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06/ 1/2005
The story has been widely reported by Chinese media, which makes huge reaction over China’s internet and blogosphere.
A Dell account manager named “Chris” sent an email to a customer saying that sales of IBM machines are “directly supporting/funding the Chinese government.” The picture below are the original Email send by DELL’s salesman:
“DELL - an unacceptable Corporation in China” A special report to this incident on BlogChina (in Chinese)
BingFeng’s blog have more details regarding to this incident.
No doubt, the nationalists in China will call for a boycott of DELL products in the coming next. The Email not only damaged DELL’s corporate image in China but also destoried their customer relatioships. Not even to say that will cost their millions of dollars marketing budget to rebuild their branding, Companies make such a mistake are awful!
Tags: china, dell
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05/14/2005
I discovered a interesting site in BlogChina - China SRI. The blog covered information on China’s Social responsibility Investment, CSR and society development. As I know, it is one of few website which dedicate on such kind of issues in China. The Author is a Ph.D candidate in Tsinghua university, here is a short description regarding to the site.
This blog is proposed to be an information exchange platform about CSR/SRI between China and the world. The founder comes from Tsinghua University,Beijing,China.
At the mention of CSR, here is another blog I should point out, CSR in China, which also is my long time favorite.
Tags: china, csr
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05/13/2005
The story was widely reported, a piece of mistranslated news which published on People’s Daily website on Wednesday chaos on the global currency market. The whole story could be found at here, here and here.
Obviously, some media in China lacks responsibility. The soaring economy and rapidly growing market leads the country’s fast development, but there still a lot of fields didn’t accommodate in the global system. The Media didn’t realized the importance of social responsibility which will affect their credibility and public image.
Read More on Danwei and China Herald.
Tags: china, media
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01/22/2005
Zhao Ziyang, the former general secretary of China's Communist Party who was stripped of power for supporting the students during their 1989 pro-democracy Tiananmen Square protests, died in a Beijing hospital on Monday Jan. 17 2005.
His daughter Wang yannan sent a short text-message to friends by mobile phone. "He left peacefully this morning, he is free at last," said the message.
On the same day, our office in beijing received a official notice that required us to filter out all of blogger's post related 89, Tiananmen and Zhao's death within our Blog service.
RIP, Mr. Zhao Ziyang.
Technorati Tags: zhaoziyang, china, politics
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09/25/2004
China's Boom and the Environment via NPR talked about China's extraordinary economy booming and Nation's environment pollution.
The environmental consequences of China's manufacturing boom are staggering. The worsening air and water pollution are causing serious health problems. NPR's Renee Montagne talks with Elizabeth Economy, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
A quarter of china is now desert, at the desert advancing rate 13 square mile per year, this mean 20 to 30 million people in China are going to have to leave their home, because there not going to have access to land or water by in approaching desert.
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08/27/2004
A weblog service in China received an email from government's Communications Administration Department, the service was warned by regulation of contents, a user post some articles talk about a sensitive history stories. I don't know what the story he post since the service deletes his post immediately. And the CA's email also warned the site to get an official ICP license; otherwise, they will block the whole service.
So what's the ICP license? ICP know as Internet content provider licenses. Any website in China is providing information contents have to apply for an official ICP license from Communication Administration Department. If a website didn't get an ICP license, they will be forced to shut down by CA's order.
I find out jianshuo's article he wrote long time ago talk about his own experience on attempt to get a license, at the end, he figure out that It's impossible to get a license rather than just let the web-site Illegal. Why? The smart guy will tell you why!
Not just ICP issues, the warning email also point out some regulation of contents: DO NOT POST Political, Economic, Historical (Some Part), Erotic relative contents on the website. Well, that's great; I don't know what we should talk about over the web after we follow these regulations!
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06/ 4/2004
Shizhao (one of the most active Chinese wikipedia contributor) had post a news on CNblog.org was asking bloggers to visit Chinese verison of wikipedia see if it was blocked or not, through those comments, It's seems that wikipedia was blocked in most of location and network. So far, Beijing, Shanghai, these major City's network can't visit zh.wikipedia.org.
Since this is very senstive period that 15 years anniverary of Tiananmeng affair. Chinese Goverment is reinforce their regulation over internet to control the senstive topic about Tiananmeng and "6.4". I hope it's not a long-term block for wikipedia in China.
Update: ITworld article - Chinese censors block access to Wikipedia
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04/13/2004
7 Chinese hostages in Iraq have been released
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I can't believe this, An online buyer has bid 9 million yuan (US$1.1 million) for a cell phone number on EachNet.com.
A deal for the number 135 8585 8585, which has a similar pronunciation in Chinese to "let me be rich be rich be rich be rich," was finally done after 70 bids since it was offered online on March 27. [link]
Last year, Chinese airline
bought a toll free number 8888 8888 for $280,000, and says bought the phone number not because of any superstitious belief. The "good Luck" number "8" is really popular in China; any numbers include "8" would more valuable than others, phone number, card number, even a Car license number. And also people extend some numbers based on single "8" to endue with luck words like: "168" (road to rich), "58" (be rich), "178" (rich together) and more, creativity is highly active on this. Actually I don't think it's a real deal, especially it's a online bid.
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02/ 6/2004
Online advertising and mobile-phone messaging (SMS) give Sohu.com Inc big increased profit in last year. Also its first full-year profit in 2003. Via AlwaysON
Sohu said Tuesday it earned $26.4 million, or 66 cents a share, for the full year under U.S. accounting rules compared with a loss of $1 million, or 3 cents a share, in 2002.
Alike Sohu, other two Chinese internet protals Sina.com, Netease.com also got a big step in profit, they both had a huge revenues in 2003. Netease CEO DingLei almost be the richest man in China since their shares 50 times increased in NASDAQ stock market.
Although those three big protals went to profit and expended their business in other fields like online game, wireless access via mobile phones, but they were losting their reputation gradually. Sexual pic, message and nasty stories all over the site. I think one site attracted visitor not only service but also culture and information quality.
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01/12/2004
China's official media has acknowledged a third suspected case of the deadly flu-like Sars virus in the southern province of Guangdong. And the authorities in Guangdong had ordered the culling of all animals that were suspected of carrying the Sars virus by 10 January. Via BBC News
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12/30/2003
TIME Magazine Power who mattered 2003, Dr, Jiang Yanyong who is the first one told the truth about SARS infection was extending out of control in China. My best admire to him.
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10/14/2003
Excited news from infoworld: China Grid project announce go live, it's mean a dozen unversitites work on grid project that will connect up to 200,000 students in 100 schools across the country.
Reference: IBM Grid Computing
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Glenn Reynolds wrote a new opinion on TechCentralStation column, talked about China's Space program. China's New Frontier
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10/ 7/2003
A old article from Forbes: The Chinese MIT. As the best technology institute, Tsinghua University isn't shy about encouraging or financing entrepreneurs to commercialize technology.
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10/ 5/2003
NYTimes has a article focus on Huawei, which is a one of most effective high tech company in china.
See Detail in Rapid Growth of China's Huawei Has Its High-Tech Rivals on Guard
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