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To: abstract who wrote (40173)	8/10/2001 12:00:08 PM
From: Jim Willie CB	Respond to of 65232

dont get me started his legacy will become a joke in future years we need a website to view that curved poker of his / jim

To: abstract who wrote (40173)	8/16/2001 1:33:49 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 65232

August 16, 2001, Shanghai, Dell Eyes Sub-$500 PC Market (SHANGHAI, China) -- Shanghai is expecting to increase cooperation with Dell Computer Corp. to meet the growing demand for PCs in the city and the nation as well, according to Shanghai Mayor Xu Kuangdi. In a meeting with Kevin B. Rollins, president and chief operating officer of Dell, Xu said that almost every family in Shanghai is eager to equip their children with computer knowledge and skills. There are about 10 PCs in every 100 families and one PC for 43 students at schools in Shanghai. Xu said that Shanghai is willing to cooperate with Dell in developing inexpensive computers to school education, especially in the under-developed western China, where PCs priced at around RMB2,500 (US$300) would be welcomed by schools and families there. Rollins also expressed interest in working with Shanghai to produce computers for education purposes. Dell is producing laptops in Shanghai through a Taiwanese company. Dell has set up factories in the eastern province of Fujian and enjoys quite a big share in the PC and laptop markets in China.

To: abstract who wrote (40173)	8/17/2001 6:39:16 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 65232

abstract: Your son may be interested in this... China Tries Internet Entrepreneur Friday, August 17, 2001 Last updated at 3:14:46 AM PT By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER <<BEIJING -- A court in southwestern China has completed the trial of an Internet entrepreneur charged with subversion after articles promoting democracy and human rights appeared on his Web site, his family said Friday. No verdict or sentencing date was announced for Huang Qi, who was tried in a closed-door two-hour session at the Chengdu Intermediate Court on Tuesday, said his father-in-law, who identified himself only by his surname, Zeng. Huang is the first known Webmaster in China to be prosecuted for publishing political materials, and the case illustrates the government's determination to suppress free debate on the Internet while still harnessing its economic potential. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists condemned his trial as a violation of China's own criminal code and international human rights standards. "CPJ calls for his unconditional release and urges the Chinese government to stop its efforts to stifle free expression on the Internet," the group said in a statement faxed to news organizations in China. Subversion is a sweeping charge leveled against persons seen as threatening the Communist Party's political monopoly. China has used it against alleged spies, independent journalists and activists who attempted to register a new political party by legal means. Huang and his wife started the Web site - 6-4tianwang.com - in 1999, as a forum for tracing missing persons, but articles appeared on it discussing an outlawed would-be opposition party, the Tiananmen Square protests, the banned Falun Gong sect and independence for the western Chinese region of Xinjiang. The site's name incorporates the Chinese term for the June 4, 1989, crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, in which hundreds died. Huang was arrested on June 3, 2000, but his trial was delayed while International Olympic Committee inspectors were visiting Beijing in February. His lawyers entered a plea of innocent to the subversion charge and said the government lacked the evidence to convict him. A statement on the site said Huang stopped controlling the content when it moved to a U.S.-based server in April 2000. Zeng said Friday that he and his daughter - Huang's wife, Zeng Li - learned of Huang's trial through lawyers and were only able to see Huang in the passageway as he was being brought to court. Zeng said his daughter shot a photograph of Huang when she spotted him, but bailiffs confiscated her film. "We wanted a picture," Zeng said, "because it could be a decade before we're able to see him again." Huang appeared to have lost considerable weight, but smiled, flashed an "OK" hand sign and told them to "be at ease," Zeng said. "He was thin, but seemed to be in good spirits," Zeng said in a telephone interview from Huang's offices in Chengdu, the capital of southwestern China's Sichuan province. Bailiffs told them Huang's case was "political" and that he could face 10 or more years in jail, Zeng said. "The officer said that it's no big deal, that Huang wasn't a murderer or arsonist and that he ought to be out in a few years with good behavior," Zeng said. He said Huang's lawyers confirmed the trial had ended but wouldn't discuss details. According to a copy of Huang's indictment posted on the Web site, prosecutors accused him of inciting the overthrow of state power and the destruction of national unity. The charges can bring a five-year jail term - or longer, if judges decide the crimes were particularly serious. Zeng said lawyers told them judges in Huang's case would report their opinions to a Communist Party legal committee, which would issue a verdict. Rights groups consider that standard procedure in political cases where the outcome is often decided before trial. "A verdict will depend on whether it's sunny or cloudy," Zeng said. "This is a bellwether case for the development of the Internet in China.">>