Journalist Song Zhibiao has been suspended by the Southern Metropolis Daily for writing an editorial remembering the Sichuan earthquake, referring...
CATEGORY: China
Facebook searches for ways to return to the Chinese motherland
With the news that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is planning to make a second visit to China this year, speculation that Facebook is set to grovel...
Ai Weiwei keeps his beard
Last Friday, a newspaper editorial musing on the missing artist Ai Weiwei was blocked online. The editorial, which was appeared in the Southern...
China creates new body to oversee internet
China has set up a new office wielding the whip of internet censorship, as if current levels of online control weren’t enough. China’s State Council...
China indie film festival cancels itself
With Ai Weiwei still missing in action, and dozens of other government undesirables, such as activists and rights lawyers also disappearing, it’s no...
The Road to Rejuvenation
Ten years in the making and with a price tag of US$400m, the freshly-opened National Museum of China on the eastern edge of Tiananmen Square may be...
Ai Weiwei’s wife, Lu Qing, is “very worried”
The Chinese authorities detained dissident artist Ai Weiwei more than a week ago. Yesterday, Ai’s wife Lu Qing, also an artist, spoke to Justin Webb...
No sign of Ai Weiwei day after airport arrest
Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has joined the ranks of other dissidents who have irked the government. He has simply gone missing. Police...
A wife’s appeal for dignity
The fear comes in not knowing. This is something Geng He, the wife of Gao Zhisheng, a Chinese rights lawyer who disappeared on April 10 last year,...
Behind China’s Gmail block
For the past few weeks Chinese users have been frequently struggling with access to Gmail and two days ago Google accused the government of...