Now, the fallout following Google's announcement that it is no longer willing to censor search results on its Chinese service and that it may exit China is continuing.

As we reported yesterday, the world's leading search engine said the decision followed a cyber attack it believes was aimed at gathering information on Chinese human rights activists.

The move follows a clampdown on the internet in China over the last year, which has seen sites and social networking services hosted overseas blocked – including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube – and the closure of many sites at home.

Chinese authorities criticised Google for supplying "vulgar" content in results. Google acknowledged that the decision "may well mean" the closure of Google.cn and its offices in China. Google has only a third of the search-engine market in China, which is dominated by the Chinese giant Baidu.

Although its revenues have continued to rise, many analysts believed it was finding business hard going. Let's cross to Emma in the newsroom now for the latest on what China's Internet users have been saying about all this.

After a long journey along the old pathway, through cold western winds and lonely smoke on endless desert, the Silk Road leads to its southwestern exit in China on to Asia and Europe.

 

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In the wake of the SARS epidemic in 2003, the Chinese Healthcare system underwent a lot of soul searching, and as anyone who's tried to enter the country recently will have noticed, health policy now borders on paranoia.

Andrew Livingstone reports on one case where the hospital went too far…

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This week is or national dragonboat festival and all across China, particularly in the Southeast, races and competitions are being held to celebrate the three day festival.

BON's Andrew Livingstone went along watch a unique team's practice session.

Smokers’ luggage may be a gram lighter if they’re heading to Hong Kong. Starting on the first of this month, travelers can only bring 19 cigarettes into the region. The custom agent’s line is: “only partially consumed packs of cigarettes can enter the country,” making 19 cigarettes the magic number.

Teaching small children is conventionally seen in China and possibly other countries as a woman's domain.  The numbers of young men who apply for kindergarten teacher training courses are negligible. But one province in China is hoping to make the profession into a more even playing field. BON’s Kelda Yuen has more on the measures the government of Jiangsu are taking to encourage more men to enter the role of preschool teacher.