China News

News from China with a focus on human rights and religious liberty

Thursday, March 11, 2004

Beijing rhetoric intensifies against Hong Kong activists. Mainland barrage against democractic movement. [Christian Science Monitor | World]
6:52:56 PM

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The State Taketh, Chinese Entrepreneurs Say. In one case, a Xinjiang businessman lost all his hard-earned assets after officials noticed his wealth, his family says. [Los Angeles Times World News]
9:29:36 AM

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Bypassing China's net firewall. Numerous efforts are under way in the West to help Chinese web users get around China's censorship of the internet, reports technology correspondent Clark Boyd. Bill Xia left China for the US in the late 1990s. He keeps up with events in his homeland, mostly online. He has been amazed by the rapidly growing number of people in China who can join him in cyberspace. But he has also watched as Beijing tries to keep tighter and tighter control over those Chinese web users. Mr Xia says he got fed up with the way the Chinese authorities control access to information on the web "I started realising the media controls in China. And then I realised the internet presented a... [Free North Korea!]
9:24:33 AM

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China's Chip Designs Concern U.S. (Los Angeles Times). Los Angeles Times - SHANGHAI — China's drive to become a leading global supplier of semiconductors within a decade is rapidly propelling that nation up the technology ladder — and creating new trade tensions with the United States. [Yahoo! News - Top Stories]
8:58:44 AM

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