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According to the U.S. Geological Survey's earthquake website, there was a 4.6 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan yesterday at 5:26 pm.
The epicenter was near Mianyang.
You can visit the web page linked above, but for some reason, not the detailed map of the earthquake area: China's Net Nanny seems to be blocking that page.
In other earthquake news, The China Daily reports that the May 12 quake has "left 1.4 million farmers in about 4,000 remote villages in absolute poverty".
Thanks to William in Chengdu for the tip. This article is from Danwei.org
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Most of Wikipedia was unblocked in April this year but the Chinese language sections of the website were not accessible.
The Chinese language version is also accessible in Beijing now. Perhaps this is part of the Olympic polishing project, or just the Net Nanny's nap time. Whatever the cause, it's good news.
Blogspot has also been accessible for most of the time since April.
Below is a chronology of recent blockings and unblockings of Wikipedia and Blogspot:
Wikipedia and Blogspot unblockdd April 1, 2008
Blogspot unblocked and blocked again January 14, 2008
Blogspot blocked again — ongoing saga June 1, 2007
Blogspot unblocked again March 29, 2007
Foreign blog providers (including Blogspot) blockedMarch 20, 2007
Blogspot working in Beijing again November 23, 2006
Blogspot blocked again October 27, 2006
Blogspot unblocked August 9, 2006 This article is from Danwei.org
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This is from an email to Danwei from a self-described geek in Mountain View:
Silly people! It's not the government screwing with you, it's Facebook. They have started a Chinese language version, and now they are trying to direct all visitors from IP addresses in China to the Chinese page, and something is going wrong.
Your correspondent has no idea if it there is any truth in the above. Please comment if you know something about it. This article is from Danwei.org
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Danwei readers in Beijing reported earlier today that Facebook seemed to be blocked. It was accessible in Shanghai this afternoon, but now seems to be blocked.
There's more about this in a post by Sky Canaves on the Wall Street Journal blog.
Meanwhile, in further China Olympic lock down news, Mei Fong reports on the Journal's blog:
Beastly Traffic
Beijing’s International Center for Veterinary Services says as of today its Royal Canin dog food suppliers will be unable to truck in deliveries from its Tianjin warehouse. And there won’t be any new deliveries of its food – a specialized brand typically sold at pet stores and by vets – until September.
One world, one dream. This article is from Danwei.org
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As reported by Shanghaiist yesterday, Anonymouse.org is now blocked in China.
Anonymouse is an easy-to-use proxy server that has been the friend of the curious web surfer in China for many years. The only remarkable thing about it being blocked is how long it took for the Net Nanny to catch on. This article is from Danwei.org
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Blogspot, Google's popular blogging platform is accessible again in China, judging from reports from Chengdu and Beijing.
Blogspot has been blocked and unblocked so many times in China that is barely worth mentioning: it usually works for a few weeks, and then gets blocked again (see this Blogspot chronology on Danwei).
But this time seems to be different. In the past, even when Blogspot was inaccessible in China, people using the platform could still post to their blogs even though they could not read the blogs without a proxy. Today it seems that Blogger, the part of Blogspot used for publishing blog entries, is blocked.
This may just be a technical glitch, but perhaps it is a rather subtle strategy of the Net Nanny:
With Blogspot available, most Olympic visitors are less likely to notice Internet censorship, but stopping Blogger will make it much harder for some athletes, journalists and other visitors to publish their thoughts online. This article is from Danwei.org
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 "Your search results may contain content that is not in accordance with relevant laws and regulations; they have not been displayed." This screenshot of a failed search for 家乐福 ("Carrefour") comes from the Oh My Media blog.
The blogger also notes that searching for the term on google.cn results in "Unable to access your search results. Please return google.cn to search for other information." A google.com search returns 6 million hits.
The blogger comments:
A command from above? Or self-censorship? It looks fairly self-evident. China's Internet/news/propaganda administration departments don't seem to have learned any lessons from the Tibet affair: they still think that screening and blocking can create a flourishing society, a Great Harmony under heaven. And none of the people, whether they be "patriots" or "patriotic traitors," are seen as trustworthy or as having any sense of rational judgment. You're just a one of the riffraff.
This article is from Danwei.org
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Blogs on the Google-owned Blogspot.com are once again not accessible in China.
Go here for a chronology of Blogspot blockings and unblockings. This article is from Danwei.org
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Danwei was first alerted last week to the availabiity of most of the BBC's website by Zhongguoist (site currently down).
While parts of the BBC's huge network of websites have always been accessible in China, many news pages have been difficult or impossible to access without a good proxy server or other Net Nanny workaround.
But it seems that in the last week, full access has been restored to the English language section of the BBC's website, and even stories with headlines like Tîbetan monk speaks out load without hindrance.
The Chinese language sections of the website however, still trigger 'connection reset' messages and remain difficult to access. This article is from Danwei.org
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Youtube is blocked, the websites of The Guardian and L.A. Times newspapers are not currently accessible in Beijing; we have reader reports of the Yahoo home page not loading from around the country.
In addition, web pages with high numbers of keywords relating to the goings-on in Tîbet are being filtered.
This is going to be quite a spring time in Beijing. This article is from Danwei.org
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Youtube is blocked in China as of 22:45, Beijing time.
See no evil, hear no evil... This article is from Danwei.org
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This was posted last week on AIDS Asia's Yahoo Groups page:
Chinese authorities have shut down two popular websites for people with AIDS and hepatitis, and threatened the shutdown of a third unless it removes "illegal information"...
On November 20, 2007, the Beijing Communications Administration ordered the shutdown of www.hbvhbv.com, a popular forum known as "In the Hepatitis B Camp Network of China". Registered users share information, including warnings about the fake hepatitis medicines that proliferate in China. The forum is run by Beijing Yirenping, a health and welfare organization.
On February 26, authorities shut down the AIDS Museum site, an AIDS news site, and www.aidswiki.cn, a collaborative "wiki" through which AIDS advocates shared news and drafted articles. According to its host, AIDS advocate Chang Kun, the site boasted 300,000 visits per day.
On March 5, China's leading independent AIDS organization, Aizhixing, was warned to remove unspecified "illegal information" from its website, www.aizhi.net, and the site was intermittently shut down on March 5.
This article is from Danwei.org
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Blogs on popular Gogle-owned bog host Blogspot.com are accessible in Beijing today. Based on previous experience, this may only last a few days. This article is from Danwei.org
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