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[The Great Wall of Whiner]

This is huge news IMO.

If anyone in China does a search on "Chin.a sprin.g fest.ival. 20.08" without the peroids on any search engine, the entire page comes up "This page does not exist".

Likewise, on Dave's forum, several posters have inquired but the pages are now inaccessible from the Mainland.

If anyone could do the search and find any reason why China would want to block that, please MSG me. Posting it here will result in us not being able to read it.

I will then be able to edit it in such a way that users on the China board can read it, adding extra periods and characters.

Regards,

GWoW

[igotthisguitar]

i recently had one of my postings removed by forum mods from a "China" related post.

Had to do with the Chinese appetite for consuming cages cats.

Just like Tibet "disappearing" from Google Earth i guess.

Outta sight, outta mind

[igotthisguitar]

China To Switch To "More Humane" Lethal Injections
Wed Jan 2, 10:56 PM ET

BEIJING - China, which executes more people each year than any other country, will expand the use of lethal injections instead of gunshots for death sentences, a state-run newspaper reported Thursday.



Half of the country's 404 Intermediate People's Courts, which carry most executions, now use lethal injections, the China Daily quoted Jiang Xingchang, vice president of the Supreme People's Court, as saying.

Lethal injection "is considered more humane and will eventually be used in all Intermediate People's Courts," Jiang said in the report. He did not give a time schedule for the change.

China does not officially release capital punishment figures, but it is believed to execute more people each year than the rest of the world combined. Death penalty recipients include some people convicted of nonviolent crimes such as fraud

The human rights monitoring group Amnesty International says China executed at least 1,770 people in 2005 � about 80 percent of the world's total. The true number is widely believed to be many times higher, however.

China has attempted to reform its capital punishment system following reports in 2005 of executions of wrongly convicted people, and criticism that lower courts arbitrarily impose the death sentence.

An amendment to China's capital punishment law, enacted in November 2005, restored to the Supreme People's Court the sole right to approve all death sentences, ending a 23-year-old practice of allowing provincial courts alone to sign off on executions.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080103/ap_on_re_as/china_lethal_injection;_ylt=AhHPl44A.WBdjE4riawniYH9xg8F

[igotthisguitar]

China Limits Internet Video To State-Controlled Companies
Thu Jan 3, 5:29 AM
By The Associated Press

HONG KONG - China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos - including those posted on video-sharing websites - to sites run by state-controlled companies and require providers to report questionable content to the government.

It wasn't immediately clear how the new rules would affect YouTube and other providers of Internet video that host websites available in China but are based in other countries.

The new regulations, which take effect Jan. 31, were approved by both the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the Ministry of Information Industry and were described on their websites Tuesday.

Under the new policy, websites that provide video programming or allow users to upload video must obtain government permits and applicants must be either state-owned or state-controlled companies.

The majority of Internet video providers in China are private, according to an explanation of the regulations posted on Chinafilm.com, which is run by the state-run China Film Group.

The policy will ban providers from broadcasting video that involves national secrets, hurts the reputation of China, disrupts social stability or promotes pornography. Providers will be required to delete and report such content.

"Those who provide Internet video services should insist on serving the people, serve socialism ... and abide by the moral code of socialism," the rules say.

The permits are subject to renewal every three years and operators who commit "major" violations may be banned from providing online video programming for five years.

The status of sites such as YouTube, a popular video-sharing site, remains in question. San Bruno, Calif.-based YouTube is available in China and runs a Chinese-language website, but it wasn't immediately clear if any of its computer servers are located in China.

YouTube LLC, a subsidiary of Google Inc., didn't immediately respond to an e-mail from The Associated Press seeking comment.

Tudou.com, which claims to be China's largest video sharing website, also didn't immediately respond to an e-mail requesting comment.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/china_internet_video

[Milwaukiedave]

Censorship in China? Never!

I wonder what Steve McGarrett would say?

Oh, who the hell cares.

[igotthisguitar]

Tibetans Forced To Oppose Dalai Lama's Return
Sun Jan 6, 1:33 AM
By Benjamin Kang Lim

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have been forcing Tibetans to sign a petition opposing the Dalai Lama's return, a London-based group said, in apparent retaliation for the award of a high U.S. honor to Tibet's spiritual leader.

President George W. Bush gave the exiled god-king the Congressional Gold Medal in Washington in October, infuriating Beijing. It came on the heels of the Dalai Lama's reception by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in September.

The Dalai Lama, 72, has lived in exile in India since fleeing his predominantly Buddhist homeland in 1959 after a failed uprising against Communist rule.

Closed-door talks between Beijing and his envoys have made little progress.

"The Chinese authorities are really stepping up their anti-Dalai Lama rhetoric and propaganda," Anne Holmes, acting director of the Free Tibet Campaign, said in an e-mail on Sunday.

During a public meeting in December in Lithang in the Kham area of Gansu province, which is populated largely by Tibetans, residents were asked to raise their hands if they opposed the Dalai Lama's return.

No one obliged, the campaign group said.

Residents were then asked to raise their hands if they did not have weapons at home. As it is illegal to possess firearms, everyone raised their hand. A photo was then taken and sent to state media, claiming residents were opposed to the Dalai Lama's return, the Free Tibet Campaign said.

Also in December, secretaries and accountants in townships in Gansu were invited on a nationwide tour paid for by the government, the group said.

FORCED TO SIGN

more ...

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/080106/..._china_tibet_dc

[stevemcgarrett]

igotthisguitar:

You wouldn't happen to be a sock for ChinaMovieMagic, who posts articles ad nauseum like you on the China CE Forum and often delivers equally vapid commentary?

[thepeel]

I was in Shanghai last week. I had no problems getting this site.

[igotthisguitar]

Attacks On Chinese Activists Raise Fears
By WILLIAM FOREMAN, Associated Press Writer

�Fascism is capitalism plus murder.�

SHENZHEN, China - Huang Qingnan lifts his hospital sheets and shows a long scar below his left hip. His right thigh needed stitches and surgeons fought to mend muscle and tendon gashed in his calf.

The 34-year-old labor activist was stabbed repeatedly by knife-wielding thugs, one in a series of attacks that experts and workers' rights advocates fear may signal a worrying new trend � privatized intimidation.

Once it would have been the communist government going after activists such as Huang. Today, he's less worried about the government and more about gangsters he believes are being hired by China's rough new capitalists to cow troublesome workers.

"The attack happened so fast," Huang said, lying in bed on the 19th floor of the Shenzhen Second People's Hospital. "It lasted just a minute or so, but I lost so much blood that I blacked out. Everything went blank."

A week before the November assault, another Shenzhen labor activist, Li Jinxin, was badly beaten, according to the Southern Metropolis Daily, a state-run newspaper. The paper said at least two others had been attacked around the same time. Shenzhen is a southern boomtown in Guangdong, one of China's most prosperous and industrialized provinces.

Chinese companies have used thugs to attack enemies in business disputes, but rarely against labor groups in big cities, said Anita Chan, a research fellow at Australian National University.

"I think Guangdong will be in big trouble" if the trend develops, she said.
"It will create a type of culture of violence, similar to what you find in Latin America."

CONT'D ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/china_attacks_on_activists
;_ylt=Ajkmk1.GWAeFNH9RsOtRK18DW7oF