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China: Veto of UN Security Council Draft Resolution on Syria Draws Praise and Grief

Once again, China and Russia have vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution aimed at bringing peace to Syria. The latest proposal calls for an end to the killings of those involved in an uprising against the country's current president.

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China: A Death Sentence to Hide Government Corruption?

Wu Ying, named China's sixth richest woman in 2006, has lost her appeal against her death sentence at the Zhejiang Higher People's Court. The 30-year old was first arrested in March 2007, charged with illegal fund raising. Oiwan Lam reports.

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China: Several Tibetan Language Blog Sites Shut Down

Against the backdrop of a stream of self-immolations in Tibet in protest against Chinese rule, unrest in eastern Tibet and a severely increased military presence, several of the most popular Tibetan language blog sites have gone offline as of today. Dechen Pembar reports.

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Taiwan: 2012 Election Sets Example for Mainland Chinese Democratization 27 January 2012
China: Tibet Burns, But Where Are the Chinese Public Intellectuals? 24 January 2012
Global Online Community Protests U.S. Anti-Piracy Bills 18 January 2012
Global Voices Most Read Posts in 2011 6 January 2012
Taiwan: Land Expropriation Revision Fails to Address Farmers' Woes 17 December 2011

Latest stories about Chinese

27 January 2012

China: Not Worried About Twitter's Decision to Self-Censor

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Twitter announced this week that, with an eye on global profits, it has decided to begin censoring content prohibited in the various markets in which the company has users. Although Twitter remains blocked in China, the site's Chinese-language users have responded to the news.

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26 January 2012

China: ‘Anti-American Warrior' Gets Head Stuck in DC Airport Escalator

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

One of China's fiercest critics of liberal values hasn't had much to say after he injured his head on an escalator in Washington, DC, on a trip to the US he apparently did not want his followers to know about. John Kennedy reports.

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24 January 2012

Hong Kong Rethinks its Relationship with Mainland China

Written by Andy Yee · China, Hong Kong (China)

15 years after Hong Kong's return to mainland China, Hong Kongers have little mood for celebration. Tensions run deep between Hong Kongers and mainlanders. Bloggers and social critics explore recent conflicts from the social, cultural and economic perspectives.

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20 January 2012

China and Hong Kong: Train Scuffle Ignites Cross-Border Fury

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

A passenger scuffle over mainland Chinese tourists eating food on a train in Hong Kong, is the latest of a series of cross-border controversies between China and Hong Kong, amidst mounting resent over Beijing's influence in Hong Kong.

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15 January 2012

Video Highlights: Activism, Freedom of Speech, Identity and Culture

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

A selection of Global Voices' recent and interesting stories including video from Middle East and North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa, Western, Eastern and Central Europe, East Asia and Latin America, selected by Juliana Rincón Parra.

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China: Prostituting to Defend Sex Workers' Rights

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

After witnessing a police raid on a low-end brothel, one feminist activist has offered pro bono sex services in support of her sisters, using the experience also to make a statement about their equally impoverished clients.

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Updates about Chinese

27 January 2012

China

David Bandurski from China Media Project introduced a discussion among mainland Chinese public opinion leaders on the Taiwan presidential election and translated a Weibo post which raised a series of questions for China's democracy opponents.

• Oiwan Lam

25 January 2012

Ideas

Amid a series of social and cultural clashes between Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese, Hong Kong netizen Marie Meow has written an open letter (English translation here) on Facebook exploring the reasons, possibilities and limitations for a Hong Kong independent from China. The letter has gone viral on the Hong Kong Internet, attracting lots of positive feedback.

• Andy Yee

19 January 2012

Elections

Having witnessed Taiwan's 2012 presidential election, Derrick Tao, a Hong Kong photographer, made a video (with English subtitles) to contrast democratic development of the two societies. As a prosperous but undemocratic city state, “Hong Kong could either join Taiwan as pioneers of freedom and democracy in the Chinese societies”, or “accept the status quo and let go of her ideals and beliefs.”

• Andy Yee

4 January 2012

China

The Ministry of Tofu translates a documentary video produced by Chinese news portal Net Ease on Chinese people's envision of the best life.

• Oiwan Lam

27 December 2011

China

weReport, a Taiwan media project that tries to boost disappearing investigative journalism using crowd-funded and crowd-sourced mechanism, kicks off today with its first fully funded proposal proposed by China famous blogger Zola. His proposal to investigate the situation of registration fee for cross-strait marriage derives from his personal experience.

• Portnoy Zheng

2 December 2011

China

ChinaHush has translated the script of an online video and a new movie trailer, A Big Deal, in which women talk about their attitude towards marriage. More and more Chinese women believe that marriage is like business transaction and “men without money are garbage” in the marriage market.

• Oiwan Lam

30 November 2011

Hong Kong (China)

“I am who I am”, produced by an activist group, Nutongxueshe, is a series of video for the LGBT community in Hong Kong to come out and speak about their experience, very often painful because of discrimination and bullying. (via acopy.net)

• Oiwan Lam

Comments on "Chinese"

China: A Death Sentence to Hide Government Corruption?

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Government is always corrupt. It's the only reason people go into it. Government is a group of criminals making...

The reason why the incidents of the tibetan self immolating didn't get the proper treatment from the chinese scholars is...
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Godfree, I'm curious, how can you recall so vividly facts that happened more than 50 years ago ? Not a...