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The Chinese government has quietly resumed blocking access to Internet sites that were unrestricted during the Olympics in August, Internet experts said Tuesday.
Liu Jianchao, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, said at his semiweekly news conference Tuesday in Beijing that the government had a right to censor Web sites that violated the country's laws.
China can expect a post-Olympics boom in visitor numbers from some of the millions who were dazzled watching the Beijing games on TV, a survey released in Hong Kong indicated Thursday.
The survey of audiences in 16 worldwide markets found that while 45 per cent of viewers intended to one day visit China before the games started, 51 per cent said they would visit after seeing the closing ceremony.
China's relaxed rules for foreign journalists that were enacted before the Beijing Olympics will expire next month, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
The 2008 Paralympic Games was opened by Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday during a stunning ceremony at the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing.
In the three-hour spectacular show, 6,000 performers and 4,000 disabled athletes from 148 countries took part in front of 91,000 ecstatic spectators.
Beijing residents are becoming increasingly vocal about their demands to keep emergency measures introduced for the Olympic Games.
A Chinese woman working at Germany's DW-Radio has been suspended from her job following remarks she made in the media on human rights and other issues in China, the German press has reported.
Italian politicians and government officials on Sunday praised some of the country's Olympic athletes for making small gestures in favor of Tibet and human rights in China during the Beijing Olympics.
The United States said Sunday it was disappointed the Olympics had not brought more "openness and tolerance" in China as the games ended and eight American activists were deported during closing ceremonies.
The vice-president of the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) Rudal Obreja accused his colleagues of corruption for manipulating combats and favoring what he called dark interests in official verdicts.
Professor Joseph S. Nye, Jr. examines the impact of the 2008 Summer Olympics and the effect China’s leading role on the global stage had on their soft power.
