Beijing Renews Google’s License in China
Last Updated on Friday, 9 July 2010 04:00 Written by External Post Friday, 9 July 2010 04:00
Two office workers outside of Google’s head office in Beijing on Friday.
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China Partially Blocking Google Searches
Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 June 2010 09:40 Written by External Post Wednesday, 30 June 2010 09:40
Ever since tensions erupted between Google and the Chinese government earlier this year, Beijing has made sure the search engine sat on unsteady ground, unpredictably blocking and then unblocking search results and other Google services within the
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Google Tweaks Rerouting In Fight For China Business
Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 June 2010 04:00 Written by External Post Tuesday, 29 June 2010 04:00
SHANGHAI/BEIJING — Google said it will stop automatically redirecting Web searchers in China to an uncensored portal in Hong Kong as it hopes to convince Beijing to renew its operating license in the world’s largest internet market. Google’s unexpected
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Google ‘Erratic’ in Beijing: Report
Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 March 2010 04:20 Written by External Post Wednesday, 24 March 2010 04:20
Google’s abandoned China address, google.cn, is still directing traffic to its Hong Kong servers, but Reuters reports that service is erratic across Beijing. With reporting credited to the Beijing newsroom Reuters says some searches “for even
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Google Reported Ready To Leave China April 10
Last Updated on Friday, 19 March 2010 07:40 Written by External Post Friday, 19 March 2010 07:40
A number of readers including tsj5j and bruleriestdenis wrote to alert us to this CNET story: ‘Google is expected to announce on Monday that it will withdraw from China on April 10, according to a report in a Beijing-based newspaper that cited an
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Google to withdraw from China in April, says a Chinese newspaper
Last Updated on Friday, 19 March 2010 10:20 Written by External Post Friday, 19 March 2010 10:20
Google is expected to announce that it will withdraw from China on 10 April, according US media reports citing a Beijing-based newspaper.The China Business News quoted an unidentified Chinese advertising agency, which claimed to have received the
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Google Says China Talks Continue, But Pullout Signs Grow
Last Updated on Monday, 15 March 2010 10:40 Written by External Post Monday, 15 March 2010 10:40
SHANGHAI/BEIJING – Google says it remains in talks with Beijing about censorship of its Chinese-language search portal but is adamantly opposed to the practice amid mounting signs the company could soon shut the site.
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Chinese Vase Sells for €110,000 at Sheppards Irish Auction House
Last Updated on Sunday, 7 March 2010 06:45 Written by a2e Sunday, 7 March 2010 06:45
A Chinese blue and white vase started with a bid of €50 before two collectors started a bidding war.
Auction visitors at Sheppards Irish Auction House in County Laios, Ireland, watched as the vase was eventually sold for €110,000.
Richard Peters, 48, who runs an antiques company in Kensington, was the eventual buyer after outbidding a dealer who had flown in from Beijing, China, for the auction.
Mr Peters, who is adamant the vase was ‘made for the personal collection of Emperor Qianlong in the 18th century’, said: ‘I got a bargain!
‘The vase had probably been looted from the Imperial Palace in Peing by French, British or American soldiers sometime during the 19th century.
uctioneer Michael Sheppard said he was amazed when the vase sold for 1,000 times more than its original estimated value, explaning: ‘Something like this happens once in a lifetime.’
Mr Sheppard added the sale was ‘the highest figure ever achieved for any item’ during the 60-year histroy of Sheppards Irish Auction House.
Collection of Snuff Bottles for Bonhams Hong Kong Auction
Last Updated on Sunday, 28 February 2010 05:45 Written by a2e Sunday, 28 February 2010 05:45
Bonhams will sell 140 snuff bottles from the unique Bloch Collection in Hong Kong on May 28th. This Collection is the World’s largest and finest in private hands, comprising 1720 exceptional examples of these Chinese ‘miniature masterworks’.
The auction includes an Imperial enamel-on-copper snuff bottle personally commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor for his own use in the Forbidden City in Beijing. This stunning object is estimated to sell for £250,000 and is one of the finest and rarest examples of this highly regarded Chinese art form ever to be offered at auction.
An exhibition of the snuff bottles will be on view in New York from 21 to 25 March.
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Google nixing Nexus One event in Beijing?
Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 05:30 Written by External Post Wednesday, 24 February 2010 05:30
Google’s deteriorating relationship with the Chinese government is proving to be a real drag for software developers in that nation’s capital. The search giant has reportedly canceled the Beijing event at which it had planned to evangelize its new Nexus
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