china

whither the implications of china’s desire to eliminate porn?

Thomas C. Chow
January 06, 2009 17:55

Like everyone else, I saw the headlines from this article at CNN entitled “ Report: China targets Web sites with ‘porn’ content“: China has released a blacklist of 19 major online portals and Web sites, including Google and Baidu, that it claims provide and spread...

On January 6

January 06, 2009 11:01

On this day in ...... 1950, Britain announced that it would extend official recognition to the People's Republic of China -- in the words of the New York Times, to "the Chinese Communist regime of Mao Tze-tung." The Republic of China -- the Nationalist regime in exile on the island then called...

Chinese Business Woman Could Face the Death Penalty

January 06, 2009 09:45

Tian Wenhua is the former chairwoman of Sanlu, the Chinese company implicated in the 2008 milk scandal plead guilty to selling substandard product recently.  Six children died and over 300,000 became ill after drinking the company's milk which had been diluted then spiked with melamine, a...

Conviction of Software Pirates in China is Significant

Peter Vogel
January 05, 2009 10:42

A report that 11 people were convicted in China of violating Chinese copyright laws is most significant because of the cooperation and joint efforts between the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and China’s Ministry of Public Security. These convictions are a good sign that software...

China tries new communications, old-style detainments

Doug Powell
January 03, 2009 03:00

A group of Chinese dairy firms used some modern means to say, “we’re sorry” for killing and poisoning babies with melamine-contaminated milk, at the same time the Chinese government went back to detaining folks it doesn’t agree with. The 22 firms sent a new year text...