links for 2006-08-11

• Internet Filtering in Vietnam in 2005-2006: A Country Study
  Open Net Initiative's latest Vietnam filtering report: "Vietnam's Internet filtering regime demonstrates an ongoing struggle between the desire to increase Internet usage for economic purposes and the desire to limit its effects politically..."
  (tags: vietnam internet censorship freespeech humanrights)
• Google expands in China - vnunet.com
  "Google China will open a new research center in Shanghai next year, according to company sources quoted in local media. "
  (tags: google china internet chineseinternetresearch)
• Global Voices Online » China: Hooker unions, uniting bloggers and qualitative and quantitative data from the Chinese blogsphere
  John Kennedy on this week's Chinese blog buzz: sexy blogging, a new "bull" blog aggregator, questions of Chinese blog stats and the blocking of Technorati, etc.
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch blogs blogging technorati)
• Website collects, translates voices from around the globe - The Boston Globe
  A feature about Global Voices! Read it!
  (tags: globalvoices gv-press)
• Reporters sans frontières - Pakistan: List of websites blocked by authorities gets longer
  Reporters Without Borders today condemned the decision of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on 26 July to add 34 new web addresses to the list of sites to which it blocks access. For the most part they were Baluch nationalist sites, online ra
  (tags: pakistan internet censorship freespeech humanrights)