While they're still avoiding the three Ts, one X and one D, journalists in China are becoming increasingly feisty, willing to report on corruption and misdeeds despite threats and oftentimes actual bodily harm, according to Mark MacKinnon at The Globe and Mail. The most recent case is Qiu Ziming, a Shanghai-based reporter whose expose of a Zhejiang company got him issued a nationwide arrest warrant. He and his newspaper fought it every way they could and, in the end, the police . more ›

Mark MacKinnon, Beijing Bureau Chief of the Globe and Mail wrote about this screenshot, sent to him by his Chinese friend of the most searched terms on google.cn during May 19, 2009. What looks like a string of bad arithmetic is... well, we're sure you can guess. It seems that all the efforts of the 50cent army and net nanny can't dampen the curiosity of certain internet-going segments of the population. more ›