From BBC News: Chinese police have killed 18 people in a raid on an alleged militant training camp in the western autonomous region of Xinjiang, officials say. One policeman was killed and another injured in the raid, which took place on Friday, a police spokesman said. China is waging a campaign against what it calls […]
Read MoreFrom China Law and Society Blog: As we all know, Chinese court is actually an affiliate of the government because the latter funds the former and this is the case from the central government downward to the bottom local level. Courts have been viewed as an instrument by the government to enforce and implement governmental […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: Some year-end roundup items: A 2006 Lexicon The Beijing News did its annual arts & entertainment review in the format of a language textbook. Twenty vocabulary items, from “blog” (Âçö), “brokeback” (Êñ≠ËÉå) and “hidden rules” (ÊΩúËßÑÂàô) to “Oh my God” in Shaanxi dialect (È¢ùʪ¥Á•û, from My Own Swordsman), “indecent exposure” (˵∞ÂÖâ), and of […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: There has been much talk lately about a consumption boom in China and considerable hype about its rising middle class. Some investment banks have gone so far as to claim that the Chinese consumer will displace the American consumer as the driver of world economic growth as early as 2015. There is […]
Read MoreFrom yWeekend, translated by ESWN: Later December last year, Gao Qinrong forwarded his appeal materials to the National People’s Congress. He said that the materials will be forwarded to the Supreme Court and his appeal will have bright prospects. Gao Qinrong was involved in the report on the Shanxi Fake Irrigation Project and was named […]
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