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...which run online operations on the mainland. The fast- growing China market is key to their global strategies, and they are loath to antagonize their host nation. Yahoo!'s China operation was widely criticized last month for turning over information to the police that helped send journalist Shi Tao to prison for 10 years (Shi had posted a list of topics that Chinese newspapers were forbidden to cover, including the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre). Yahoo! officials said they had no choice but to abide by the "laws, regulations and customs" of countries where it does business...
...into a lake half the length of California and force 1.5 million people to relocate. Since the dam was conceived as a monument to Communist Party power, opponents were branded as dissidents. Reforms have changed that. "The government sees activist groups as less of a threat now," says Fu Tao, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. "With China calling for an environmentally friendly Olympics in 2008, it's even promised to give them a voice...
...office last week the investigation into Zhao Yan, a Beijing researcher for the New York Times who has been held incommunicado since September. Zhao is under investigation for both fraud and leaking state secrets, but his lawyer has not yet seen details of the police reports. In April, Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets to foreign media. (What was leaked and to whom has not been made public?those details are, by definition, state secrets themselves.) And last week, a newspaper run by the China Youth Daily called Bingdian Weekly...
Spend time with Feng Tao, one of China's most successful venture capitalists, and you will hear a lot about "fake people." His Shanghai-based firm, NewMargin Ventures, weeds through 3,000 proposals a year from businesses hungry for a portion of its $100 million pot. Somehow he's got to sniff out the real deals from the pretenders...
Spend time with Feng Tao, one of China's most successful venture capitalists, and you will hear a lot about "fake people." His Shanghai-based firm, NewMargin Ventures, weeds through 3,000 proposals a year from businesses hungry for a portion of its $100 million pot. Somehow he's got to sniff out the real deals from the pretenders...