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From China Daily: Environmental watchdogs in China who abuse their authority will be punished under a special regulation that took effect yesterday. The provisional form of the regulation, China’s first on disciplining dereliction of duty, was released yesterday by the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) and the Ministry of Supervision. The regulation aims to curb […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Imagine 25 million men and women about the combined population of Australia and New Zealand pressing for new jobs. That is the daunting reality that the Chinese economy faces this year, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has reported. This is the country’s worst employment crisis ever, as the children of […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Before handing over to my colleague Jonathan Watts in 2003, I covered a range of important stories to which I had been alerted by excellent reporting in the Chinese press or TV. There were powerful exposes of mining and environmental disasters linked to official corruption, of the plight of migrant workers cheated […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Does a Ryvita make a better foundation than a ginger nut? Or a Hobnob? Or an Abbey Crunch? Obviously wafers would be useless, only good for walls. And Tuc crackers, you suspect, would be a disaster waiting to happen. These are the headaches occupying the mind of the multi-media artist Song Dong […]
Read MoreThis article is part of a series called The Great Firewall of China by the Washington Post’s Philip Pan. Pan will discuss this series on the Washington Post website on Tuesday at 11 am ET: Officials tolerated Wikipedia at first, perhaps because it seemed to be exactly what the party had in mind when it […]
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