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Search Engines' Chinese Self-Censorship

01.07.2008 15:48    chinadigitaltimes.net
From Technology Review:To operate in China, search engine companies based in the United States have built products that cooperate with China's policies of Internet censorship. That much has long been recognized. But a new analysis suggests that search companies, including


Internet A Boost For Chinese Democracy

01.07.2008 15:45    chinadigitaltimes.net
From Shanghai Daily:Seventy percent of a China Youth Daily survey believe that the Internet has become a new medium where Chinese people can freely express their opinions.The survey was made after President Hu Jintao made his first public online chat

Quake Shakes 'Official' Charities in China

01.07.2008 15:45    chinadigitaltimes.net
From Caijing Magazine:Hours after a May 12 earthquake disrupted the lives of 50 million people, killing 70,000, the popular Chinese Web site Bull Blog posted a detailed plan for collecting and distributing relief donations. Because the site is trusted among

Chinese Seek a Day in Court

01.07.2008 15:45    chinadigitaltimes.net
From The Wall Street Journal:The earthquake that rocked Sichuan province is emerging as an unexpected test of China's evolving legal system.Parents in Sichuan whose children were killed when schools collapsed in the May 12 quake are already demanding justice. Huang


Chinese Lawyers Arrested Before Meeting with Congressmen

01.07.2008 15:45    chinadigitaltimes.net
From Washington Post:A group of Chinese human rights lawyers were detained and later put under house arrest by government security officials to prevent them from attending a dinner Sunday hosted by two visiting members of the U.S. Congress.The incident is

Chinese Communist Party membership exceeds 74 mln in 2007

01.07.2008 13:34    english.people.com.cn
Membership in the Communist Party of China (CPC) reached 74.153 million people at the end of 2007, up 2.782 million over the previous year, according to the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee. There were about 3.66 ...

Chinese shares fall 3% on across-the-board losses of heavyweights

01.07.2008 13:34    english.people.com.cn
Heavy losses of banks and other heavy-weighted shares drove Chinese shares further lower by more than 3 percent on Tuesday, amid concerns over possible interest rates hike and a slower economic growth. The benchmark Shanghai Composi ...

Chinese airlines say fuel surcharges rise not to bring much benefit

01.07.2008 13:34    english.people.com.cn
Chinese airlines, currently suffering a sluggish aviation market, said the increase in jet fuel surcharges, effective as of Tuesday, was not expected to bring much benefit for them. From July 1, passengers who buy tickets on domesti ...

China approves first IPO of domestic brokerage in five years

01.07.2008 13:34    english.people.com.cn
Chinese stock regulators approved the initial public offering (IPO) of Everbright Securities Co. Monday evening, the first domestic brokerage IPO since that of CITIC Securities Co. in early 2003. According to the prospectus Everbrig ...

UN Secretary-General starts China visit

01.07.2008 13:34    english.people.com.cn
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Beijing Tuesday afternoon, kicking off a three-day official visit to China at the invitation of Chinese government. During Ban's stay, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao w ...

Chinese President Hu Jintao to attend G8 summit in Japan

01.07.2008 13:34    english.people.com.cn
Chinese President Hu Jintao will attend the G8 summit in Japan from July 7 to 9 at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao announced here on Tuesday. Sourc ...

E China province holds anti-terror drill ahead of Olympics

01.07.2008 13:34    english.people.com.cn
Security services in east China's Shandong Province have held an anti-terrorist drill ahead of the Beijing Olympics that included simulated hijacking and bomb attacks. The drill dubbed "Mountain Tai 2008" on Monday simulated an atte ...

Party chief of Guizhou stresses social stability as police reopen murder probe

01.07.2008 13:34    english.people.com.cn
The Communist Party chief of southwest China's Guizhou Province has stressed the importance of social stability, as police reopened investigations into the death of a female student that sparked a violent protest over the weekend. P ...

Financial Times' Top 500: CNPC ranks second

01.07.2008 13:34    english.people.com.cn
The Financial Times FT500 list of the world's most important companies, published on its website yesterday, sees that oil companies have become the largest in market value compared with the banking industry. The China National Petroleum Cor ...

Advanced wind power generator to be made in Harbin

01.07.2008 13:34    english.people.com.cn
On June 29, China's first self-developed - complete with independent intellectual property rights -1.5-megawatt directly driven magneto wind power generator was successfully developed and launched at Harbin Wind Power Equipment Co., Ltd. Th ...

Strategic dialogue reinforces confident China-US relations

01.07.2008 13:34    english.people.com.cn
The China-US Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) is expected to continue in substance thanks to the strategic importance of the bilateral relationship and the success of the last one during the Bush Administration.Prof. Jin Canrong of Bei ...

Qinghai plans to build three feeder airports

01.07.2008 13:34    english.people.com.cn
In the past week, more than 40 officials and technical staff went to the county of Huatugou in the Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, the city of Delingha in the Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and other places to look

China and Japan co-build shelter belts to protect sea coasts

01.07.2008 13:34    english.people.com.cn
Recently, the China Green Foundation and the Japan Association for Greening Deserts held a signing ceremony in the district of Dagang, Tianjin. From then on, the Japan Association of Greening Deserts will help to build shelter belts to ...

A Thousand Demobilized Cadres' Appeal for Denied Benefits

01.07.2008 11:40    en.epochtimes.com
CHINA-Nearly one thousand demobilized cadres and volunteer soldiers in Yantai City, Shandong Province visited the Municipal National People's Congress at 8:30 a.m., on June 27. They demanded an...

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