From The New York Times: Just five years ago, Zhang Yin and her husband were driving around the United States in a used Dodge minivan begging garbage dumps to give them their scrap paper. She and her husband, who was trained as a dentist, had formed a company in the 1990s to collect paper for […]
Read MoreFrom LA Times: For more than 10 years, Wu Hong Fang’s days have been filled with the same gentle sound, the quick chafe of sandpaper on spruce and maple. Working briskly, methodically, her hands a dusty blur, she sands violins all day, six days a week. There is a rhythm to what she does, but […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Human rights conditions in China deteriorated last year even as China sought to portray itself as an increasingly open, modern society ahead of the 2008 Olympics, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Friday. The government’s promise to establish an impartial legal system remains unfulfilled, while at least 100 […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China has recorded double-digit growth for the fourth year in succession, according to the country’s top economic planner, amid rising tension between the push for continued fast development and the environment. Ma Kai, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, said on the agency’s website on Friday that the economy had […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Leading Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has lost his final appeal against a conviction which supporters say was political. Mr Chen was jailed in 2006 for four years and three months for damaging property and disrupting traffic. But his lawyers said the real reason was Mr Chen’s exposure of violations to […]
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