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Tiananmen at 25: The Weekly Reading Round-Up

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Maura Cunningham
As the June Fourth anniversary grows closer, security measures in China continue to tighten. The anniversary’s approach has also coincided with a spate of terrorist acts in China’s western region of Xinjiang, where explosive devices detonated in a market on Thursday morning killed 31 people and injured nearly 100 more. In Shanghai, a visit by Russian president Vladimir Continue reading

Eight charged after nationwide media crackdown in China

23 May 2014

International Federation of Journalists

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned that eight people have been charged and several media outlets forced to shut down without cause after a crackdown organised by the Central Propaganda Department and government Continue reading

China: Censors work overtime for Tiananmen anniversary

 

“Keep quiet and carry on” is the slogan that can best describe China’s take on the approaching 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Continue reading

Why hasn’t Beijing lifted the nationalism switch against Vietnam?

Alia | May 15th, 2014 – 5:53 pm

Up to 21 people, include 16 Chinese, were killed in riots at a Taiwanese steel mill in Vietnam on Thursday after anti-China protests spread to the center of the country from south where several other Chinese-looking factories have been set to fire or looted. These riots, which came after China moved a billion–dollar oil rig into disputed waters in the South China Sea, Continue reading

Chinese netizens call for “eye for an eye” retaliation after deadly blasts in Urumqi

Alia | May 22nd, 2014 – 7:41 pm

What is the worst that could happen after a deadly terrorist attack?  Eye-for-an-eye retaliations that counter killing with killing, which is exactly what’s brewing in China right now after yesterday’s blasts in Urumqi, capital of the country’s ethnic Xinjiang province with a dominant Muslim Uighur Continue reading

Zhejiang: list and pictures of 64 demolished Christian churches

05/21/2014 14:03

The campaign of persecution against Christians in Zhejiang has led to the destruction of places of worship, the removal or obliteration of crosses, and a month-long clashes between Christians and police over churches and other places of worship. Meanwhile, the plan to demolish the “Jerusalem of the East” moves on relentless.
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Democracy Award for Liu Xiaobo And Xu Zhiyong

 

Xiao and Xu(1)Above: Liu Xiaobo(left), and Xu Zhiyong, both imprisoned human rights activists in China, will receive the 2014 Democracy Award.

The Democracy Award is given annually by the National Endowment for Democracy’s Board of Directors to recognize the courageous and creative work of individuals and Continue reading

China bans Windows 8 from government computers

By Jose Pagliery @Jose_Pagliery May 20, 2014: 12:03 PM ET

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Two years after Microsoft executives unveiled Windows 8 in China, the government is banning the operating system on state computers.

China has blacklisted Microsoft Windows 8, Continue reading