From China Daily (link): There are now at least 200 million Chinese living below the United Nations definition of the poverty line. In other words, nearly one in seven Chinese nationals live in extremely reduced circumstances, earning less than US$1 per person daily. This figure is ten times worse than the current Chinese official estimate […]
Read MoreFrom Press Trust Of India, via CNN-IBN (link): In a significant move, China’s ruling Communist Party, on Monday, promised to hold local elections for the first time in the world’s most populous nation. “Elections to local committees of the Communist Party of China(CPC) represent an enormous step toward the promotion of reform and democracy in […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua (link): China’s booming special economic zone of Shenzhen leads the country in putting up cyber police to curb on-line crimes and the spread of hazardous information. The local police authorities said since the cyber police appeared in January, the amount of hazardous information at the city’s major portal websites have reduced by 60 […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Yahoo News (link): Chinese prosecutors have issued a new indictment against jailed China-based New York Times researcher Zhao Yan, two months after dropping charges of leaking state secrets, his lawyer has said. “There has been a new indictment in Zhao Yan’s case,” lawyer Mo Shaoping told AFP. Mo said he had not […]
Read MoreFrom Donga (link): If you type the word “The Great Cultural Revolution” onto “Baidu,” China’s most popular search engine, you will get this warning: “Your search word could violate related laws.” The Chinese authorities have blocked searches for the term so that their people can not know the revolution. It is dreary that one can […]
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