Archive for the 'China' Category
Google Partners Say Its China Stance Is Putting Them at Risk
March 17th, 2010Bloomberg – “Google Inc.’s partners in China said they have received no information from the company since it announced it may exit the country, putting their businesses at risk.”
China to Google: Please Exit In An Orderly Fashion
March 16th, 2010All Things D – “If Google’s (GOOG) talks with the Chinese government end at an impasse and the company shutters Google.cn and ramps down its operations in the country, it best do so properly and according to law. That’s the latest from Beijing, which continues to threaten and posture amid reports that the search giant [...]
Report: Google near certain to close China site
March 15th, 2010AP – “A newspaper Web site is reporting Google Inc. is “99.9 percent” sure to close its search engine in China after negotiations over censorship stalled. The Financial Times cited an unnamed source familiar with the company’s thinking when it reported Saturday that Google has drawn up plans to shutter Google.cn. The newspaper did not [...]
China Warns Google
March 12th, 2010WSJ – “A Chinese minister made the government’s strongest statement yet on Google Inc.’s future in the country, warning that the U.S. Internet company “will have to bear the consequences” if its follows through on its pledge to stop censoring its Chinese search site.”
See also, Google Prepares to Stop Censoring in China
U.S. human rights report hits China, Iran
March 11th, 2010Reuters – “China and Iran have stepped up their abuses of human rights, targeting both anti-government activists and the free flow of information over the Internet, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday. In its annual survey of human rights in 194 countries, the State Department also criticized Cuba, Myanmar, North Korea and Russia, which [...]
Google China Censorship Talks to Yield Results ‘Soon’
March 10th, 2010Bloomberg – “Google Inc., in talks with China after saying it will stop censoring Internet search results there, said the discussions will yield results soon. “We decided not to publicize our dealings with China,” Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said today at a media conference in Abu Dhabi. “We’re in active talks with the Chinese [...]
U.S. weighing China Internet censorship case
March 10th, 2010Reuters – “The United States is studying whether it can legally challenge Chinese Internet restrictions that hurt Google and other U.S. companies operating in China, but direct talks with Beijing might yield faster results, the top U.S. trade official said on Tuesday. “We are still dialoguing not just with Google, but with other Internet providers, [...]
Parents get power to turn off web games
February 7th, 2010China Daily – “Parents in China can pull the plug on their kids’ online gaming by asking game operators to end services for minors, according to a program launched over the weekend by the culture ministry and six major online gaming companies.”
Battling the Information Barbarians
January 30th, 2010WSJ – “China often views the ideas of foreigners, from missionaries in the 17th century to 21st-century Internet entrepreneurs, as subversive imports. The tumultuous history behind the clash with Google.”
China Is Center of World on 1602 Map Shown in D.C.
January 21st, 2010Bloomberg – “In December, Deanna Marcum of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. got a call with an offer that was too good to refuse: a chance to exhibit a 400-year-old complete map of the world, the first China had seen.”
China Paints Google Issue as Not Political
January 21st, 2010NYT – “The Chinese government is taking a cautious approach to the dispute with Google, treating the conflict as a business dispute that requires commercial negotiations and not a political matter that could affect relations with the United States.”
Google Apologizes to Chinese Authors
January 11th, 2010NYT – “Google has agreed to hand over a list of books by Chinese authors that it has scanned in recent years, company executives said on Monday, in an apparent effort to placate writers who say their works were digitized without their permission.”
China to require Internet domain name registration
December 22nd, 2009Reuters – “China has issued new Internet regulations, including what appears to be an effort to create a “whitelist” of approved websites that could potentially place much of the Internet off-limits to Chinese readers.”
It’s tricky for wikis and online encyclopedias in China
October 15th, 2009CNN – “It’s been a year since China’s government lifted its ban on the Chinese version of U.S.-based Wikipedia yet it remains unclear whether Wikipedia has gained any share of the country’s massive Internet readership.”
China’s website clampdown
September 6th, 2009Guardian – “News websites in China have begun requiring new users to register their true identities before allowing them to post comments – a move rejected by internet companies and users in the past.”
China Web Sites Seeking Users’ Names
September 5th, 2009NYTimes – “News Web sites in China, complying with secret government orders, are requiring that new users log on under their true identities to post comments, a shift in policy that the country’s Internet users and media have fiercely opposed in the past.”
Twitterers defy China’s firewall
June 9th, 2009BBC NEWS – “On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen killings, social networking sites such as Twitter and the photo-sharing site Flickr were blocked in China in an attempt by the government to prevent online discussion on the subject”
National Library of China to add its records to OCLC WorldCat
March 1st, 2008Press Release – “The National Library of China, the largest library in Asia, will add its bibliographic records to the OCLC WorldCat database, the world’s most comprehensive online resource for finding items held in libraries, making those records available to researchers worldwide.”
“The Connection Has Been Resetâ€
March 1st, 2008The Atlantic – “China’s Great Firewall is crude, slapdash, and surprisingly easy to breach. Here’s why it’s so effective anyway.”
Building Libraries
December 13th, 2007“A fundraising effort, sponsored by the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business to support youth literacy and education in rural China, has raised enough money to build eight libraries in these often-neglected regions of the country.”
Bad Filtering
September 12th, 2007BBC – “China’s firewall that tries to sanitise web browsing is much more porous than previously thought, says a study.”
