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This post, which I think is based off the original South China Morning Post article, suggests the main "western network would run from Urumqi through Central Asia, including Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, possibly connecting through Pakistan, Iran, and Turkey through to Germany". Crossing the Himalayas and then the very populated central India would make little sense.

Customs officers, who arrested the man, 38, on Wednesday at his Tuen Mun home, said he uploaded the initial "seeds" - data that can be used to download a movie or music - for Hollywood releases Daredevil, Red Planet and Miss Congeniality onto the newsgroup bt.newsgroup.com.hk on January 10 or 11.

Sorry there is a typo in the URL - it should be www.scmp.com - South China Morning Post

That's www.scmp.com". It was the thought that counts.

And as reported by the South China Morning Post: Mr Ralsky has said he has lists of 150 million e-mail addresses as a part of his business, so the Verizon case would likely make only a small dent in it.

I'm sick of reading the US McMedia, so I tried to find articles about PRC policies that were not written by US media. There is a newspaper in Hong Kong called the South China Morning Post that does not always print the party line no questions asked. Using their search engine I found (in English) headings of articles of interest such as "16. Teacher held over Web Articles critical of authorities" and "26. Police Charge Website's Founder With Subversion". But registration is required along with a credit card payment by article, so I abandoned the search.

I figured a South Korean news site might have a good perspective so I checked out the Korea Times and there was plenty. Today South Korea sold DSL equipment and "services" to the PRC. I was surprised to read that China claims it will lift restrictions on overseas trips by its citizens starting next year. But I found nothing critical of existing PRC policy. Is there in fact nothing to report, or is it a non-issue to the South Korean people, or is the South Korean government making newspapers keep quiet about PRC human rights gaffes to smooth things for the proposed East Asia Trade Agreement? I'm sorry to say I couldn't find an answer to that question. I will check out Taiwanese and Japanese news sites when I have time.

I'm sick of reading the US McMedia, so I tried to find articles about PRC policies that were not written by US media. There is a newspaper in Hong Kong called the South China Morning Post that does not always print the party line no questions asked. Using their search engine I found (in English) headings of articles of interest such as "16. Teacher held over Web Articles critical of authorities" and "26. Police Charge Website's Founder With Subversion". But registration is required along with a credit card payment by article, so I abandoned the search.

I figured a South Korean news site might have a good perspective so I checked out the Korea Times and there was plenty. Today South Korea sold DSL equipment and "services" to the PRC. I was surprised to read that China claims it will lift restrictions on overseas trips by its citizens starting next year. But I found nothing critical of existing PRC policy. Is there in fact nothing to report, or is it a non-issue to the South Korean people, or is the South Korean government making newspapers keep quiet about PRC human rights gaffes to smooth things for the proposed East Asia Trade Agreement? I'm sorry to say I couldn't find an answer to that question. I will check out Taiwanese and Japanese news sites when I have time.

• Times of India
• South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
• Tehran Times opinion piece on the whole shebang Ha'aretz Daily (Isreal)
• Khaleej Times (Dubai, UAE)

  More to come..

Well, I decided I would post instead.

China is a very complicated place. They recently received HK from the Brits and Macau from the Portugese, and of course would like to resolve Taiwan as well.

Every public bus references some web site, and the internet is everywhere just like the states. Cable modems and 1Mbps phone lines are dirt cheap.

Hongkongers enjoy the freedom to protest in the street, complain in the newspaper, and otherwise make all the noise one could make in any western country. Well, except burnin the flag. Two 20somethings found out you can't do that. But they werent executed or anything. I suspect a fine and a suspended sentence, but I dont remember. But then, my home state of TN had a rumored law on the books reducing, for verterans, the fine for assault and battery on a flag burner to just $1. Go figure.

CNN is here, McDonalds, KFC, Wendy's, Ford, Ruth's Chris Steak House. Get the picture? You could almost believe you are in San Francisco's Chinatown were it not for the warm, moist humid weather.

Across the border (yes, there is an internal border between hk, china and mainland china) sometimes sounds like another world. For instance the death penalty is quite common in China but not HK. The HK Press is still fairly free, you might try reading the South China morning post, one of 3 english language papers. They have quite a bit on china [some +, some -], too, which helps me to gauge it's capacity for free reporting.

Enjoy.
Paul

Actually, according to this article, Mr. Cruise is cutting back on his scientologist ways.

The South China Morning Post published an arti cle about another media crackdown in China where an editor was removed for publishing stories not approved by Party officials. "One recent edition explained to Internet users how to tap into mirror Web sites abroad, which could help them skirt government blocks on Internet sites that officials did not like." This quote is from the Internet version of a paper published in Hong Kong supposedly under the same rules. My, my, my how this Internet thing does seem to get out of control! .

This is from the above paper via Reuters in Beijing and can be accessed at
South China Morning Post

China will ban use of Microsoft's new Windows 2000 operating system throughout the government and instead opt for a homegorwn software system.

Ministries will have to use "Red Flag Linux", a new platform developed by Chinese researchers and based on upstart operating system Linux, the Yangcheng Evening News said.

There's more info in the article but you can read it for yourself if interested.

Would the Chinese newspapers themselves be wrong?

cheers.

The South China Morning Post , a HK english-language paper, regularly reports stuff like this. You can't read the whole paper over the net, though.

Debter's prison for business deals gone bad, and death over a few hundred US$ of fraud or theft is the norm for the mainland.

Two years and still none of this goes on in Hong Kong, which has maintained most of its autonomy.
But, still, I don't think I wanna sign this!!!

Slightly off-topic, but scary. here