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From ABC News (link): China’s top government advisor on population issues has called for strict measures to stop rich people from having too many children and violating the country’s “one-child” policy. The Xinhua news agency quotes population expert Yang Kuifu as saying an increasing number of business tycoons or rich celebrities have been having two […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune (link): Over the past two years, China has escalated beatings, imprisonment and harassment of dissenters: intellectuals, social and economic justice activists, journalists and even farmers who attempt to present their grievances to authorities. Many Westerners might never have heard about the recent attacks if not for the response of a […]
Read MoreFrom the Associated Press (link): A prominent human rights lawyer was detained by police on Saturday as China continued a crackdown on protests ahead of the opening of parliament. Gao Zhisheng said plainclothes policemen and state security agents accused him of taking pictures of them. “They started pushing me and trying to twist my arms […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): One difference between China’s remote west and the rest of the country is what people choose to put in their stomachs. Noodles, not rice, are the favorite dish, none more so than the steaming bowl of beef noodles named after this decaying provincial capital on the Yellow River. So […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post (link): The Chinese government said Thursday that Vice Premier Huang Ju, one of the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee, the nation’s secretive ruling council, had been hospitalized and was recovering. It did not specify the illness. The statement by a government spokesman at a news conference was the first […]
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