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

  • Telegraph – China's leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao embrace the Internet
    The fan club for "assorted eight treasures rice pudding" has finally got its own website…

  • Reuters – Dalai Lama calls special meeting to discuss Tibet
    The Dalai Lama has called a special meeting of Tibetan exiles in November or December to discuss political unrest in Tibet this year and the future of the Tibetan movement, officials said on Friday …

  • Reuters – China says West is inciting unrest in Xinjiang
    The governor of west China's tense Xinjiang region has lashed out at Western countries for instigating unrest in the area, but said their schemes would never succeed as only very few people supported separatism …

  • Nart Villeneuve Blog – Yahoo MSN censor more than Baidu
    China unblocked many usually censored web sites following intense international pressure and scrutiny after having promised uncensored access during the Olympics …

  • Washington Post – Rhymes against the state
    In Imperial China, emperors and other high officials sometimes disguised themselves as commoners and mingled with the ordinary folk to learn what they were really thinking …

  • International Herald Tribune – Child soldiers and the China factor
    Myin Win was 11 years old when he was first recruited into Burma's national army. He was picked up by soldiers while selling vegetables at a railway station and sent to a military training camp …

  • The Wall St Journal – The Chinese Interpreter
    Beijing officialdom loves to talk about how the Olympics were a chance for the world to "get to know" China. But here in Hong Kong, one man has made it his mission to …

  • AP – Tibet monk in hiding tells of interrogation, abuse
    Jigme, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, says he had just finished having a pair of shoes mended when four uniformed guards jumped from a white van and dragged him inside …