Category Archives: Awaiting a Democratic HK

If you want those in China to be able to access this page you will have to put the link through a proxy. The URL is: http://www.unipeak.com/getpage.php?_u_r_l_=aHR0cDovL2dsdXR0ZXIudHlwZXBhZC5jb20vZ2x1dHRlci8yMDA0LzAzL2FsbF90eXBlcGFkX3NpdC5odG1s ** New Article: Born and Banned in China: Internet Censorship and Tiananmen Square Update: (April 4th) Slashdot Available in China again!!!! Update: (April 2nd) Success! Reporters Without BordersContinue reading “All Typepad Sites Banned in China (Story Filed For Independent Media)”

THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT HAS BANNED ALL TYPEPAD SITES WITHIN CHINA, AND SHUT DOWN TWO CHINA BLOGGING SERVICES. ANOTHER BLOW TO FREESPEECH AND FREEDOM OF INFORMATION WITHIN THE COUNTRY. THIS IS A SAD DAY. GLUTTER TURNS BLACK AS A MEANS TO PROTEST AND BRING ATTENTION TO THIS ISSUE (And Will remain so for forty days, endingContinue reading “CHINA HAS FURTHER CURBED FREE SPEECH AMONG ITS CITIZENS”

ALL TYPEPAD SITES ARE NOW BANNED IN CHINA The more I think about what happened today. The more angry and shocked I am. This of course is not the first time I have been banned in China. The first time for it to happen was in 1998, and very publicly in the guise of china.com.Continue reading “The Silence is Ubiquitous: What to Do and Who to Hear?”

GLUTTER IS SADDENNED AND ANGERED TO HAVE TO ANNOUNCE ALL TYPEPAD SITES HAVE BEEN BANNED IN CHINA. Pketh asked if typepad is banned in China, as a friend of his can no longer get into his site. Can someone tell us? I guess you will either not be able to see this if it is,Continue reading “Typepad Banned in China!!!!”

By WILLIAM FOREMAN, Associated Press Writer TAIPEI, Taiwan – President Chen Shui-bian narrowly won re-election Saturday a day after being shot in an assassination attempt, but a referendum he had championed on beefing up defenses against China failed because not enough voters took part. His opponent suggested the attempt on Chen’s life Friday gained himContinue reading “News: Taiwan President Wins Narrow Re-Election”

Oh, My…. A friend from Taiwan just sent the news that everyone is being sent home from work because people are worried that there may be some violence or backlash to come. Violence of this kind has never marred the “China” political spectrum before. You can’t just attempt to assassinate a president! (said in theContinue reading “News: Taiwan President and Vice President Shot During Election Campaign”

BEIJING The retired military physician who helped expose China’s initial cover-up of the SARS outbreak last year is now calling on the Communist Party to confront one of its darkest periods and acknowledge that it was gravely wrong in violently cracking down on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989. . “My proposal is thatContinue reading “News: Doctor challenges official account of killings (IHT)”

Awaiting the Democratic Hong Kong After about eight hours into being in China, where you can eat in KFC drink a 7 Up, where I bought some books, and looked at photos of the bustling contemporary art scene in Beijing, I felt like I was in another part of Hong Kong. I start forgetting. IContinue reading “The Forgettable Fear and A Deported Journalist You didn’t Hear About.”

Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong On my birthday my friend called, “Happy birthday! What are you up to?” “I am currently posting up a piece I wrote about a democratic China.” “Sorry?” “I am writing about how for my 30th birthday I would like to see a democratic China and that one day I believeContinue reading ““Yan, You’re going to go to Jail!””

Awaiting A Democratic Hong Kong I had a new thought that came from my discussion with Martyn about the new generation of people in China opposed to the people in the previous one which Martyn called “the Tiananmen Generation.” It’s makes perfect sense, because since then China has only opened up both economically and socially,Continue reading “Difference Between People in China and HK Views the Central Government.”