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From abc3340.com: China’s senior safety inspector urged the public and the media Tuesday to expose workplace accidents in a bid to end corruption and official misdeeds aggravating the country’s high rate of work deaths. Li Yizhong, the head of the State Administration of Work Safety, said public whistle-blowing provides crucial clues for investigators often hobbled […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: The spectacular run-up in equity prices in China in the past two years has created a classic asset bubble. The likelihood that the stock market will crash in the not-too-distant future has recently increased because of rising inflation at home and a global economic slow-down. The Chinese stock market has already […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Christian Science Monitor: A Chinese dissident writer pleaded not guilty on Tuesday at the opening of his trial to charges of “inciting subversion of state power” over essays he wrote criticizing the state, his lawyer and his wife said. Lü Gengsong was detained last August. “Lü Gengsong penned 226 essays. In one […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) The Chinese Government will move more than 52,000 Tibetan herders and farmers into permanent housing this year – a practice rights groups say has been marked by abuses. “The project to improve their living conditions began in 2006, when the regional Government set a target of building […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Germany and China agreed Monday to heal a rift that opened after Beijing suspended most high-level contacts to protest Chancellor Angela Merkel’s meeting last year with the Dalai Lama and her human rights policies. The thaw was announced after it was confirmed that Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German foreign minister, had […]
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