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......

If you guys have passed by CITIC Square on Nanjing Lu in the past month or two, you'd surely have seen that Mont Blanc has taken over the ground level store that used to be occupied by Starbucks, and apparently, they are building the world's largest Mont Blanc boutique right there. All Roads Leads to China reveals that Mont Blanc is paying US$11 per square metre per day, which works out to about US$250,000 per......

Google has been in the news recently after co-founder Sergey Brin said at the World Economic Forum in Davos said, speaking of Google's decision to comply with censorship regulations in China, that "on a business level, the decision to censor ... was a net negative." Now Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google are employing another strategy—asking the US State Dept. to use some of its clout in the battle for free speech on the internet. Well, that......

Yahoo might face a lawsuit over the jailing of Chinese reporter Shi TaoWe love Boston and we love The Globe, but what's up with this article?: BEIJING -- Di, Chao, Xu, and Wentao now answer to Eddy, Super, Promise, and Wendy. For the ever-pragmatic Chinese, adopting English names has always represented a way for them to bridge the linguistic and cultural gap. Now, as China widens its reach abroad and as the number of expatriates......

A campaign has been started by The Observer and Amnesty International to put irrepressible info online, and to campaign for internet freedom. From Kate Allen, UK director of Amnesty International: Irrepressible.info uses internet censorship to defeat itself. We are asking people to display a badge on their site or emails, a badge that contains a fragment of web content that somebody somewhere has tried to suppress. So every time you send an email or someone......

The Guardian reports on alleged proof that Yahoo! squealed on Chinese dissidents: Reporters Without Borders said the draft email produced yesterday was used at a 2003 trial to sentence a dissident, Jiang Lijun, 39, to four years in prison for subversive activities. Such revelations looked likely to intensify the misgivings about doing business in China for Congress which is already deeply mistrustful of Beijing. Reporters Without Borders, an international advocacy organization for journalists, called on......

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......