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The latest craze: an online game that encourages the stealing of vegetables
Aug 28, 2009 (WiC 28)

One of the reasons Chairman Mao was so keen on collectivization was that he believed farmers were thieves. Well, a new online video game would seem to give some credence to his view. The game is called Happy Farm and it is hosted on social ...

Alibaba offers its shareholders a nice surprise: some cash back
Aug 21, 2009 (WiC 27)

Those that remember the heady days of dotcom investing, will also remember “cash burn” – a term invented to assuage befuddled shareholders and give some accounting logic to a process in which web firms lost money each month. Most dotcoms ...

Why the controversial internet filter Green Dam has been put on ice
Jul 3, 2009 (WiC 22)

Imagine a Cheney-Rumsfeld presidential ticket and then try and conceive of something even less appetising. Well, look no further than China’s Green Dam software – so unpopular it even earned its developer death threats. What is ...

Chinese company outflanks Facebook
Jun 26, 2009 (WiC 21)

Despite Facebook’s growing global clout, China is a market the social networking titan has yet to crack. In a country that boasts over 300 million internet users, Facebook can claim only around 750,000 members for its “China” network. ...

An internet filter stirs controversy
Jun 19, 2009 (WiC 20)

This is about privacy and not just pornography... Few newspapers have a good word to say about the filter, with most highlighting a Sohu.com poll in which 80% of respondents regard it as a violation of privacy. China Daily ...

Curing internet addiction
Jun 12, 2009 (WiC 19)

A doctor in China claims to have discovered the cure to internet addiction. According to the China Daily, patients at Dr Yang Yongxin’s clinic are instructed to write confessions and kneel down in front of their parents to show ...

China’s first ‘multinational’ switches to plan B
Jun 5, 2009 (WiC 18)

He was supposed to be China’s first global capitalist, carrying the country’s reputation before him into international markets. So when Yang Yuanqing oversaw the $1.2 billion acquisition of IBM’s PC division in 2005, it was regarded as ...

In many parts of the world justice is blind; in China it’s online
Jun 5, 2009 (WiC 18)

"I’ll beat you to death with money. I am going to summon a truckload of money and squash you to death.” It’s not the sort of remark you’d expect to hear from a government official and it has sent shockwaves through China. The threat ...

One of China’s most successful internet firms is under attack
Apr 17, 2009 (WiC 11)

Every nation has its own version of Microsoft, and in China’s case, Ctrip seems to have been propelled into the “dominator” role. Competitors, customers and vendors have all been making noise about its purportedly excessive influence in the ...

Online gaming is booming, but at what social cost?
Apr 9, 2009 (WiC 10)

In the midst of a chilly market for IPOs, investors behaved with uncharacteristic warmth last week when Changyou, a Chinese online gaming company, saw its share price shoot up by 25% on opening day. The Beijing-based company is also the first to ...

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Internet & Tech

An internet filter stirs controversy Jun 19, 2009 (WiC 20) This is about privacy and not just pornography... Few newspapers have a good word to say about the filter, with most highlighting a Sohu.com poll in which 80% of respondents regard it as a violation of privacy. China Daily ...

Curing internet addiction Jun 12, 2009 (WiC 19) A doctor in China claims to have discovered the cure to internet addiction. According to the China Daily, patients at Dr Yang Yongxin’s clinic are instructed to write confessions and kneel down in front of their parents to show ...

An internet filter stirs controversy
Jun 19, 2009 (WiC 20)

This is about privacy and not just pornography... Few newspapers have a good word to say about the filter, with most highlighting a Sohu.com poll in which 80% of respondents regard it as a violation of privacy. China Daily ...

Curing internet addiction
Jun 12, 2009 (WiC 19)

A doctor in China claims to have discovered the cure to internet addiction. According to the China Daily, patients at Dr Yang Yongxin’s clinic are instructed to write confessions and kneel down in front of their parents to show ...