VOA Chinese, Mar 17, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110317-China-Shenanigan-Action-118164504.html
Note:
(a) VPN stands for Virtual private network.
(b) The report is based on
Young-Sam Cho, China ‘Shenanigans’ Hindering Web Users From Evading Censors, Witopia Says. Bloomberg, Mar 11, 2011.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-11/china-shenanigans-hinder-censor-evading-users-witopia-says.html
Quote:
"Witopia and other providers of virtual private networks, or VPNs, allow subscribers to anonymously surf blocked websites by employing private proxy servers that encrypt data.
"While VPNs are mainly used by companies to give employees secured access to corporate networks, they can also allow users to access blocked sites and help enable individuals outside of the U.S. to watch geographically restricted services such as Hulu LLC’s online videos.
--------------------------Separately
(1) 揭河南血浆经济 爱知行网站被封. VOA Chinese, Mar 17, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110317-Chinese-Aids-rights-website-down-118158274.html
(2) 拒绝挽留 达赖喇嘛坚持退出政坛. BBC Chinese, Mar 17, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2011/03/110317_dalailama_retire.shtml
(3) 中国官方证实四川藏族喇嘛自焚死亡. BBC Chinese, Mar 17, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2011/03/110317_lama_sichuan.shtml
(4) Katerina Dalacoura, Letter to editor: Shaky Grounds to Intervene Against Gaddafi’s Regime. Fiancial Time, Mar 17, 2011.
(John Stuart Mill’s 1959 essay A Few Words on Non-Intervention, that if a people “have not sufficient love of liberty to be able to wrest it from merely domestic oppressors, the liberty which is bestowed on them by other hands rather than their own, will have nothing real, nothing permanent")