From Keralanext.com The Chinese government will improve the supervision of senior executives in the banking and financial sectors to prevent corruption, a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said in Beijing on Friday. “Supervision of senior executives, especially the leadership and key officials, must be tightened so as to prevent power abuse, […]
Read MoreA video was uploaded on youtube about the protest in Xiamen. Early there were videos on China’s local online video websites. But those videos are now mostly deleted, for example, this one. There are also a few photos uploaded on flickr. A blogger, Linhu Buchong, used cell phone text messages to get in touch with […]
Read MoreBelow is an editorial from Southern Metropolitan Daily published on May 31, after the Xiamen Government decided to freeze the construction of the PX chemical project. Partially translated by CDT: On May 30, the Xiamen municipal government froze the Haicang PX chemical project, and said it would submit the project to an authoritative organization for […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China has introduced a new bankruptcy law that gives creditors precedence over workers when it comes to claiming the assets of failed companies. The law also means that, for the first time, private Chinese firms that have failed will be allowed to collapse. Previously they existed in a legal limbo – their […]
Read MoreFrom Christian Science Monitor: Ethanol production has put the Chinese government in an unpleasant bind, as fears rise that the environmentally friendly gasoline additive is also fueling politically dangerous increases in the price of food – particularly pork, a key staple. With the ethanol industry gobbling up a growing share of China’s corn harvest, authorities […]
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