Authorities in the central Chinese province of Henan have been using the COVID-19 Health Code app to control the movements of protesters over failures at rural banks, according to social media posts. Some 400,000 customers of four rural banks were left unable to withdraw their money after an estimated U.S.$1.5 billion in assets were frozen
Along with the Pixel phones, watches and earbuds at Google’s annual showcase of software and devices last month came a pair of nifty-looking translation glasses. Put them on and real-time “subtitles” appear on the lenses as you watch a person speaking in a different language. Very cool. But the glasses aren’t commercially available. It’s also
Forbiding cash transfers China has actually been tracking Tibetans in Tibet communicating with those in exile to shut down the circulation of information to the outside world, according to sources inside Tibet who provide details to neighborhoods abroad. The Chinese government also has actually started prohibiting the transfer of cash from Tibetans in the TAR
A Chinese police surveillance unit is running, apparently for the very first time, inside a Buddhist monastery as part of a restored crackdown on Tibetan Buddhist spiritual organizations, a Tibetan with knowledge of the situation said. Officers were installed this year at the Palyul Thartang Gonchen Monastery in Qinghai provinces Golog (in Chinese, Guoluo) Tibetan
