In the new installment of the Foreign Correspondents Series, CDT ChinaCast talks with Luis Ramirez, the Beijing bureau chief for the Voice of America. Ramirez has covered China for three years. Earlier he served as VOA’s...
Read MoreFrom VOA News: China has unveiled a new set of restrictions on the type of news content foreign agencies can distribute in China. Press freedom advocates say the move is the latest attempt by the communist government to clamp down on the free flow of information. The state-owned Xinhua News Agency on Sunday said it […]
Read MoreFrom VOA News: For years, experts have warned of the giant dust bowl that is forming in northwestern China. Overgrazing, overuse of land, and drought have created what some agronomists say is the world’s biggest transformation of productive land into desert. Official estimates say the deserts, advancing by thousands of square kilometers a year, now […]
Read MoreFrom VOA: China’s Communist leadership says Google and other Internet companies will have to abide by its laws, including Web restrictions, if they want to do business in the country. The statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday came after a Google co-founder expressed doubts about his company’s decision to offer a self-censored version […]
Read MoreFrom VOA News (link): The human rights group Amnesty International is calling for China’s central government to overturn a southern province’s plan to apply the death penalty for robberies committed with violence. The plan comes as debate over the death penalty in China intensifies. Amnesty International condemned southern China’s Guangdong province, after a high court […]
Read MoreFrom the Voice of America: British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he is optimistic that China will eventually match its economic development with democracy and more respect for human rights. The U.K. leader held talks in Beijing with Chinese officials on Tuesday. Mr. Blair joined Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao for the signing of several […]
Read MoreFrom VOA: The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has urged China and other non-signatories to ratify rights agreements to help counter the rise in trafficking of women and children worldwide. High Commissioner Louise Arbour spoke at an Asia-Pacific human rights conference on Tuesday. U.N. agencies say millions of women and children continue to be […]
Read MoreFrom VOA: The growing animosity between China and Japan has entered cyberspace, with Chinese Web sites calling for thousands to join new anti-Japanese demonstrations in the coming days. The protests have been prompted by what many in China see as Japan’s attempts to whitewash the atrocities its troops committed before and during World War II. […]
Read MoreFrom VOA News: Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing says he hopes multi-party talks on North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs will resume soon. China, regarded as the nation best able to influence the reclusive North, has recently sent high-level officials to Pyongyang in hope of restarting the negotiations, which have been stalled since last June.
Read MoreFrom VOA News: Chinese officials on Monday said they shut down 12,575 Internet cafes between October and December of last year, as part of what the government calls a campaign to protect children from violent games and pornography. Officials said most of the locations closed down were located near schools. The crackdown came after the […]
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