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The Chinese premier Wen Jiabao's performance during the earthquake relief effort over the last two weeks has given his popularity a powerful boost. And now someone has started a Facebook fan page for him that so far has more than 12,000 supporters. Wen, or 'Baobao' as many of his supporters call him...
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CAPTION COMES HERE Related to yesterday's post , MSN together with Honda (Guangzhou) has launched a one-for-one donation campaign. For every MSN Messenger user that changes their screen-name to "(R) 彩虹连心 支援灾区" [trans (rough): Rainbow of United Hearts, Supporting & Assisting the Disaster Area], MSN will...
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MSN China has initiated an MSN Messenger campaign allowing Chinese netizens to express their "prayers and blessings" toward the "Sichuan / Wenchuan earthquake disaster area" by changing their MSN signatures to display a rainbow (see photo below). This campaign follows in the footsteps of the recent ...
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混球vCNN from the USA votes often Sina, a major Chinese web portal that's been running with the anger that many Internet users feel toward CNN and the western media, is hosting a signature campaign that asks Chinese round the globe to sign on against CNN and separatism. As with other online polls , this...
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Not fully recovered On April 18, CNN.com was temporally unavailable in mainland China. CNN later confirmed that its website "was targeted by attempts to interrupt its news Web site, resulting in countermeasures that caused the service to be slow or unavailable to some users in limited areas of Asia....
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China Digital Times reports: Hero to Traitor: The Difference a Day Makes After excoriating a respected news editor for advocating greater freedom of speech and venting their anger on a Chinese student at Duke University for trying to promote dialogue between pro-China and pro-Tibet protestors, Chinese...
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Don't love you no more CNN continues to take the rap for evils of the Western media: • Today CNN.com appears to have been blocked in China. • There is a new addition to the I Heart China chat software campaign by Chinese netizens: people are adding (U) CNN to their instant messenger user names, which...
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Unfortunate backdrop This article is by guest contributor Alice Xin Liu. On April 9, 2008 at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, two high-profile student 'protests' for and against Tibetan independence took place. Grace Wang (Wang Qianyuan 王千源), a 21 year old girl from Qingdao, Shandong, joined...
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The Biggest Riot in History There's a war going on over freedom of speech, democracy, and western "universal values." In the above cartoon we see the forces of China.com (the patriots surrounding the sentry tower on the right) arrayed against the defenders of the Southern Metropolis Daily and liberal...
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Deborah Fallows , a senior research fellow at Pew Internet & American Life Project , recently published a short paper packed full of commentary and stats about the Chinese Internet: usage habits, demographics, content, trust in online media, government controls etc. Fallows' paper summarizes a survey...
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Benjamin Joffe of Plus Eight Star, an Internet and mobile consulting firm, looks at the 2007 results of Tencent, the company that operates QQ , China's most website / instant messaging / gaming platform. QQ announces 2007 earnings | Facebook should look carefully QQ’s 2007 figures: * Active accounts...
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It's not very easy to find eye witness accounts or reports from anyone on the ground in Lhåsa. Not only is physical access to Tîbet now being tightly controlled, but the Chinese Net Nanny is on the rampage, blocking foreign websites and deleting content on local servers. In addition, it is worth noting...
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People who follow statistics about Internet usage in China have been waiting for it since the beginning of the year: the moment when more people in China are online than in the United States. Loretta Chao in The Wall Street Journal has now called it, using statistics from Beijing-based consulting firm...
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The farce draws to a close. Chinese netizens can chalk up at least half a win in the case of the South China Tiger photos. The Shaanxi Forestry Department, which first announced that the photos were genuine at a press conference last October 12, has apologized for jumping the gun and publicizing the...
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"Very yellow, very violent,"—dubbed China's first online meme of 2008—continues to circulate this week. The phrase was first uttered by a middle-school student interviewed for a CCTV broadcast on the dangers of online pornography. It has given rise to some fun egao (or spoofs) targeted at CCTV and the...