Category Archives: Internet

Some Beijing photographers and designers have launched an online photo magazine at Fmplay.com/fmm. The site is difficult to navigate, but there are some nice images.

The Australian newspaper published an opinion piece by Sinologist Geremie Barmé about the Chinese diplomat who has been trying to get asylum in Australia. Barmé’s compares the current case with a diplomat defector he knew in the 1980s, who left … Continue reading →

Chinawestnews.net is a state-owned website dedicated to reporting news about China’s western provinces and encouraging the development of those areas. The website appears to have hired some editors with Xinhua training, judging by this and this.

On June 6, a Florida TV station broadcast a news item and published an article (online here) about height-extending surgery in China: Xia breaks his patient’s legs, then attaches metal pins to the separated bones, which are held in place … Continue reading →

The current government attempt to force all China-based websites to register is being driven the MII — the Ministry of Information Industry. MII has set up a special registration website at MIIbeian.gov.cn which includes flow charts explaining the process (pictured) … Continue reading →

The Chinese government threatens to close local websites, including personal Blogs, that will fail to “register”. The registration process requires site owners and operators to provide their complete personal information. After June 30, all unregistered China-based web sites will be … Continue reading →

Baidu, China’s leading search engine, gets along domestically by remaining ignorant of certain search terms. A group of webmasters have become concerned recently, not over the censorship of sensitive information, but because of what they see as Baidu’s strong-arm delisting … Continue reading →

Reid Barrett writes: Ebay has launched an international answer to Craigslist. Unlike Craigslist, whose sites outside the US are still in English, Kijiji will be in the local language. Its Chinese city sites are in Chinese. Kijiji means ‘village’ in … Continue reading →

According to Xinhua, a graduate student at Japan’s Northeast University (东北大学) has invented a dancing robot. In addition to her pretty pink dress and well-defined breasts, the robot has sensors to anticipate her dance partner’s movements, and a complex wheel … Continue reading →

The premier techie fetish site Engadget announced today that they will produce Engadget Chinese, which will feature both translations of posts from the English version of Engadget and original posts. Text is in the traditional characterset used in Hong Kong … Continue reading →