Category Archives: Awaiting a Democratic HK

(I am REALLY NOT moving to China anymore). By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer SHANGHAI, China – A woman who posted an article on the Internet criticizing the way China’s government handles public complaints has been sentenced to 18 months in a labor camp, a human rights group said Thursday. Ma Yalian used several ChineseContinue reading “News: China Jails Woman Over Web Post”

Six Apart (Typepad Owners) have said that they are not sure what’s going on in China, although they have ruled out any technical problems from their end. I think it’s fair as the company cannot be 100% sure of what is going on in a different country. However, for the record Glutter (http://glutter.TYPEPAD.com) is unavailableContinue reading “Confirmation Glutter is Banned in China for Six Apart Corporation”

Sadly, it seems slashdot.org is banned in China also. It’s been 24 hours and people still can’t get into the site. Possible of Banning of Slashdot.org in China

UPDATE: Possible Ban of Slashdot.org in China (March 31st) Internet magazine and forum Slashdot.org filed the story on typepad being banned in China on March 29, @05:01PM (US Time) Last recorded viewing of the site in China was before 30 Mar 2004 07:09:02 +0800 (Southern China) in Shenzen (Guangdong), as my friend chanced upon theContinue reading “Possible of Banning of Slashdot.org in China”

UPDATE: (March 30th) Is Slashdot now banned in China also? Last night it linked to this story, a friend of mine said he saw it in Shenzen, (but couldn’t get into Glutter) but I got a comment from someone in China who can nolonger get into the http://www.slashdot.org, when she could yesterday. Can anyone check?Continue reading “Is slashdot.org also banned?”

By TED ANTHONY – Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China issued a vigorous defense of its human rights record Tuesday, countering American assertions that it was backsliding and saying its people have benefited from economic reform that has made life more prosperous and government more responsive. But the report and accompanying comments — part ofContinue reading “China defends human rights record”

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong China is going to “reinterpreted” the basic law, mainly what it means is that they are going to tell us that there is no way they will give legislative reforms for 2007 and Hong Kong will not receive universal suffrage even when about 60 plus percent of the population wantsContinue reading “My Country, My Home, How Do I Stay Here?”

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong Oh my Central Government Makes it so hard to love my country sometimes. HONG KONG, (AFP) – Hong Kong’s pro-democracy party have taken to the streets in protest at Beijing’s plan to examine key constitutional provisions dealing with the future selection of the territory’s government. The protest kicked off aContinue reading “News: Democratic Parties Protest Against China’s Constitutional Interpretation”

Typepad is still blocked in China and two other china blog services are still down. (Just got a comment from Jessica that Blogbus and Blogcn have regained service!!) Probably remain that way forever. As I said in the other post, there is not much we can do, which is the most frustrating part of theContinue reading “Typeblack: 40 Days Away is Press Freedom Day.”