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From the BBC: Police in the Chinese city of Nanjing are angry at a new demand to disclose details of their private lives, state media has reported. The new order, part of an effort to stamp out corruption, requires police officers to tell their superiors if they are getting married or divorced. They will also […]
Read MoreFrom the Economist: THE day the Wu clan formally reopened its ancestral temple was a festive one. In the brutal era of Mao Zedong, the temple (which is over 700 years old) was destroyed and clan elders hid the Wu family archives from Red Guard fanatics. Puritanical communists despised the ancient kinship networks that had […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: A businessman who led thousands of investors in a campaign against the government seizure of valuable oil fields in northern China was convicted of organizing illegal protests and sentenced to three years in prison Thursday, relatives said. The ruling against Feng Bingxian, 59, was the culmination of a prolonged and closely […]
Read MoreFrom The Age: There are many problems in China: social and environmental, political and economic. But behind them is the lack of media freedom. As such, the crisis surrounding the Songhua River spill symbolises the country’s wider woes. A poisoned river can spoil many lives. So, too, a poisoned media. Technorati Tags: China, press freedom
Read MoreFrom the Dallas Morning News, via Miami.com: From the U.S. perspective, the alternatives are truly awful. A war to disarm North Korea could see Seoul, South Korea’s capital, destroyed by North Korean artillery. Do nothing, and North Korea might soon be armed with nuclear-tipped intercontinental missiles capable of reaching the United States, or become a […]
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