People Power In China II: The Consequences

I just receive an email . informing me that the China Internet coverage on my late Dad's home town Dongshan Island, which is opposite Taiwan is having a massive riots with over 22,XXX people. As the information believed to be censored. I just found the time coverage here.


Back in June, the people of the coastal city of Xiamen came out onto the streets for two successive days to protest plans to allow a billion-dollar chemical plant to be built within city limits. It was an unprecedented but entirely peaceful demonstration and, after considerable twists and turns, eventually resulted in the municipal government deciding to relocate the project to an island about 100 kilometers to the south of Xiamen. At the time, we noted that the authorities would have a hard time controlling the impulse to demonstrate in other cities. Sure enough, there were protests in Shanghai (over a planned train project) and elsewhere. They were entirely peaceful and relatively small, involving only a few hundred people. Now however, it looks as though that same chemical plant that caused the trouble in Xiamen is sparking large protest again, this time violent, with one or more protesters possibly dying. Reports remain sketchy—material on the internet in China is rapidly blocked or deleted—but it's now clear that many thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of residents living near the proposed site of the relocated plant have been showing their displeasure at the plan.

One post entitled, "New development on PX Project: Protest at Dongshan Island" on a Sohu.com (a popular portal) bulletin board mysteriously survived three days of censorship. Although the authorities never officially announced the plan to relocate the chemical plant to Gulei Peninsula in Zhangzhou City, the local opposition to the project was very strong. On Dongshan Island, which is next to the proposed project site, that opposition burst into the open on Feb.29.

"On Feb. 29th, the peaceful island witnessed a historic breakout by the residents. Thousands of people blocked the main roads in town and stopped all vehicles leaving for the government district of Dongshan County", the post recounts. And this was only the prelude. On March 1, "thousands of motorcycles, vans, buses, and even more people took to the streets", and an "even bigger demonstration has been planned for the next day". According to the posts, several police cars were destroyed by "furious protestors", and severe injuries occurred on both sides. A death toll of 1 or 3 is cited in the follow-up posts.

With a population of only 220,000, Dongshan Island mostly depends on tourism and the fishing industry for its local GDP. "We are diligent, honest and law abiding people. We put up with constant military exercises, we make a living by hard, honest labor, and what more do we have to give?" says an angry poster, "We can't afford to live in Xiamen with the salary we make, and now we are driven away from Dongshan as well! If we put up with the pollution from PX and endure the consequences, how can we explain to future generations?"

The local Dongshan authorities responded to the protest on the morning of the 2nd with an "Open letter to Dongshan citizens", broadcast only on local TV. Internet posts on the riot are quickly deleted as soon as they appear, but bits and pieces of surviving information indicate that the government's open letter--which warned against further protests--failed to mollify the demonstrators.


I shall give more info tomorrow.

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Recently, I got a feel from by MSN.com account.

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Alarming Phishing Trends

The number of phishing Web sites skyrocketed in December, as did the number of sites designed to spread password-stealing badware, according to the most recent report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group.

The number of unique phishing sites jumped from 4,630 in November to
7,197 in December, a 55 percent increase. Online scam artists also
targeted a wider range of companies in their phishing sites. One scam found at the end of 2005 targeted customers who shop at Wal-Mart's Web site, telling their their accounts had been compromised.

Another notable phishing attack in December went out in an e-mail impersonating the Internal Revenue Service,
linking to a bogus IRS site that claimed to offer recipients a way to
check on the status of their tax refund. We've seen IRS phishing
attacks before, and we are likely to see more of them in the coming
weeks.

December also brought a massive increase in phishing-based Trojan horse programs as well as keyloggers
-- nasty programs designed to intercept sensitive information the
victim enters into banking, e-commerce or Webmail accounts. According
to the APWG, the number of Web sites using browser vulnerabilities to
attempt keylogger installs exploded to at least 1,912 in December, up
83 percent from November.

That growth was spurred in large part by the discovery of two critical security flaws in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser -- MS05-054 and MS06-001
-- that allowed malicious Web sites to install software on the
visitor's computer. The APWG report said its members spotted hundreds
of sites using exploits for those vulnerabilities to install
keystroke-logging software.

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