From AFP, via Channelnewsasia.com: Hundreds of Chinese villagers have marched on a battery factory which they say is poisoning their children and held 1,000 workers hostage, residents and officials said. About 600 people from Jianxia village in the eastern province of Zhejiang took control of the Zhejiang Tianneng Battery company and barricaded workers inside, resident […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: 800 million farmers are expected to be exempted from agriculture tax in 2005, said Finance Minister Jin Renqing Tuesday in his report to an on-going meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on the first five months’ national fiscal revenue and expenditure situation. “To date, China has lately exempted 19 […]
Read MoreFrom AFX, via Forbes.com: China’s government may issue a new strategy next month to encourage development in the online gaming industry, the China Daily reported, citing an official at the Ministry of Culture. Zhang Xinjian, deputy director general of the department of the culture market under the ministry, was cited as saying that his department, […]
Read MoreFrom Hubei Daily, translated by Three Gorges Probe: The people of Wangusi village on the Xiangxi River, a major Yangtze tributary 45 kilometres upstream of the Three Gorges dam, have seen their way of life dramatically altered by the filling of the reservoir. The 2,890 villagers, in 804 households, have faced tremendous difficulty getting across […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The draft of China’s anti-monopoly law has been finished and is now under revision and deliberation, Li Dongsheng, deputy director general of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, said here Tuesday. The Anti-Monopoly Law, once approved, would cover many industries and sectors and focus on issues like regional blockades and administrative monopoly, […]
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