All things Asia : China

China's government-run Xinhua news agency has announced that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology would "delay the mandatory installation of the controversial 'Green Dam-Youth Escort' filtering software on new computers."

Google pledges to remove porn results findable via its Chinese language search site, Google.cn

China's Internet watchdog condemned the Chinese-language version of Google for disseminating pornographic and vulgar information.

The Chinese Government has backed away from a new law that would have made it compulsory for all new computers sold in the country to include censorship software.

Online translating teams in China volunteer to translate pirated English media.

Families pull out all the stops so children can pass the annual gao kao, or high test, the sole determinant for admission to Chinese colleges and universities.

China has instructed the developers of the Green Dam censorware, to briefly release a patch in regard to last week’s published analysis detailing the possibility of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities within the software.

Despite China’s claims that Green Dam Youth Escort - the spyware the government has commanded shall be installed on all new PCs - is merely a porn filter, it’s now clear that the software filters a whole bunch of political content.

Every PC in China could be at risk of being taken over by malicious hackers because of flaws in compulsory government software.

Officials in Hong Kong have ordered all kindergartens, primary schools and day care centers to close after an outbreak of swine flu was reported at a local secondary school. The order will affect about a half million students.

China told personal-computer makers they must ship Web-blocking software with new PCs as of July 1, enabling censorship and creating a dilemma for the manufacturers.

The Communist Party, aware that Buddhism is central to Tibetans, has tried to select and prop up lamas who will support the government while still retaining legitimacy among the people. Tibetans fear that a leadership vacuum after the Dalai Lama’s death

For CNN, Tiananmen Square was a watershed story - a seminal moment in the network's history.

Foreign journalists were barred from Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Wednesday as police fanned out across the vast plaza on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on 1989 pro-democracy protests.

Hong Kong officials have found traces of cocaine in cans of Red Bull. The drink has now been taken off the shelves of major supermarkets.

A 79-year-old retiree in north China has wowed judges of a televised singing contest.