One blogger in Hong Kong pronounced Wednesday night that “China’s net censors have hit a new low” when for nearly 14 hours, the search site Yahoo! appeared to be blocked in mainland China. All reports out of China early Thursday led web users to believe that Yahoo! had suffered the same fate as Wikipedia, […]

It appears that Wikipedia has been unblocked again in the mainland. As Flumesday was the first to report of the previous liberation of Wikipedia in October, these blockings and unblocking of the world’s open-source online encyclopedia just don’t seem all that interesting anymore. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to […]

I read this week that TIME Magazine’s “The China Blog” was injured by the Great Firewall of China when on Monday, all three of the blog’s writers posted about the 18th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square “crackdown.” I say injured because the page was not blocked, but rather just maimed. According to a […]

Another June 4th has come and gone, and much to the displeasure of China, what happened at Tiananmen Square 18 years ago yesterday has not been forgotten. Many had hoped that the new China, the Olympic China, would do things a bit differently this year to show to the rest of the world that […]

Hong Kong’s leader and quite possibly the world’s nerdiest statesman Donald Tsang is at the center of a censorship scandal that hit China’s mainland over the weekend. Saturday, Tsang appeared on CNN International’s Talk Asia where his use of the “d-word” apparently alarmed China’s political censors. And by “d-word,” I don’t mean “dipshit.” […]

Out of respect for China’s 21 million Muslims, the Party has banned all images and mention of pigs from Chinese television during this lunar new year season. As China welcomes the Year of the Pig on February 18th, the animal has been popping up in all types of Chinese advertising. But in a […]

A new era of journalism in China is upon us. For the time being. On New Year’s Day 2007, the Chinese government lifted laws restricting the movement of foreign journalists within China. Before Monday, the foreign press needed government authorization to report from a location other than Beijing or Shanghai. Under […]

The guys over at China’s Ministry of Culture issued new guidelines Tuesday tightening control of music downloads. As the Ministry called it, “network music” was a USD$350 million industry last year and until now, has been an unregulated business in China. Network music includes any music downloaded from or played on the music […]

Now maybe you understand how dangerous my job is, ladies. Maybe you thought I was just some lazy web writer. Well, I’m not. I’m a renegade. Every word I write could be my last. At any time, my door could get kicked in and I could get taken away. […]

After months of threatening to limit the foreign press’s mobility and freedom of speech in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic games, the Chinese government announced Friday it has relaxed restrictions on the Olympic press. The Mao-inspired limits for foreign press within China, mainly prohibiting reporters to travel freely throughout the country and conduct interviews without […]