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From Reuters, via Mail and Guardian: Torrential rains have killed at least 170 people across south China since the weekend, flooding cities, sweeping away houses and cutting off utilities as well as rail and road links, state media reported on Monday. The rains were triggered by Tropical Storm Bilis, which killed dozens in the Philippines […]
Read MoreThe following is adapted from John Pomfret’s book Chinese Lessons, which will be published next month. From the Washington Post: On a beastly summer day in 1966, in the country-side of northern Jiangsu province, 100 farmers lined up at the threshing ground of Production Team 7 in the Shen Kitchen Commune. The threshing ground doubled […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Scotsman: A Chinese court on Monday ordered compensation and an apology for a girl orphaned by AIDS after a newspaper reported her story without permission, stirring a dispute over the boundary between media rights and privacy. Beijing’s Chaoyang District Court ordered the local Chinese-language China Times to pay the 19-year-old girl […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent: Beijing’s No 2 Intermediate People’s Court is hearing a list of charges that would be familiar to TV’s fictional mobster clan, The Sopranos – bribery, assault, extortion, gambling, slicing off ears and the possession and sale of firearms. Except this family is the Hu brothers, hard men from Shunyi in the Beijing […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: The mainland’s media watchdog has warned its branches to keep a close eye on the sale and broadcast of sensitive content with several key political anniversaries rolling around this year. The General Administration of Press and Publication, which oversees mainland newspapers, periodicals, television, radio and other […]
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