China Warns Mass Evacuation Possible with Flood Threat

May 31, 2008

Possible danger from the "quake lake" Tangjiashan may lead to the evacuation of 1.3 million people. AP reports: Read more

Dior Drops Sharon Stone after Quake Comments

May 31, 2008

From The Independent: The founder of one major Chinese cinema chain has pledged to boycott showing Sharon Stone's films. The American actress caused quite a stir and lost her beauty-ad contract with Dior after making some insensitive remarks about the May 12th ...

China Orders 6 Telecoms to Merge Their Assets

May 31, 2008

China is restructuring its telecommunications industry by merging the six major players and creating three companies to provide both telephone and Internet access throughout the country. From Bloomberg: Read more

Digital Journal Mavericks: The Man behind Global Internet Freedom

May 31, 2008

From Digital Journal: There’s a quiet movement of activism taking place on the Web. In an effort to provide every nation with unfettered access to websites, some tech experts want to banish censorship from countries such as China and Iran. Leading the charge is the Open Net Initiative at the University ...

China Says It Will Accept Aid from Japan’s Military

May 31, 2008

From The New York Times: China acknowledged Thursday that it was willing to receive disaster relief assistance from Japan’s Self-Defense Forces in what would be the first Japanese military air mission to China since the end of World War II. Read more

Press Hails China-Taiwan Talks

May 31, 2008

From BBC News: The agreement between China and Taiwan to restart formal talks on strengthening ties after almost a decade is broadly welcomed by the press. Read more

China Issues New Land Management Statute

May 31, 2008

From Xinhua: China has published a statute, "Methods for Punishing Violations of Regulations on Land Management", that replaces the "Provisional Methods for Punishing Violations of Regulations on Land Management" as of June 1. Read more

Netizens Hold NGOs Accountable in China

May 31, 2008

From CSR Asia: Chinese netizens have been highly vocal in the last few months. They were instrumental in organising a boycott and protests against Carrefour in April. More recently, they ranked companies by the size of their donations to earthquake relief efforts and put pressure on those perceived to have donated ...

US Probes Whether Laptop Copied on China Trip

May 31, 2008

From AP: U.S. authorities are investigating whether Chinese officials secretly copied the contents of a government laptop computer during a visit to China by Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez and used the information to try to hack into Commerce computers, officials and industry experts told The Associated Press. Read more

Thousands of American Scientists Sign Petition Challenging Manmade Global Warming Theory

May 31, 2008

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