From South Asia News Bulletin: China’s first “mermaid baby” died of heart failure at a hospital in central China’s Hunan Province after doctors failed to save the abandoned boy, till date there has been only two known cases in the world of children who survived the affliction. The baby was abandoned in front of the […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei Blog: Gao Qinrong is a Chinese journalist who was imprisoned for eight years on trumped up charges after he reported on an abuse of power in Shanxi: a Potemkin irrigation project that did not irrigate anything but allowed local officials to impress visitors and embezzle money. Both the Southern Metropolis Daily and Southern […]
Read MoreFrom Chicago Tribune: The wind-raked scrub of this barren plateau (Atasu, Kazakhstan) reveals little hint of the revolution gurgling 9 feet beneath. China’s first international oil pipeline, buried in the Kazakh steppe, is a milestone for the world’s newest empire–one forged not in the name of destiny or God, but in pursuit of the planet’s […]
Read MoreFrom AP via Business Week: Chinese authorities have found seven big underground banks involved in money laundering cases worth more than 14 billion yuan (US$1.75 billion;euro1.3 billion), the official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday. Police arrested 44 people suspected of involvement in the undergound banks, found in Shanghai, Guangdong, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning and Heilongjiang, Xinhua […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via The Age: A Chinese court has jailed a prominent sociologist for 20 years for leaking state secrets, a sentence that rights groups say is a blow to academic freedom. Lu Jianhua, 46, a sociologist with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a government think-tank, was convicted by the Beijing No.2 Intermediate People’s […]
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