From The Christian Science Monitor: The pro-independence president faces a recall bid Friday over charges of corruption and lying. Taiwan’s beleaguered President Chen Shui-Bian seems set to survive an opposition parliamentary bid to unseat him Friday – his third such challenge this year. But officials in Washington and Beijing are nervous. As the president fights […]
Read MoreBeijing will set up monitor cameras in all of the Internet cafes within this year, said Jing Hua Shi Bao, a Beijing local newspaper. The monitors are to enforce the Internet cafe management and surveillance, constrain the spread of unhealthy information and spam emails, the newspaper said. The monitors will also be used to implement […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via The Washington Post: China will next week try a blind human rights activist whose previous controversial conviction was overturned, his lawyer said on Wednesday, voicing fears the new trial will not hear claims that testimony was obtained through police torture. Chen Guangcheng, who drew international attention last year by reporting forced late-term […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China’s poor grew poorer at a time when the country was growing substantially wealthier, an analysis by World Bank economists has found. The real income of the poorest 10 per cent of China’s 1.3bn people fell by 2.4 per cent in the two years to 2003, the analysis showed, a period when […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: The power meal of a rising urban class is found in one lake near Shanghai. Crab is prized in China year round – it’s a dish with “special moment” written all over it in the Chinese family. But in November, when the hairy crabs of the Yangtze delta start developing […]
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