- When will scientists in China win the Nobel Prize? [UPI Asia] "Chen Ning Yang, the Chinese-American Nobel laureate in physics in 1957, remarked during a symposium at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000 that Nobel prize-winning achievement will emerge from the Chinese mainland in 20 years time. I would like to pour cold water on Chen’s crystal ball gazing. Not only has China not accomplished anything close to a Nobel Prize, but also the time horizon for bagging it could be longer, if the country’s education and science and technology system continues to operate at its current standard."
- A North Korea that's hard to get to know [Danwei] "Premier Wen Jiabao was recently in North Korea to broker deals about North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Chinese media was there during the Premier's trip, and included in the entourage was Rose Luqiu Luwei (闾丘露薇), who is an executive news editor for Hong Kong's Phoenix Satellite Television. Rose Luqiu Luwei's series of blog posts came up on the liberal blog aggregator that she set up, my1510.cn, and her own Phoenix TV blog."
- It's tricky for wikis and online encyclopedias in China [CNN] "When Jimmy Wales visited the headquarters of Hudong.com last month, he had one question for its founder: is it possible for Wikipedia to be the number one online encyclopedia in China? "Absolutely not," was the response of Pan Haidong, head of Hudong.com, the world's largest Chinese encyclopedia website."

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