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Original Technorati articles tagged “weibo”

• in Social Media
  Weibo: Is China's Twitter Going to Come Here?
  Weibo is China's answer to Twitter. Will we see it here as well?
  by joshner / on Mar 11, 2012
• in Technology
  A New Cloud of Gadgets – Silver Lining For Technology or Rainy Days For Cyber Security?
  Are data and online info really safe?
  by iinotes / on Jun 8, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “weibo”

 

• Sensitive: Wrongly Convicted Released in Fujian

  
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  Wu Changlong embraces his father. He was found innocent and released from prison after serving 12 years. (Wu Huaying) As of May 19, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). Intertwined Injustices in Fujian : On June 24, 2001, a bomb exploded at ...
  4 days ago

• Murong Xuecun: Open Letter to the “Nameless Censor”

  
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  Writer Murong Xuecun has spoken out against government censorship since his various weibo accounts were deleted by authorities. In a recent piece published in the Guardian , he condemned the “new censorship campaign.” In another strongly-worded piece, he now writes an open letter to the “Nameless ...
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• China Red Cross donations in doubt after new figures

  
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  A public outcry against missing donations by the Red Cross Society of China has morphed into subdued scepticism after the Ministry of Civil Affairs reviewed figures at the weekend that indicated considerable amount of funds had disappeared.  On Friday, the ministry, which is charged with supervising charity ...
  5 days ago

• Son of Chinese Judge Hired Hit Men to Murder His Own Family

  
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  From Sina Weibo : @头条新闻 : In the Henan province Zhoukou city judge Gao Tianfeng and daughter murder case, on the list of names given to the hired killers, which included the parents and the older sister, the offered price was 200,000 [RMB] per person. What was fortunate was that the mother happened to ...
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• Gay rights activist arrested after protest in Changsha

  
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  Police in Changsha have detained a young gay rights activist after he organised a protest in the capital of Hunan province to mark International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.  A 19-year-old man, identified only as Xiang, was arrested on Saturday and will be in administrative detention for 12 days ...
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• Tarantino’s Django Unchained back in mainland China theatres

  
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  A toned-down version of the film, with less violence and gore, was approved by censors in March, but it was abruptly axed on its scheduled April 10 opening day due to “technical reasons”. See the original post: Tarantino’s Django Unchained back in mainland China theatres
  1 week ago

• China’s Social Media Fuel Citizen Quake Response

  
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  The rapid grass-roots response to the April earthquake in Sichaun Province reveals how far China’s nascent civil society movement has come since a major quake in 2008.        
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• Sensitive Words: Seven Say-Nots and More

  
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  As of May 10, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). Migrant Worker’s Death: 22-year-old Yuan Liya , who came to Beijing from Anhui Province, fell to her death on May 3 from the Jingwen Apparel shopping mall. While the Beijing police ...
  1 week ago

• AmazeNews: At the Mercy of “Brother Emperor”

  
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  Qiwen Lu ( 奇闻录 , AmazeNews ) gathers “news of the weird” from China. It was voted Best Blog in Chinese in Deutsche Welle’s 2013 BOBS awards. The AmazeNews story below was first posted on May 8 as part of the ongoing series Scenes from the Golden Age ( 盛世一景 ). CDT Chinese carries all ...
  2 weeks ago

• In China, Vulnerable Women, Unwritten Rules

  
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  For the past couple of weeks, we’ve watched China, on one level or another, convulse around cases that bear something unmistakable in common. First, there was the resurgence of interest in the attempted murder of a young woman named Zhu Ling, a cold case from 1994 that suddenly became a fixation among Internet ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zhu Ling Case Re-emerges, Unleashing Chinese Fury

  
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  Nearly two decades after Zhu Ling was poisoned, her case has electrified the nation with questions about the power of China’s political elite in a society where justice remains elusive.        
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• Jiathis published the new report of "Chinese social media information sharing ranking". WeChat was ranked in 3rd position.

  
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  Jiathis published the new report of "Chinese social media information sharing ranking" as of April 2013.                                       Share         Click Rate #1   Qzone                   15.59%        30.19% #2   Sina Weibo           14.09%       ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chinese Netizens Post Silly Petitions on White House Website

  
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  In the wake of local media censorship over recent protests against the PX Project to construct a chemical plant in Kunming and the decade-old thallium-poisoning case involving Tsinghua student Zhu Ling [see chinaSMACKs translated report here ], many Chinese netizens turned to the White House’s We the People ...
  2 weeks ago

• Alibaba and Sina: Join Hands for A Better Future

  
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  (Photo from China.org.cn ) The biggest news last week in China’s Internet industry is Alibaba’s decision to purchase 18 percent of the share from Sina Weibo, by far the largest social network platform in China. Alibaba is the biggest e-commerce company in China, which most people know it through the much ...
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• Why Are Western Celebrities On Sina Weibo Instead Of Twitter?

  
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  Have you seen Iron Man 3 yet? It opened in North America on May 3. But Robert Downey Jr. fans in China got to see the blockbuster film starting May 1. Indeed, Hollywood has been making a major play for the Chinese market. According to a recent report by the Motion Picture Association of America , China is now the ...
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• DealBook: China’s Baidu to Pay $370 Million for Internet Video Business

  
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  China’s biggest search engine company said acquiring the Internet video business of PPStream would provide more television shows and movies for users and expand its offerings for advertisers.        
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• China’s Baidu to Pay $370 Million for Internet Video Business

  
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  Chinas biggest search engine company said acquiring the Internet video business of PPStream would provide more television shows and movies for users and expand its offerings for advertisers.
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• DealBook: China’s Changing Internet Landscape

  
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  China was on vacation much of last week for the May 1 Worker’s Day holiday, but executives at two of China’s most important online companies were busy completing a deal that may reshape the country’s Internet.        
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• China’s Changing Internet Landscape

  
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  China was on vacation much of last week for the May 1 Worker’s Day holiday, but executives at two of China’s most important online companies were busy completing a deal that may reshape the country’s Internet.
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• China’s top 10 smartphone applications

  
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  According to a report by iResearch on China’s mobile market, the Chinese prefer to download and use applications catered specifically to the Chinese market instead of popular foreign mobile apps. In fact, out of China’s top 10 iOS and Android apps, no foreign apps are featured. Also Tencent, the largest ...
  2 weeks ago

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