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Beijing backs down on requirement that all new PCs in country include 'Green Dam' censorship software; gives no date when it'll be implemented.

The Obama administration lodged a formal protest with the Chinese government over its plan to force all computers sold in China to come with software that blocks access to certain Web sites.

The Chinese government said that the Chinese-language Web site of Google was linking too often to pornographic and vulgar content.

Jackie Chan's comments that freedom may not be good for China were taken out of context, his spokesman said Tuesday, while Facebook users and Chinese scholars condemned the veteran actor on the Internet in a spreading backlash.

Google said it was responding to the phenomenal popularity of free music downloads in China, one of the few markets where the company lags, by forming an alliance with the music industry.

A cyber spy network based mainly in China hacked into classified documents from government and private organizations in 103 countries, including the computers of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan exiles, Canadian researchers said Saturday.

China has blocked the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube but did not offer a reason for the ban.

AOL is backing out of mainland China – again. Other than a PR rep or two, the company fired all 100 or so of its employees in its Beijing office, according Chinese portal Netease.com. The Wall Street Journal says the AOL China site hasn't been updated since Tuesday. The cuts are a part of AOL's plan to slash 10% of its workforce worldwide.

Chen Xiao had pretty much given up making her own decisions, and so decided to throw open her life to the whims of China's hundreds of millions of Internet users, known in China as netizens.

Tencent, China's largest Internet portal mostly known to us for its hugely popular instant messenger product QQ, published an updated report on the user numbers of its social networking service QZone last week.