In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:

'INTERNET FREEDOM’ BILL TARGETING CHINA COOPERATION FACES TOUGH ROAD
CNET News – A proposed federal law that would slap extensive regulations on technology companies doing business in China and other nations deemed to be unreasonably "Internet-restricting" is facing an uncertain future due to opposition from the Bush administration and telecommunications providers …

TRIAL OF REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS PROTESTORS POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER
The trial of three Reporters Without Borders activists in Pyrgos for unfurling a flag with the Olympic rings transformed into handcuffs during the Olympic torch-lighting ceremony in the nearby ancient …

TERRORISM AND THE OLYMPICS
New York Times – The reports of terror plots emanating this year from this Muslim region in the far west of China might seem fanciful: A foiled plot to blow up a plane; a cache of TNT to bomb the Summer Olympics …

RIVERS OF MONEY NOT FLOWING TO TIBETANS
SMH – Australian officials were recently stunned to hear a senior Chinese policy maker give an honest diagnosis of why China's Tibet policies had gone so badly wrong. At that point four weeks ago it was hard to find clear-eyed analysis anywhere …

DID CHINA’S HACKERS SHUT OFF THE LIGHTS?
Wired Danger Room Blog – Hackers working on behalf of China's People’s Liberation Army have penetrated networks controlling electric power grids in the United States, computer security experts believe …

TIBETAN WRITER ALLEGES HARASSMENT BY CHINESE POLICE AND NATIONALIST INTERNET HACKERS
International Herald Tribune – A Beijing-based Tibetan writer said Wednesday that Chinese police have been harassing her and that nationalists hacked into her blog, where they posted a Chinese flag and threatening messages …

TIBETAN MONKS LINKED TO BLASTS
Radio Free Asia – Chinese authorities in Tibet have detained five monks in connection with a series of small blasts during massive anti-Chinese protests in the region earlier this year, Tibetan sources said …