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From Virtual China (link): Li Guozhong, a Hunan professional photographer, was touring rural villages a few days ago with 3 colleagues when he was introduced to a dying 12 year girl with septicaemia, a potentially life-threatening infection in which large amounts of bacteria are present in the blood. Li snapped a few striking shots of […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via AsiaMedia (link): A Taiwanese legislator who played an important role in exposing the scandals now afflicting the island’s president, Chen Shiu-bian, has been forced to cancel a speech in Beijing on fighting corruption. Chiu Yi, of the main opposition Kuomintang, said yesterday that senior officials pulled the plug […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): It began with an impassioned, 5,000-word letter on one of China’s most popular Internet bulletin boards, from a husband denouncing a student he suspected of carrying on an affair with his wife. Immediately, hundreds joined in the attack. “Let’s use our keyboard and mouse in our hands as weapons,” […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): Juan Du and her husband had good jobs in China. But in a country increasingly engaged in a capitalist free-for-all, they worried about being laid off. They worried too about whether their teenage daughter, faced with a fiercely competitive exam system, would get into college. So the family headed […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune (link): President Hu Jintao’s recent admission that China may be growing too fast, at the expense of the environment, has once again raised questions about the role of resource conservation in development. It is significant that Hu’s statement was made during a meeting with a former Taiwanese opposition leader, Lien […]
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