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From AFP, via INQ7.net: Concerns about media censorship were heightened in Hong Kong Sunday when a delegate to China’s legislature said the city’s public broadcaster should be clipped of its independence. The comments from National People’s Congress member Peter Wong came as the Chinese territory’s Journalists Association accused the city’s new Beijing-appointed leader of paying […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: More male Asian elephants in China will be born without tusks because poaching of tusked elephants is reducing the gene pool, a recent study predicts. Research by Zhang Li, an associate professor of zoology with the college of life sciences at Beijing Normal University, discovered that the gene for tusklessness is spreading […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg, via Financial Express: A one percentage point drop in China’s economic growth would cut labour demand by 900,000, damping job prospects for migrant workers, according to a report by a government agency. ”Migrant workers from rural areas would be first to fall victim to reduced demand,” said Ma Xiaohe, director of the Beijing-based […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Occupational disease, a health problem caused by exposure to workplace health hazards, is taking enormous tolls, both human and economic, on China, the China Daily said on Saturday. Every year, the direct economic loss caused by occupational disease or work-related injuries amounts to 100 billion yuan (12 billion US dollars), while the indirect […]
Read MoreFrom the Daily Telegraph: In its 2,000-year history, Kashgar, a once fabled oasis between the Taklamaken Desert and the Pamir Mountains, has been ruled by Turks, Mongol khans and Chinese, and seen wrenching changes of fortune. But it has never seen such a transformation as the five-year cultural revolution, now drawing to a close, inflicted […]
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