From Financial Times: A Chinese court has refused to hear a landmark lawsuit by hundreds of private investors whose oil wells were seized by the state and police have detained their lawyer, people familiar with the case said on Tuesday. The detention of Zhu Jiuhu, a widely respected lawyer, by authorities in China’s northern province […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited: At 1pm every Sunday, Mrs Shen goes hunting for a husband. Equipped with photos, a resume and oodles of charm and enthusiasm, the 50-something spends the entire afternoon looking for Mr Right among the cypress and ginkgo trees of Sun Yat-sen Park in Beijing. She is not alone. During the past six […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China is stepping up censorship of online gaming to root out pornography, eliminate threats to state security and to stop youths becoming addicted, Xinhua news agency said on Monday… New industry standards would require developers to amend games that can cause addiction and a group of “quality games” would be recommended, Xinhua said […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua,via China Daily: China’s breast feeding rates are 48.7 percent and 60.4 percent respectively in urban and rural areas, indicating that about half of the country’s newborns are fed with artificial-formula milk powder of various kinds, an official on children’s food safety said… Chinese experts on infant medical science hold that heavy workloads and […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: The trafficking and sale of narcotics in China, especially heroin and ecstasy, have quickly developed into a battle for the government, according to the country’s drug enforcement body. As China’s market economy has developed a global reach, the country has also become home to a sophisticated underground economy of drug manufacturing, […]
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