Category Archives: Zhong Guo, Middle Kingdom

China sentences net writer to two years Thu Jul 13,  8:39 AM ET China sentenced reporter Li Yuanlong to two years in jail on Thursday, adding to its list of writers imprisoned for expressing themselves through the country’s expanding but tightly censored internet. Li, who worked on the Bijie Daily in the southwestern province ofContinue reading “News: China sentences net writer to two years”

Zhong Guo- Middle Kingdom. BEIJING (Reuters) – The case of a poor mother from the Chinese countryside hired to breastfeed an affluent city-dweller’s baby has stoked controversy over the ethics of the ancient practice of wet nursing. Professional wet nurses have appeared in major cities across China, the Beijing News reported Wednesday, fueled by risingContinue reading “Wet Nurse: Career or Throw Back?”

Reading this article just reminded me what a farce the whole thing is. What’s a New York Time Writer got to test? What don’t we know gets banned in China already? What is he proving by doing what everyone knows? So that he can also be banned and then say he researched? So he canContinue reading “News: Blogs test political limits of Internet in China (???)”

17th Tiananmen anniversary passes in China By ALEXA OLESEN, Associated Press Writer 44 minutes ago Chinese police tore up a protester’s poster and detained at least two people on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Sunday as the country marked 17 years since local troops crushed a pro-democracy demonstration in the public space. An elderly woman triedContinue reading “News: 17th Tiananmen anniversary passes in China”

On May 3rd 2006, Channel Arte in France is doing a show on Internet Censorship and the Yahoo! collaboration with jailing of dissidents for press freedom day. Legislator Albert Ho and I was interviewed. It will be on 7:45pm news. Channel Arte. France.

Zhong Guo It’s disturbing that yahoo! remains silent on this issue because it means they will make no changes on their policy. That they have decided that the company will continue to help Chinese government put people in jail for writing "subversive" information on the net. Most importantly, due to the lack of free pressContinue reading “News: Still no reaction from Yahoo! 4th Journalist Jailed.”

Zhong Guo —AFTER TWO MONTHS WITHOUT NEWS, AUTHORITIES ACCUSED OF ‘KIDNAPPING’ BLOGGER Reporters Without Borders today said it considered Chinese blogger Hao Wu to be the victim of state abduction as more than two months have gone by since his arrest by the National Security Bureau in Beijing without his family getting any news aboutContinue reading “News: AFTER TWO MONTHS WITHOUT NEWS, AUTHORITIES ACCUSED OF ‘KIDNAPPING’ BLOGGER”

Zhong Guo Here is a PBS Frontline Online Panel I participated in on Chinese Censorship. The struggle to control Information

Reporters Without Borders / Internet Freedom desk CHINA YAHOO! IMPLICATED IN THIRD CYBERDISSIDENT TRIAL US company’s collaboration with Chinese courts highlighted in Jiang Lijun case Reporters Without Borders has obtained a copy of the verdict in the case of Jiang Lijun, sentenced to four years in prison in November 2003 for his online pro-democracy articles,Continue reading “News: US company’s collaboration with Chinese courts highlighted in Jiang Lijun case”

JUDGES URGED TO ACQUIT CYBER-DISSIDENT LI JIANPING ON SUBVERSION CHARGE Reporters Without Borders today called for the acquittal of cyber-dissident Li Jianping, whose trial on a charge of "inciting the subversion of state sovereignty" in articles and comments for foreign websites will begin tomorrow in the eastern province of Shandong. He was charged on 9Continue reading “news: JUDGES URGED TO ACQUIT CYBER-DISSIDENT LI JIANPING ON SUBVERSION CHARGE”