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It's clear, from a covert trip deep into Tibet, that the protests spread across a larger area in traditional Tibet than is sometimes realized. This was a popular uprising against Chinese rule and the region is still seething.

China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday.

BEIJING, April 1 (Xinhaha) — After allegations by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao earlier this month that the Dalai Lama and his supporters were directly responsible for the recent violent insurgence in Lhasa and other parts of Tibet, a surprise announcement was made Tuesday that the Dalai Lama had met with Chinese President Hu Jintao in an effort to reconcile with the government in Beijing.

It’s only been a month since BBC’s English-language news website was unblocked by Net Nanny for the first time in the three years that I’ve been in China with regular web access.

And now today, more astonishingly, the BBC’s Chinese language news site has also been unblocked, quite possibly for the first time in the history of the Interwebs.

The Chinese government is becoming nervous after about 10,000 residents in Guizhou protested over the murder and rape of a girl. The suspect is allegedly the son of a county leader.

Riding on the coattails of the Tibet riots a few weeks ago, Xinjiang is now hitting international news outlets because of protests in Khotan. The New Dominion looks at the flawed perspective the media provides when it elects to analyze Xinjiang through the Tibet lens, by considering historical, cultural, and geographical factors.

The Chinese government is imprisoning and giving electric shocks to people it thinks have become addicted to the Internet.

Alarmed by a survey that found that nearly 14 percent of teens in China are vulnerable to becoming addicted to the Internet, the Chinese government has launched a nationwide campaign to stamp out what the Communist Youth League calls "a grave social problem" that threatens the nation.

I was at work when suddenly a mass of people moved along the street at the foot of our building. Here are the impressions I caught during a 5 minutes coffee break.

Tibet reopened to tourists Wednesday, three months after the Chinese government banned visits by foreigners after violent anti-government riots and protests. Officials from the Tibetan Tourism Bureau say the first group of foreign tourists, from Sweden, arrived at the Lhasa airport on Wednesday morning. China threw a curtain around Tibet and areas in nearby provinces with sizable Tibetan populations after the March violence, citing the safety of foreign tourists and journalists.