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US Media giant sued for distributing Chinese censorship software

Friday, 9 October 2009 4:53 A GMT+09
The Green Dam aftershock is felt around the world. this time hitting US media giant CBS. Which is facing a million dollar lawsuit for its part in distributing the much feted Green Dam censorship software.

Uyghur Exile to Sue Taiwanese Government?

Sunday, 4 October 2009 9:28 P GMT+09
Exiled Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer may be preparing to take legal action against the Taiwanese government over accusations that they are involved with an Islamic terrorist group. While questions are raised as to whether the group even exists.

Tibetan borders closed to foreigners, or are they?

Sunday, 27 September 2009 1:59 A GMT+09
Are Tibet's borders closed to foreign travelers?

Project Green Dam: Harmony V Privacy

Saturday, 26 September 2009 10:04 P GMT+09
The age old debate Harmony v Privacy represented by means of a crab and a squat toilet.

Teachers: "Green Dam Must Go"

Wednesday, 16 September 2009 4:17 A GMT+09
Things have gone from bad to worse for Beijing's Green Dam Internet filtering software. This time it's the teachers who are up in arms. Apparently Green Dam lobotomizes essential school software.

Beijing: Music downloads must be pre approved by the state

Saturday, 12 September 2009 11:28 P GMT+09
As governments go, Beijing is quite complex: It governs the world's largest continuous territory, rules over the world's largest consolidated population, and it has to deal 56 separate ethnic peoples, as well as numerous sub groups within the

Project Green Dam: 3D Crab

Sunday, 6 September 2009 11:07 P GMT+09
ACB's experi"Mental" 3D Green Dam river Grab. Take 1.

Fenqing mar international film festival

Saturday, 1 August 2009 3:03 A GMT+09
Just as people have embarrassing relatives who insist on popping up at inopportune moment so countries have embarrassing citizens who show up at inconvenient times and do inconvenient things. In China's case, these peoepl are usually Fenqing.

Chinese Lawyers: Beijing's policies to blame for Tibetan unrest.

Saturday, 18 July 2009 9:40 P GMT+09
When violent protests broke out in Tibet, Beijing was quick to place the blame a small group of foreign backed separatists and agitators acting in cahoots with the Dali Lama. However, one of China's most outspoken legal groups says otherwise.

Religion in China: A Matter of Faith?

Sunday, 12 July 2009 11:26 P GMT+09
What does the future hold for China now that the old restrictions on religion are slowly being relaxed? Is this the dawn of a brave new era for China's faithful, or is faith just another channel through which Beijing will attempt to control the mass

Internet Censorship: Green Dam, Beijing and Beyond

Sunday, 28 June 2009 8:59 P GMT+09
Over the last month there have been a number of noteworthy topics in the new regarding China, but one topic seems to have come to dominate the big Western media: The controversy over "Green Dam Youth Escort" Internet-filtering software.To c

Cleared of all charges: Phantom Shoe Thrower is a free man

Sunday, 7 June 2009 9:48 P GMT+09
Britain's infamous Phantom Shoe Thrower walks free as all charges dismissed.

And so it begins: Tiananmen Square 2009

Wednesday, 3 June 2009 4:16 A GMT+09
Once again Beijing demonstrates a predictable lack of originality.

Not in my Backyard: US refuses to accept/return Uighur Refugees

Saturday, 30 May 2009 11:17 P GMT+09
The specter the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp has once again risen to haunt America this week. This time in relation to a group of ethnic Uighur whom Washington is both refusing accept on its soil and is refusing to send them home.The men, member

Not in my Backyard: US refuses to accept/return Uighur Refugees

Saturday, 30 May 2009 11:03 P GMT+09
The specter the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp has once again risen to haunt America this week. This time in relation to a group of ethnic Uighur whom Washington is both refusing accept on its soil and is refusing to send them home.

Attempted Suicide, or Attempted Murder?

Monday, 25 May 2009 7:34 P GMT+09
Attempted suicide, or attempted murder?

The Memoirs of Zhao Ziyang: Topping China's prohibited books list?

Sunday, 17 May 2009 1:29 A GMT+09
One of the best books never to be published in China?

FLG: The worlds most pathetic frame up?

Friday, 24 April 2009 10:58 P GMT+09
Beijing has a well known reputation for cracking down on any organized group that are not under its direct control. It's nothing new. Indeed, Beijing even clamped down on fan clubs trying to boost support for their favorite reality TV stars. But, ove

BMJ: China's gender imbalance is wide, and is growing.

Saturday, 11 April 2009 10:31 P GMT+09
There are a great many things in China that can be considered 'open secrets' these days. Things that every body knows about, but which people don't like to speak of. One of the most well known of these open secrets is that there aren'

Beijing reopens Sino-Tibetan Border. West barely notices.

Sunday, 5 April 2009 2:44 A GMT+09
China unseals the Tibetan borders to non HAN, West takes no notice.

Banned in China: The Geng He Interview

Sunday, 22 March 2009 10:51 P GMT+09
The interview with the wife of dissident lawyer Gao Zhisheng that Beijing didn't want you to hear.

Tiananmen soldier held after speaking to foreign press

Saturday, 21 March 2009 6:53 P GMT+09
It's rare for a Chinese soldier to speak out about what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989, and this is why.

Family of missing Chinese lawyer in US asylum bid

Saturday, 14 March 2009 7:55 P GMT+09
Family of missing Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng make a bid for political asylum in the US.

Beijing: Everything is fine in Tibet, but you can't go there

Sunday, 8 March 2009 7:41 P GMT+09
Beijing: Everything is perfectly fine in Tibet, you're just not allowed to see what is going on there.

China to Washington: Your human rights record stinks, too

Saturday, 28 February 2009 1:07 A GMT+09
The shoe is on the other foot as Beijing releases a surprisingly accurate report on America's human rights record. Download it here, and read ACB's analysis.