Monthly Archives: July 2010
China’s Microblogs Facing New Restrictions (Updated)
Cara Anna of the Associated Press reports from Beijing: The country’s top microblogs either are down for maintenance or now display a “beta”
菲新總統反腐鬥智鬥法 ．黃棟星
諾諾就任菲律賓總統，誓言打擊腐敗，並以身作則，不搞特權，車隊遇上紅燈時停車等待，禁止護送警車鳴警笛。他不承認前總統歌麗亞卸任前委任的官員；兩任總統鬥智鬥法。 菲律賓已故總統科拉桑的獨子貝尼格諾‧諾諾‧阿奎諾三世（Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III，以下稱諾諾）六月三十日中午十二時，在五十萬名身穿黃衣支持者形成的人海歡呼中，宣誓為菲律賓第十五屆總統。他矢言要終止劣政，並樹立反貪楷模。 菲律賓已故總統科拉桑的獨子貝尼格諾‧諾諾‧阿奎諾三世（Beni
Photos: Migrant workers outside Beijing, by Josh Chin
Migrant workers outside Beijing, by Josh Chin
Beijing Starts Gating, Locking Migrant Villages
AP reports on a new strategy to manage the villages of migrants that have cropped up on the outskirts of Beijing and other Chinese cities: “Sealed
Warnings of Risks to China Banks
From the New York Times: A week after the Agricultural Bank of China raised nearly $20 billion from global investors in one of the biggest stock offerings
China: Buy BP Assets? Could Do!
From Global Voices Online: With British foreign secretary William Hague in China today at Beijing’s invitation for a fresh round of strategic dialogue
Consumerism in China
From evayih blog: Problems brought by consumerism in China Most economists assert that China’s rising consumerism will have an effect in almost all parts o
Don’t Even Think About It
Foreign Policy reports on the nuclear arms race between China and India: China and India have built up a $60-billion-per-year trading relationship, and
Washington Post: China’s Renewal of Google’s License Offers Hope of Resisting Censorship
An editorial in the Washington Post looks at the agreement between Google and the Chinese government to allow the company to continue operating in China: Increasingly,
China Admits More Tainted Milk Found in February
Yet more melamine-tainted milk found in China, AFP reports: Authorities in China say they found 25,000 tonnes of milk powder tainted with melamine, the
Rare Mushroom Blamed for Mystery Deaths in China
The BBC reports: For 30 years, during the rainy season, scores of villagers in Yunnan province have died suddenly of cardiac arrest. Following a five-year
The Truth of China’s Response to HIV/AIDS
Jim Amon, director of health and human rights at Human Rights Watch, writes on the international community’s uncritical praise of China’s response
Twitter Jitters in China
The state of microblogging （微博, or weibo） is in question after the recent inaccessibility of Sohu Weibo. From the Wall Street Journal’s Real Time Ch
Chinese Factories Now Compete to Woo Laborers
The New York Times reports on the rising demands of Chinese workers: In recent months, as the country’s export-driven juggernaut has been revived and m
