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

  • China Digital Times – Authorities' attempts to bring online public opinion under control
    Efforts by local and central authorities to control information and shape public opinion on the Internet are evolving …

  • Reuters – Dalai Lama's envoys head to Beijing for fence mending
    Envoys of the Dalai Lama flew to Beijing on Thursday for fence-mending talks, the Tibetan government-in-exile said, days after he expressed dismay at China's attitude about Tibet's future …

  • Financial Times – Legal challenge to China's censors
    Backers of a shuttered Chinese business weekly have launched a highly unusual challenge to the country’s media censors by filing a lawsuit against the regional government that ordered its suspension over reports critical of a major state bank …

  • China Digital Times – The next Tibetan uprising?
    Chinese intellectual Wang Lixiong posted an essay on his wife Woeser’s blog in which he predicts that an uprising in Tibet following the Dalai Lama’s death will be even larger in scale than the protests in Lhasa this March …

  • The New Dominion Blog – Uyghurs speak out on hotel restrictions
    In my last post on the subject, I stated my belief that the way a people react to civil rights violations is just as important, if not more so, than the violations themselves…

  • AFP – UN envoy urges China not to send back NKorea refugees
    A United Nations human rights envoy urged China Wednesday to stop repatriating North Korean refugees and criticised a policy of paying rewards for their arrest …

  • Index on Censorship – Roadmap for free expression
    As Google, Yahoo and Microsoft sign up to a ground-breaking code of conduct, will this change the way they do business with repressive regimes? …

  • China Media Project – Linfen "gag fees" spark media ethics debate in China
    As scandal continues to plague the food products industry in China, attention is turning again to endemic contamination in yet another Chinese industry — the media …