The Return of Blogspot: Thanks International Media!

People’s Daily reports:
The 2008 Beijing International Media Center (BIMC), providing services for approximately 10,000 journalists without IOC accreditation certificates, was put into operation on June 18, according to the Xinhua news agency.
The 2008 Beijing International Media Center is based in the Gehua New Century Hotel Beijing, located on the city’s central axial line between the [...]

Pushing Back the Boundaries of the Known World

Pacific Epoch reports:
Online map services offered by Sohu’s (Nasdaq: SOHU) search engine Sogou (map.sogou.com) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) China (ditu.google.cn) reveal confidential Chinese geography, reports People’s Daily. The report said eight Chinese ministries including the Ministry of Industry and Information (MII), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, and Ministry of Public [...]

Baidu is NOT the Google: Too Bad

China Tech News reports:
Chinese Internet search engine Baidu.com (BIDU) has signed a deal with China Netcom (CN) to provide search results on pages when users accidentally mistype or visit incorrect website URLs.
“We are determined to become the leading provider of broadband communications and multimedia services in China,” said Fang Yiming, CNC’s general manager of media [...]

GFW: Complaints Aired at Press Conference

Wire services report:
(BEIJING)IN a tearful press conference in Beijing today, China’s Great Firewall called to be given its privacy back and to live a normal life like everyone else.
“It’s so unfair!” sobbed the firewall to reporters, “Everyone has put me under a microscope and are saying the most terrible things about me.”
It went on to [...]

GFW Goes Berserk

Not surprisingly the great firewall is working overtime in an effort to control internet content coming into China. For example, My Yahoo, Google News, MSNBC, and the Guardian are blocked. GFW subdomain filtering is working fine. Sites such as yahoo.com and mail.yahoo.com are available while news.yahoo.com is not. Google news is [...]

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