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From Xinhua: China has initiated a program to evaluate the ecological impact of the Songhua River water pollution in northeast China and put forward countermeasures, said a senior environmental official said here Tuesday. The evaluation program is “an urgent and arduous job” that needs the joint efforts of related departments, said Zhu Guangyao, deputy director […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: One November morning, the Beijing Judicial Bureau convened a hearing on its decree that one of China’s best-known law firms must shut down for a year because it failed to file a change of address form when it moved offices. The same morning, Gao Zhisheng, the law firm’s founder and […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Chinese local search engine Baidu.com has released a list of 13 most popular keywords, according to hits from internet users. The 13 keywords cover nearly every aspect of life in China. The most typed news keyword is “Shenzhou VI Spacecraft”. The hottest event belongs to “Bird Flu”. “The Myth” took the hottest movie […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: When Chinese riot police fired on rural protesters last week in the southern village of Dongzhou, many China watchers instantly drew parallels to the June 4, 1989, massacre in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. But the shootings in Dongzhou — which left at least three protesters dead and eight injured — have much more […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: Hong Kong was braced yesterday for its biggest security operation since the handover from British rule in 1997 as thousands of international protesters began flying in to try to derail the World Trade Organisation summit later this week. To prevent a repeat of the violence that disrupted the last two summits in […]
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