Internet entrepreneur Isaac Mao, who is one of China's very first bloggers, speaks to Kristie Lu Stout of CNN about the state of censorship in China today:
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• The Tiananmen Protestors, Then and Now [China Beat] "China Beat sent out a note to a few scholars and journalists who have carefully watched and written about the events of 1989, asking them to send in short commentaries detailing what they wish more people knew, associated with, or remembered about that spring. We ran the first piece in this limited series, by John Gittings, last week. This is the second piece."
• CNN's Kristie Lu Stout on media and technology [Danwei] "Kristie Lu Stout presents the CNN Today program from Hong Kong on mornings. Prior to that Stout was CNN’s technology correspondent and host of the daily Tech Watch... Danwei talked to the popular anchor about using Twitter live on her show, and her view of technology's use in the media."
• China and Taiwan boost financial ties [Financial Times] "China and Taiwan signed a new set of agreements on Sunday, taking a big step towards opening up their financial services industries to each other and allowing direct investment in Taiwan from mainland China. Negotiators from both sides of the Taiwan Strait met in the Chinese city of Nanjing over the weekend for formal talks aimed at normalising relations between the two former civil war rivals who, before last year, had not held talks for more than a decade."

So much has happened since our last post on the Edison Chen photo scandal that it is about time we updated you! First, the Edison Chen saga has caught the attention of CNN. The Chinese-speaking world has never been as enraptured in a scandal as this, and its scale and magnitude is threatening to make Paris Hilton look very passé. Kristie Lu Stout reports:
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(characterize) themselves in hopes of finding like minded people. Tags for this contributor? “Shanghaiist”, “Boonna” and “Kristie Lu Stout fan” are just a few tags that come to mind. The site hasn’t been around for long -- all of 13 people from Shanghai, well 14 now. more ›

There's a whole wide world out there, and here's the proof: more ›

We wrote about Thames Town earlier, and it seems that Kristie Lu Stout, armed with her "Shanghai Diary" has taken it upon herself to bore many, many people with her take on what several hundred thousand people have already had their take on. You'll enjoy this: more ›

Are we the the only ones who immediately think of Wee Britain from Arrested Development (more info here) when we watch this CNN piece on British-themed Shanghai housing development "Thames Town"? (Once on the CNN site, you need to click on the link that says "A bit of Britain outside of Shanghai" to watch the video.) more ›