Posts Tagged ‘China’
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 2009
To: CSC-PHDS@liverpool.ac.uk
From: Neil Kemp [mailto:neil.kemp@nkeducation.com]
Sent: [...]
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 May 2009, [...]
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.
Do we have human rights in China? Yes.
Do we have enough human rights in China? No.
That’s why we need to claim more. There are a few interesting things happened recently.
The ‘08 Charter is calling for constitutional reform in China.
Liu Xiaobo, an author of the ‘08 Charter has been detained.
A lot of people have signed the [...]
Guns N’ Roses Chinese Democracy
It rocks!
