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From the AP, via the Houston Chronicle: China’s ruling Communist Party called on its members Saturday to do more to fight widespread corruption and politically explosive problems such as unpaid back wages for migrant workers. The appeal warned against complacency in a multiyear anti-graft campaign. See also “Meeting of CPC discipline watchdog issues communique” from […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal, via phayul.com: Microsoft Corp. has shut down a popular Chinese-language blog that has published content potentially offensive to Chinese authorities, amid China’s ongoing efforts to control information on the Internet. Microsoft’s MSN Spaces, which lets users create their own Web sites or Web logs, closed down the blog, written by […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A blind activist in China and his family have been placed under house arrest for four months and he was beaten by thugs when he tried to venture out, after exposing forced abortions in his home province on the east coast. Club-wielding goons believed to be hired by local authorities have been posted […]
Read MoreFrom the Sydney Morning Herald: Growing prosperity in China threatens to place intolerable burdens on the world’s natural resources, an environmental researcher has warned. Unless the global economy is fundamentally restructured, the world will be unable to produce enough energy, food and other resources to meet Chinese demand, the president of the Earth Policy Institute, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China’s population and family planning minister said here on Friday that China will work to limit its mainland population below 1.37 billion by 2010. Zhang Weiqing, minister in charge of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, stressed that China will keep its family planning policy in place to maintain a low birth […]
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