Oct

31

Is Blog Dead in China ?

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In the past year, there is a continuing discussion in the Chinese blogosphere on whether blog culture is dying down. Moreover, recently bokee.com and blogchina.com, the two earliest BSPs founded by Fang dong-xing in China, are at business crisis. Fang is looking for investing to transform the websites into multi-media community platform.
What we see is: [...]

Oct

30

GoDaddy and SourceForge Blocked in China Again

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GoDaddy, the world’s largest ICANN-accredited domain registrar, and SourceForge, the world’s largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications, appears to blocked in Mainland China again after Beijing 2008 Olympic Games closed.
A screen copy of the command tracert shows that the problem is a router inside China Telecom.

Update: SourceForge unblocked on Nov [...]

Oct

24

China Internet Censorship After Olympic Games

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As Beijing 2008 Olympic Games closed, the Internet censorship in China further tightened. Undeniably, this deterioration has affected and frustrated an increasing number of netizens in China.
lot’s of foreign websites have been blocked again after the Beijing Olympics drew to an end. Meanwhile, although other foreign websites remain approachable in China, some of their touchy [...]

Oct

8

Want China Milk, Mr. Mandelson?

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British politician Peter Mandelson, who was feted in China for drinking a glass of yoghurt on television in Beijing last week, has been rushed to hospital suffering from a kidney stone.
EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson drinks a Beijing-branded yogurt at a press conference in the Chinese capital on Friday September 26, 2008. Mandelson said he [...]