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China Porn Crackdown: Wants Identity Of Web Site Operators
“Web site operators will need to offer photographs of themselves and meet Internet service providers in person under new guidelines announced by the Chinese government this week, according to published reports. The ‘trial regulations’ were issued by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology under the auspices of an ongoing anti-porn campaign, but they will also help the government create records of all sites in the country and could be used to block other types of online content, the IDG News Service reported on Tuesday.” [Link]
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Huang Yizhong: China Sends Man To Jail For Running Porn Site
“A man in southern China was sentenced to 13 years in jail for running a pornographic Web site, a state news agency reported Sunday, amid a national crackdown on lewd online content. The court in the Guangdong province city of Jiangmen handed down the sentence to Huang Yizhong and fined him 100,000 yuan ($14,600), the official Xinhua News Agency said.” [Link]
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Google Delays Nexus One Launch In China
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“Google on Tuesday postponed the planned launch of its mobile phone in China amid a dispute with the government over Internet censorship and e-mail hacking that the search giant says may force it to leave the country.” Link
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Google In Secret Talks With Chinese Government
“Google Inc. said it has begun talks with the Chinese government about the company’s plan to stop censoring results from its search engine, after saying it may quit the country because of cyber attacks.” Link
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China To Ban Avatar
“China plans to pull Avatar from most cinemas, despite the long queues for tickets, to make way for a more patriotic film the censors deem more appropriate – a life of Confucius. The move comes amid government anxiety that many Chinese are making a link between the plight of the film’s Na’vi, who face being displaced form their homeland, and that of those in China who are subject to often brutal evictions by property developers.” Link
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Stephon Marbury Signs With Shanxi Of Chinese Basketball Association
“Two-time NBA All-Star Stephon Marbury will become the highest profile American to play in the Chinese Basketball Association after he agreed to join the league’s Shanxi club. The 32-year-old, a free agent since leaving the Boston Celtics last season, had agreed to a deal with the northern club and would arrive in Shanxi next week, the team announced on its official Web site.” Link
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Journalist Gmail Accounts Hacked In China
“At least two foreign journalists living in Beijing have had their Google e-mail accounts hacked, a journalists’ advocacy group in China said Monday. The hackers changed settings so that all Gmail messages would be forwarded to unfamiliar addresses.” Link
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Shanghai Mobile Users Could Lose Numbers In China Porn Crackdown
“Mobile users in Shanghai caught sending dirty short messages, photos or videos by phone could have their numbers cancelled as part of China’s crackdown on pornography, state media reported Monday. An employee at the Shanghai subsidiary of China Mobile, the world’s biggest phone operator by market value, said the company would search for keywords and then forward the offending messages to the police to investigate.” Link
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Chinese Government Struggles To Deal With Possible Google Pullout
“Google Inc.’s threat to shut down its China-based site Google.cn over censorship and e-mail hacking alarmed a Internet-connected public that has tolerated a gap between rapid economic and technological progress and a closed, secretive political system.” Link
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US To Issue Formal Protest To China Over Google Attacks
“The US state department says it will make a formal protest to China over alleged cyber-attacks on the internet search giant, Google.” Link
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Parents Toss Toys After Cadmium Warning
“The warning came after The Associated Press reported that tests had showed high levels of cadmium in children’s jewelry imported from China. Like lead, cadmium can hinder brain development in children and even cause cancer, according to recent research.” Link
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China Tries To Ban SMS Porn
“MOBILE users in China will be banned from sending short messages if they are found to have distributed pornography or other ‘illegal’ content by phone, state media said Wednesday. China Mobile, the world’s biggest cell-phone operator, is helping Chinese police in a campaign to crack down on ‘illegal short messages’, the Nanfang Daily newspaper reported.” Link
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China’s BYD Electric Car Coming To America
“BYD, the upstart Chinese electric car maker Warren Buffett famously has an investment in, is planning enter the U.S. market as soon as the second half of this year. Considering the U.S. market entrance by multiple new auto players (from Chinese firms BYD and Geely, to India’s Tata and even U.S. upstart Tesla Motors) expect auto industry competition to get far more intense than it already is.” Link
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Google Threatens To Quit China Over Censorship
“China has not made any significant comment since Google, the world’s top search engine, said it will not abide by censorship and may shut its Chinese-language google.cn website because of attacks from China on human rights activists using its Gmail service and on dozens of companies, including Adobe Systems.” Link
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Chinese Student Rewarded For Reporting Porn
“A Chinese student who says his studies suffered because of viewing pornography on the internet has won a contest for helping reduce sexual content online. State media said the unnamed student, from northern Shanxi province, reported a total of 32 porn sites.” Link
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Chinese Claim Car Purchase Supremacy Over US
“China has said it overtook the United States to become the world’s biggest car and van market in 2009. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said 13.6 million vehicles were sold within the country last year.” Link
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Chinese Men Desperate For Women
“More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses by 2020, says the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The gender imbalance among newborns is the most serious demographic problem for the country’s population of 1.3 billion, says the academy. It cites sex-specific abortions as a major factor, due to China’s traditional bias towards male children.” Link
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Chinese Slammed Again For Toxic Milk Investigation Delay
“The government pledged to clean up the dairy industry in autumn 2008, when 300,000 babies were taken ill and six died after drinking melamine-tainted Sanlu-brand infant formula. The issue reared its head again last week when food safety authorities in Shanghai announced they had shut down the Shanghai Panda company after discovering it was producing condensed milk and milk powder laced with the same chemical.” Link
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Akmal Shaikh: Mentally Ill Briton Executed By Chinese
“Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was ‘appalled and disappointed’ that China ignored repeated appeals to show mercy to Akmal Shaikh, who was said to have suffered from a mental illness, while his legal team expressed outrage.” Link
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Justin Franchi Solondz: Chinese Sentence Accused US Ecoterrorist For Drugs
“Justin Franchi Solondz, 30, was given the sentence Friday, said an official at the intermediate court in Dali city, in southwestern China’s Yunnan province, who gave his family name as Zhao. It was unclear what drugs Solondz was accused of producing. His father, Paul Solondz, told The Associated Press that his son pleaded guilty last month.” Link
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