Archive for the ‘China in General’ Category
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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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
One of the hottest newcomers in the space race is China and this is a good moment to look at what China has achieved in space so far. In August 2008 I did a writeup of China's history in spaceflight, now it's time for an update, answering two key questions:
What ...
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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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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
From some friends I just received the message, that Google seems to be blocked within China mainland While You can still access google.CN from any place within China, the normal version google.COM seems to be blocked in several parts of China. I've read some China forums and it seems that ...
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