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

  • Wall St Journal – Skype's China practices draw ire
    The revelation that a Skype joint venture in China has been monitoring its users' communications is adding impetus to an industrywide effort to establish an international human-rights code of conduct for Internet companies. …

  • AP – China covered up milk scare to protect Olympics: critics
    China knew about the contamination of milk products months ago but covered the scandal up to prevent it tarnishing the Beijing Olympics, according to journalists, rights groups and media critics…

  • Guardian – The Forbidden City of words
    The Chinese authorities have blacklisted certain words on the internet. But you can't, ultimately, suppress communication …

  • China Digital TImes – A Beijing petitioning adventure of 40 parents who lost children
    The following is an account of the heart-wrenching experience shared by 40 parents of missing children. After the Olympics and Paralympics had finished, they went to Beijing to petition for help to find their children. …

  • Radio Free Asia – Growing pains of China's media
    China's media still labor under tight control, despite promises to loosen up …

  • Reporters Without Borders – Open letter to Margaret Chan, WHO director, about the contaminated milk powder scandal
    You have often spoken publicly of the importance of the free flow of information about public health issues. The latest developments in the Chinese contaminated milk powder scandal show very clearly that the system of censorship imposed by the Chinese government …

  • Guardian Video – Tibet, six months on: 'There's no freedom here'
    Six months after deadly protests against Chinese rule, a semblance of normality has returned to Lhasa. But many Tibetans still live in fear …

  • Radio Free Asia – Tibetans jailed for blasts
    At least three Tibetans have been handed jail terms ranging from four to nine years in connection with several explosions in Markham county, Chamdo, during Tibetan protests earlier this year …