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. . . . or are they? An Article found in the 'Sydney Morning Herald'

The Sydney Morning Herald reports on the 'self-defense' incident in Tibet earlier this week.

John references a Sydney Morning Herald article which reported that the iTunes store is blocked in China allegedly due to Olympic athletes downloading pro-Tibetan music in (not so) silent protest.

Acrobats in China have to take a back seat to no one. The acrobats can do amazing thing, one finger handstands - probably a hoax - but a very good one.

I stumbled across this picture of a bicyclist performing a stunt ....

Rebecca McKinnon profiles blogger Liu Xiaoyuan, who is suing his blog host for censoring content. He says the Chinese constitution doesn't allow such censorship (good luck with that one). In looking at Liu, McKinnon outlines some of the complexities that make China's information control regime so robust.

The women are holding a banner with a message that reads “Thank you China” in three languages: Romanized Japanese (arigato), Chinese (xie xie), and English. These are members of the Japanese women’s soccer team, and the photo shows their behavior just after they were eliminated from the Women’s World Cup held in China last month.

A post (in translation via ESWN) from professor and blogger Zhang Jiehai where he makes a call-to-arms for all Chinese netizens to "hunt down" the blogger behind the popular Sex In Shanghai blog for his crimes against morality (towards the virtues of Chinese women).

Baidu reported that the number of Chinese bloggers, that is blogs written in Chinese has hit 19.87 million.

That's a 24% jump over November last year.

The average blogger updated their blog every

The last time I checked Technorati reported about 55 million registered blogs. Some of them, of course, are written by Chinese.

The Internet Society of China reported that by August of this year the Chinese blog population alone had reached ...