Chinese TV Airs Protester Throwing Shoe at Premier
Washington Post
"The premier is elegant," said one anonymous post on the Tianya bulletin board service. "I really don't understand, when China is getting better, why do foreigners always bother us? What kind of mental problem do they have?" Most of the pos...
China Frees Accused Woman After Protests Online
Wall Street Journal
The case's outcome "is a significant victory of Chinese Internet users and Chinese democracy," said one user from Guangdong on Tianya.cn, one of China's most popular online forums. It's unclear whether the public complaints will lead to any...
How China polices the internet
Financial Times
Two months ago, for example, on Tianya, a popular bulletin board website, a conversation developed about the death of a young man who had been hit and killed by a speeding driver with a record of illegal car-racing. The debate focused on th...
Full Post
Newsweek Blog
Bloggers on Tianya have been quick to point out that the Chongqing district authority is now acting as the judge -- having presented the school’s headmaster to reporters on Wednesday to take the rap. Some conclude, however, that this reeks ...
An online fan club for China's premier
BusinessWeek
According to this helpful post from Joel Martinsen on Danwei, one of the best English-language blogs written inside China, the premier has an online following on Tianya, the social networking site that last month formed an alliance with Goo...
Foxconn's Lost iPhone Tragedy
Forbes
Sun's last online chat was posted on Tianya, a well-known Chinese blog, two days after his death. It roused strong criticism of Foxconn among Chinese Netizens and on the Twittersphere. According to the blog, Sun worked in Foxconn's Shenzhen...
Out of Africa and into China, emigres struggle
Reuters
But the influx has also caused unease among local Chinese. Some neighborhood committees bar Africans from living in residential complexes, while Internet forums such as Tianya buzz with heated, at times xenophobic, discussions of "black per...
The Hawaii of China
New York Times
... indeed, it is the only tropical beach destination in China. With coasts on the South China Sea and the Gulf of Tonkin, this island is attracting hordes of Chinese in the market for a little sun and fun. Left, visitors at the famously sc...
China: Protesting steel workers halt plant privatisation
World Socialist Web Site
One worker explained on the Internet portal Tianya.cn that after working 20 years in the factory, all he received was 20,000 yuan (around $2,900) and a letter asking him to leave. Established in 1969, Linzhou Steel has 5,122 workers and pen...
Handbook of Beijing City Department Stirs Up Public Anger
The Epoch Times
On April 20, a post on Tianya Community Online ignited heated discussions on Chinese media and blogs. The post disclosed part of a training handbook for city management teaching its officers how to beat people without leaving any evidence. ...
A List of Google's Money Making Products
WebProNews
Tianya Q&A China Wenda is part of Google-powered Chinese Tianya. Tianya Come Here China x x x Laiba is a Google-powered social network part of Tianya. I’m being told it doesn’t contain ads. Gapminder website x x x Google mobile converter x ...
In Latest Upheaval, China Applies New Strategies to Control Flow of ...
New York Times
Results of a Google search on Monday for “Xinjiang rioting” turned up many links that had already been deleted on such well-trafficked Chinese Internet forums as Mop and Tianya. State television has focused primarily, though not totally, on...
Language Tweak Provokes Hullabaloo in China
ABC News
... innovation plan" for their mother tongue, slamming it as an attack on China's culture and a waste of resources. "More than 1.4 billion people will be forced to accept these 44 characters," complained Qinque, writing in a chatroom on web...
6 police chiefs investigated in China gang bust
Newsday
An investigative team arrived after a group of 103 police officers posted an article on a popular Internet forum, Tianya, complaining that their former chief had misappropriated funds for use in a police officers' housing project, it said. ...
