Proposals to adopt a policy that opposes censorship on the internet , specifically China, were rejected by Yahoo shareholders.
Last year, Human Rights Watch, a New York based campaign group, accused Yahoo, Google and Microsoft for “carrying out censorship for the Chinese government”.
Neither Yahoo nor any other company has released a list of websites that have been de-listed for their political and religious content.
After promulgation of the Property Law, the draft of the Torts Law has been published. Protection of privacy will be formally established.
A Hong Kong man convicted of sharing pirated movies lost his final appeal on Friday in the territory’s highest court and will now have to finish serving a three-month prison sentence.
The court of final appeal held, “He plainly succeeded in distributing copies of the films in question,” the court said in its judgment. “The appeal must accordingly be dismissed.”
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/05/18/tech-bittorrent-hongkong.html#skip300x250
In May, Symantec antivirus program wrongly identified two system files in Windows XP Chinese version as Trojan and paralyzed the users’ system by removing these files. Some Chinese users have filed complaints against Norton and sought for compensation.
However, network security experts in China have already suspected that Symantec got it right that these two files are indeed intentionally-installed backdoor by Microsoft to spoof the Chinese computer system.
Thailand government issued compulsory licenses against the patents for HIV drugs, which make its country into the Special 301 priority watch list of the USTR.
http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/51/06-07-2007/fe89006df9516353.html
Italian authority did the same thing to reduce the costs of medicines for the reason of antitrust. If high prices of patent products could be deemed as a cause of unacceptable monopoly, developing countries would enjoy much more flexibility in coping with technical innovation and public health crisis.
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/health.info/twninfohealth086.htm
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