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Chinese Students Tolling a Huge Banner to Commemorate June 4th Massacre - Jun 5, 2010 - 12:34:17 PM

A group of overseas Chinese students flew two planes on June 4th 2010 tolling a huge banner on the Hudson River to commemorate the democratic movement in 1989. The banner was on the stage for three hours moving back and forth between the Statue of Liberty and China¡¯s Consulate-General in New York. With special permission from Air Control Center, the minimum height of the banner was just 500 feet, allowing long range of visibility by pedestrians on the ground.
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After Google, another US Internet company decides to limit its services in China - Mar 26, 2010 - 9:41:14 AM
US Internet company GoDaddy announced during a US congressional hearing yesterday that it will stop selling websites with Chinese domain names (those ending in the .cn suffix) because of the radical controls being demanded by the Chinese authorities.
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WU CO-FOUNDS BIPARTISAN GLOBAL INTERNET FREEDOM CAUCUS, INTRODUCES BILL TO COMBAT INTERNET CENSORSHIP - Mar 10, 2010 - 2:09:34 AM
WASHINGTON, DC ¡ª Today Congressman David Wu, in cooperation with Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), launched the Global Internet Freedom Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.  The caucus is a bipartisan congressional organization that will promote peaceful free expression on the Internet and serve as a forum for members of Congress, the executive branch, and U.S. industry to discuss and debate ideas on how to enhance online freedom and address minimum standards of conduct for U.S. businesses that operate in Internet-suppressing countries.
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Dalai Lama to be Honored with NED Democracy Service Medal at Library of Congress - Feb 12, 2010 - 10:04:53 AM
Washington ¨C The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) will present His Holiness the Dalai Lama with the Democracy Service Medal in recognition of the Tibetan spiritual leader's commitment to advancing the principles of democracy and human dignity on Friday, February 19, 2010 at 10:30 am in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress. The event is open to press and coverage is invited.
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Editor's personal email account hacked in the same way as foreign reporters in Beijing - Jan 25, 2010 - 8:46:14 PM

Boxun's editor - Watson Meng's two email accounts (XXX@Gmail.com) were hacked. Watson found two gmail accounts have Forward enabled, emails forwarded to erdweew@gmail.com 

Last week, foreign reporters' gmail accounts were reported hacked in Beijing. Their accounts also forwarded to a hacker's email address.

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