Archive for July, 2009

307 million Chinese now connected to the internet

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

CHINA’S ONLINE population has leapt to 338 million internet users, a significant 13.4 per cent rise this year despite the global economic slowdown, with much of the increase coming from people accessing the internet in rural areas using their mobile phones.
While “the Great Firewall of China” does much to control what the average webizen can [...]

Row as Rio Tinto staff are seized in China

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Dog turns wet nurse to save lives of baby red panda cubs in zoo

Friday, July 17th, 2009

N Korean leader Kim pictured in public after cancer report

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

China’s Uighur-Han tensions still high

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Chinese authorities put death toll from ethnic clashes at 184

Monday, July 13th, 2009

The grandmother of all protesters

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

Warning of more deaths from Chinese ethnic riots

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Tension over Chinese migrants mirrors Tibet riots

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

China doll

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Thoughts from a journalist based in Beijing, China.