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In China, VPN internet access tools suffer further disruptions

January 23, 2015 admin chinese, deemed-credible, from-within, golden, golden-frog, include-popular, more-severe, network, patrick-kane, school-official, the-premiere, their-classroom, virtual-private

Internet services that allow people to freely access blocked websites and apps from within China have seen more severe disruptions this week, said three providers, moves that Chinese state media said were justified. The services affected include popular Virtual Private Network (VPN) providers Astrill, StrongVPN and Golden Frog, which are engaged in a technological arms race to one-up China’s highly sophisticated Great Firewall internet censorship system.

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China investigates state television producer amid corruption probe

January 19, 2015 admin business, china, china-central, chinese, heilongjiang, last-month, media, northeastern, report, respected, the-leadership

Chinese anti-graft authorities are investigating a television producer related to a disgraced former presidential aide probed for graft last month, the media reported on Monday, as the leadership widens a crackdown on corruption. Luo Fanghua, an executive of the business channel at state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV), is the latest of several of the network’s senior producers, executives and journalists to face investigation for corruption

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Chinese game maker Perfect World gets go-private bid from founder

January 2, 2015 publisher california, chinese, district-judge, early-trading, free-shipping, friday-perfect, gathers-items, said-it-had, world

(Reuters) – Chinese online game developer Perfect World Co Ltd said it received a go-private proposal from founder and Chairman Michael Yufeng Chi at $20 per ADS, valuing the company at nearly $1 billion.

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South Korea seeks China’s cooperation in probe into cyberattack on nuclear operator

December 24, 2014 admin attacks, chief-cabinet, china-or-north, chinese, district-judge, formulate-its, hack, internet, nobuhiro-kubo, north, north-korean, official, reuters, secretary-suga, south-korea

By Meeyoung Cho SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea is seeking the cooperation of Chinese authorities in a probe into a cyberattack on its nuclear power plant operator after tracing multiple Internet addresses involved to a northeastern Chinese city near North Korea, a prosecution official said on Wednesday. The location of the Internet addresses, which were used to connect to networks in South Korea for the attacks, did not prove the source of the hack was either China or North Korea, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. …

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China says reports it helped cut off North Korea’s Internet ‘irresponsible’

December 23, 2014 creative attack-on-sony, attacks, chinese, district-judge, hack, hacking-attack, nobuhiro-kubo, north-korea, official, pictures, reuters, said-on-tuesday, secretary-suga, south-korea

BEIJING (Reuters) – Reports that China was involved in cutting off North Korea’s Internet are “irresponsible”, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the remarks at a daily news briefing.

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After record IPO, Alibaba eyes first bond sale

November 14, 2014 creative alibaba, bond-offerings, boston, chinese, morgan-stanley, protective-gear, singapore, trace-at-least, wsjd

By Danielle Robinson NEW YORK (IFR) – Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba will sound out investors next week in Asia, Europe and the US as it mulls its first bond ever, just two months after the company's record-breaking IPO. Alibaba, which this week logged US$9 billion of sales on a single day, will kick off a roadshow in Boston and Hong Kong on Monday for what will surely be one of the most sought-after bond offerings of the year.

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EU mulls conferring binding powers on body of data privacy regulators

November 14, 2014 creative alibaba, bond-offerings, chinese, data, data-affects, european, even-if-alleged, julia-fioretti, morgan-stanley, personal-data, protective-gear, reuters-under, singapore, trace-at-least, wsjd

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A new body of European data protection authorities could have the power to adopt legally binding decisions in cross-border disputes over a company’s misuse of personal data, according to a draft document seen by Reuters. Under a mechanism originally proposed in reforms of Europe’s data protection laws, businesses operating across the 28-nation European Union would have to deal only with the data protection authority in the country where they are headquartered – even if alleged mishandling of data affects citizens in another country.

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Alibaba reports record $9 billion Singles’ Day sales

November 11, 2014 creative alibaba-group, china, chinese, entire-catalog, hangzhou, michael-roddy, model-on-monday, music-streaming, reported-more, retail, the-industry

By Adam Jourdan HANGZHOU China (Reuters) – E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd reported more than $9 billion in sales on China's Singles' Day on Tuesday, illustrating the buying power of the Chinese consumer and the importance of the event in the retail calendar.

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China hackers target rights groups, say Canadian researchers

November 11, 2014 publisher alastair, alastair-sharp, apps-provide, chinese, citizen, feedback-on-new, francisco-based, group-said, groups-lack, increased-200, lock-icon, paris, political-power, said-on-tuesday

By Alastair Sharp TORONTO (Reuters) – Chinese hackers are attacking activists, journalists and human rights groups using many of the same techniques they apply to steal state secrets and spy on corporations, a Canadian technology research group said on Tuesday.