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- The Dalai Lama made a week-long visit to Tawang monastery in the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, where he held a massive ceremony with an audience of 30,000 people. The Chinese government condemned the visit, as it claims that Arunachal is in fact Chinese territory. [BBC]
- An editorial piece in which Arthur Ronsfeld discusses how greatly Mahmoud Vahidnia, who stood up against Iran's president, epitomizes the necessity for discussion on government and social morality in the largest states in the world (i.e. China). [Huffington Post]
- The so-called Great Firewall of China, the online filtering and surveillance program run by the communist government’s Ministry of Public Security, is alive and well and censoring freedom of expression for millions of Chinese. But over the past few months, Chinese discontent with the Great Firewall has bubbled over with increasing frequency and fervor. [MSNBC]
- The government-linked Internet Society of China on Friday said Yahoo China and other local Web sites had "violated social morals" by allowing porn to appear on their domains. The same group censured Google earlier this year in a row over pornographic search results that ultimately led authorities to block Google.com and Google Apps for a few hours across China. [ComputerWorld]
- A discussion on how overlapping government organizations, both at the local and federal level, prevent thorough and stable management of food safety. Despite the new Food Safety Law certain food manufacturing industries, most recently the milk and fishing industries, have suffered scandals due to lack of safety inspection. [China Law Blog]
- Hu Shuli, editor of China's influential business magazine, Caijing, has resigned from her position along with the paper's entire editorial team. The resignation comes after months of conflict over censorship of the editors' progressive views. [IBI]
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