I think Indonesia should as tough as China in dealing with drug smugglers: death sentence. No compromise whatsoever. Everybody equals before the law. Just like what will happen tomorrow to a British drug smuggler. via Al Jazeera.
China’s supreme court has approved the death sentence against a British man convicted of drug smuggling, state media has reported.

The report carried by China’s official Xinhua news agency is the first official confirmation that the execution of 53-year-old Akmal Shaikh, scheduled for Tuesday morning, would go forward.

Shaikh was due to be executed at 10:30 local time (0230GMT) on Tuesday his lawyers had said.

Hundreds of Uighur Muslims crowded into at least one mosque in riot-stricken Urumqi on Friday after authorities relented on a decision to close mosques for the main day of prayer to minimize ethnic tension.

China’s Xinjiang braces for Muslim day of prayer, reports Reuters
Ethnic tensions in China’s far-west Xinjiang shift from the streets to mosques of the regional capital on Friday, with many Uighur Muslims saying the authorities would not let them observe their main day of prayer.

Security forces have imposed control over Urumqi, but the prayers after midday will be a test of the government’s ability to contain Uighur anger after Han Chinese, China’s predominant ethnic group, attacked Uighur neighborhoods on Tuesday.

Those attacks were in revenge for the deaths of 156 people in Uighur rioting on Sunday, the region’s worst ethnic violence in decades.

Several mosques throughout an overwhelmingly Uighur bazaar district of Urumqi displayed notices that usual prayers were suspended, and men at other mosques said they thought there would be no prayers on Friday, the main day of worship for Muslims.

Rioting broke out on Sunday in Urumqi – the capital of Xinjiang -leaving 156 people dead and more than 800 injured. The unrest spread to a second city on Monday, with police breaking up fresh protests in Kashgar, dispersing more than 200 “rioters”, reports BBC NEWS.

Top US officials have urged China to abandon a controversial plan requiring all new personal computers to be sold with Internet filtering software from next week, warning the step could violate world trade rules, reports Reuters.

Pornography is banned inside mainland China be the source comes from within the country or from outside , such as from Google search engine, reports WSJ. Do you agree such regulation applied in Indonesia?
Google Inc. (GOOG) said Friday it was “taking all necessary steps” to block pornographic images and content from reaching users of its Chinese service, a day after the company was warned about pornography available through its search engine.

The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., said in a statement it has met with Chinese government representatives to discuss problems with the company’s Chinese service, through which pornographic images and content have been available based on foreign language searches.

Google was admonished late Thursday for the third time this year by a government-backed Internet regulator for “disseminating large amounts of pornographic and vulgar information.”

It wasn’t immediately clear, however, whether Google had been ordered to suspend search services for foreign Web sites via its Chinese Web site, as reported by the official Xinhua News Agency on Friday.

One Google spokesman said he was unaware of any request to suspend search activities and the company declined further requests for clarification.

A Malaysian company offers me a sponsored trip plus USD 2,000 allowance to China for  a week to visit several Chinese cities. Here’s the interesting offer:
Hi Fatih, I am writing on behalf of (company name here), a digital media company based in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

Good news for you. You are chosen by a tourism advertiser to travel to one of the cities in China for 7 days. The objective of the trip is to promote the city. The flights and accommodation will be sponsored and you are given an additional USD 2,000 allowances for content maintenance.