高铁事故 现场掩埋, originally uploaded by DigiPub. An English-speaking friend asked me yesterday, why did you talk a lot of politics on Facebook (even sometimes in Chinese)? Here is a simple answer: my parents and best friends are living in China, which is a high-speed train in a similar type of the ones crashed on 23 [...]

I just sent this message to my friends around the world by email. Here it is in case I missed you in the mailing list. Dear Friends: A Chinese artist, Ai WeiWei, was detained 9 days and 8 hours ago by the Chinese authority due to his effort of promoting basic human rights (eg. freedom [...]

I received this message from the departmental mailing list in the University of Liverpool. I thought my readers might be interested. Note: this fellowship is only for the researchers based on UK. ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Wiebe van der Hoek Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:55 AM Subject: Fwd: UK-China Fellowships for Excellence [...]

On 5th July 2009, a tragic event happened in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Province, China. As of 9th July, it has been reported that 156 people died, and more than 1000 people injured. I was saddened by the news. So what happened? What are the causes of this tragic? What is still going on? [...]

I have only a Chinese version yet: #lvba #greendam 当GFW遭遇微博客（1） In this first article, I try to analysis the huge impact of the uprising of micro-blogging  services towards the Great Firewall (GFW), which is created by the Chinese government to censor the Chinese Internet. My website was blocked by the GFW from August 2008 to [...]

This BBC news article says it is about a video, and I find it here: http://media.phayul.com/?av_id=147&av_links_id=323 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiZL9zvQ3Sc Speechless. When you are blocking information sources without a good reason, we tend to think you are hiding the truth.