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From AP, via CNN.com: China is considering building a temporary dam to stop a river-borne toxic spill that is headed toward a Russian city, a government newspaper reported Thursday. The dam would be built on a waterway at the juncture of two rivers on the Chinese-Russian border, the China Daily said, citing an unidentified Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: It was known, simply, as “the wooden building.” For 30 years, from 1910 to 1940, the barren walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station gave mute testimony to the experiences of roughly 175,000 Chinese immigrants who were detained and exhaustively interrogated on this island in San Francisco Bay, the West […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Much as manufacturers in the United States have transferred jobs to Latin America and just as Western European factories now look to Poland and Hungary, China’s modern-day capitalists are increasingly focused on wringing profit from Southeast Asia. They are tapping new markets for sales and farming out work to people willing […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A Jiangsu farmer who blew the whistle on a bird flu outbreak in Anhui in October has been detained by police, raising concerns that he is being punished for speaking out. Lawyer Kong Weizhao said his client, Qiao Songju, was detained on November 25 on allegations […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: At least two villagers in China’s southern province of Guangdong have died after police fired on a crowd protesting the construction of a wind power plant, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports. Witnesses and Dongzhou Hospital authorities near the port city of Shanwei told RFA’s Mandarin service that by 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, […]
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