and avoid traffic jam. Wei Ying-jie from 1510 disagreed with the arrangement and argued (zh) that the cost of driving is not low because of road fee (70% of the...
China: Survival for standalone blogs
William Long in Moonlight blog summarizes the steps and conditions for legally setting up a blog on a standalone domain in China.
China: Manpower Parallel Rail
Kanchai pointed out that the labour market in China is now in parallel rail, which means two different salary system for same the same job, people coming from rural areas earn far less that urban citizen. Such discrimination is caused by the rigid political system (zh).
China: An Electric Wire Thief
Tan Wei shan, a reporter in Guangzhou (a city of violence), posted a photo of an electric wire thief who has been beaten by local security guard.
China: Chongqing home buyers cheated
Don't mess with Chinese homeowners. A property development company in one central Chinese city tried backing out of an agreement which left empty-handed people who thought they had already bought a new home and led to angry and destructive retaliation, including clashes with police that netizens are saying turned violent.
China: Harmful Information
William long has translated a government regulation, Computer Information Network and Internet Security, Protection and Management Regulations, which has a very clear definition of “harmful information”.
China: China Daily Messed Up Copy-and-Paste Job
ESWN has screen-shot the story of China Daily being mistakenly copy and paste Reuters’ sentence describing June 4 incident in Beijing Olympic report.
China: Giant Cat-fish?
Kenneth Tan from Shanghaiist reported on the discovery of a giant man-eating cat-fish in a Guangdong reservoir. However some netizens said that the mutant cat-fish may in fact be a whale shark. See for yourself.
China: Baidu Kids Version
Jason Li from Virtual China found out that Baidu has launched a Baidu Kids Version, it is something related with the Chinese Internet market.
China and Hong Kong: Merging of Shenzhen and Hong Kong
Hong Kong Chief Executive's think tank, Bauhinia Foundation Research Centre, proposed the merging of Shenzhen and Hong Kong into a metropolitan, Lu qui luwei noticed the change of attitude in relating to China and the potential debate on free flow of population(zh).
China: Grassroots Magazine banned
Yaoblog reported that a grassroots magazine Minjian was banned by Guangdong Publication Department (zh). The Magazine was founded in 2005 by social development research center in Zhongshan University.
China: Cultural Revolution
Zhao Si-long recommended an article about the economic background of Cultural Revolution (zh) with some class and social grouping analysis.
China: One Olympics, One Voice?
European and American fighters for press freedom have infiltrated the capital, Canadian-Tibetan activists have gone underground and blogged from around the country about what's been called the Darfur Olympics, the Gas Mask Olympics even the Coming Out Olympics, so basically now the Pick Your White Elephant Olympics. But when one...
Kyrgyzstan: SCO summit
The members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will send their heads of state to Kyrgyzstan next week. While the Kyrgyz bloggers are amazed by the beautification of their capital ahead of the summit, Western bloggers ponder the significance of the SCO's growth.
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