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From AP, via the International Herald Tribune: Daniel Glaser, deputy assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes, is set to meet Chinese officials to discuss the frozen money held at Banco Delta Asia, a bank in the Chinese territory of Macau. North Korea refused to participate in six-nation disarmament talks that started March 19 […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the International Herald Tribune: China named new Communist Party bosses in two provinces and one major city on Sunday, a day after picking a rising political star and economic reformer for the top party job in scandal-hit Shanghai. Separate statements from the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee, released by the state-run […]
Read MoreThe Independent reports on renewed interest worldwide in the Chinese legend of The Monkey King, or Sun Wukong: The Monkey King is the main character in “Journey to the West“, a ribald Chinese folk tale by Wu Cheng’en, written more than 500 years ago during the Ming Dynasty and hugely popular ever since. It seems […]
Read MoreDanwei has translated a lengthy article from Southern People Weekly about CPPCC member Yu Quanyu. From Danwei’s introduction: The most recent issue of Southern People Weekly (the one with Wu Hongfei’s cover interview with Wang Shuo) contains a story/interview with Yu Quanyu, the CPPCC member who proposed a law criminalizing seditious speech at this year’s […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: Low rainfall in the province of Sichuan has forced officials to deliver clean water to the worst-hit areas. Six million livestock and half a million hectares of land are affected, Sichuan’s governor said. [Full text]
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