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From the Los Angeles Times: The movie starts when the day becomes night. Real life continues to drift by. Herds of water buffalo. Men balancing buckets of water across their shoulders. Villagers carrying torches to guide their way home. They march right through this ephemeral theater amid jagged mountains and rice paddies, throwing black shadows […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: China, India and Austria have condemned a US decision to impose sanctions on nine firms which it believes have supplied Iran with military equipment. China, which is home to six of the firms concerned, has demanded that the US State Department lift the sanctions… The measures – which will remain in place […]
Read MoreAt the end of the year, Netease, one of the top three portals in China, has posted a special feature “Telling the Truth Directly” (“ÂÆûËØùÂÆûËØ¥”) which quotes the official line on various issues and events from 2005, followed by a sarcastic interpretation of the comments. Commercial portals like Netease are not permitted to do their […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: China’s legal system often hands down verdicts that the powerless consider unfair. But a bigger problem is that courts often refuse to issue any verdict at all – or even acknowledge that some bothersome legal complaints exist. The English translation is simply “put on the record” or “register a case,” […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Chen Weiying, a peasant protest leader in southern China whose struggle was the subject of a Washington Post article last month, was detained by police and has been in custody since Dec. 1, a peasant rights group reported Friday. Chen, 43, who has two daughters, was formally charged sometime after her […]
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