Archive for the ‘China in General’ Category
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
A Chinese name is a must have for any Westerner who visits China. So I was told. I've experimented with some Chinese names, but since then I have given up on using a Chinese name. Although my real European name is hard to pronounce for Chinese, after five minutes of ...
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Yesterday Google made an announcement. They are no longer willing to censor their search results on Google.cn. They want to talk to the government if it is possible to show unfiltered results or close their China operations. On the official Google blog there is a post about the details: A ...
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
The US company CYBERsitter LLC produces a software called Cybersitter which is supposed to protect minors from the evil of the internet. In spring 2009 the government of the Peoples Republic of China announced the introduction of Green Dam a software to protect the Chinese people from freedom and the ...
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
A few days ago the British man Akmal Shaik was executed in China by leathal injection. Akmal Shaik was sentenced to death after he was caught with 4 KG of heroine in his baggage. There is widespread protest against the execution of Akmal Shaik in the western media and from ...
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
The Chinese government has a great gift for its people just before Christmas 2009. Although they tried to keep it secret, the news has surfaced finally. Beginning from 14. December 2009 individuals are no longer allowed to register a domain name in China. This censoring measure comes as a reaction ...
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
I've been pretty much in favor of China on this blog since the beginning of my writings. However due to recent events a new topic came to my mind. First of all there is this omnipresent topic climate change and pollution, which is a problem. However a problem that doesn't ...
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Maybe you heard about the speech of my hero Obama to future Chinese leaders and students in Shanghai. He said some interesting things in Shanghai and you can see how he talks about delicate issues without making the closely observing Chinese government look bad. Check out the full transcript or ...
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
What do You want to be someday? What is Your future dream job?
This is a question everyone of us faces sooner or later. The more dreamy of us might be a musician, the lazybones might try English teacher, hard working people might get into some management position, but what do ...
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