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From the Voice of America: China faces environmental challenges, across the board. “Whether it’s air quality, or water quality or availability, or land degradation, China’s facing a very serious set of problems,” said Elizabeth Economy of the Council on Foreign Relations. She testified Thursday before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. “But, I think, […]
Read MoreEastSouthWestNorth has translated a portion of Investigation China: The Story Behind The News by Zhao Shilong: The following is a translation of a section from the book titled Investigation China: The Story Behind The News by veteran reporter Zhao Shilong (”√™¬¢¬°Àô). Zhao is one of the most famous investigative reporters in China, and the book […]
Read MoreFrom IEEE Spectrum: Qin Xinle’s teenage son had stopped eating meals regularly and had refused to go to school. The boy’s Internet addiction had gotten so bad he sometimes played online games for 24 hours without stop. Finally, at his wit’s end, Qin piled his family into their car and drove 5 hours to Beijing, […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: A week before “Memoirs of a Geisha” was scheduled to open at movie theaters here, the Chinese government canceled the showing of the Hollywood film, reportedly because of concerns that it could spark public anger and rekindle anti-Japanese sentiment. Officials at Sony Pictures Entertainment said they were notified of the […]
Read MoreFrom the Yahoo Blog on News.com: Google, Yahoo and Microsoft–criticized for acquiescing to Chinese censorship rules–say the U.S. government should be doing more to get China to loosen up. In lieu of sending executives to appear before a Congressional Human Rights Caucus hearing on Wednesday, the companies sent statements. “In addition to common action by […]
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