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The New York Times reports a crackdown on “false news” in the wake of the arrest of a journalist who allegedly fabricated a story about dumplings made with cardboard filling. According to the report, media organizations are urged to set up hotlines so the public can report false stories: According to The People’s Daily, the […]
Read MoreThe Christian Science Monitor has a report on environmental activist Wu Lihong, who was recently sentenced to three years in prison for his attempts to clean up the polluted Lake Tai: Becoming a political or social activist has long been a solitary, sometimes dangerous path in China. The treatment of Wu and other whistle-blowers who […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: The transformation of Beijing for the 2008 Olympics is emerging as perhaps the most ambitious remake of any major world capital in history, short of the postwar reconstructions. The silhouettes of the spectacular new stadium and swimming center are already familiar worldwide, but they are set in a rebuilt urban core that startles […]
Read MoreReports concerning forced labor at brick kilns in Shanxi province have disappeared from the Western media in recent weeks, but the case is not yet resolved. As Danwei reports, journalists and netizens in China are helping to track down people still missing who are suspected of having been forced to work in the kilns. From […]
Read MoreThe LA Times gives a portrait of Beijing’s Ritan Park: For 25 years, I’ve been a faithful, if sluggish, runner. I’ve wound my way through the Latin Quarter of Paris before dawn, slogged along the ice-rutted sidewalks of Moscow’s winter, watched dolphins play in the Pacific Ocean off L.A. So I shrugged off the world-class […]
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