From Xinhua (link): Eight miners were trapped in an iron mine collapse on Saturday in east China’s Anhui Province, the emergency rescue headquarters said on Sunday. When the accident occurred at 4:50 a.m. Saturday at Dalongshan Iron Mine in Dalongshan Township in Anqing City, rocks, dust and water suddenly capped the ventilation hole and the […]
Read MoreFrom American Journal of Comparative Law, via SSRN (link): Abstract: This article offers a comparative study of legal reforms among different provinces in China. China is an enormous country, and it is often easy to generalize about the status of its legal system without taking account of the economic and social variations between provinces. A […]
Read MoreFrom Current History, via American Foreign Policy Council (link): The streets of Maputo, the capital of the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique, look little different from those of other sub-Saharan African cities. Open sewers overflow with rotting fruit, beggars harass pedestrians for 1,000 meticals (the equivalent of less than 10 cents), and young mothers walk […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Boston Globe (link): A Chinese journalist who posted essays on overseas Web sites about political issues was tried this week on subversion charges but insisted he is innocent, his lawyer said Saturday. Li Yuanlong, a 45-year-old writer for the newspaper Bijie Daily in the poor southern province of Guizhou, was indicted on […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online (link): China has had the largest number of the aged people of 143 million in the world, accounting for one fifth of the world’s total. Over the past 20 years, the aging population in China increased by 3.02 million every year and by the year 2050, three out of 10 Chinese […]
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