From the Los Angeles Times: The Communist Party remains firmly in control of China, although a small number of members are wayward and corrupt, a senior party official said Thursday, providing a rare peek at the internal machinery of an organization with nearly 70 million members. Li Jingtian, deputy head of the party’s secretive Organization […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: “My son stays at home and plays on-line games all day long, still spending our income,” Zhang Baoguo, a Shanghai citizen said Thursday in an interview with the local Wenhui Daily, unable to conceal his concern. Zhang is busy looking for a job for his son, a college graduate, who not long before […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Up to 80 per cent of the beggars lingering in Guangzhou are professional beggars, according to statistics from the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Bureau… Between January and May 2005, 15,401 vagrants and beggars in Guangzhou were sent to government welfare centres. The exact number of vagrants and beggars in the urban area […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China has tightened regulations prohibiting the sale of alcohol to minors in what is to be a step toward establishing a legal drinking age, state press reported. New regulations issues on July 1 ban the sale of drinks with an alcohol content higher than 0.5 percent to persons under 18, the Beijing […]
Read MoreFrom Feminist Daily News Wire: Chinese lawmakers have submitted a draft amendment to the country’s Law on Women’s Rights Protection, first passed in 1992, to strengthen its equality provisions for women. If passed by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the amendment will make women’s rights part of state policy for the first […]
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