From LA Times: China’s Communist Party leaders have quietly filled top anti-corruption spots in Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin this week in a bid to stem embarrassing scandals linked to public pension funds and the construction industry. The move is also aimed at sending a signal to ordinary Chinese and party members that the administration of […]
Read MoreFrom AP via The Wall Street Journal: China has installed a new supervisor for construction projects for the 2008 Beijing Olympics as part of efforts to prevent corruption, following the dismissal of a vice mayor in charge of Games construction, an official said Thursday. Xu Bo, a 41-year-old engineer in the Ministry of Construction, was […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China has closed the door on new foreign investment in television and film production companies, telling international media companies to work instead through individual projects with local partners. Zhu Hong of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (Sarft), made clear in an interview with the Financial Times, that Beijing had […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: Cultural heritage lessons help the Chinese join the world economic scene without completely absorbing Western cultural values. On a recent Friday afternoon in this southern Chinese province, the fourth-graders at Bowen International School were sitting up straight, their arms neatly crossed in front of them, belting out 13th-century Chinese poems […]
Read MoreFrom The Independent: Chinese officials have secretly executed a demonstrator who took part in a massive protest in 2004 against a hydro-electric dam in the south-western province of Sichuan, lawyers and family members said yesterday. In a grim postscript to the summer of rural unrest that overtook China two years ago, Chen Tao was executed […]
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