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Google Rips China for Attacking Activist Gmails
 Google: China Blocking Gmail  
Mar 21, 2011 6:00 AM CDT

Google: China Blocking Gmail

Nation targeting chatter behind Jasmine Revolution, says company

(Newser) - In the latest battle between China and Google, the company is charging the government with interfering with Gmail. Users are having increasing trouble sending emails and accessing other services linked to the operation, according to Google. Following the Japanese earthquake tsunami disaster, Google set up an application to help people...

Panicked Chinese Hoard Salt After Japan's Quake

Shoppers buy rumor that it protects against radiation

(Newser) - With Japan and its stricken nuclear reactors in mind, waves of misinformation and panic are sweeping through China. Shoppers have cleaned shelves of iodized salt, believing rumors that it can protect against radioactive exposure—table salt doesn't have enough iodine to do that—or that China's supply will be contaminated,...

MGM Digitally Axes Chinese Villains From Film

Bad guys in 'Red Dawn' are now from North Korea

(Newser) - Here's a sign of how much Hollywood is salivating over the potential money to be made in China: MGM is digitally editing the Chinese bad guys in an upcoming movie to make them look like they're from North Korea instead, reports the Los Angeles Times . The move came not because...

Tibet Monk Sets Self on Fire to Protest Chinese Rule

Self-immolation sets off protests

(Newser) - A Tibetan monk set off a protest today in western China by setting himself on fire, according to a group campaigning for Tibetan independence. The monk, a 21-year-old from an ethnically Tibetan part of Sichuan province, “immolated himself today in protest against the crackdown,” the International Campaign for...

Study: Sex Selection Leads to Too Many Men in China, India
 China, India 
 Overrun by ... Guys 
study says
Mar 15, 2011 8:04 AM CDT

China, India Overrun by ... Guys

Sex selection must be addressed, say researchers

(Newser) - Thanks to sex selection, areas of China and India are set to see a 10%-20% excess of males over the next two decades, a study finds. The nations' preference for boys, coupled with the increasing use of ultrasound equipment over the past 20 years, is tipping the scales, reports the...

Activist: Using a Pen Name Got Me Booted Off Facebook

...but Zuckerberg's dog can have a page?

(Newser) - Michael Anti is a well-known Chinese journalist and activist with nearly 36,000 Twitter followers—but since Anti is not the name he was born with, Facebook closed his account on the basis that he wasn’t using his real name. Anti, born Zhao Jing, has used the pen name...

China Closing Tibet to Tourists

Foreign tours on hold as protest anniversary nears

(Newser) - Tibet has been declared off-limits to foreign tourists as the anniversary of protests against Chinese rule nears. Dozens of people died in March 2008 when Tibetans took to the streets of Lhasa on the anniversary of a 1959 uprising, and many more are believed to have died in the ensuing...

'Spectacular' Cyberattack Hit French Government

Chinese Internet addresses cited in attack seeking G20 docs

(Newser) - Hackers have broken into French finance ministry computers in a “spectacular” attack, prompting the government to take 10,000 machines offline, AFP reports. The attackers reportedly sought information "related to the French presidency of the G20 and to international economic affairs," says a security official. The cyberattack...

China to Journos: Cover Protests, Lose Your Visa

Activists, lawyers disappear amid 'Jasmine Revolution' demonstrations

(Newser) - As Beijing moves to prevent Middle East-style protests from taking hold in China, officials are issuing a warning to foreign reporters: If you cover the protests, you may lose your visa. Police demanded interviews with dozens of journalists this week after they tried to report on Sunday's “Jasmine Revolution”...

Bob Dylan to Play First China Gigs

Application to play Beijing, Shanghai was rejected last time

(Newser) - Chinese authorities, with their heavy-handed crackdown on protests , have made it clear that the times are definitely not a-changing if they can help it. They are, however, letting Bob Dylan play his first-ever shows in the country, the AFP reports. Dylan will play concerts in Beijing and Shanghai next month...

China's Top Search Engine Is Piracy Hub: US

Baidu.com provides links to illegal sites, says report

(Newser) - The US has listed China's top search engine—one of the 10 most popular websites in the world—as one of the most "notorious markets" for pirated software and media, Reuters reports. Baidu.com, the most popular website within China, was again singled out by the US trade representative's...

China Unleashes Whistles, Water on Tiny Protests

Online posts call for Chinese to gather peacefully every Sunday

(Newser) - Large numbers of police and new tactics like shrill whistles and street cleaning trucks squelched very tiny protests in China today. The turnout was small in this second Sunday of protests—online posts have called for Chinese to gather peacefully at sites every Sunday in a show of people power...

China Drops Death Penalty for Tax Evasion

Along with a dozen other non-violent crimes

(Newser) - China has eliminated the death penalty as a possible punishment for 13 non-violent offenses, the AP reports. But critics say it probably won't make a big dent in the estimated 5,000 annual executions in the country—nearly 70 crimes still carry a possible death sentence, many of them non-violent....

China Cracks Down on Social Networking Sites

Politically sensitive material blocked after day of protests fizzles

(Newser) - The Chinese government has stepped up censorship of the Internet following a failed effort to use social networking sites to kickstart a North African-style "Jasmine Revolution ." Facebook and Twitter are banned in China but the Chinese equivalents have been flourishing. Government censors, however, moved swiftly to block all...

'Jasmine Revolution' Comes to China; Protesters Nabbed

Police trying to stamp out demonstrations

(Newser) - Jittery Chinese authorities wary of any domestic dissent staged a show of force today to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution"—the same name given to the Tunisian protest movement—with only a handful of people joining protests apparently modeled on the pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping...

Chinese Hackers Attack Canada
 Chinese Hackers Attack Canada 
Feb 18, 2011 4:53 AM CST

Chinese Hackers Attack Canada

Key government departments penetrated

(Newser) - Hackers traced to China launched a major cyber attack on two key Canadian government ministries last month, officials have revealed. Bureaucrats in the country's Treasury Board and Department of Finance have been left with little to no Internet access since the beginning of the year because of compromised computers, reports...

China Economy Zooms by Japan to No. 2 Spot

Nation's now gearing up to take on No. 1 US

(Newser) - China has steamed past Japan to become the world's second-largest economy. Japan's economy, hit by a drop in exports and consumer demand, was worth $5.5 trillion at the end of last year, while China's was estimated at $5.8 trillion. China is expected to take over the US as...

Chinese Hackers Hit Oil Giants
 Chinese Hackers Hit Oil Giants 
Feb 10, 2011 4:21 AM CST

Chinese Hackers Hit Oil Giants

'Night Dragon' hackers stole vast amounts of sensitive info

(Newser) - Chinese hackers successfully broke into the systems of at least five Western energy multinationals in a "coordinated, covert and targeted" espionage campaign, according to a report by cybersecurity firm McAfee. The hackers had access to the oil firms' networks for years and made off with gigabytes of sensitive information...

China Jacks Up Interest Rates
 China Jacks Up Interest Rates 
Feb 8, 2011 5:55 AM CST

China Jacks Up Interest Rates

Country trying to slow down runaway growth, inflation

(Newser) - China pumped up its interest rates for the third time in four months today, in a desperate attempt to rein in inflation. One-year deposit rates rose to 3%, and the one-year lending rate to 6.06%, the New York Times reports, and analysts expect still more increases down the road.

China Hoarding Rare Earth Metals

The move could influence global prices, supply

(Newser) - In a move that could increase its power over global prices, China is stockpiling rare earth metals—a sector the nation already dominates. China exported 39,813 metric tons of the metals last year, and local reports claim that storage facilities built recently can hold more than that, the Wall ...

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