From Canadian Press, via Globe and Mail (link): Nortel Networks says China’s Ministry of Railways has signed a framework agreement for Nortel to provide switching centres to enable digital mobile signalling and communications along passenger lines in 20 of China’s 31 provinces. Financial details were not disclosed in a release Friday. See also China’s Ministry […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua (link): China has shut down 5,931 small coal mines in the first four months of the year as it continues efforts to reduce the high accident rate in the coal mining industry. Wang Shuhe, deputy director of the State Administration of Coal Mine Safety (SACMS), said the country has so far closed 10,957 […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Washington Post (link): Two unidentified men have broken into the house of a Chinese lawyer jailed for helping Shanghai residents seek compensation for evictions, a human rights group said. Soon after lawyer Zheng Enchong’s wife had left the house to visit him in jail, two men forced their way in, Human […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters (link): A group of non-governmental organizations in China say the government has excluded them from participating in a global initiative against HIV/AIDS and are electing their own representative despite Beijing’s opposition. The more than 60 groups say the government imposed their own delegate on the Chinese coordinating board of the Global Fund to […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily, via Northeast Network (link): Five leading environmental protection officers are set to launch blogs on their daily working lives. The initiative will be launched on June 5, World Environment Day. Li Chao, head of Shenyang Environment Environmental Protection Bureau, and four deputies will publish details of their daily work, details behind policy-making […]
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