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A statement this week from Reporters Without Borders will make unsettling reading for foreign companies eager to join China's internet boom. The press freedom watchdog accused the US internet portal Yahoo of helping Chinese authorities to identify and convict a local journalist of leaking state secrets. In April, Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sending foreigners an e-mail that...

The human-rights group is calling for action over claims Yahoo is 'cheerfully sacrificing human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market'. Privacy International (PI) has called on Internet users to boycott Yahoo over allegations that the Web giant provided information that helped Chinese officials convict a journalist accused of leaking state secrets. Simon Davies, director of PI...

The latest news that Yahoo turned over private emails to the Chinese government which led to the conviction and ten-year sentence of Shi Tao, an editorial department head at the Contemporary Business News in China's Hunan province turns my stomach. Yahoo claims, according to Dan Nystedt , at the IDG News Service, "Just like any other global company, Yahoo must ensure that its local country sites...

Internet giant Yahoo has sidestepped claims that it aided China in the jailing of a journalist after he sent an email from a Yahoo account, saying it has to abide by rules laid down in the countries it operates. "Just like any other global company, Yahoo must ensure that its local country sites must operate within the laws, regulations and customs of the country in which they are based," Yahoo...

The American internet company Yahoo! defended itself today against criticism that it supplied information to the Chinese authorities that led to a 10-year jail term for a local journalist, saying it must comply with the law. "Just like any other global company, Yahoo! must ensure that its local country sites must operate within the laws, regulations and customs of the country in which they are...

Yahoo, the American internet giant, stands accused of helping Beijing to send a dissident journalist to prison for 10 years. The company is said to have supplied the authorities with computer records proving that Shi Tao had posted on the internet an internal government document banning the Chinese media from commenting on last year's 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It is easy...

Recent research by Richard Nisbett and his colleagues at the University of Michigan suggests that Asians and Americans quite literally look at the world differently. Broadly speaking, Americans tend to focus on a single image where Asians take in the bigger picture. Is that because Asians are taught to think in terms of larger groups -- family certainly, perhaps society at large -- where Americans...

Sharon Keating, a lawyer in New Orleans, grabbed her laptop as she fled Hurricane Katrina with her family in a three-car caravan. For the past 11 days, Keating has been blogging about her evacuation on the home page of About.com, a Web site owned by the New York Times Co. Tiny details brought her account to life, such as her husband waking in a hotel and saying, "I don't own a pair of socks," and...

A September 7 Reuters article reported that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) "asked the media not to take pictures of those killed by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath" and "refused to take reporters and photographers along on boats seeking victims in flooded areas." FEMA's actions, along with further reports that the government is obstructing journalists in New Orleans, have drawn...

NEW DELHI, September 8: Yahoo, Indiatimes, Rediff, MSN and Sify have emerged as the established generic portals in a recent survey of popular websites. Google, Naukri and Shaadi among others have earned good niche audiences. The study also found that most popular Net activities are social and professional interaction, keeping track of news and events, check for sports and cinema content...