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• Media watchdog urges Vietnam to release blogger

  - 2008-06-19

  HANOI AFP — A media rights watchdog on Thursday urged Vietnamese authorities to free a blogger arrested before the Olympic torch relay who the group said was being targetted for his political views. Nguyen Hoang Hai, who blogs under the pseudonym of Dieu Cay, was arrested April 19 for...

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• China's bloggers set for rare censorship reprieve

  - 2007-05-22

  BEIJING AFP — China's Internet bloggers look set for a rare reprieve from state censorship with the government abandoning a plan to force them to register their real names online, state press reported. The fast-rising blogging population had been told late last year they would be forced to identify...

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• Number of Chinese bloggers 22 million, making crackdown impossible: Beijing-run Internet censoring system is without parallel

  - 2007-03-26

  It may be that those never say die Internet monitoring officials on China's mainland will be able to pull it off. Stranger things have happened! But seriously, to be able to keep a lid on the Internet while clamping down on the nation's bloggers? "Good luck!" said one tech-savvy...

  Tags: blogger, Blogging, China, INTERNET, University of California at Los Angeles, Vietnam

• China's pop idol contest gets another chance

  - 2007-03-21

  BEIJING AFP — China's Communist rulers may frown but the wildly popular Chinese version of the "American Idol" song contest has secured approval for a 2007 season, state media reported Wednesday. Producers of the televised competition will Thursday announce the launch of the upcoming season, and it will be...

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• China has nearly 20 million Internet bloggers

  - 2006-12-06

  BEIJING AFP — China had 19.87 million Internet bloggers at the beginning of November -- a 24 percent increase over the past 12 months. While more than 15 percent update their blogs at least once a week, only 4.6 percent do it daily, Baidu found. Blogs devoted to medicine and...

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• Bloggers in China are required to use their real names

  - 2006-11-01

  The Internet Society of China wants bloggers to register with their real names in an attempt to regulate Web content. It has recommended to the government that this would be crucial to regulate and monitor the content on the Internet. The Internet Society's general secretary, Huang Chenqqig, said that a...

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• Bloggers in China are required to use their real names.(Brief article)

  - 2006-11-01

  The Internet Society of China wants bloggers to register with their real names in an attempt to regulate Web content. It has recommended to the government that this would be crucial to regulate and monitor the content on the Internet. The Internet Society's general secretary, Huang...

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• China to identify Internet bloggers

  - 2006-10-23

  BEIJING AFP — China intends to require its millions of Internet bloggers to emerge from the shadows and register under their real names in a move that is raising privacy concerns, the state press has reported. Under the system, bloggers would be allowed to continue using their online pseudonyms, but...

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• Foreign sex blogger in China a hoax

  - 2006-09-04

  SHANGHAI AFP — An anonymous blog allegedly by a British man that sparked outrage in Shanghai by claiming a long list of sexual conquests among local women may actually be a hoax. The Sex and Shanghai website, which was not immediately accessible Monday, chronicled in racy language the exploits of...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, blog, blogger, Blogging, China, INTERNET, Shanghai, women

• European Parliament head hails release of jailed Chinese blogger

  - 2006-07-13

  BEIJING AFP — European Parliament president Josep Borrel has hailed China's decision to free a jailed Internet blogger following repeated demands from his delegation for the man's release. Hao Wu, an independent filmmaker and website operator, was released Tuesday following nearly five months in detention for apparently making a...

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