It’s that time of the year again, our partner/advertiser Freedur is offering a big promotion and we are giving away free subscriptions again! Hope those of you who won last time have enjoyed the giveaway.

If you are in China right now and need VPN software to access Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, etc… or for some reason you just want to surf the internet anonymously or want to bypass SOME KIND OF FIREWALL, we are giving away 10 one year subscriptions of Freedur 2.1 VPN software for free! It will allow you to do all of that. And they are valued at 59.95 USD each!  Check the review we posted for Freedur awhile back.

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Hoping to aspiring journalists and China watchers alike, ChinaHush introduces an essay competition hosted by our partner The Diplomat, a leading online magazine focusing on the Asia-Pacific.  The top prize is a trip to Japan in November to help The Diplomat cover the APEC leaders summit, and the winning essay will be selected by a world-class judging panel that includes former Economist editor Bill Emmott and Asia Society Vice President Anthony Jackson. The winning essay will also be published on The Diplomat’s website as well as ChinaHush!

Eligibility

To be eligible to participate in The Diplomat 2010 Essay Competition, you must be:

1. Aged between 18 and 25 years old on October 1, 2010.
2. A citizen or permanent resident of any member country of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.*
3. Not affiliated with The Diplomat either directly or through a family member.
4. Must be enrolled at an accredited university as of August 30, 2010.

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For those of you that are in China right now and need VPN software to access Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, (soon Google?) etc… or for some reason you just want to surf the internet anonymously or want to bypass SOME KIND OF FIREWALL, we are giving away 10 six month subscriptions of Freedur 2.1 VPN software for free! It will allow you to do all of that. And they are valued at 39.95 USD each!

To Participate in the drawing, all you have to do is retweet this link with #ChinaHush in the message. (Remember #ChinaHush, with #) 10 lucky winners will be randomly selected in one week, at midnight of January 21, 2009.

Freedur 2.1 was just released, it is now a full VPN application instead of a proxy. Check out the review we posted for the last version Freedur 2.0.

The drawing is over, And the winners are…

@neo2049 confirmed
@ditchwitch27 confirmed
@changshanotes confirmed
@weelingsoh confirmed
@stinson confirmed
@islash confirmed
@numberss confirmed
@beijingdaze confirmed
@WildPixels confirmed
@nuochan confirmed

Congratulations! The next step is to email me chinahush[at]gmail.com with the email address which you want the account to be setup to.  If you DON’T email me in a week, another winner will be selected! Thank you all for participate in the drawing!

And remember, even if you don’t win, the coupon code CHINAHUSH still works for Freedur 2.1, enter the coupon code CHINAHUSH and you will receive an additional 10% discount when purchasing it!

Just for giggles, two panda bears played a trick on the zookeeper. While one panda drew the zookeeper’s attention the other panda opened the door of the cage. Then both pandas escaped from the open door.

Most people already know the issues on Censorship in China. Especially Internet Censorship, as for now, Twitter, YouTube, facebook and flickr etc. are all blocked in China. Netizens spend numerous times on techniques on how to get over the “Great Firewall of China”. This is an ongoing topic being discussed to death. Many blogs are dedicated for this issue, dedicated to show people how to “climb over the wall”.  So you can probably find plenty information on this if you want to know more about it.  Today, I came across these 2 blog posts talked about censorship vs. innovation.

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From NetEast:

Editor’s note: The Boao Asia forum 2009 annual meetings are held on April 17th- 19th in Boao, Hainan, this annual meeting subject is “the economic crisis and Asia: The challenge and the forecast”, the following is the factual record of the Central Europe International Industry and Commerce Institute Professor Xu Xiaonian’s answers to the reporter’s questions.

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From NetEase:
Here are some photos of Shanghai in 1993…

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I have just made the change to use Facebook Connect to the site.  So now you can join the site with your Facebook account! Before this I tried using Google Friend Connect, it was working and also allowed you to log in with Google, Yahoo and AIM account.  But i noticed major performance issue

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