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July 2004



Sino mediated Korean security talks stall over alleged US aggression.

Wednesday, 28 July 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
As security and nuclear non-proliferations talks between North Korea, the USA, China, and other South East Asian regional powers, reach an
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Sino-N/SKorea
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China Net Crackdown Catches Porn Sites as well as Blogs

Tuesday, 27 July 2004 10:36 A GMT+09
Chinese state media has announced that a wider reaching web crackdown, that has been criticized as a move against freedom of information because it has largely targeted blogs and Chinese language portals that contain political debate, has been has be
Category: News and Politics Human rights and personal freedoms
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89th annual Esperanto conference flourishes in Beijing

Monday, 26 July 2004 4:05 P GMT+09
This month Beijing is playing host to the 89th annual Esperanto conference which will run from 24 July to 31 July and is expected to attract over 2000 delegates from 51 countriesEsperanto is an artificial language based on Latin and elements of other
Category: News and Politics

China moves to highlight the commercial trade in endangered marine species in response to Japanese whale lobbying

Friday, 23 July 2004 10:48 A GMT+09
It may be no coincidence that in the month when Japan approached, and failed to sway, the International Whaling Commission into easing its ban on commercial whaling, that China has chosen to begin airing educational advertisements against the consump
Category: News and Politics Sino-Japanese
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China attempts to sour Japanese-Mongolian sporting friendship

Thursday, 22 July 2004 3:00 P GMT+09
The latest target for China's anti Japan, anti friends-of-Japan, campaign appears to be act of solidarity between Japan's baseball federati
Category: News and Politics Sino-Japanese

Taiwan Relation Act forms continuing Sino-US split

Tuesday, 20 July 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
In a move highly criticized by Beijing, the US House of Representatives has reiterated and reinforced support for the 25 year old Taiwan Relations Act in which it has pledged to support Taiwan in the event of Chinese aggressions.Beijing has also accu
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Sino-Taiwanese
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Sound bite censorship

Friday, 16 July 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
In a move to further restrict the free flow of information CCTV, the Chinese state broadcaster, appears to be increasingly adopting a policy of selective dubbing and reinterpretation in an effort to control the way that international news is received
Category: News and Politics Sino-British Sino-Japanese Human rights and personal freedoms
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China: Democracy in Hong Kong is "Unachievable"

Sunday, 4 July 2004 10:31 A GMT+09
In a move that has angered many, Beijing has announced, that despite the level of public feeling in Hong Kong and mounting demands to reverse the decision not to hold direct elections in 2007, it will not be allowing Hong Kong greater autonomy or to
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Sino-British Human rights and personal freedoms Sino-Hong Kong
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Angry Little Comic Strip, or long lost relative

Saturday, 3 July 2004 9:25 P GMT+09
Could this be the story of one of my long lost relatives, http://angrylittlegirls.com/index.asp
Category: Off Topic

Censoring the airwaves: China to filter SMS messages

Saturday, 3 July 2004 11:40 A GMT+09
With some of the worlds toughest regulations on internet use and media censorship, China is now introducing measures to control one of the fastest growing means of communication, the SMS message, and to mandate the use of SMS filtering and recording
Category: News and Politics Human rights and personal freedoms
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Marchers call for democracy, and many other things, in Hong Kong

Saturday, 3 July 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
It will not have escaped the attention of many China watchers that July 1 is not only the anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the mainland after 156 years of British colonial rule, but that it is the anniversary of the 500,000 strong march through t
Category: Human rights and personal freedoms Sino-Hong Kong

March for freedom marred by 'Dirty Tricks'?

Friday, 2 July 2004 10:18 P GMT+09
With an estimated turnout that ranging from 200,000 to 530,000 - Yahoo News, and accusations of interference by mainland officials, another controversy has sprung up around the July 1 pro democracy march with a report that prior to the march, an unk
Category: News and Politics Human rights and personal freedoms Sino-Hong Kong
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Three Chinese mausoleums added to the UNESCO World Heritage list

Friday, 2 July 2004 11:06 A GMT+09
During the 28th meeting of the World Heritage Committee, three Qing Dynasty mausoleums , and the ancestors of the emperors, have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List along with .The tombs are dedicated to the first and the second emperors of
Category: News and Politics News and Perspectives

Beijing attempts to Stifle Public and Political Support for Pro Democracy rallies in Hong Kong

Thursday, 1 July 2004 12:15 P GMT+09
Despite being forced by Hong Kong's Basic Law to allow pro democracy rallies to go ahead, Beijing has begun to launch a series of political, public and covert measures to limit the effectiveness of the pro democracy campaign and to prevent it from ha
Category: News and Politics Human rights and personal freedoms Includes Translations Sino-Hong Kong
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