Monthly Archives: November 2010
Photo: Dusk at the Forbidden City, by Expatriate Games
Dusk at the Forbidden City, by Expatriate Games
U.N. Push for North Korea Condemnation Falters: Envoys
Despite assumptions to the contrary based on the Wikileaks files, China still seems to be backing North Korea in the UN Security Council. From Reuters
Beijing Launches Antipiracy Campaign
The Chinese government has launched what may be its biggest crackdown on intellectual property abuses yet, the Wall Street Journal reports:The campa
Ex-official Urges Probe of China ’90s HIV Epidemic
A former health official in China has openly called for an investigation of the blood-selling scandal in the 1990s in which thousands of people were i
The Cost of Coal in China
On The World, Mary Kay Magistad is starting a four-part series about coal in China. The first episode was broadcast today:China’s size and speed of
Chinese Activist Detained After Posting 1989 Photo
AP reports on an activist who has been arrested on charges of “subversion” for posting a photo of the 1989 protests:It was the first tim
China ‘Backs Korean Reunification’ and Other Wikileaks News (Updated with Video)
The recent batch of classified documents released by Wikileaks reportedly show that Chinese officials would support the reunification of the two Korea
Photo: The newly reopened Peace Hotel on the Bund in Shanghai, by Tom Spender
The newly reopened Peace Hotel on the Bund in Shanghai, by Tom Spender
China Bars U.S. Official From American’s Appeal.
A Beijing appeals court barred U.S. diplomats from attending a hearing Tuesday for an American geologist sentenced to eight years in prison for obta
The Internet’s Cyber Radicals: Heroes of the Web Changing the World
As part of a piece profiling seven young “radicals” who use the Internet for political activism, the Observer interviewed blogger Han Han:
China’s Other Billion: Waiting for the Master Plan
Following is the latest, and final, installment in a series of posts by journalist Rachel Beitarie*, who has been sharing with us dispatches from
Latest Directives from the Ministry of Truth, November 22-28, 2010
The following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by various central (and sometimes local) govern
Photo: An escalator in Beijing, by Christopher Cherry
An escalator in Beijing, by Christopher Cherry
For China’s Women, More Opportunities, More Pitfalls
In the New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow sums up recent gains and losses for China’s women after three decades of economic reforms:Three dec
China Seeks Talks to Ease Korean Tension
China has called for “emergency consultations” between North and South Korea to try to mitigate escalating tensions in the wake of the North Korean sh
