NEW RESTRICTIONS IN CHINA AIM AT TECHNOLOGY'S ROLE IN RECENT PROTESTS Two new Internet bans may offer insight into the Chinese government's biggest fears.One bars Internet news services from inciting ``illegal'' assemblies, marches and demonstrations; the other prohibits activities on behalf of ``illegal'' civil groups. Together, they evince the communist regime's concerns over growing civil unrest...
Jun. 27 Voice of America said in April it will move the bulk of its overnight news operation from Washington, D.C., to its Hong Kong bureau. This means about eight graveyard shift news-writing jobs will be transferred to English-speaking journalists living in China. Some on Capitol Hill are raising a fuss about this. They consider this a dangerous outsourcing of jobs that ought to be done by Americans in America. VOA is the voice of America, they say, not Hong Kong.But VOA counters that it...
DAKAR, Senegal -- War-ravaged Congo is suffering the world's deadliest humanitarian crisis, with 38,000 people dying each month mostly from easily treatable diseases, a study published yesterday in Britain's leading medical journal said.Nearly 4 million people died between 1998-2004 alone -- the indirect result of years of ruinous fighting that has brought on a stunning collapse of public health services, the study in the Lancet concluded. The majority of deaths...
Blogging software developer Six Apart has reached partnership with Chinese weblog high flier Bokee to localize and distribute Movable Type, Six Apart's web publishing platform, to Chinese corporate users and educational institutions, beginning in the second quarter this year. "There are an estimated 15 million blogs in China, most of them written by individuals," said Anil Dash, Six Apart's vice president of professional products. ...
BEIJING, February 14, SinoCast -- Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc., two global leading Internet-based companies, are competing for Blogcn.com, the largest Chinese blog hosting provider in China, as efforts to further expand their presence in the country.Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), the world's largest Internet search service provider, plans to bid Blogcn.com for USD 160 million, including USD 90 million in cash and shares. Yahoo! intends to offer USD 200 million, including USD 50 million...