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20 Nov 09
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China and U.S.A: IPR Theft Angry Chinese blogger writes on an intellectual property right dispute case between a Beijing firm Zhongyi Electronic LTD and Microsoft. |
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20 Nov 09
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China and U.S.A: Obama's letter to Southern Weekend Shizhao has posted Obama's letter to Southern Weekend during his visit in China. Many believe that this letter has something to do with the story about Southern Weekend's missing front page and blank advertisement. |
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18 Nov 09
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Bangladesh: Brahmaputra River Is Threatened RealTime Bangladesh blog reports that a dam in Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) in China will divert 200 billion cubic meters of waters to the Yellow River. This will spell disaster for the Tibetan plateau and the lower riparian countries, India’s North Ea... |
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18 Nov 09
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China: Release Zhao Lianhai, the Father of the Kidney Stone Babies C.A Yeung translated a petition signed by more than a hundred Chinese netizen demanding the Beijing police to release Zhao Lianhai, a famous rights activist and the founder of an organisation called the Home for the Kidney Stone Babies. Zhao was arrested... |
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18 Nov 09
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China: Obama, censored or not? Fool's Mountain pointed out how the Chinese propaganda machine has successfully played tricks on foreign media in reporting the censoring of Obama's Q & A session with Shanghai youth. |
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17 Nov 09
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China: Obama's Q & A session Alice Poon from Asia Sentinel translated a blog post written by Lipuman regarding Obama's comment on Twitter and Firewall. |
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17 Nov 09
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China: Obama as a big supporter of non-censorship Adam Minter is disappointed by Obama's comment in the Shanghai Town Hall meeting with students, in particular, his expression that “I'm a big supporter of non-censorship”. |
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16 Nov 09
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China: Obama and Chinese Netizens C. Custer from ChinaGeeks translated Chang Ping's blog post on Obama's visit and Chinese netizens' aspiration for free speech and information. |
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15 Nov 09
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China's Perspective on Xinjiang TrueXinjiang.com is a Web site that appeals instantly to the western eye. The site, designed specifically to disseminate a Han-Chinese version of life in the remote autonomous region of Xinjiang, China, is free of many of the displeasing characteristics... |
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13 Nov 09
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China: Interview with Lu Guang, the photographer of “Pollution in China” China Hush has translated local online media Netease's interview with Lu Guang, who won this year W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography with a set of photos featuring “Pollution in China”. |
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12 Nov 09
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The 5th Chinese blogger conference: micro power and a boarder world The 5th Chinese blogger conference took place last weekend in a rural county Lianzhou in northern part of Guangzhou province. Despite the inconvenient traffic, there were around 150 participants from China and overseas attended the conference.
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11 Nov 09
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Taiwan: Spirit medium Michael Turton from the View from Taiwan started from the story of a spirit medium in Taiwan and discussed the history and culture of Tang-ki worship. |
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11 Nov 09
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China: Death as business ESWN puts together local reports and commentaries on the tragic case of three university students who died while trying save others. The tragedy involves a moral debate over the business of body retrievers. |
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11 Nov 09
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China: Drought and the Three Gorges Dam Since September this year, China’s Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydropower scheme, has began a plan to raise its reservoir to its ideal height of 175 metres. In October, there has been severe drought in the provinces of Hunan and Jia... |
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11 Nov 09
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China: Sino-Indian tension and Dalai Lama China Matters has an article looking into the Sino-Indian tension against the background of Dalai Lama's recent visits to Tawang and Nepal. |
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10 Nov 09
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Rape in China: a ‘temporary' crime? A prominent topic circulating throughout China’s blogosphere is the light sentencing on 29th October of two civilian police assistants charged with the rape of a young girl in Huzhou, in Zheijang province. What netizens have been rampantly discussing ... |
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09 Nov 09
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China and Hong Kong: Is Dialogue Possible? Roland Soong talks about the inward-looking character of both Hong Kong and Mainland bloggers and discusses the thesis on whether or not cross-border dialogue is possible. |
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09 Nov 09
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China: Teachers' strike Husunzi from China Study group blogs about a recent teachers' strike from three privately-owned primary and secondary schools in Chengdu, Sichuan. The strike was against the government's taking over the management of one of the schools. |
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09 Nov 09
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China: Protest against government “hook” by chopping little finger off Xujun Eberlein from Inside-out China blogs about a 18-year-old man Sun Zhongjie's act of chopping off his little finger off to protest against the Shanghai Traffic Management Bureau's “hook” on “black taxi driver”. |
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04 Nov 09
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China: Made-in-China Snow This past Sunday on Nov. 1, Beijing saw its earliest snowfall in 22 years. The sudden change in weather, which blanketed the entire city in snow, surprised many residents. But the news media later reported that the snowfall had actually been enhanced by... |
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03 Nov 09
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China: The worker struggle The China study has an in-depth report on the rise of semi-autonomous worker struggle through collective actions in China.. |
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03 Nov 09
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China: Electoral Reform China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress, has started discussion on a draft amendment to the Electoral Law, which will ensure voters in the countryside have as much influence as voters in the cities. The draft amendment tabled for f... |
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03 Nov 09
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Russia: AK-47 & Copyright; Time Zones Eternal Remont writes about “copyright protection for the AK-47″; FP's Passport writes about plans to cut the 7-hour time difference between Moscow and Vladivostok to 4 hours. |
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01 Nov 09
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Bangladesh: Chinese Pressure Censors Tibet Exhibition In Dhaka Students for a Free Tibet, Bangladesh (SFTBD), in partnership with Drik Bangladesh, a photo agency, has organized a photography exhibition on Tibet in Dhaka. A delegation from the Chinese embassy came to request that the event should be cancelled but the... |
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30 Oct 09
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China: Bridging the gap? Interviewing bridge bloggers in China The Chinese blogosphere, as we all know, is booming. As one of the largest on the planet, it is constantly evolving and simultaneously being set back by the all-too-famous governmental censorship. According to Li Datong, the country’s civil society ... |
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30 Oct 09
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China: The death of an overseas returnee China Hush has a translation of a report from Southern Metropolis Daily on the suicide of Tu Xuxin, a civil engineering PhD who returned from the U.S.A to China to develop his career in a local university. |
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29 Oct 09
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Egypt: Egyptian Male Blogger Orders Artificial Hymen So much was said and written about the artificial virginity hymen kit - that Egyptian male blogger Mohamed Al Rahhal just had to buy one. Marwa Rakha brings us the story. |
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29 Oct 09
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China: Painted plagiarism of a push-up photograph Joel Martinsen from DANWEI highlighted a recent painted plagiarism scandal by an artist named Li Yueliang. |
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28 Oct 09
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China: Why Western Media Mistakes Matter C. Custer from Chinageeks discussed the issue on why western media mistakes matter. |
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28 Oct 09
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China's Dark Satanic Mills On Oct. 14th, Chinese photographer Lu Guang won this year's $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his photos on China’s environment. The Fund’s website posts the following paragraph describing Lu Guang’s project:
Lu Gua... |
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27 Oct 09
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China: Shanghai schoolgirl beating & human flesh search Fauna from ChinaSMACK translated a local report from Netease on a school bully incident and netizens' action in disclosing the girl's identity via human flesh search. |
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27 Oct 09
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Germany and China: Berlin Twitter Wall berlintwitterwall is a project organized by the city of Berlin to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin wall. The wall is now filled up with messages from Chinese twitterers against the Chinese Great Fire Wall which blocks Chinese Internet user... |
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25 Oct 09
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China: Relics of the Old Summer Palace Back in the news again is Beijing’s Old Summer Palace, whose destruction still remains a sensitive topic in China.
Built during the Qing Dynasty, it was later sacked by British and French troops in 1860 during the Second Opium War. Countless works of a... |
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23 Oct 09
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Activism and Motherhood in Asia What does a woman sacrifice for the cause she fights for? How are her children affected by persecution taken against her? This post explores briefly the lives of women activists in Asia who are also mothers. |
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23 Oct 09
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Adoption: Securing the Rights of Mothers and Children Women speak out from all sides of the issue: adoptees, natural mothers and adoptive mothers try to make sense of the legal, reproductive and human rights issues behind adoptions. |
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23 Oct 09
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China: A foreigner’s life in a Beijing jail A foreign man who spent the last seven months in the Beijing No. 1 Detention Center sent DANWEI a detailed account of his daily life in Jail. |
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22 Oct 09
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China: Nobel Dream This month, the Chinese press and online forums are saturated with coverage of Charles Kao’s winning of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Yet another overseas Chinese scientist has snatched the prestigious prize, this temporary moment of shared glory is quick... |
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22 Oct 09
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China: Fanfou is coming back? Fanfou is a micro-blogging tool similar to twitter which has been closed down for more than 100 days in China. However, many still have hope that it will be back. Chinageeks translated a blog post by He Caitou discussing fanfou users' loyalty towards... |
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22 Oct 09
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China: Best and worse countries for journalists Joyceyland comments on the Reporter without borders‘ release on press freedom index. The blogger is surprised by the ranking of mainland China #168. |
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21 Oct 09
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China: Girl protester lifted away ESWN translated a story about a girl protester being lifted away by police officers on the national day in Shanghai when she showed a banner telling the story of forced demolition that cost her mother's life. |
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21 Oct 09
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China: The Power of Symbolic Appropriation in Chinese Cyberspace The China beat has posted an adapted article of Guobin Yang's recent talk at a conference on New Media and Global Transformations early this month. The talk was about Chinese netizens' appropriation of an online anonymous post “Jia Junpeng, yo... |
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21 Oct 09
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China and U.S: Oba Mao A new icon combining Chairman Mao Zedong and U.S President Obama is on the rise in China. Check this out: Serving the people T-shirt and Oba Mao bag. |
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20 Oct 09
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China: From heroic to ignorant masses, and then… The Chinese communist ideology has been eroding rapidly in the past two decades due to economic development. Traces of its revolutionary belief can still be found in political propaganda pieces published in the state owned media. Words like “the... |
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19 Oct 09
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China: Does Internet matter? Li Huafang discusses the relation between the Internet and politics with reference to Yang Guobin's paper, the Internet and Civil Society in China: a preliminary assessment, and Hu Yong's book, the Rising Cacophony: Personal expression and Public... |
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19 Oct 09
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China: Fisherman buys newspaper Ad to thank government ESWN translated an interesting local news story about Chongqi fish farmers having spent 100,000 yuan in thanking the local government's anti corruption campaign. The story is both a praise and a parody of the government as fighting against corruption... |
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16 Oct 09
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China: From class struggle to marry ESWN translates a debate that reflects the young generation's value in present day China. The debate is on whether the Chinese communist party's model drama heroine, White Haired Girl, should marry the evil landlord. |
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16 Oct 09
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China: How old is the motherland? Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated several articles reacting to the propaganda that equalized the 60th anniversary of PRC to 60-year-old birthday of motherland (China). |
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16 Oct 09
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Israel: Can Tel Aviv Become a Biking Mecca? Can Tel Aviv join the Netherlands and China as an ideal location for cyclists? Ami Vider of Tel Aviv Tomorrow discusses its potential. |
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15 Oct 09
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Safeguarding the world's cultural heritage Many organisations working to preserve global cultural heritage - both tangible and intangible - have been using online media to support their efforts. |
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15 Oct 09
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China: Blocking Tor and increase of bridge users Tor was partially blocked in China end of September. The graphs posted at the blog of torproject show that in response to the blocking of tor, the number of bridge users has grown significantly in China. |
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