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From The Telegraph: Zhang Yihe, a historian whose latest banned book was a collection of biographies of Peking Opera singers, has sent a flood of open letters and petitions to the government demanding a change to censorship laws. She has become a ghostly star of the internet: ghostly because the many posts supporting her are […]
Read MoreA follow-up on the attack on Chinese oil workers in Ethiopia last week, from Financial Times (via gulfnews.com): Last week’s attack on an oil exploration site in eastern Ethiopia in which nine Chinese were killed and at least five more taken hostage, was the single deadliest incident involving the Chinese in Africa to date. At […]
Read MoreThe Independent reports on a unique attempt to draw tourists: The city of Chongqing in south-west China – the world’s biggest city by some estimates with 32 million people – is planning to build a town dedicated to women in its Shuangqiao district. The municipal motto is “Women are never wrong” and the project will […]
Read MoreAs Amnesty International names China among the countries that most frequently carry out executions, The Economist reports that opinion in China may be swinging against the death penalty: Even China, the world’s top executioner”which reports carrying out 1,010 death sentences last year, though the real number may be nearer 8,000″might be having second thoughts. Since […]
Read MoreMore on China’s efforts to clean up pollution. From AP: Premier Wen Jiabao pledged Friday to help clean China’s air and water and combat global warming by phasing out tax breaks and discounts on land and electricity for highly polluting industries. “More work on energy conservation and emissions reduction is urgently required to deal with […]
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