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Is Yahoo a moral pygmy?

Last weekend, we told you that Yahoo! is now apologizing for not telling the full truth to Congress at the February 2006 hearing where Yahoo! was taken to task for its role in the conviction of Chinese journalist Shi Tao. Now both Republicans and Democrats have launched scathing attacks on Yahoo. San Mateo Democrat Tom Lantos has called Yahoo "moral pygmies", and New Jersey Republican Chris Smith compared Yahoo’s cooperation with the Chinese government to companies that cooperated with Nazi Germany during World War II.

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By Kenneth Tan in , on November 10, 2007 10:10 AM

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Today's Links: Clocks, hacks and open race tracks


  • How to write a China article

    "If you can’t find a taxi driver whose political views match those of your readers, then just make one up. Call him Mr. Wang, inform your public that he only earns a hundred dollars a month, and they’ll believe any old crap you write."



  • When Jerry Yang Talks China, Run for the Doors

    "Focus instead on the fact that every time Jay Yang has taken charge of Yahoo!'s China strategy in the past, the results have been, well, considerably less than stellar."



  • Chinese government decides to subsidize all rural poor

    "The meeting, chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao, decided to cover all needy people in rural areas across the country under the allowance program, including the aged, the disabled and those who are unable to work."



  • Day Eight: Yalies descend on Shanghai

    "With visions of the New York Stock Exchange dancing in our heads, many of us expected the Shanghai exchange to be an exciting place to visit and observe live trading. But when we were shown into the large on-site trading room ... it was eerily silent."



  • China skies friendlier for U.S. airlines

    "In one of the most notable trade deals of the Bush administration, U.S. airlines got the OK Wednesday to ramp up service to China in unprecedented levels... The number of daily passenger flights between the US and China will more than double by 2012."



  • Rumor: MySpace China Signs Back Dorm Boys

    "News Corporation's Chinese version of its social networking site (SNS) MySpace China (Myspace.cn) recently spent one million Yuan to sign the Back Dorm Boys as spokesmen for the website, reports Donews quoting a rumor."



  • Shanghai down 42pts on Greenspan warning

    "Asian markets were marginally in red today morning led by China's Shanghai index following a warning from the former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan that the gains in the Chinese market were unsustainable."



  • Sina videoblogging contest is rolling

    "Chinese portal Sina.com, which has one of the "good," officially sanctioned video clip websites, is now holding a massive video blog 播客 contest which will end on July 15th."



  • Shanghai Circuit opens to private cars, but VWs only

    "Shanghai's international motor racing circuit said yesterday that it will open the track for the first time to private cars for free on June 9 and June 10. But the test driving will be limited to Volkswagen sedan owners."



  • Bund clock tower to fall silent for four months

    "Asia's tallest clock tower will fall silent from June 1 while it undergoes a four-month renovation program, the first comprehensive face-lift it has had since it first began to chime eight decades ago." Custom's House.



  • Daredevil BMW driver loses license at 250 km/h

    "The car ... caught the attention of police when it was doing 186 km per hour on the expressway at 10am. When it passed a charge window at the Nanxun exit in Zhejiang Province, data showed the car spent only 19 min to cover 84 km."


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    By Dan Washburn in on May 24, 2007 8:00 PM

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    Extra! Extra! Senators, boiled babies and 3,000 tons of shit

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    By Dan Washburn in on March 29, 2006 11:40 AM

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    Jailed journalist wins press freedom award

    The Committee to Protect Journalists gave out three press freedom awards this year, to three journalists and one lawyer, and one of those journalists was jailed reporter Shi Tao. Shi Tao's story became high-profile in the international media after it was revealed that the incriminating evidence in his case came from email sent from his Yahoo! account. This led to condemnations of Yahoo! for complying with the Chinese government, the most recent coming from a veteran dissident Liu Xiaobo. Whether or not Yahoo! was legally obliged to provide this information seems to still be debated, as some have claimed that Yahoo! Hong Kong revealed this information, and as part of the SAR they supposedly aren't beholden to Chinese/PRC law, but according to this report, the servers for the email account (check the name of Shi's email account, you should get a sense of where he stands politically), are located in China. Shanghaiist isn't a student of the law, so we don't know where in this delicate case where both law and ethics are involved, where to take a stand. Certainly, we think that it's amusing that Liu Xiaobo would write to Jerry Yang alone, because Jerry Yang is Taiwanese-American, but frankly, in this day and age, does that "cultural bond" really amount to anything?

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    By Peijin Chen in , on October 19, 2005 9:08 AM

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