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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 Resolve
Source: 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 censorship
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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."

Documentary Commemorating 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre to Be Released
Source: Epoch Times

Chen Yizi, former private councilor for former Chinese president Zhao Ziyang and former head of the PRC (People's Republic of China) State Council's Department of Economic System Reform, was interviewed by Radio Free Asia in Los Angeles.

Mr. Hu's Tibet Replay - WSJ.com
Source: 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 dissidents
Source: 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.

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