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• China: prominent dissident faces subversion charges

  
  Index on Censorship — Authority: 591
  Police in China have recommended that prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo be formally charged with subversion. He has been held in jail for over a year without charges and previously served 20 months for his part in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. The author has been an outspoken critic of the Chinese government for ...
  23 hours ago

• The atrocious taxi drivers of Beijing. Tiananmen Square? Never eard of it, guv

  
  News World — Authority: 133
  I normally like taxi drivers. Some of my best friends, etc. But Beijing is a new and terrible world.Driving a taxi here has never enjoyed a lot of cachet. Back in the 1980s, driving was itself considered an honourable profession; there was no such thing as a private car, and thus the only driving licences [...]
  6 days ago

• Zhao Ziyang’s Secret Memoirs

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 142
  Book’s editors on lifting a veil from Chinese politics By Katie Koch, BU Today , Dec 2, 2009 Bao Pu (left) and Adi Ignatius, editors of Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang , say the former leader’s memoir is the first to emerge from the highest ranks of China’s ...
  1 week ago

• Zhao Ziyang’s Secret Memoirs

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 440
  Book’s editors on lifting a veil from Chinese politics By Katie Koch, BU Today , Dec 2, 2009 Bao Pu (left) and Adi Ignatius, editors of Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang , say the former leader’s memoir is the first to emerge from the highest ranks of China’s Communist ...
  1 week ago

• Columns

  
  AVCR8TEUR'S PHOTO BLOG & MORE — Authority: 122
  56 newly erected columns in Tiananmen Square marked the 60th anniversary founding of the Peoples Republic of China celebrated October 1st of this year. As you can see, the day I visited was quite overcast. Each of the 26 ton columns represents an ethnic group living in China and is said to symbolize their unity, ...
  1 week ago

• Spot the difference [via]

  
  Earthman, Come Home — Authority: 433
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  1 week ago

• Visiting Beijing, China

  
  Social Media Marketing Strategy, Tactics, and Tools — Authority: 495
  Earlier this year I had the opportunity to spend a month traveling around China (including Tibet) with my good friend Brian.  I had a lot of stories, videos, and photos to share but I didn’t really have a good way to share them since this travel blog didn’t exist.  Now that I have my new travel blog I want to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Piata Tiananmen

  
  umornegru.ro — Authority: 142
  Gaseste diferenta! In stanga avem poze de pe Google Images cu Piata Tiananmen cautate in China, in partea dreapta avem aceeasi cautare dar dintr-o alta parte a lumii.Click pe imagine pentru a o mari!
  2 weeks ago

• Remembering Chinese scholar Yang Xianyi (1915 – 2009)

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  At the early morning hour, 6:45AM, on November 23, 2009, renowned Chinese scholar, translator, and interpreter of Chinese and Western literature, Yang Xianyi (楊憲益) died in Beijing at the age of 94. During his lifetime, he and his wife, Gladys Margaret Tayler (戴乃迭), translated more than 60 Chinese ...
  2 weeks ago

• Socialism Flu Shots for Christmas

  
  Acton Institute PowerBlog — Authority: 531
  Got the socialism blues? Worried that a friend or maybe a teenage son or daughter may contract a nasty case of it? Marvin Olasky at World magazine recommends former Acton research fellow Jay Richards’ 2009 HarperOne book, Money Greed and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and not the Problem : Among the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Yang Xianyi obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Distinguished translator of Chinese classics jailed during the Cultural Revolution When they came during the Cultural Revolution to take away Yang Xianyi, Chinas distinguished translator who has died aged 94, he had one regret – that he was hauled off to prison, accused of being a British spy, in his old slippers. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Boycott Bing, says the New York Times Columnist

  
  pluGGd.in — Authority: 544
  A major flaw has been found in Bing. Thanks to Nicholas D. Kristof, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and columnist for the New York Times. Kristof accused Bing for censoring results in simplified Chinese language searches and asked to Boycott Bing in his column to web users. This is not the first time Bing is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bing Accused of Censoring Simplified Chinese Language Searches

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof is controversially asking web users to “ Boycott Bing “, claiming that Bing is c read more
  2 weeks ago

• Microsoft Bing censoring searches in Chinese?

  
  JoeTrippi.com — Authority: 423
  In a piece from Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times titled Boycott Microsoft Bing , Kristof observes that text and image searches in simplified Chinese characters (those used in mainland China) return sanitized results. He also says that Microsoft’s responses to the problem have been inconsistent over the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tiananmen Square protest leader put on trial (one day after Barack Obama departed from Beijing)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Zhou Yongjun, 42, faces a third prison term in China after being handed over to the mainland by the police in Hong Kong. Mr Zhou, who has lived in the United States since seeking political asylum in 1992, was arrested last September. His subsequent transfer to the authorities in China, who have accused him of ...
  2 weeks ago

• TIANANMEN SQUARE

  
  Pundit Kitchen: Lol News and Lol Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden and more — Authority: 581
  TIANANMEN SQUARE It’s happened elsewhere too. (Mahmoud Ahmedinejad) A tribute to the original Picture by: dunno source Caption by: dunno source via Poster Builder » Recaption This! » View All Captions
  2 weeks ago

• Asia Cast for Friday 20th November

  
  Asia Cast — Authority: 126
  Rare earth experts are predicting a rare earth metals shortage of 44,000 tonnes annually by 2015. (Wikimedia Commons) In this Bulletin… - Foreign investors detained in Beijing; - Hong Kong announces plan for expanded democratic vote; and - Philippine President quits. But first, here’s our SOH focus on China ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tiananmen Square protest leader put on trial

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  A student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests has been put on trial by China one day after Barack Obama departed from Beijing.
  2 weeks ago

• Tiananmen protest leader goes on trial

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  US resident accused of fraud but supporters say charges are punishment for years of activism A long-term US resident and former leader of student protests in Tiananmen Square went on trial in China this morning, one day after Barack Obama concluded his visit to the country. Zhou Yongjun is accused of fraud charges ...
  2 weeks ago

• China puts dissident student leader on trial after Obama leaves

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Los Angeles, Nov.19 (ANI): US President Barack Obama may have subtly called on China to improve its human rights record and allow for greater freedom of speech during his three-day visit to Shanghai and Beijing, but that did not stop China from putting a student leader of the 1989 pro-democracy movement on trial on ...
  3 weeks ago

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