Beijing-based investor Duncan Clark speaks to Australian Network News on the question of whether China could some day rival Silicon Valley. more ›

So much for those "Good Samaritan" laowai. Footage of a British tourist sexually assaulting a Chinese woman in a Beijing public scene hit the Web this week, igniting a firestorm of anti-Laowai hysteria in the Weibo-sphere and beyond. more ›

Today is World Press Freedom Day but instead of celebrating the freedom of the press, Chinese netizens have decided to mark the "Tweet Deletion Festival" (删帖节) because the date 5-3 sounds like "I delete" ("我删") in Chinese. more ›

Wokai (我开), a non-profit microfinance organization in China, is winding down their operations according to their website. The innovative grassroots company helped numerous rural Chinese workers receive loans and will be sorely missed. more ›

When Chinese student Xuan took to Weibo to tell of a horrid mob attack that left him with a broken nose and cigarette burns, little did he know his ordeal would be met with an overwhelmingly sympathetic response from the social network, including its newcomer, the former Australian premier Kevin Rudd. more ›

The Financial Times takes a look at the widely-cited US-based dissident website Boxun.com, which it says has been reporting on every twist and turn of the Bo Xilai case with "unusual accuracy". The site was founded by one Watson Meng, 47, who studied electrical engineering at Duke University, worked in China for several multinationals, and now edits the website from his home in Durham, North Carolina. more ›

Former Aussie PM and foreign minister Kevin Rudd has joined Sina Weibo, attracting 100,000 followers within three days of his joining the Chinese microblogging platform. more ›

Sina recently launched a new microblogging platform only to have it immediately shut down. The platform, called Weibo Expose, allows users to submit news tips and pictures corresponding to their physical location. More telling, it also features the Holy Grail of Chinese Internet functions: the anonymous submission. more ›

At just after 11:00am yesterday, the Chinese internet hiccuped, with all overseas websites temporarily rendered inaccessible within the country for an hour-and-a-half. For those savvy enough to weave through the blackouts, rumors were abound and entertaining: the Chinese government was testing interfaces, or a switch to an intranet (à la Iran?) had been made. Or perhaps it was undersea cable problems due to the Indonesian earthquake, or a rerouting of overseas internet traffic in anticipation of DPRK’s missile satellite launch. more ›

The Anonymous hacking group claims to have defaced almost 500 Chinese websites. Each one carried a message of protest against the government's repressive policies, encouraging citizens to join Anonymous and stage their own protests. In English, with no Chinese translation. more ›

Well that didn't last long. Just 46 hours after Ai Weiwei set up four live webcams around his Beijing home to commemorate the first year anniversary of his 81-day arrest, the outspoken artist was told by government authorities to take them down. more ›

As you may have heard, China's two biggest micro-blog services Sina and Tencent Weibo have been forced to suspend their comment functions from 8 a.m, March 31 to 8 a.m, April 3. While microbloggers have been restricted from commenting on tweets, they are still free to post their own original tweets and retweet what others have posted. more ›

Following coup rumors a few weeks ago, popular social networking sites Weibo and QQ enforced a 72-hour ban on comments Saturday morning. more ›

Morbid suicide story of the day: A young woman in Taipei, Taiwan committed suicide by inhaling poisonous fumes while chatting with her friends on Facebook. None of her so-called friends called the police: more ›

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been spotted on vacation with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan in Shanghai. more ›

A car crash on Sunday in Beijing's Haidian district near Baofu Temple in which the driver of the Ferrari died and two female passengers were injured has led to widespread speculation over the identity of the driver and the blocking of the keyword "Ferrari" on Chinese social networks. more ›

Sina Weibo, China's most popular equivalent of Twitter, has become the battlefield between North and South Korea. more ›

"There are now many government Weibo accounts, and that is definitely a good thing, but it depends what you do with it. If your department's Weibo account is just a showcase, saying good things about yourself and ignoring the criticism of others, you think you can gain ground? What you get in fact is minus marks. So, if you think you've got what it takes to open a Weibo account, go for it. If not, forget it." more ›

"I have an idea. There should be someone managing the web as well. We can't just let people do whatever they want. [The Internet] should be like the People's Daily. Foreigners are messing up [the Internet]. We can't be like this. We should make the Internet in accordance with our principles. We should not make a good thing turn bad and become a place where people can say whatever they want. Our country is a socialist country under the leadership of the Communist Party." more ›

An e-mail allegedly sent to Chinese university students from Facebook says the Palo Alto-based social media giant is now recruiting around 900 employees globally and wants gruaduates from 5 mainland universities, including Tsinghua University in Beijing. more ›

The speed of mobile Internet in China is the second slowest in the world, only faster than that of India, according a report recently unveiled by the GSM Association (GSMA), an association of mobile operators and related companies. more ›

Reporters and protestors spent Thursday crowding outside the multi-million dollar villas of Henry Tang, the man backed by China's Communist Party to be Hong Kong's next chief executive, after reports surfaced in the press that he had built a basement under his private swimming pool in violation of building codes. more ›

A 38-year-old single woman has created a firestorm of controversy on the internet after setting up a "virginity website" to get young people to abstain from sex before marriage. Saladin Xu of Shanghai Daily writes: more ›

9 to 5 Mac reports that hackers accessed Foxconn's internal data and released the information (or 'dumped', in hacker/data-nerd parlance) online, including the logins and passwords for procurement sites, teh Intranets and email accounts, with the account of CEO and animal herder Terry Gou being no exception. more ›

We heard the bad news yesterday -- Weibo users on Sina, Sohu, NetEase and Tencent have until March 16th to register with their real names and identities, failing which they will no longer be able to post or retweet updates. Sina Weibo, the market leader in the microblogging segment, appears to be already feeling the heat. more ›

The Weibo accounts hosted by Sina, Sohu, NetEase and Tencent will require real name and ID number registration from all users by March 16th, with unregistered users to be denied posting and forwarding capabilities. The announcement was made at the Beijing Weibo Development Management Regulations Seminar held today in Beijing. more ›

Shanghai's dishonest internet users may be punished with restrictions on certain business activities in real life, a senior official announced on Wednesday. more ›

“Youku think they can live on free traffic without paying for the content,” said Tudou CEO Gary Wang in a statement, “and they are trying to hide the fact that they are actually not as competitive as they pretend to be.” more ›