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From AP: A Chinese-American defense engineer accused of stealing information on U.S. military technology to send to China admitted trying to help that nation, a prosecutor alleged Wednesday in opening statements of a federal trial. Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Staples painted a picture of defendant Chi Mak, 66, as a longtime agent who had been […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel Online: With the Olympics in Beijing just 500 days away, China has begun cleaning up organ trafficking practices. Not only have exports been banned, but with fewer prisoner executions, a major source of organs has dried up. The result has been a kidney shortage in South Korea. [Full text]
Read MoreAP reports on the “nail house” and the implications for the new property law in China: There are thousands of property disputes in China every year, but this one is getting unusual attention, in part because it is regarded as the first major test of a landmark law guaranteeing private-property rights. Images of the house […]
Read MoreVirtual China points out a new weekly online Chinese magazine by over 100 prominent bloggers, called memedia. From Virtual China’s translation: Memedia describes itself as follows: Coming from the combination of three terms, Me/Meme/Media. Memeda will provide interesting things, important things, diverse things, for us to enjoy together…. This is an open, collaborative project. Each […]
Read MoreDanwei has translated an op-ed by Chang Ping, deputy editor of Southern Metropolis Weekly, about the State Administration for Radio, Film and Television and the real reasons behind their ban on “spoofing” of domestic movies (read the original Chinese version here): What is SARFT for? Most people would think that it is used to criticize […]
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