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Loretta Chao, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 8, 2011 at 5:00 pm PT
State media outlets People’s Daily, Xinhua and China Central Television are betting on microblogging, search engines and other Internet products for future growth. Some say their deep pockets may help them become legitimate competitors in China’s Internet sector—but until then, there will be plenty of skeptics to win over.
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Loretta Chao and Juliet Ye, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 20, 2011 at 11:50 am PT
China’s environmentalists are becoming masters at the name-and-shame tactics pioneered by western non-governmental organizations. What’s less clear is to what degree, in a country where environmental abuse is still pervasive, those named in such efforts are really shamed.
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Josh Chin and Juliet Ye, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 29, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
China’s property sector, with its forced evictions and sometimes bloody confrontations, has long been described as something akin to a war zone. Now a team of online volunteers, led by an anonymous Chinese blogger, has launched a map-based project that brings that simile into stark relief.
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Juliet Ye, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 9, 2010 at 9:15 am PT
Apple’s sluggishness in China has forced impatient Apple fans to get creative.
Years before the iPhone officially hit the Chinese market, Apple fans purchased them from grey-market sellers. Some go overseas themselves to bring the devices back, and can pay just a little more than $10 to have them unlocked. Users without the necessary dual-currency credit cards have purchased iTunes gift cards at discounts online in order to buy iPhone apps, and enabled third-generation data services on their grey-market iPads by physically cutting SIM cards in half to fit the tablet’s smaller card slots.
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Juliet Ye, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 3, 2010 at 7:34 am PT
Having built safety nets along its employee dormitories after a series of jumping suicides at its Shenzhen production plant, Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., which uses the trade name Foxconn, is now installing the same sort of nets at some of its inland factories, state media reported Tuesday.
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Juliet Ye, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 11, 2010 at 8:00 am PT
While Twitter remains generally blocked in China, that hasn’t stopped tech-savvy Chinese from putting the microblog platform to creative uses.
This week, influential blogger Lian Yue started publishing a novel on Twitter, believed to be the first time a Chinese-language novel is released on the popular service.
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Loretta Chao and Juliet Ye, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 19, 2010 at 12:21 pm PT
“War of Internet Addiction,” the 64-minute machinima film about a battle with government Internet controls that has become an Internet sensation in China, remains unblocked, but its creator, Corndog, says that wasn’t always the case.
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Juliet Ye, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 5, 2010 at 1:00 am PT
As makers of electronic-book readers jockey for position in the U.S., Japan and Europe, a similar but more challenging effort is unfolding in China.
World-wide, about four million electronic-book reading devices were sold last year. The number is expected to jump to 12 million in 2010 and 18 million in 2012, predicts the U.S.-based market intelligence firm iSuppli Corp.
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Juliet Ye, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 7, 2009 at 3:45 pm PT
The latest tactic in China’s ongoing battle against online pornography: cash.
Authorities are now offering rewards to informers who provide tips about pornographic Web sites, the state-run Xinhua news agency reports (in English and Chinese).
