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Mia Farrow has written another op-ed in the Wall Street Journal (with Nobel Prize winner Jody Williams), this time holding Warren Buffett and PetroChina responsible for the violence in Darfur: Mr. Buffett points out that only PetroChina’s parent company, China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), operates in Sudan. Since subsidiaries generally do not have control over […]
Read MoreFrom RFA Unplugged: What follows is the story of Qu Chao, a goldfish farmer in the northeastern Chinese province of Jilin, and his attempt to lodge a complaint via the courts and through complaints procedures in Beijing, against local officials who, he says, sabotaged his business and deprived his family of their livelihood. The resourceful […]
Read MoreAsia Times writes about the Confucian Institutes and China’s soft power strategy: With the stated goal of “enhancing the understanding of the Chinese language and culture among world Chinese learners”, the Chinese National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (Hanban) has, since late 2004, established Confucius Institutes in South Korea, Germany, Sweden and […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: China’s Internet regulators have rolled out a number of initiatives to manage online content, from MII’s non-commercial site registration in 2005, to last year’s cartoon “Internet police” (shown here), to the latest campaign to use “virtual cops” to clean up illicit activity by the end of June. Where does the manpower for all […]
Read MoreA child gets a ride home from school in a basket, by Natalie Behring
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