From Keralanext: Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang announced he will seek the ruling Democratic Progressive Party‘s nomination for the 2008 presidential race. “Taiwan’s history is turning to a new page. The 2008 presidential election is about to come,” said Su, nicknamed the “electric fireball” because of his small stature and lack of hair.[Full Text]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via The China Post: A 79-year-old prominent Chinese AIDS activist is to fly to the United States as early as Sunday to receive a human rights award after she was freed from house arrest thanks to U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Gao Yaojie is to receive the Vital Voices Global Women’s Leadership Award […]
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: Chinese mobile phone users’ text-message sending spree during Spring Festival made message writer a lucrative profession in the country. It was estimated by China’s top two telecommunications operators, China Mobile and China Unicom, that Chinese people would send more than 14 billion greeting text messages during the week-long Spring Festival holiday. The figure […]
Read MoreFrom Spero News: The Qinghai-Lhasa railway line, much vaunted by Beijing as a tool to develop the territory’s economy, will be used to strip the area of its vast mineral riches to the benefit of far-away industries. Recent finds show Tibet is a mining company’s dream, but many fear that development won’t bring much prosperity […]
Read MoreFrom Global Voices: Last autumn, Qin Zhongfei, a low-ranking civil servant in Pengshui County of mid-western China’s Chongqing Municipality, wove some sarcastic political humor into a poem and sent it out to a few dozen friends via text and instant message. Charged with slander by then County Party Secretary Lan Qinghua, one of several political […]
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