From The Guardian: At this very moment, a Chinese farmer is speeding across Africa on a motorbike, his mission to spread a message of peace from his homeland. Since departing 10 months ago, Chen Liangquan has driven across Asia and visited the majority of Africa’s 53 nations. He hopes to pass on his message of […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune, via Google news: Japan has proposed to China that working-level talks on undersea oil and gas deposits in a disputed area of the East China Sea resume on Oct. 19, Japan’s trade minister said Tuesday. Shoichi Nakagawa gave no other details of the proposed talks, which would be the fourth […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: The Communist Party vowed Friday to spread the benefits of economic growth more fairly among all levels of Chinese society, seeking particularly to close the wide income gap between farmers and city dwellers. The pledge, issued by the Politburo, the country’s top policymaking body, was seen in part as a response […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: In an artistic “war room” in the Kennedy Center, anxious staff members were leafing through signs directing artists to “stage right” and elsewhere in Chinese. Down the hall, hundreds of packages of instant noodles lined the walls of a rehearsal space, quick comfort food for performers who don’t eat granola […]
Read MoreFrom BBC news: China’s top court is to regain its power to review death sentences, as the authorities move to stem criticism that the death penalty is too widely used. The Supreme Court passed its right to review to lower courts in the 1980s, and a series of subsequent miscarriages of justice have recently come […]
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