My National ID Duplicated with Another One Apr 7, 2008 A policeman called me and asked me to go to the police station this morning. The reason is, someone in Guangxi Province sent a post mail to them and claiming that someone there has the same national ID number as...
Security Messures in Radio and TV Station Mar 4, 2008 Besides the censorship in blogging media, it is not surprising that the security meessures in traditional medias are very stick in China. In this blog entry, I want to share some first hand information about radio stations, and TV stations....
Current University Students are Different Dec 18, 2007 I am back from a speech in Shanghai Jiaotong University tonight. This is the second time I visit SJTU this month. I just observe something very different between the students of this year (especially the first year students) and the...
Hospital in Shanghai Nov 10, 2007 I just want to update my readers why I paused blog in the last three days. I was in hospital to take care of my mother-in-law. She had a heart surgery last Thursday. Thank God (and whomever I can think...
Thoughts about Traffic Jam Sep 22, 2007 Today is a No Car Day in Shanghai, and other 107 cities in China. On the No Car Day, let me write about some thoughts around huge traffic jam last week. Last Monday, I decided to use public transportation -...
That is Easy - Easy Solution to Complicated Problems Sep 9, 2007 I know this is a new addition of the series of articles comments on the recent government policy in China, which is treated a sensitive topics in China. Anyway, I do have something to say, although it may worth only...
Yes. I am Very Frustrated Sep 4, 2007 The "very important meeting" is going to be held soon. To prepare a "good environment" for the meeting, massive websites in China were shutdown. This time, much different from the previous actions, it is the whole data center instead of...
Learnt More about How Government Works Aug 17, 2007 Today, attended a training by the government officials, and learnt many interesting ideas. Share with everyone. The Government has Huge Support for SME (Small and Middle Sized Enterprise) Maybe you didn�t know it. For SME in Shanghai (with revenue less...
Strengthen the Control of Speech Jul 29, 2007 Recently, there are several evidence to prove the government is strengthen the control of speech in China. Here are some of them. New Round of Satellite TV Ban Satellite TV is always forbidden (Satellite Dishes Still Forbidden in China) for...
Living with Bad Environment? May 10, 2007 Google is facing big challenges in China. Google was talking about the "don't be evil" philosophy, which I respect a lot. However, how to make it happen in China is not an easy answer. The question I asked Kai Fu...
Some Blogs about V2EX Jan 15, 2007 Just spent some time to use Google Blog Search to get some comments about V2EX, after it is unplugged by the "big guy". Look at the angry people here. When a pure technical forum full of geeks and technical guys...
V2EX's Network Cable was Unplugged Jan 13, 2007 Livid's V2EX is a great Internet application. 3000+ genius Internet developers gathered there to discuss topics related to programming, Internet, and other geek topics. At 4:00 PM, Jan 11, 2007, the network cable of the server was unplugged by the...
I Got a Tax Summary! Jan 7, 2007 I received a mail - paper based mail. It is from the Tax Bureau of the Shanghai Municipal Government. In the mail is a list of the total tax I paid in 2006 from Feb to Dec. I was surprised...
Friend's Dog Killed Dec 30, 2006 Look at this cute dog: Its name is Ahuang, or Little Yellow. It is my friend's dog. Early this week, it was robbed from his home and was killed. What a sad little thing. According to him, someone jumped into...
Coincidence? Maybe Not Nov 2, 2006 There are some "coincidence" in the Chinese Blogger Conference in Hangzhou. The conference was originally planned to be at a place called Zijingang. One and half day before the conference, the venue owner cancelled the venue claiming that government is...
Second-Generation Identity Card Jul 15, 2006 Second-generationl Identity Card - the National ID card. I finally took pictures at the Security Office, to get my second generation ID card. I having used the plastic ID card for 10 years, since 1995, now I am forced to...
Escaping from Raffles City Jun 15, 2006 Just several minutes past 12:00 PM (noon time), the office became very quite. Everyone disappeared - to be more exact, escaped from the office. Only one lady doing the cleaning work are here, and me... I haven't had my lunch...
Water Mellon for Summer Jun 4, 2006 There are trunks outside the residential area to sell Water Mellons. I bought one yesterday and one today. They are so sweet. I like it a lot. Although it is obviously illegal to sell by directly parking a car at...
Democracy in Residential Area Apr 14, 2006 Democracy is a sensitive word. You can not search it in Google, and you can not include it in your blog in MSN Space. However, recently, the residential area is experiencing the democratic election of the member of the Residential...
Pressure at Year End Dec 27, 2005 End of 2005 marks the enforcement of the ICP license and recordal requirements. This time, it seems they really mean it. In my previous story, I outlined the requirements for the registration for website. The first requirement came out in...
According to Supervisor's Notice Oct 29, 2005 Notice in metro city This is a typical notice in Shanghai, or in China. The note says: According to Supervisor's notice, this W.C. will be removed I recently notice almost all the posters in Shanghai metro starts from the...
Real Name Requirement for QQ Jul 25, 2005 The most popular IM QQ in China has a great feature called QQ Group. It is real time chatting groups integrated in QQ client. Recently, Tecent was asked to enforce real name registration for all group owners. People much submit...
eCommunity Center in Shanghai Jul 8, 2005 Shanghai is famous for the strong execution power of the government. I read about the eCommunity Center project on newspaper. It was reported that 400 eCommunity Center will be built in the recent 3 years to help people who do...
Registration? Claim of Buggage? Jul 1, 2005 Let me update something that seems important for me but I didn't take too serious about. :-) 1. Registration of blogs. After I registered all my information with the official website, nothing happened so far. I checked every other day,...
My Site is Almost Legal in China Jun 18, 2005 Tonight, a long Friday night, I don't have too many things to do at around 23:00 in the office. The office is completely empty. Only the small noisy laptop is with me. Well. Maybe it is the good time to...
Blog Registration in China Jun 10, 2005 I didn't plan to post a comment on this news until the forth person sent me the link and asked: "Jian Shuo, is it true?" What I can confirm is, 1) it is true. 2) It is required since 2000...
Where is my Sense of Safty Today? Aug 1, 2004 Got an email like this in my email box. I hosted my server (not this blog) at this ISP before. Name of ISP is removed They told me (in case you cannot read Chinese) that I have to shut down...
Blogcn is Down for the Third Time Jul 27, 2004 Blogcn, the largest blogging service provider, shut down their server again. This time, it seems because of technical difficulties. Image in courtesy of blogcn.com As far as I know, there close friends of mine has been affected. Jackgu commented in...
How about Starting an Online TV Station? Jun 21, 2004 I was impressed by Seattle Wireless TV (via Slashdot). It looked like a formal media (or official media) if there is no "Help Sponsor the Show!" text or the PayPal denote icon. The host just carries a camera and go...
Blogcn & BlogDriver Shut Down Mar 13, 2004 Two more blog service provider were shut down after blogbus.com. Now, all of the top three blogs stoped their services now. This is not astonishing at all. To be safe, I don't want to make any comment on this. It...
BlogBus.com Blocked Mar 12, 2004 After I wrote the title, I realized it is not blocked. It was ordered to be shutdown. As one of the three blog service providers (others are blogcn.com and blogdriver.com, blogbus did very well job to innovate and add more...
How Interviews were Conducted Mar 1, 2004 I received a series of photos disclosing how an interview were conducted. It seems the picture were taken in a small city. I was curious when I was in Luoyang that why everytime some major conferences or policy change, there...
Satellite Dishes Still Forbidden in China Jan 8, 2004 To be honest, I am frustrated that I cannot install a satellite dish to receive foreign programs like CNN, NBC in my home. It is explicit illegal to use it at home. The State Council issued a decree in 1993...
Bugs in the Great Firewall Jul 8, 2003 To surf on the Internet at home is becoming painful recently. I have to say, I has been driven mad for all the strange behaviors in the great censorship plan. When I click on some of the result website in...
Blog*Spot Resumed Jan 16, 2003 blogspot.com resumed service to China today. It seems there is no relationship with any politics or the reasons that are spread out there on the Internet. Thanks Isaac for letting me know that....
Blog*Spot Inaccessable in China Jan 15, 2003 There are lot of discussions in the blogger world around blogspot ban in China again, just as the case of Google in last Sept....
The Great Cyberwall Nov 19, 2002 Wired News: China's Cyberwall Nearly Concrete "China has developed the largest and most sophisticated IP-blocking and content-filtering system in the world," said Bill Xia, president of Asheville, North Carolina-based Dynamic Internet Technology....
My Site Remains Illegal in China Sep 26, 2002 Notice: You are reading an illegal site in China. Today, I received an email from Hichina Corp. (Chinese site). I am their client for domain names. They reminded me that I report and register for my web site - yes,...