To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China under Communist rule and Mao's 1949 revolution, the Chinese will hold a military parade in Beijing on Thursday of unparalleled size -- 5,000 soldiers, 43,000 fireworks and a display of 52 new weapons -- followed by a civilian parade...

In recent days, journalists around the globe have reported on the efforts of Asian governments to censor speech and images in support of gay rights from the broadcast of last Sunday's Oscars. According to the AP, the Hong Kong-based, Murdoch-owned STAR network, reaching more than 300 million viewers in...

Guess what's never coming to China? Something that the world has patiently waited to see for years now. Something we all hoped we'd see some day but never really expected ever to see. If you said "Chinese Democracy", you're right. And unfortunately, we're not talking about Chinese people voting, although...

What began as whispers among the media and gymnastics insiders weeks ago about the ages of three of China's female Olympic gymnasts -- Jiang Yuyuan, Yang Yilin and He Kexin -- has grown into ear-shattering, head-hurting shouts. Despite assurances by Chinese officials that all three are 16, the minimum...

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Already a hip-hop pioneer, rock and roll hall of famer, punk bassist, music video producer, Tibet activist and prolific MC, Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys can now add sports documentarian to his long list of titles. This Friday, Yauch releases his new film, "Gunnin' for That #1 Spot", a...

As the Chinese government begins its pre-Olympics media crackdown, the Huffington Post appears to be the latest victim in a recent wave of Internet censorship. A HuffPost reader in Shanghai reported Tuesday that when she attempted to connect to the site, an error page all too familiar to Net users...

Compared to the chaos that gripped Seoul over the weekend as the cursed Olympic torch came to town, South Korea's neighbor to the north executed its torch ceremonies without a hitch -- no shouting, no fighting and surely no pro-Tibet protest. In North Korea, where political dissent is as rare...

There appears to be no rhyme or reason to the Chinese government's acts of censorship. On any given day, in even one of mainland China's more enlightened cities, Web users might find a site they had visited on a daily basis has been blocked or disabled, without notice or explanation....

Monday, the Chinese government closed the Tibetan border to foreigners in the aftermath of the worst violence in the region in decades. As unconfirmed reports continue to trickle out of Lhasa, Chinese officials, in the last week, have brutally quelled mass freedom protests in Tibet, leaving anywhere between 16 (

In China, there is something called "The Three Ts." Despite what it sounds like, the phrase doesn't refer to the 3-pack of Hanes cotton undershirts churned out in a Chinese factory. Nor does it refer to Tianjin, Taiyuan and Taizhou, mainland China's three cities with populations over 3 million and...