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

  • Reuters – China says still looking at talks with Tibet envoys
    China remains in contact with the Dalai Lama's administration over proposed talks, an official said on Tuesday, despite the exiled Buddhist leader's claim that he had lost hope of agreement with Beijing over the future of Tibet …

  • Reuters AlertNet – China: "Criminal" with human rights award
    Last week (Oct 23) it was announced that the European Parliaments' Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought has been awarded to Chinese political activist Hu Jia …

  • China Channel – China Channel Firefox add-on
    The Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet users outside of China the ability to surf the web as if they were inside mainland China …

  • Global Voices – To be dead or not? Amnesty appeal for cop-killer
    There are two quotes of Yang Jia, the 28-year-old man who killed 6 cops in Shanghai this year, that have been widely circulated among people …

  • China Digital Times – Blogger: To whom should I be grateful?
    Wandering through the Chinese blogosphere, one never knows who you will encounter. Here is a blog titled “Love of Nature,” which contains social commentary mixed with personal memories …

  • Shanghai Daily – Beijing's former vice mayor appeals death sentence
    Former vice mayor of Beijing Liu Zhihua appealed his suspended death sentence for taking bribes yesterday after a court in Hebei Province did not recognize his so-called meritorious service during the Beijing Olympic Games ...

  • Danwei – SARFT shuts down 10 video websites, warns others for content
    SARFT has ordered ten Chinese video websites to stop operations for pornographic and violent content, and videos harmful to national interests. This type of language is commonly used by SARFT and other regulatory bodies to indicate a wide range of offenses against the media nannies of China, from the political to the pornographic …

  • Global Voices – No Uyghurs in our hotel
    The new dominion blogs about the systematic discrimination against Uyghurs in China, such as denied access to inns or hotels …

  • Reuters – China journalists demand "hush money" at coal mine
    China is investigating dozens of "journalists," some genuine, some not, who demanded hush money from a coal mine after a pit accident killed one person, a newspaper said …