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At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the founders of Google spoke out about the impact that their business decisions in China have had on their company: Google, launched in 1998 by two Stanford University dropouts, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, was accused of selling out and reneging on its “Don’t be evil” motto when […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Under complex rules governing social mobility that are a legacy of Maoist times, the laborers from rural China ” who have streamed to the country’s rich eastern cities by the millions to build their towering skylines, clean and cook for others and do all kinds of work that more prosperous […]
Read MoreESWN has translated a lengthy report by prominent investigative journalist Wang Keqin into the murder of reporter Lan Chengzhang. The original Chinese article is here: The beating death by pickaxe handles and steel rods of China Trade News’ Shanxi bureau worker Lan Chengzhang by the owner of an illegal coal mine and his gang is […]
Read MoreXinhua reports on President Hu Jintao’s latest call for improved monitoring of the Internet: “Whether we can cope with the Internet is a matter that affects the development of socialist culture, the security of information, and the stability of the state,” Hu said, asking officials to use the Internet as a platform to spread healthy […]
Read MoreSouthern Weekend published an interview with SEPA vice-minister Pan Yue about the newly launched “environmental storm,” most of which has been translated by Three Gorges Probe. In the interview, Pan says: I have repeatedly stressed that the environment deteriorates because of officials’ skewed concept of political accomplishment. But now, powerful interest groups and officials’ distorted […]
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