Monthly Archives: November 2010
Happy Birthday, World Commission on Dams!
At China Dialogue, International Rivers’ Peter Bosshard marks the 10th anniversary of the World Commission on Dams report, which was unveiled by
Google: Net Censorship Amounts To Undeclared Trade War
Ars Technica adds to other coverage of a Google white paper which argues that Internet censorship constitutes an illegal trade barrier. While the arti
Photo: A woman deep in thought next to a pond, by Jeremy Barwick
A woman deep in thought next to a pond, by Jeremy Barwick
Chinese Woman Imprisoned for Twitter Message
The New York Times reports on the sentencing of a Twitter user in China to one year in labor camp for making fun of nationalist anti-Japanese proteste
Did China Overplay Rare Earth Hand?
An alleged halt in rare earth element exports to Japan put world governments on notice. Did China push too hard, too fast? Please read the article in
China: Please Study Abroad.
Last Friday, the Beijing education committee summoned representatives from Beijing’s 10 leading public high schools to discuss study abroad students.
‘Mama Wu’ Unlikely Hero for Homosexuals in China
CNN profiles Wu Youjian, who has become a spokesperson for parents of gays in China after her own son came out as a teenager:Wu now devotes her time
Nobel Prize Ceremony May Be Canceled
Because his family members are under tight surveillance, no-one is available to collect Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize at the ceremony in Norway
What Beijing’s Horrendous Traffic Jams Say about Green Energy
Andrew Leonard of Salon visited Beijing and, in one of the rare moments that he wasn’t stuck in traffic, he asked a Chinese diplomat about his c
China’s Censors Misfire in Abuse-of-Power Case
The New York Times looks at the hit-and-run accident in which a girl from the countryside was killed in a hit-and-run accident. When the drunk driver
Activist Artist Goes on Trial in Beijing
The New York Times reports on the trial of artist Wu Yuren yesterday in Beijing:The defendant, Wu Yuren, 39, is accused of assaulting a group of pol
Han Han on the Shanghai Fire
China Geeks has translated Han Han’s blog post, written after he watched the devastating building fire in Shanghai which killed 79 people:
Photo: Recent arrivals to Beijing wait by a board listing civilized behavior rules, by Christopher Cherry
Recent arrivals to Beijing wait by a board listing civilized behavior rules, by Christopher Cherry
Qantas Loses Fight With Falun Gong Flight Attendant.
Sheridan Genrich, from Sydney’s Lane Cove, was demoted to a short-haul attendant after she was threatened by authorities during a 2008 stopover in Bei
China’s ‘Me Generation’ Sends Divorce Rate Soaring
NPR reports that the divorce rate in China has doubled in the past ten years, and one in five Chinese marriages don’t last:“We’d k
