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From Sina.com: Visitors to MAM’s [The Millennium Art Museum‘s] new underground art center on western Beijing’s Chang’an Avenue, might be startled the first time the framed “still-lifes” on display start magically moving, speaking, and even swapping positions with other artworks meters away. In some cases, the near-instantaneous exchange might involve works from museums that are […]
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times, via Asia Media: Taiwan would be willing to reopen its doors to two Chinese media outlets so long as Beijing lifts its blackout against the online versions of two Taipei-based newspapers and refrains from blocking its local press groups from posting reporters in Taiwan, a senior official said yesterday… On April […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Chinese authorities announced Tuesday that 16 youths had been formally arrested and 26 others temporarily jailed in connection with violent anti-Japanese protests that erupted 10 days ago in Shanghai. The announcement, via the official New China News Agency, appeared to be a warning to any Chinese who might be planning more […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: When the daily rhythm of factory work at Wuxi New District winds down, thousands of labourers file out of the rectangular buildings housing the production line of Sharp, the Japanese electronics group, to return to their living quarters… For these Chinese workers, the recent wave of anti-Japanese protests across the country […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the Standard: The mainland has defended a revised set of rules on petitioning the central government that it says are designed to give people with complaints more rights and make local authorities more accountable. Some scholars have criticised the new regulations, which come into effect Sunday, as an attempt to prevent a […]
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