A school teacher passed through a bank in Macau where a group of people were trying to withdraw all their money in fear of the financial crisis. At home, he wrote his brief reflections on what he saw in an online forum, only to be charged by the police for "fabricating dangerous information", and later to be sued by the bank for criminal libel.
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The news of 40 parents petitioning in Beijing for their missing children has been censored by the mainstream media and major internet news portals in China. Blogger Beifeng re-posts a first-person account from one of the petitioning parents in his blog, and urges readers to spread the news.
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DID YOU KNOW: The Global Voices Lingua project is currently working to translate GV content into Chinese (Traditional)? Check it out: Global Voices 繁體中文.
Peter Mandelson, European Commissioner for Trade, drank a cup of milk in China. 9 days later, he was found inflicted by a great pain in kidney. Is the association between the two more dramatic than his surprise return to British cabinet? Chinese bloggers gave us their guesses.
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In Oct 7, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and the General Administration of Quality Supervision and Quarantine jointly issued a notice which state the upper limit of melamine in milk product. For infant ...
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The Hong Kong government has issued a consultation paper on the "Review of the Control of Obscene and Indecent Articles Ordinance" last Friday (Oct 3). The first round of consultation will be lasted until end of January.
A most controversial issue is the suggestion on introduction of an internet filtering ...
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Now, the financial crisis originated from U.S is going to sweep the globe. As the closest trade partner of U.S, China is struggling over the question: should it give a hand to help America out of the abyss? Or are we able to? But some netizens are thinking even further.
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Ruan Yifeng notices that back in 2004 an economist has predicted the economic situation in China as various figures showed that China was caught in a condition similar to the U.S in 1929, the eve before the great depression [zh].
Despite the Typhoon, the LGBT community had their annual rally in Taipei city. peopo.org has put up a video on the event with coolloud.org.tw's citizen report.
The fourth Global Chinese Blog Award-the biggest blog award in Chinese blogosphere-hosted by Taiwan's Chinatimes.com just finished sign-up stage this evening with a result of more than 10,000 blogs signing in 16 categories. The most competitive category is Art and Culture which has 3,015 contesting blogs while the least is Political Parties and Central Government with only four runners. I was one of the judges in last year contest and I managed to read over 7,500 blogs at that time as if I was mad.
People.com.cn has opened a fans-ring page for the two top Chinese leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabo, within 4 days, there are more than 60 thousands registered fans.
Macau: Netizen charged for reporting on Bank Run
- Yeah, Macau's situation is much worse than Hong Kong (although we also have two cases on Intern...
- This is fascinating stuff - thank you for posting up - hard for me to imagine getting charged f...
- Wow, this is really an incredible story...
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