PRC’s Secrecy Law Modification Raises Some Eyebrows
The modification of a 1988 law on state secrets, coming just about a year before the events that occurred a year later, made it an offence to release “state secrets”. Its modification in late...
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Welcome to China. Welcome to CHINICT.
This nation is so big, we need ten figures to just about figure out the population. The capital is so crowded, 20% of all cars have to sit out on any given workday. There’s...
iPhone in China: The Question Is When
A myriad of interesting articles by way of @frankyu, pointing us to iPhonAsia.com: • An Apple executive team is apparently going to Beijing. Local media repots that Greg Joswiak, Apple VP for iPhone Product...
China: Migrant Workers Have Their Go on Macs
Migrant workers — you know, those people who make anything from high-rises to Subway systems possible in China, are those people who go into works sites and get on with the work in near-total...
iPhone + China: No Wifi, China Unicom
If you thought that China was without an iPhone, you’re wrong. Many folks have their iPhones in China over from Hong Kong or overseas, and your fellow blogger himself is an iPhone user and...
Even the Beijing Subway Doesn’t Like the Great Firewall
Beijing’s Subway has recently been hit by at least one count of — anti-censorship stickers. It looks like one of those passengers had so much against the net blocks in force that he —...
MSN Turns 10; Beijing Evening Paper Creates “MSN Republic”
In a year where China’s getting increasingly on edge about anything that might create a political or social stability manhole just before the Big Sixty, when the PRC turns 60 on October 1, 2009,...
China and 3G: Mixed Feelings
Since when has this word 3G been with us? (An ice age (already!), maybe?) I’ve been watching the whole 3G thingy since just before the dot-coms imploded. I was tickled and teased by some...
Mind the Gap: Privacy in the West and in China
ReadWriteWeb has it: Google’s new Chrome browser could potentially start indexing the “dark web” — that’s the password protected Web. This, of course, raises red flags, alarm bells and fire alerts for too many...
Bits and Bobs: Views on the Chinese Internet, September 2008 (Part One)
It’s just about two months before the Chinese Blogger Conference 2008 is reality — I’m already thinking of making a second trip back (last year was my first). Since that 2007 conf in Beijing...
