From AP, via The Globe and Mail (link): A dean at one of China’s top universities has been fired after his claims to have invented a new computer chip turned out to be a fraud, the school announced Friday. The scandal at Shanghai Jiaotong University, the alma mater of former President Jiang Zemin, is an […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Mainichi Daily News (link): A Chinese man who tried to register an independent environmental group is to go on trial next week on charges of stealing state secrets, an overseas human rights group said Saturday. Tan Kai, a computer repairman, has been in custody since Oct. 19 when he and five others […]
Read MoreFrom Christian Post (link): Following in the footsteps of American clergyman, Nobel Prize winner, and paragon of nonviolent protest, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., three Chinese Christian activists hope to use non-violent approaches and China’s own constitution to defend religious freedom in the communist state. During the meeting with U.S. President Bush at the White […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax China (link): The China Three Gorges Project Corporation (CTGPC) is keen to emphasize the virtues of its flagship hydropower dam on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The state-owned company recently launched a propaganda campaign entitled “Three Gorges Project: The Harmonious Development Humanity and Nature“, a photography exhibition which will demonstrate how […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (link): Xiaoli, an orphan whose parents died of AIDS, has become the focus of the first lawsuit in China that accuses a newspaper of invading AIDS orphans’ privacy. The first hearing at Beijing’s Chaoyang District Court was on April 25, and the second is scheduled for later this month, after which the […]
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