Alibaba Group, the e-commerce giant behind Taobao, launched a beta version of it's own search engine, called Etao, last Saturday. The move may be seen as a direct challenge to Baidu, who currently dominate 60% of the search market in China. Described as a "shopping search engine," Etao will also offer a comprehensive search option powered by Microsoft's Bing. With 40% of Alibaba owned by Yahoo, this could be seen as the first big move by foreign investment to fill the hole left by Google.cn's departure. more ›

Foreign journalists in China are still waiting for answers after their Yahoo email accounts were hacked into last week. more ›

Google and Yahoo have long been lambasted for the censorship policies they employ in China to appease the CCP, particularly when Yahoo handed over email information to party officials in order to convict a Chinese journalist. Now critics have shifted their attention to Microsoft's Bing search engine. more ›

Organ trafficking stirs concern [Global Times] "The number of organ transplants from deceased donors in China is only 130 since the first case in 2003, one of the country's leading transplant experts said at a seminar yesterday. About 11,000 transplant operations are performed each year in China, including both living- and all deceased-donor transplantations, including executed prisoners, making the country the second-largest in the world to the US in total number. But that number it is far from enough to meet demand, Chen Zhonghua, the Chinese Medical Association's deputy director for transplanting, said…" more ›

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