China's Information Dam Source: The Washington Post
"IT IS NOT our job to fix the Chinese government," Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said last week. Maybe not. But search engines operating in China face a dilemma come July.
The End Game in Iran: Four Ways the Crisis May ResolveSource: TIME
Some observers see Iran's courageous protests against a stolen election as a replay of the 1979 revolution that ended the tyranny of the Shah — or of the "velvet revolutions" that ended communism in Eastern Europe. Others fear a repeat of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
"Internet Enemies" report on Internet censorshipSource:
The freedom represented by the Internet does not extend to all countries, says a new Reporters Without Borders report that faults a dozen nations for engaging in an "almost systematic repression of Internet users."
Mr. Hu's Tibet Replay - WSJ.comSource: Wall Street Journal
The last time Beijing cracked down on Tibet, it was 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre, and Hu Jintao ran the province. Today, violent scenes are playing out again in Tibet -- this time with Mr. Hu as China's president.
Hong Kong ambiguous about China dissidentsSource: johnib.wordpress.com
HONG KONG, China (Reuters) — For a couple of days around this time every year, thousands of Hong Kong residents demonstrate for more democracy in the territory and in China, and for Beijing to come clean on the Tiananmen massacre of 1989.