Today's Links: Audio porn, Tencent, and Taiwan warned not to get too close to China

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  • Arrests made over audio porn [Shanghai Daily] "City police approved the arrest of a Shanghai native surnamed Gong, 30, the general manager of ilisten.cn, for allegedly making a profit by spreading pornography. Other suspects in custody include two of Gong's employees - a local in charge of the company's technical department, and an Anhui Province native who worked in the department. A 23-year-old Shandong Province woman surnamed Ma was caught in Beijing. She was allegedly hired to record some of the audio books, police said."
  • The world’s most lucrative social network? China’s Tencent beats $1 billion revenue mark [VentureBeat] "A billion dollars in revenue in a single year? Not even MySpace, currently the most profitable social network outside China, has managed to accomplish that. But publicly traded Tencent, a leading Chinese web portal, instant message client, social network, game developer and more has done it, and largely through the use of virtual goods and other 'Internet valued-added services,' like avatars, dating services, online memberships, music and community sites."
  • Dissident warns Taiwan on China [Taipei Times] Yuan Hongbing (袁紅冰), a Chinese democracy activist living in exile in Australia, yesterday warned Taiwanese to beware of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “two-faced” approach to diplomacy. Yuan made the remarks at a press conference in Taipei after 15 Chinese academics were blocked from leaving the country to take part in a conference on the development of liberalism in China, despite calls for more cross-strait cultural and intellectual exchange by the Chinese leadership.
  • China not boosting South China Sea naval presence [AP] "China has no plans to beef up its naval presence in the South China Sea following a confrontation earlier this month between Chinese boats and a U.S. Navy ship, an official newspaper reported Friday."
  • New Study: Foreign Students no Longer Staying [MSNBC] The vast majority of foreign students studying at U.S. Colleges say they will head back home after they are done with their studies, and the economy is playing a part in that, according to a study released Thursday by UC Berkeley.
  • China's Economy and the Crisis [BusinessWeek] "I do think however that these reports are more than a little over-optimistic. In some ways it’s as if the articles are parroting China’s oft-expressed wish list of how it plans to transform its economy."
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By Elaine Chow in on March 20, 2009 9:00 PM Comment 2 Likes Likes

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