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From Voice of America: The United Nations health agency says an influenza outbreak among migratory birds in Northwestern China is far worse than the government had reported. World Health Organization experts who recently visited China’s northwestern province of Qinghai told reporters that five times as many birds have died of the avian flu there as […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via sfgate.com: Textbooks headed for a Japanese school in China were seized by customs officials who objected to the way maps in the books depicted the Chinese mainland and rival Taiwan, an official said Tuesday. The maps showed the mainland and the island in different colors, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao, indicating […]
Read MoreThe following letter (in Chinese) to the Guangdong High People’s Court has been signed by 2356 journalists from prominent Chinese publications and websites to protest the detention of Southern Metropolis News employees Yu...
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China’s top legislators are considering reducing police powers to detain suspects in order to safeguard citizens’ rights… Under the new draft, the police power to detain suspects for 36 hours and keep them in jail for 30 days, would be cut to a maximum of 12 hours detention and 20 days in […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: The darkest side of China’s miraculous economic takeoff is probably its ever-widening wealth gap, which has become a major source of social unrest. The striations in Chinese society from 26 years of economic reform and opening up run in a remarkable number of different directions: between the eastern coastal and inland regions, […]
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