Over 50 Tibetans arrested for sending email
News Government
More than 50 Tibetans have been arrested and some bunged in jail since March 2008 for sending reports, photos or videos abroad. According to information gathered by Reporters sans Frontieres and verified with the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights And Democracy (based in India) most of the material was sent via the Internet, which is under very close surveillance in Tibet. Reporters sans Frontieres reports that the latest Tibetan to be convicted is an emailer...
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China: Great Firewall creator hit by shoe
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Police in China are hunting a man alleged to have thrown an egg and shoes at the architect of the communist state's Great Firewall web censorship system. Fang Binxing was delivering a lecture at Wuhan University in China's Hubei...
Apple Kicks Dalai Lama Out Of iTunes, App Store
News Entertainment
Apple has removed applications, from its China specific iTunes store, that are even remotely related to or are about the exiled Buddhist leader Dalai Lama. Some of the apps removed from the iTunes store were Dalai Quotes,...
Google - wash your mouth out with soap
News Security
I was astonished to see the mighty Google - which only last week repelled the US Justice Department's attempts to gain access to a week's worth of its search records, launching Google.cn, its new Chinese search engine.As has been...
