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From the Washington Post: In the face of rising discontent over corruption, China’s senior Communist Party leaders called on members Saturday to work harder to stop bribery among businessmen and local officials in the country’s thousands of cities, counties and villages. The appeal, in a communique issued after a two-day meeting of the party’s Central […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: On a deeper level, life on Wisteria Lane, the fictional California community in Housewives, is too far removed from ordinary Chinese, even the burgeoning middle class. A Chinese teenager would never, in her right mind, advise her single mother on the etiquette of dating. When Chinese housewives get into an adulterous mood, […]
Read MoreThe following is a translation of a note by activist Hu Jia, after he and a group of activists took photos of the plainclothes officers assigned to follow them. Thanks to David Cowhig for the translation. See also ESWN’s translation “My Life With The Plainclothesmen” by lawyer Gao Zhisheng: When you left [writing to lawyer […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: When global audiences tune in to watch the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the world’s fastest and strongest athletes won’t be alone in striving for superlative achievements — a new generation of innovative architecture is rising in China. Fueled by a surging economy (the latest Chinese census, released on Dec. 20, says the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China plans to stamp out wasteful medical projects and establish teams of health inspectors to raise standards of hospitals and doctors, Health Minister Gao Qiang said on Saturday. Gao told a meeting of health officials to “strictly control the construction scale and expansion rate of major public hospitals, and restrict hospitals from unapproved […]
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